South Korea · Variety · 2011
Law of the Jungle
김병만의 정글의 법칙
Also known as Kim Byung-man's Law of the Jungle, 정글의 법칙
Binge Brief
- SBS's survival-travel show, led by the comedian Kim Byung Man, which took a rotating cast to a different wilderness for each run
- Each destination was covered over several weekly episodes; the cast built shelter, found water and caught their own food
- Seo Kang Joon went to Tonga in 2016 and appears in episodes 203 to 207, broadcast from 4 March to 1 April
- He flew out with the advance team on 31 January 2016 and stayed about two weeks, and said on the show that he has a severe fear of insects
- The Tonga trip was disrupted by Cyclone Winston
Synopsis
Law of the Jungle sent a group of Korean entertainers somewhere remote and left them to get by on very little. The comedian Kim Byung Man led it, and his name is in the Korean title. The rest of the cast changed from one destination to the next, and each trip ran over several weekly episodes: building a shelter on the first day, finding drinking water, catching and cooking whatever the place offered, and dealing with weather nobody had planned for. The comedy came from celebrities who were plainly out of their depth; the tension came from the parts that were not a joke.
It ran on SBS from 2011 to 2021, and the destinations ranged across Pacific islands, jungle interiors and far-flung coasts. Because the cast rotated, most actors and idols who appeared on it did so for a single trip, which is how it is usually listed in a filmography: by the destination rather than by the series.
Seo Kang Joon's trip was Tonga, the show's twenty-fourth destination. He left with the advance team on 31 January 2016, straight after Cheese in the Trap wrapped, and stayed for about two weeks. His episodes are 203 to 207, broadcast on Fridays from 4 March to 1 April 2016; the second half of the Tonga run, episodes 208 to 211, swapped in a different group. The expedition was knocked off course by Cyclone Winston. On camera he admitted to a severe fear of insects, and after walking into a swarm of cockroaches inside a wrecked ship he said he had thought his nerve was stronger than it was. He called the trip an experience money could not buy.
Why it still gets watched
Most people arriving at this record want one specific fortnight of it: Tonga, early 2016, five episodes. Seo Kang Joon had just finished Cheese in the Trap, the drama that made him properly famous, and went straight from that to a Pacific island with three survival tools and no way of pretending to be anything. The version of him on screen there is the one his audience did not have: sunburnt, out of his depth, and honest about it.
The cockroach sequence is the reason the run is still linked and reposted. He had already said on camera that his fear of insects was severe, then walked into a swarm of them inside a wrecked ship and came out saying his nerve had turned out to be weaker than he had thought. Nothing in a scripted role gets you that.
Beyond the one trip, the show is worth knowing because of how many Korean careers passed through it. A decade of SBS Fridays, a rotating cast, and a format that reliably showed people a side of themselves they could not rehearse. That is why a Law of the Jungle credit turns up in so many filmographies, and why it is almost always listed by destination rather than by episode number.
Law of the Jungle cast
Guests
Seo Kang Joon
Himself (Tonga) · Tonga, episodes 203 to 207 (4 March to 1 April 2016)
Kim Kwang Kyu
Himself (Papua) · Papua, within episodes 7 to 12 (9 December 2011 to 22 January 2012); left early for health reasons
Park Bo Young
Herself (New Zealand) · New Zealand, episodes 51 to 60 (8 March to 10 May 2013)
Lee Pil Mo
Himself (New Zealand) · New Zealand, episodes 51 to 60 (8 March to 10 May 2013)
Im Ji Yeon
Herself (Indochina) · Indochina, episodes 154 to 162 (27 March to 22 May 2015)
Seo In Guk
Himself (Indochina, Mongolia) · Indochina, first half of episodes 154 to 162 (2015); Mongolia, first half of episodes 229 to 237 (2016)
Park Hyung Sik
Himself (Indochina) · Indochina, second half of episodes 154 to 162 (2015)
Choi Woo Shik
Himself (Nicaragua) · Nicaragua, episodes 178 to 185 (11 September to 30 October 2015)
Lee Sang Yeob
Himself (Samoa) · Samoa, episodes 186 to 194 (6 November 2015 to 1 January 2016)
Ahn Se Ha
Himself (Panama) · Panama, first half of episodes 195 to 202 (2016)
Kim Young Kwang
Himself (New Caledonia, Antarctica) · New Caledonia, first half of episodes 220 to 228 (2016); Antarctica, episodes 311 to 314 (13 April to 11 May 2018)
Yoon Park
Himself (New Caledonia, Chatham and Tasman) · New Caledonia, first half of episodes 220 to 228 (2016); Chatham and Tasman, second group within episodes 353 to 362 (2019)
Cha Eun Woo
Himself (New Caledonia) · New Caledonia, first half of episodes 220 to 228 (2016)
Kwon Na Ra
Herself (East Timor, Chatham and Tasman) · East Timor, first half of episodes 238 to 246 (2016); Chatham and Tasman, first group within episodes 353 to 362 (2019)
Jin
Himself (Manado) · Manado, first half of episodes 247 to 255 (2017)
Kim Min Seok
Himself (Manado) · Manado, second half of episodes 247 to 255 (2017)
Kang Tae Oh
Himself (Manado) · Manado, second half of episodes 247 to 255 (2017)
Yook Sung Jae
Himself (Sumatra) · Sumatra, first half of episodes 256 to 264 (2017)
Kim Se Jeong
Herself (Sumatra) · Sumatra, first half of episodes 256 to 264 (2017)
Jo Bo Ah
Herself (Sumatra) · Sumatra, second half of episodes 256 to 264 (2017)
Sung Hoon
Himself (Wild New Zealand, Sabah) · Wild New Zealand, first group within episodes 265 to 273 (2017); Sabah, first half of episodes 325 to 333 (2018)
Jung Eun Ji
Herself (Wild New Zealand) · Wild New Zealand, second group within episodes 265 to 273 (2017)
Lee Da Hee
Herself (Cook Islands, Sabah) · Cook Islands, second half of episodes 293 to 301 (2017 to 2018); Sabah, second half of episodes 325 to 333 (2018)
Kim Sung Ryung
Herself (Patagonia) · Patagonia, second half of episodes 302 to 310 (2018)
Rowoon
Himself (Patagonia) · Patagonia, second half of episodes 302 to 310 (2018)
Lee Yu Bi
Herself (Last Indian Ocean) · Last Indian Ocean, third group within episodes 334 to 343 (2018)
Lee Jun Young
Himself (Last Indian Ocean) · Last Indian Ocean, third group within episodes 334 to 343 (2018)
Kang Ki Young
Himself (Chatham and Tasman) · Chatham and Tasman, second and third groups within episodes 353 to 362 (2019)
Park Ho San
Himself (Lost Jungle and Island) · Lost Jungle and Island, first half of episodes 363 to 372 (2019)
Yoon Eun Hye
Herself (Zero Point) · Zero Point, episodes 423 to 426 (24 October to 14 November 2020)
Lee Sang Yi
Himself (Ulleungdo and Dokdo) · Ulleungdo and Dokdo, first half of episodes 430 to 433 (2020 to 2021)
A Rin
Herself (Ulleungdo and Dokdo) · Ulleungdo and Dokdo, first half of episodes 430 to 433 (2020 to 2021)
Jang Hyuk
Himself (Pioneers) · Pioneers, episodes 438 to 442 (20 February to 20 March 2021)
Choi Min Ho
Himself (Pioneers) · Pioneers, episodes 438 to 442 (20 February to 20 March 2021)
Kim Hye Yoon
Herself (Spring) · Spring, episodes 446 to 448 (17 April to 1 May 2021)
Filming locations
Each run was shot at the destination in its title. The overseas runs, by the year they started airing: Namibia and Papua (2011); Vanuatu, Siberia, Madagascar, and the Amazon and Galapagos (2012); New Zealand, the Himalayas, the Caribbean and Maya jungle, the savannah and Micronesia (2013); Borneo, Brazil, the Indian Ocean, the Solomon Islands and Costa Rica (2014); Palau, Indochina, Yap, Brunei, Nicaragua and Samoa (2015); Panama, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Mongolia and East Timor (2016); Manado, Sumatra, New Zealand again, Komodo, Fiji and the Cook Islands (2017); Patagonia, Antarctica, Mexico, Sabah, the Indian Ocean again and the Northern Mariana Islands (2018); Chatham and Tasman, the Lost Jungle and Island run, Myanmar and Mergui, the Sunda Islands, and Chuuk and Pohnpei (2019). The last overseas run, which included Coron, aired from February to June 2020.
From August 2020 every run was filmed in Korea, among them the Ulleungdo and Dokdo run that aired from December 2020 to January 2021.
Themes and messages
Competence is not transferable. The show's engine is the gap between what a famous person is good at and what a beach at low tide requires. Fame buys nothing on the reef. The running joke is always the same joke, and it works for ten years because the humiliation is real and briefly total.
Kim Byung Man is the format. This was never a licensed international property; it was built around one comedian, whose own physical skill and willingness to be the one who actually catches the fish anchors every trip. When the show could no longer travel, that anchor had nothing to hold, which is a large part of why the domestic version did not work.
Where the line sits. A programme that drops entertainers into real weather and real water has to keep deciding how much of the discomfort is the point. Cyclone Winston made that concrete: the strongest South Pacific storm on record arrived mid-shoot and the production turned three days of being stranded into an episode. It is the format working as designed and also the moment at which it is fair to ask what the design is.
What the edit chooses to show. The Tonga run drew criticism in Korea for cutting the episodes around one cast member while the veterans barely appeared, and the ratings rose while the complaints ran. A survival show still has to be television, and those two jobs pull in different directions more often than the format admits.
Interesting facts
- A cyclone stranded the Tonga crew for three days. Cyclone Winston, the strongest South Pacific storm on record, hit while they were filming in the Vava'u islands. Seo Kang Joon and Seolhyun had already flown home on 15 February 2016 for other commitments; Kim Byung Man, Go Se Won, Lee Hoon, 2PM's Chansung and Infinite's Sungjong were stuck with the crew for about seventy-two hours, including a full day at the airport. They flew out on 18 February and SBS folded the wait into the show as a survival story of its own.
- It was never a licensed format. It was built around Kim Byung Man personally, and the rule was that the group had to find its own food, water and shelter with three survival tools each.
- Seo Kang Joon said on camera that he has a severe fear of insects, then walked into a swarm of cockroaches inside a wrecked ship and admitted his nerve was not what he thought.
- Jota was cut by a knife opening a coconut, in the episode broadcast on 25 March 2016.
- The Tonga run drew a backlash over its editing. Critics accused SBS of cutting the episodes almost entirely around Seolhyun while Kim Byung Man and the veterans barely appeared. The ratings went up anyway.
- COVID ended it. Overseas filming stopped in May 2020, the show came back with Korean locations in August, and that version could not carry it. The last episode went out on 29 May 2021.
Episodes
| Ep | Title | Air date | Status | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Namibia (1) Kim Byung-man and his three companions built their first shelter on a small island between Namibia and Angola and caught fish with a mosquito net for their first wild meal. | 2011-10-21 | Aired | 8.4% |
| 2 | Namibia (2) Kim Byung-man built a second fishing trap from a mosquito net, and Hwang Kwang-hee cried on camera for the first time since his debut after the conditions overwhelmed him. | 2011-10-28 | Aired | 7.9% |
| 3 | Namibia (3) The group hunted snakes and other small animals for protein and finished a hidden sleeping shelter they called their secret place. | 2011-11-04 | Aired | 10.2% |
| 4 | Namibia (4) After a hard week on Crocodile Island, the four men built a raft by hand and escaped, though Kim Byung-man fell into water known to hold crocodiles partway through the crossing. | 2011-11-18 | Aired | 11.8% |
| 5 | Namibia (5) Kim Byung-man climbed a 20-metre palm tree after watching a demonstration from the Himba, and Ryu Dam became a local favourite among Himba women during the visit. | 2011-11-25 | Aired | 15.4% |
| 6 | Namibia (6) Hwang Kwang-hee coached young Himba men in K-pop dance moves, and the group built the Himba village a children's shelter before saying goodbye to the community. | 2011-12-02 | Aired | 12.0% |
| 7 | Papua, Indonesia (1) The group moved from Namibia into Papua's rainforest and built a shelter from banana leaves, and Kim Kwang-kyu had a sudden allergic reaction on the first day there. | 2011-12-09 | Aired | 13.4% |
| 8 | Papua, Indonesia (2) Hwang Kwang-hee arrived in Papua after a rocky start in Namibia and impressed the group with how he had adjusted, and the team set out by dugout canoe to search for the Korowai. | 2011-12-16 | Aired | 15.0% |
| 9 | Papua, Indonesia (3) While searching for the Korowai, Ricky Kim was swept into fast water crossing a river with bananas and went missing in the dark before being found safe. | 2011-12-23 | Aired | 12.9% |
| 10 | Papua, Indonesia (4) Inspired by a Korowai treehouse forty metres up, Kim Byung-man designed the group's fourth shelter of the trip, and the team tried Korowai foods including roasted bananas and sago grubs. | 2012-01-06 | Aired | 12.9% |
| 11 | Papua, Indonesia (5) Kim Byung-man climbed to a Korowai treehouse despite a fear of heights, and filming paused when deputy director Jung Soon-young went missing in the jungle for about a day before being found. | 2012-01-13 | Aired | 16.7% |
| 12 | This clip episode looked back at the best and worst meals, the four shelters, and the clothes that fell apart over the Namibia and Papua trips. | 2012-01-22 | Aired | 9.0% |
| 13 | Vanuatu (1) The group reached Vanuatu in search of self-sufficient water and fire, where Kim Byung-man met newcomer Choo Sung-hoon, who shares his exact birth date, and the team climbed the active Yasur volcano. | 2012-05-06 | Aired | 13.3% |
| 14 | Vanuatu (2) The group camped overnight on the active Yasur volcano for the first time on the show, was limited to three survival items each, and had to abandon a boat crossing after it capsized in a storm. | 2012-05-13 | Aired | 14.9% |
| 15 | Vanuatu (3) The team spent eight hours starting a fire without a fire steel, and Choo Sung-hoon and Ricky Kim were stranded overnight on another island after missing the tide while hunting alone. | 2012-05-20 | Aired | 16.8% |
| 16 | Vanuatu (4) Kim Byung-man and Choo Sung-hoon competed over fishing methods, Hwang Kwang-hee briefly said he wanted to leave the show, and the group caught and cooked a coconut crab. | 2012-05-27 | Aired | 15.0% |
| 17 | Vanuatu (5) Kim Byung-man made coconut-shell sandals and a bow, and the group dove for giant clams before an impromptu dinner performance on the beach. | 2012-06-03 | Aired | 16.6% |
| 18 | Vanuatu (6) A cyclone hit the camp overnight, forcing the group to build a sand barrier to protect their shelter, and Choo Sung-hoon nearly fell while trying to catch a stingray the next day. | 2012-06-10 | Aired | 15.9% |
| 19 | Vanuatu (7) The group received a video message from home that moved them to tears, then escaped the island on a handmade double canoe after the boats came loose mid-crossing. | 2012-06-17 | Aired | 15.5% |
| 20 | Vanuatu (8) On the way to find the Mal Mal tribe, the group swam across a blue-hole sinkhole and camped near a bat cave despite rising floodwater from sudden rain. | 2012-06-24 | Aired | 15.3% |
| 21 | Vanuatu (9) The group crossed a flooded ravine to reach the Mal Mal tribe and shared a meal of bats and grubs after finally making contact. | 2012-07-01 | Aired | 15.8% |
| 22 | Vanuatu (10) Kim Byung-man and the others hunted wild pigs to earn standing among the Mal Mal, then watched a sixteen-year-old girl's coming-of-age ceremony before leaving Vanuatu after ten weeks. | 2012-07-08 | Aired | 17.6% |
| 23 | Siberia (1) New member Lee Tae-gon joined for the Siberia leg, and the group made its first river crossing of the trip after finding no way around the water on the route to the tundra. | 2012-07-15 | Aired | 18.6% |
| 24 | Siberia (2) A planned five-hour trek through the tundra turned into a 36-hour march after the group lost its bearings under the midnight sun, and two members were hurt along the way. | 2012-07-22 | Aired | 17.2% |
| 25 | Siberia (3) Short on food in the tundra, the group lived mostly on wild berries and costly chaga mushrooms, then joined the reindeer-herding Nenets for a hunt using a single bullet. | 2012-08-05 | Aired | 14.1% |
| 26 | Siberia (4) Kim Byung-man and Lee Tae-gon built two separate shelters in a friendly contest, and the group chased a ptarmigan across the tundra without catching it. | 2012-08-12 | Aired | 16.2% |
| 27 | Siberia (5) The group hunted an arctic hare in the snow, then visited a Nenets settlement where they were served raw reindeer meat and blood as part of the welcome. | 2012-08-19 | Aired | 17.2% |
| 28 | Siberia (6) Kim Byung-man was pinned briefly under a reindeer sled during the push toward the Arctic Ocean, and the group reached the coast to close out the Siberia trip. | 2012-08-26 | Aired | 14.2% |
| 29 | Madagascar (1) The show's fifth trip brought its largest cast yet to Madagascar, where the group saw lemurs and chameleons before an unplanned landing in the desert. | 2012-09-02 | Aired | 16.8% |
| 30 | Madagascar (2) Tracks and burrows in the sand suggested the desert was inhabited, and the group spent hours digging by hand for water before several members showed signs of heat exhaustion. | 2012-09-09 | Aired | 16.2% |
| 31 | Madagascar (3) A snake in camp tested the group's nerve, with Jeon Hye-bin handling it barehanded while others kept their distance, and a coup in Madagascar delayed some filming equipment. | 2012-09-16 | Aired | 16.7% |
| 32 | Madagascar (4) A night rainstorm in the desert left Kim Byung-man too unwell to work the next morning, so Park Jung-chul rebuilt the damaged shelter, and the group later cooked porcupine on skewers. | 2012-09-23 | Aired | 15.3% |
| 33 | Madagascar (5) Ryu Dam collapsed from exhaustion crossing the desert, and the group then reached a rainforest area where a ring-tailed lemur took a particular liking to him. | 2012-09-30 | Aired | 14.1% |
| 34 | Madagascar (6) The group found a pygmy chameleon, among the smallest in the world, camped alongside sifaka and brown lemurs, and three members got lost in the dark foraging for taro and cassava. | 2012-10-07 | Aired | 14.8% |
| 35 | Madagascar (7) The group built a bamboo trap baited with worms to catch a large eel living in a swamp, and youngest member Jung Jin-woon hunted a duck with a slingshot. | 2012-10-14 | Aired | 18.9% |
| 36 | Madagascar (8) The group threw Kim Byung-man a surprise birthday party in the forest with a pineapple cake and palm-leaf hats, and later received video messages from friends and family. | 2012-10-21 | Aired | 16.5% |
| 37 | Madagascar (9) A night search turned up a transparent frog, a hand-sized snail and a tenrec, and the group reached the Sakalava region, where they split into teams to build rapport with the village. | 2012-10-28 | Aired | 15.9% |
| 38 | Madagascar (10) The group tried masonjoany, the Sakalava's traditional bark-paste face paint, and staged an impromptu fashion show, while a canoe team was stranded overnight on an unfamiliar island with no working phone. | 2012-11-04 | Aired | 16.9% |
| 39 | Madagascar (11) The group watched a Sakalava circumcision ceremony for boys in the village, and Kim Byung-man trained for three days to compete in a zebu cattle race to win an animal for a local man saving for his wedding. | 2012-11-11 | Aired | 16.1% |
| 40 | Madagascar (12) In the Madagascar finale, the group made a two-day overland trip past a crocodile-filled river to reach the Tsingy rock formations, closing out the trip there. | 2012-11-16 | Aired | 12.7% |
| 41 | Amazon and Galapagos (1) The group built an upgraded log raft to cross the Amazon river to reach its campsite, in the show's first trip to South America. | 2012-12-28 | Aired | 15.1% |
| 42 | Amazon and Galapagos (2) After crossing the river, the group dealt with ant colonies and three kinds of snakes along the trail, and cooked a seaweed soup for Park Jung-chul's birthday using seaweed brought from Korea. | 2013-01-04 | Aired | 17.1% |
| 43 | Amazon and Galapagos (3) Kim Byung-man and Choo Sung-hoon built spears to hunt a pirarucu, a river fish that can grow past a metre long, and the group made a final push off the river island before a storm hit. | 2013-01-11 | Aired | 17.0% |
| 44 | Amazon and Galapagos (4) The group crossed the swollen Amazon on a bamboo raft after Choo Sung-hoon fell into the water, then drove out to meet the Waorani and camped overnight when the truck broke down. | 2013-01-18 | Aired | 17.4% |
| 45 | Amazon and Galapagos (5) After Kim Byung-man collapsed from ant stings, the group had its first meeting with the Waorani, who welcomed them with a ceremony marked by red face paint and tattoos. | 2013-01-25 | Aired | 19.3% |
| 46 | Amazon and Galapagos (6) The Waorani invited the group to a breakfast of crocodile meat prepared by Park Sol-mi, and the team later baited a pond with chicken blood to try to catch piranha. | 2013-02-01 | Aired | 18.4% |
| 47 | Amazon and Galapagos (7) The group caught and grilled piranha on skewers, then hunted a wild pig through swamp and log bridges as a wedding gift for the Waorani chief's grandson. | 2013-02-08 | Aired | 18.1% |
| 48 | Amazon and Galapagos (8) The group moved on to the Galapagos Islands, where open fires and cutting plants were both banned, sharply limiting how they could build shelter or cook. | 2013-02-15 | Aired | 15.3% |
| 49 | Amazon and Galapagos (9) The group snorkeled through the Galapagos marine reserve among its native wildlife, then crossed a dark ravine at night to hunt giant freshwater prawns. | 2013-02-22 | Aired | 16.8% |
| 50 | Amazon and Galapagos (10) In the closing episode, the group cooked a farewell feast of giant prawns and pork, and Park Sol-mi read the others a letter looking back on the Amazon leg of the trip. | 2013-03-01 | Aired | 15.2% |
| 51 | New Zealand (1) Seven cast members, including a returning Ricky Kim, joined a Maori survival camp to learn traditional trout-fishing methods before the group moved on to its main location. | 2013-03-08 | Aired | 16.4% |
| 52 | New Zealand (2) After a fall near a waterfall worried the group, they reached the remote Chatham Islands, where the crew took away most of their belongings for a stone-age style stretch inside a cave. | 2013-03-15 | Aired | 15.6% |
| 53 | New Zealand (3) | 2013-03-22 | Aired | 16.8% |
| 54 | New Zealand (4) The group tried spearfishing after the local fish kept stealing their bait, and found a blue penguin nest near their cave, the smallest living penguin species. | 2013-03-29 | Aired | 15.7% |
| 55 | New Zealand (5) Kim Byung-man and Jung Suk-won free-dived for food in cold water until both showed signs of hypothermia, then found and cooked a large Chatham Islands crayfish. | 2013-04-05 | Aired | 16.2% |
| 56 | New Zealand (6) The group received video messages from actors Son Hyun-joo, Cheon Jung-myung and Cha Tae-hyun, then went looking for the seal colony they had spotted on their first day at Chatham. | 2013-04-12 | Aired | 15.8% |
| 57 | New Zealand (7) | 2013-04-17 | Aired | |
| 58 | New Zealand (8) Heavy rain and rising water forced the crew to halt filming and evacuate the group from a flooded forest, and the group later hunted huhu grubs, which they compared to peanut butter. | 2013-04-26 | Aired | 15.3% |
| 59 | New Zealand (9) The group hunted a large eel that had earlier startled the crew, then flew to a glacier to hunt tahr, a wild goat New Zealand classifies as an invasive pest. | 2013-05-03 | Aired | 15.8% |
| 60 | New Zealand (10) In the finale, sixteen crew and cast climbed a steep trail inspired by The Lord of the Rings while filming themselves with body cameras, then built a shelter from only natural materials. | 2013-05-10 | Aired | 15.4% |
| 61 | Himalayas (1) The group began the Nepal trip with a visit to a cremation ground and a temple to the goddess Kali before heading toward the mountains. | 2013-05-17 | Aired | 15.8% |
| 62 | Himalayas (2) Facing hunger on the first full day, the group fished a stream in the forest and built a camouflaged shelter from branches and leaves to stay hidden from wildlife overnight. | 2013-05-24 | Aired | 16.1% |
| 63 | Himalayas (3) Kim Byung-man spotted a rhinoceros near the camouflaged shelter while scouting the area, and the group built a lookout in a tree to watch for the endangered Bengal tigers living nearby. | 2013-05-31 | Aired | 16.5% |
| 64 | Himalayas (4) The camp spent its first night without Kim Byung-man while he searched for tigers, and the group later got its first confirmed sighting of a wild Bengal tiger. | 2013-06-07 | Aired | 14.9% |
| 65 | Himalayas (5) Oh Ji-eun, the only woman in the group, broke down in tears after being left alone at camp, and the team then flew from Bardia to the Himalayas to begin the mountain leg of the trip. | 2013-06-14 | Aired | 14.7% |
| 66 | Himalayas (6) The group faced snow, rain and hail on their first day of trekking, and Jung Jun developed dizziness, vomiting and shortness of breath from altitude sickness. | 2013-06-21 | Aired | 14.4% |
| 67 | Himalayas (7) Kim Byung-man and Park Jung-chul tried herding yaks and both fell off when the animals changed direction, and the group later swam in the glacial lake at Phoksundo. | 2013-06-28 | Aired | 14.5% |
| 68 | Himalayas (8) Ahn Jung-hwan played a football match against Noh Woo-jin's team at almost 3,800 metres altitude, and Kim Byung-man and youngest member Kim Hye-seong bonded while herding yaks along a narrow trail. | 2013-07-05 | Aired | 14.3% |
| 69 | Himalayas (9) A local remedy taken during the yak trek left Kim Byung-man unusually talkative with local traders, and the group later received video messages from their families. | 2013-07-12 | Aired | 14.5% |
| 70 | Himalayas (10) Kim Byung-man slaughtered a goat as thanks for the Phoksundo villagers who taught the group to herd yaks, and the crew let the cast make satellite calls home on their last night. | 2013-07-19 | Aired | 13.9% |
| 71 | Caribbean and Maya Jungle (1) The ninth trip took the group to Belize, where each of the seven members set a personal endurance goal for the leg, in a country where most of the land is protected wilderness. | 2013-07-26 | Aired | 14.2% |
| 72 | Caribbean and Maya Jungle (2) The group's first island turned out to be overrun with biting mosquitoes, and Kim Byung-man and Kim Seung-soo held an impromptu cooking contest using what they had caught. | 2013-08-02 | Aired | 15.7% |
| 73 | Caribbean and Maya Jungle (3) The group abandoned their first island after the mosquitoes proved unbearable and sailed to a second, nicknamed the island of the dead for its skull-like rock formations. | 2013-08-09 | Aired | 17.3% |
| 74 | Caribbean and Maya Jungle (4) The group went looking for conch in the shallows and instead found a spiny lobster relative, and Lee Sung-yeol caught and briefly kept a wild lizard he named Sung-gyu. | 2013-08-16 | Aired | 16.5% |
| 75 | Caribbean and Maya Jungle (5) The group sailed into open water for the first time on the show and hooked something far larger than the tuna they expected, then held an impromptu fashion show using palm leaves. | 2013-08-23 | Aired | 15.5% |
| 76 | Caribbean and Maya Jungle (6) After a year of preparation, Kim Byung-man completed a skydive from 9,000 feet to land in the middle of the Great Blue Hole, and the crew highlighted the sharks, whale sharks and manatees the group had encountered. | 2013-08-30 | Aired | 13.8% |
| 77 | Caribbean and Maya Jungle (7) Kim Byung-man trained five months for a freediving attempt and reached a personal best of 20 metres and nearly four minutes, and the group then moved on to the Maya jungle leg of the trip. | 2013-09-06 | Aired | 14.3% |
| 78 | Caribbean and Maya Jungle (8) The group learned to make hammocks and identify edible fruit from Maya tradition, including cacao, as part of a basic jungle course before the harder stretch of the trip. | 2013-09-13 | Aired | 15.6% |
| 79 | Caribbean and Maya Jungle (9) The group hunted with dogs for gibnut, a burrowing rodent that is a traditional Maya food, and Oh Jong-hyuk settled fully into camp life during the search. | 2013-09-20 | Aired | 11.1% |
| 80 | Caribbean and Maya Jungle (10) The group explored a sinkhole known locally as the devil's throat while searching for jaguar signs in the jungle, closing out the ten-week Belize trip. | 2013-09-27 | Aired | 13.2% |
| 81 | Savannah (1) | 2013-10-04 | Aired | 12.7% |
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| 83 | Savannah (3) | 2013-10-18 | Aired | 14.4% |
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| 88 | Savannah (8) | 2013-12-06 | Aired | 10.4% |
| 89 | Savannah (9) | 2013-12-13 | Aired | 10.7% |
| 90 | Micronesia (1) | 2013-12-20 | Aired | 12.4% |
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| 99 | Micronesia (10) | 2014-02-21 | Aired | 16.3% |
| 100 | Borneo (1) | 2014-02-28 | Aired | 16.4% |
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| 108 | Brazil (1) | 2014-05-09 | Aired | 12.1% |
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| 114 | Brazil (7) | 2014-06-20 | Aired | 11.7% |
| 115 | Brazil (8) | 2014-06-27 | Aired | 11.3% |
| 116 | Brazil (9) | 2014-07-04 | Aired | 11.4% |
| 117 | Indian Ocean (1) | 2014-07-11 | Aired | 13.2% |
| 118 | Indian Ocean (2) | 2014-07-20 | Aired | |
| 119 | Indian Ocean (3) Kim Seung-soo and the group went hunting to help an injured member recover, and a hidden-camera segment caught pranks played on the cast. The episode also introduced a solo survival format, sending a cast member alone into wetlands, a beach, a canyon and jungle terrain in turn. | 2014-07-25 | Aired | 12.7% |
| 120 | Indian Ocean (4) | 2014-08-01 | Aired | 11.4% |
| 121 | Indian Ocean (5) | 2014-08-08 | Aired | 12.1% |
| 122 | Indian Ocean (6) | 2014-08-15 | Aired | 12.0% |
| 123 | Indian Ocean (7) | 2014-08-22 | Aired | 12.5% |
| 124 | Indian Ocean (8) | 2014-08-29 | Aired | 13.2% |
| 125 | Indian Ocean (9) | 2014-09-05 | Aired | 12.8% |
| 126 | Solomon Islands (1) | 2014-09-12 | Aired | 14.0% |
| 127 | Solomon Islands (2) | 2014-09-19 | Aired | 12.1% |
| 128 | Solomon Islands (3) | 2014-09-26 | Aired | 14.4% |
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| 142 | Costa Rica (6) | 2015-01-02 | Aired | 15.6% |
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| 146 | Palau (1) | 2015-01-30 | Aired | 15.7% |
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| 153 | Palau (8) | 2015-03-20 | Aired | 13.8% |
| 154 | Indochina (1) | 2015-03-27 | Aired | 13.2% |
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| 162 | Indochina (9) | 2015-05-22 | Aired | 10.3% |
| 163 | Yap Islands (1) | 2015-05-29 | Aired | 11.5% |
| 164 | Yap Islands (2) | 2015-06-05 | Aired | 11.8% |
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| 170 | Yap Islands (8) | 2015-07-17 | Aired | 12.0% |
| 171 | Brunei: Hidden Kingdom (1) | 2015-07-24 | Aired | 11.6% |
| 172 | Brunei: Hidden Kingdom (2) | 2015-07-31 | Aired | 10.1% |
| 173 | Brunei: Hidden Kingdom (3) | 2015-08-07 | Aired | 11.1% |
| 174 | Brunei: Hidden Kingdom (4) | 2015-08-14 | Aired | 12.4% |
| 175 | Brunei: The Last Hunter (1) | 2015-08-21 | Aired | 12.4% |
| 176 | Brunei: The Last Hunter (2) | 2015-08-28 | Aired | 13.3% |
| 177 | Brunei: The Last Hunter (3) | 2015-09-04 | Aired | 13.0% |
| 178 | Nicaragua: Triathlon Survival (1) | 2015-09-11 | Aired | 11.5% |
| 179 | Nicaragua: Triathlon Survival (2) | 2015-09-18 | Aired | 13.1% |
| 180 | Nicaragua: Triathlon Survival (3) | 2015-09-25 | Aired | 13.5% |
| 181 | Nicaragua: Find Big 3 (1) | 2015-10-02 | Aired | 13.7% |
| 182 | Nicaragua: Find Big 3 (2) | 2015-10-09 | Aired | 10.8% |
| 183 | Nicaragua: Find Big 3 (3) | 2015-10-16 | Aired | 11.7% |
| 184 | Nicaragua: Find Big 3 (4) and Send Me (1) | 2015-10-23 | Aired | 10.9% |
| 185 | Nicaragua: Send Me (2) | 2015-10-30 | Aired | 11.7% |
| 186 | Samoa (1) | 2015-11-06 | Aired | 11.6% |
| 187 | Samoa (2) | 2015-11-13 | Aired | 12.0% |
| 188 | Samoa (3) | 2015-11-20 | Aired | 11.1% |
| 189 | Samoa (4) | 2015-11-27 | Aired | 11.6% |
| 190 | Samoa (5) | 2015-12-04 | Aired | 10.9% |
| 191 | Samoa (6) | 2015-12-11 | Aired | 11.8% |
| 192 | Samoa (7) | 2015-12-18 | Aired | 13.9% |
| 193 | Samoa (8) | 2015-12-25 | Aired | 12.6% |
| 194 | Samoa (9) | 2016-01-01 | Aired | 11.4% |
| 195 | Panama: Survival in the Unknown (1) | 2016-01-08 | Aired | 13.5% |
| 196 | Panama: Survival in the Unknown (2) | 2016-01-15 | Aired | 12.6% |
| 197 | Panama: Survival in the Unknown (3) | 2016-01-22 | Aired | 15.1% |
| 198 | Panama: Survival in the Unknown (4) | 2016-01-29 | Aired | 13.9% |
| 199 | 2016-02-05 | Aired | 13.1% | |
| 200 | 2016-02-12 | Aired | 14.4% | |
| 201 | 2016-02-19 | Aired | 12.6% | |
| 202 | 2016-02-26 | Aired | 11.6% | |
| 203 | Tonga (1) | 2016-03-04 | Aired | 13.5% |
| 204 | Tonga (2) | 2016-03-11 | Aired | 14.9% |
| 205 | Tonga (3) | 2016-03-18 | Aired | 14.7% |
| 206 | Tonga (4) | 2016-03-25 | Aired | 13.0% |
| 207 | Tonga (5) | 2016-04-01 | Aired | 13.6% |
| 208 | Tonga (6) | 2016-04-08 | Aired | 13.7% |
| 209 | Tonga (7) | 2016-04-15 | Aired | 12.8% |
| 210 | Tonga (8) | 2016-04-22 | Aired | 11.9% |
| 211 | Tonga (9) | 2016-04-29 | Aired | 13.4% |
| 212 | Papua New Guinea (1) | 2016-05-06 | Aired | 12.8% |
| 213 | Papua New Guinea (2) | 2016-05-13 | Aired | 11.7% |
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| 216 | Papua New Guinea (5) | 2016-06-03 | Aired | 12.8% |
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| 252 | Four celebrity pairs took on a survival challenge as matched teams, each choosing between an eighty-metre cliff descent shortcut or a longer, safer route. The pairs then competed at building a house, judged and ranked on the result under the episode's shared-fate format. | 2017-02-10 | Aired | |
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| 380 | Three cast members searched the forest near camp for food through heavy rain and spoiled fruit, pushing into harder terrain as night fell, with a younger member stepping up to lead the group. Elsewhere another cast member explored near a waterfall and took a leading role among the newer members. | 2019-09-07 | Aired | |
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| Kim Byung-man led a nighttime ocean hunt so each member could have an abalone, and caught something rare along the way while In-ah watched anxiously from the shore. The group also slept for the first time in a cliff-side shelter built to sleep several people to the sound of the waves, alongside a water-yoga session on a wooden raft, a hand-built well hose and a bottle-fishing attempt. | Date TBC |
Soundtrack
| Track | Artist |
|---|---|
| Welcome to the Jungle (opening theme) | Guns N' Roses |
Awards
| Year | Ceremony | Category | Recipient | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | SBS Entertainment Awards | Golden Content Award | Law of the Jungle | Won |
| 2016 | SBS Entertainment Awards | Best Entertainer (for the Tonga run) | Seolhyun | Won |
| 2016 | SBS Entertainment Awards | Best Couple | Seo Kang Joon and Jota | Nominated |
| 2015 | SBS Awards Festival | Grand Award (Daesang) | Kim Byung Man | Won |
| 2014 | SBS Awards Festival | Variety Best Program Award | Law of the Jungle | Won |
| 2013 | SBS Entertainment Awards | Grand Award (Daesang), programme | Law of the Jungle | Won |
| 2013 | Houston International Film Festival | First Prize, Real Documentary (Law of the Jungle in Vanuatu) | Law of the Jungle | Won |
| 2013 | Baeksang Arts Awards | TV Entertainment Award | Kim Byung Man | Won |
| 2012 | SBS Entertainment Awards | Most Outstanding Program | Law of the Jungle | Won |
| 2012 | SBS Entertainment Awards | Best Entertainer | Choo Sung Hoon and Jeon Hye Bin | Won |
| 2011 | SBS Entertainment Awards | Achievement Award, programme | Law of the Jungle | Won |
| 2011 | SBS Entertainment Awards | Most Outstanding Award, Variety | Kim Byung Man | Won |
Frequently asked questions
What is Law of the Jungle about?
The comedian Kim Byung Man led a rotating group of Korean entertainers into somewhere remote and they had to get by on very little: build a shelter, find drinking water, catch and cook their own food. Each destination ran over several weekly episodes.
How many episodes does Law of the Jungle have?
452, broadcast on SBS from 21 October 2011 to 29 May 2021.
Which episodes is Seo Kang Joon in?
Episodes 203 to 207, the first half of the Tonga expedition, broadcast on Fridays from 4 March to 1 April 2016. He flew out with the advance team on 31 January and stayed about two weeks.
Who else went to Tonga?
The first half was Kim Byung Man, Go Se Won, Seo Kang Joon, Jeon Hye Bin, Hong Yoon Hwa, Mad Town's Jota and B1A4's Sandeul. The second half, episodes 208 to 211, swapped in Lee Hoon, 2PM's Chansung, Infinite's Sungjong and AOA's Seolhyun.
What happened with the cyclone?
Cyclone Winston hit the Vava'u islands during filming. Seo Kang Joon and Seolhyun had already left on 15 February 2016. The rest of the group and the crew were grounded for about seventy-two hours and got out on 18 February.
Why did Law of the Jungle end?
Overseas filming became impossible during the pandemic. SBS paused it in May 2020, restarted with Korean locations in August, and closed it on 29 May 2021 when the variants ended any hope of going abroad again.
Where can I watch Law of the Jungle?
On SBS's own video service and Wavve in Korea, and on Kocowa outside it. Netflix Korea carries selected runs but not the whole series. SBS also has a dedicated clip channel on YouTube.
Did Seo Kang Joon win anything for the Tonga run?
He was nominated, not a winner. At the 2016 SBS Entertainment Awards he and Jota were up for Best Couple and did not take it. Seolhyun won Best Entertainer for the same Tonga run.
Is Law of the Jungle scripted?
Not in the sense of written dialogue. The group really does have to build shelter and find food, with three survival tools each and no supplied provisions, and the weather is whatever the weather is. What is shaped is the edit: which people an episode follows, the order events appear in, and how much of the waiting is left in. The Tonga run was criticised in Korea on exactly that point.
Which Law of the Jungle destination should I start with?
By whoever you came for, which is how the show is normally catalogued. Each destination is self-contained and needs no knowledge of the runs before it, so a Tonga viewer starting at episode 203 loses nothing. There is no continuing story to miss.
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