Going Seventeen (web series)
Going Seventeen is a South Korean variety web series starring boy band Seventeen. The series has been offered for free viewing on YouTube and V Live since its premiere on June 12, 2017. It features the band members participating in a variety of activities depending on an episode's main concept, ranging from games or completing challenges to skits, role playing, get-togethers and MTs.
The show started primarily with a video blog / behind-the-scenes format in its first seasons, featuring the band's various activities across their career with intermittent variety-type episodes. In 2019, it formally transitioned to the variety show format, and it aired weekly on Mondays at 22:10 KST since January 2020. It began airing on Wednesdays at 21:00 KST since the start of its fifth season in April 2021. Starting from October 2023, the band released a comeback special to celebrate and promote every new album, compilation album or extended play.
Throughout its broadcast history, the show garnered positive reviews for providing quality content that can be enjoyed by anyone in and outside the band's fandom, with cumulative views exceeding 270 million as of January 2022.
Cast
Main
Seventeen- Choi Seung-cheol
- Yoon Jeong-han
- Hong Joshua
- Wen Junhui
- Kwon Soon-young
- Jeon Won-woo
- Lee Ji-hoon
- Xu Minghao
- Kim Min-gyu
- Lee Seok-min
- Boo Seung-kwan
- Hansol Vernon Chwe
- Lee Chan
Special appearance
Going Seventeen production team- Relatives of the members of Seventeen
- Pets of the members of Seventeen
- Park Mun-ki
- Lee Eun-jae
Series overview
Note: Special episodes are not counted towards the total.
Episodes
''Going Seventeen'' 2017
''Going Seventeen Spin-off'' (2018)
The episodes in this season are in video blog format unless noted otherwise.''Going Seventeen'' 2019
This season marks Going Seventeen's change of format, transitioning from video blog to variety show. It is also in this season when the show first used its opening and ending theme songs.''Going Seventeen'' 2020
This season consists of episodes that are part of Seventeen's "Monthly Seventeen" project, wherein each member contributes an episode concept that will be featured per month within the season's period.''Going Seventeen'' (2021–present)
Since 2021, new seasons of Going Seventeen have continued sequentially from the previous year, although the title card is changed to mark the beginning of a new season.Related
A related show is Going BooSeokSoon. This show features DK, Hoshi and Seungkwan, the three members of the sub-unit BooSeokSoon. This show only has two episodes.Another related show is Going DxS. This show features DK and Seungkwan, the members of the sub-unit DK X Seungkwan. This show only has two episodes.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack of Going Seventeen includes the show's opening and ending theme songs which are both composed by Seventeen band members Woozi, Jeonghan, Hoshi, DK and Seungkwan. Both are performed by the entire band and debuted on 17 June 2019 in the eighth episode of Going Seventeen 2019.The production of the opening theme song and the ending theme song were documented and featured in the sixth and seventh episodes of Going Seventeen 2019. In Episode 6: "Making the Going Seventeen Opening Song", it was revealed that Woozi pre-produced four instrumentals and let his co-composers choose which among them will be fitting to be the opening and ending theme music. The composers then wrote the lyrics and recorded demo versions of the songs, with Woozi handling the production. Later, the entire band unanimously approved the songs and discussed the production of the songs' final versions and the filming of the show's title sequence. The behind-the-scenes of the recording of the songs and the filming of the title sequence are featured in Episode 7: "Making the Going Seventeen Opening Video".
Reception
Television
On April 1, 2021, South Korean cable television network JTBC announced a 10-week long Spring special programming block of content from Hybe Labels artists. Going Seventeen was included in the lineup for Seventeen. In addition, two new episodes from the series, 'Treasure Island: 13 Raiders', premiered on television first, and later on YouTube and Weverse.| Title | Channel | Air Date | |
| Don't Lie II | JTBC2 | May 13, 2021 | |
| Don't Lie II | JTBC2 | May 20, 2021 | |
| Treasure Island: 13 Raiders | JTBC2 | May 27, 2021 | |
| Treasure Island: 13 Raiders | JTBC2 | June 3, 2021 | |
| Insomnia-Zero | JTBC4 | June 6, 2021 |
Accolades
Going Seventeen has been praised for being content that can be enjoyed by anyone regardless of generation, nationality, and fandom. It breaks the notion of 'K-pop content enjoyed only by fans' and is expanding the audience enough to build a fandom of its own. The show has often been labeled 'National Web Variety Show' and even 'K-pop's Infinite Challenge' by various media outlets.As of January 2022, Going Seventeen surpassed 270 million cumulative views with just two seasons in 2020 and 2021, and averaged over 3.62 million and 2.44 million views per episode, respectively.