BLACKPINK's Jisoo and TWICE's Nayeon Lift Spare Time Ratings 0.8 Points to 3.2%

BLACKPINK's Jisoo and TWICE's Nayeon guested on SBS's Spare Time (틈만나면,) on the 10th, and the episode drew a 3.2% national household rating from Nielsen Korea. That is up 0.8 percentage points from the 2.4% of the November 3 broadcast, and it made the show the top terrestrial variety program in the 9 p.m. hour.

The jump fits a pattern in Korean variety, where a guest pair with real chemistry can move a mid-single-digit show faster than format changes do. Here the draw was a friendship that began when Jisoo was still a trainee, which both women showed off from the first minutes. Hosts Yoo Jae-suk and Yoo Yeon-seok joined them in Sanbon-dong, in the city of Gunpo, to fill gaps in the neighborhood's day with small games.

A hometown, a pecking order and a lucky charm

Jisoo said she lived in Sanbon until age 10, but she deferred the title of "Sanbon's daughter" to Kim Yu-na, the figure skater. Yoo Yeon-seok settled the ranking on the spot: "Then Jisoo is the second daughter."

Nayeon, for her part, was framed as a lucky charm with a competitive streak. She said money is supposed to come in if you use her photo as your wallpaper, and that she often bets on games.

Two games, one narrow miss and one late clear

The first stop, Cheoljjuk Park, brought the group to a team of office workers who also run a running crew. Their game involved flinging a sneaker to topple a stack of running-shoe boxes. Yoo Yeon-seok, who admitted he is weak at foot-based games, hit the boxes on his second try. Yoo Jae-suk and Yoo Yeon-seok cleared two stages in one shot on the sixth attempt, but the third stage added a red box that had to be avoided. Even with a bonus pair of shoes, the tenth attempt failed.

Between games the four argued about weak coffee. Yoo Jae-suk drinks his diluted with water, Nayeon identified as part of the same camp, and Jisoo said she adds an extra shot and drinks hers dark. Yoo Jae-suk's defense was that good coffee should be clear enough to see the other person's face through it.

The second hosts were a mother and daughter who are both fans of TXT. Their game required flicking grape-shaped caps onto a concert seating chart. Jisoo promised to protect the pair's matching fan items, and on her ninth try she landed two caps by herself. With one attempt left, the hosts called "GO," and Yoo Jae-suk and Nayeon cleared two stages. Yoo Yeon-seok credited "Sanbon's second daughter and the goddess of luck." Nayeon asked to be called back for future games.