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Running Man: Episode 268

Our cast will return to school this week to get to know their deskmates with whom they’ll eat lunch, play games, and try to prevent one another from winning. The pairs will be looking for legendary couple rings known to keep its wearers together forever. With tasty food, unique roll combinations, and frightening teachers, will our cast be able to make it to the end of the school day, or get caught for playing hooky?

EPISODE 268. Broadcast on October 4, 2015.

Welcome back to Running Man High, where our guys take their seats in the classroom. Heh, Jong-kook sits in the back. Cue their teacher, actor Jung Kyung-ho, who clarifies that he’s the OLDER Jung Kyung-ho (not the younger actor from Falling for Innocence and Heartless City).

The guys are excited by the news of a transfer student, but then in walks actor Yoon Park (What’s With This Family?). Upon hearing that Suk-jin commented that his full name sounds like two surnames, Yoon Park tosses back, “Why do you have two noses?”

This class also has a female teacher: actress Hwang Seok-jung (She Was Pretty), who greets everyone in a Most-esque way. She brings wonderful news—today’s classes will be co-ed.

I love how she tells the young hot-blooded men to curb their hormones when the girls arrive, knowing how guys can be at the sight of beauty. After the teachers take their leave, Gary is appointed to prompt the rest of our guests to enter.

They all fall back when the “class president’s girlfriend” aka Ji-hyo walks in. She and the rest of the ladies have packed lunch for their deskmates today. She parks a seat next to Yoon Park, to Gary’s dismay.

All the guys rush over to greet Park Han-byul who has brought her lunch (a mix of homemade food and dressing up store-bought kimbap) and matching hats for her teammate. They chant “One Star” (since han means “one” and byul means “star” in Korean), and she chooses Jae-suk.

Their next guest shrinks back when Haha spits out her name: “Hey Stephanie!” It’s been some time since we’ve seen her on variety, but she’s here to promote her solo comeback. A video shows her preparing her packed lunch the previous night, and though her oppas Haha and Jong-kook are happy to see her… she chooses Jae-suk too.

Jae-suk doesn’t say no right away, which prompts Han-byul to ask if she can be cast away that quickly. He even returns the hat, but agrees to have Stephanie sit temporarily until the next guest arrives. Needless to say, the other guys AREN’T happy about it.

Next is an athlete, climber Kim Ja-in whose petite size leaves all the guys in shock. Her healthy lunch seems perfect for Jong-kook, though Haha says they would make a great match, yunno, height-wise.

She offers a gulp to Jong-kook… only to pass by him and choose Haha instead. LOL. There are still more to come with Red Velvet’s Joy, whose age of 20 has Gary muttering about the large age difference between them.

Joy says she had someone specific in mind, but a small peek has Jae-suk wondering if ALL the girls prepared fried tofu rice balls. After ruling out Suk-jin, Joy moseys her way over to Kwang-soo to whom her personalized lunch is for.

Gong Seung-yeon (Heard It Through the Grapevine) enters with her lunch, which she admits that the pickles were leftover from her pizza order. In her video, she admits that she has yet to cook for herself despite living on her own for a year.

When Jae-suk unearths the container of green grapes, he asks if Seung-yeon split with Joy, who also had grapes. Kwang-soo can hardly contain himself when she chooses him. Their last guest is comedienne Park Na-rae, who gets upset over the lack of enthusiastic welcome.

Because of her short stature, the podium comes up to her neck, giving us an unintentional visual gag. Although they’re wrapped in foil, Na-rae has brought an impressive menu. Man, that marinated octopus kebab looks good. While everyone else has other intentions, she’s looking for a husband.

To everyone’s surprise, she also chooses Kwang-soo and points out their staggering height difference. Aw, she barely comes up to his chest. Na-rae is the first to get cut, followed by Seung-yeon, which leaves him with Joy.

It’s a rejection parade as Jae-suk boots Stephanie, who then teams up with Jong-kook. Seung-yeon moves over to Gary, and Na-rae pairs up with Suk-jin.

While our pairings enjoy their packed lunches outside, so do our teachers who have a picnic of their own. Haha, guess they weren’t kidding about that date. But at least they make for some interesting expository fairies to tell us about today’s theme: Legend has it that whoever finds this special couple ring will be together forever with their true love.

Kwang-soo tries to create an alliance with Jong-kook while Suk-jin vows to make his once-a-year win come true today. Our expository teachers hilariously twist the “I’ll pluck a star out of the sky for you!” trope into “I’ll pick up a fallen star” which leads into our very first game.

But before they start that, the group decides to break down into a little dance time. After Stephanie shows off her moves, Joy misses her cue to the chorus too early twice. Ha, at least it gives us some hilarious headbanging and shameless dancing. They let her redo it, but she struts out into a zombie walk.

Ji-hyo joins in with Han-byul’s random dance, but it’s Yoon Park who shows off some talents of his own, starting off with a fan dance and ending with a split. Whoaaaa. When it’s Ja-in’s turn, she backs away… so that she can climb a pole? Hahaha, she’s told that she need not go that far.

Back to the game, where our couples must try to retrieve as many fallen stars as possible. Yoon Park and Ji-hyo topple over, so Yoon Park resorts to crawling on the ground.

Each team step over to their baskets, and with Suk-jin’s suggestion to knock Kwang-soo’s basket over, Yoon Park does just that and charges. It helps because Kwang-soo and Joy only have three versus their seven.

In the finals, Jong-kook hoists Stephanie onto his back so that he can be free to pick up stars. Yoon Park won’t give up that easily, and then Suk-jin knocks Jong-kook’s basket aside. Yoon Park nests over his basket until time runs out.

He and Ji-hyo are given separate hints, and they mix up the pairings except for themselves and Suk-jin and Na-rae. So now it’s Gary and Jae-in, Kwang-soo and Stephanie, Jong-kook and Han-byul, Haha and Joy, and Jae-suk and Seung-yeon.

Following another break with our teachers sharing ice cream, the guys are greeted by a giant Plinko board with various ingredients listed as outcomes. Here, the girls will eat kimbap rolls according to whatever ingredients they get which ought to give us some interesting flavors.

To make things interesting, the guys suggest that the three icons of bad luck (Suk-jin, Kwang-soo, and Jae-suk) go first. Of those, Kwang-soo steps up and his first ball looks like it’s going for the donkatsu… but then falls into a dud.

But that’s not all—his second one’s a dud too. Then with his last ball, he’s gonna get a whole lot of salted shrimp.

Suk-jin is up next and gets artificial crab meat and chocolate and coriander. Jae-suk gets gummy worms, chocolate… and wasabi. Yoon Park lets go of three balls simultaneously, and only one lands on an ingredient: fish. At least he gets donkatsu to even it out?

Jong-kook’s combination of raw garlic, cream cheese, and coriander sounds not-so delicious, and Haha’s donkatsu and radish combo gets ruined with artificial crab meat.

The guys sit down to roll their special kimbap for their ladies, and there’s a nice layer of salted shrimp on Kwang-soo’s. Yoon Park pays extra attention to his (he just so happened to appear on the cooking show Mr. Baek, the Homemade Food Master recently).

When they bring it upstairs, Ji-hyo loves the fish and fried pork combination. Ja-in remains neutral and matter-of-fact about hers, and Joy eats up hers. Stephanie is astounded by the fish bones Kwang-soo has used as garnish. She eats it and has Kwang-soo eat some too. But it’s Na-rae who reels at the chocolate-artificial-crab-and-coriander roll.

We skip ahead where we see Jae-suk and Han-byul driving over while the picture-in-picture tells us that Jae-suk and Seung-yeon won the previous game.

While they drive over to the final mission location, our teachers return to an empty classroom. They wrangle some muscle and head out to find the students.

Speaking of whom, our couples are briefed on their mission: find and open the box that contains the legendary couple ring and get into the safe zone to win. Na-rae shrieks at hearing that it’s a diamond ring. But that’s not all—their teachers are on their way; if they’re caught and their paper links detach, they’re out of the game.

Both Ji-hyo and Yoon Park have half a hint, though he supposes that the first hint describes the shape of the key whereas the other suggests the box’s location. Haha and Seungyeon find a red-colored heart key on the fifth floor, which isn’t the green-colored heart they should be looking for.

As Jae-suk and Han-byul head downstairs, they hear the unmistakable sound of bells in the distance. Teachers Hwang and Jung roam the halls, and when Teacher Hwang pulls back the curtain in the tiny theatre, she gasps at seeing her own reflection. Lol.

Gary and Ja-in make a run for it when they’re spotted by Teacher Jung. They’re caught in the stairwell where Teacher Jung takes them out.

In order to avoid the bells, Kwang-soo and Ji-hyo hurry into the elevator where Jong-kook and Stephanie are. But the sound of bells await them downstairs too, so they close the doors.

Suk-jin and Na-rae try hiding under the curtain, but I’m sure that large lump and visible shoes are abound to give them away. Ji-hyo and Kwang-soo find the room that contains the chest but neither of their keys work.

It’s slightly awkward when they run into Haha and Seung-yeon, but their key doesn’t work either. They try to quietly leave, when they find that the door to the outer room is locked. That’s because Jae-suk has locked the door because he thinks it leads outside.

Jae-suk breaks into a smile at the desperate pleas coming from the other side to open the door. He thinks it’s one of the teachers, but an aegyo-dripping plea has him thinking otherwise.

When he opens up the door, they tell him about the inner room that contains the chest. So Jae-suk and Han-byul try their hands at the yellow and red keys, to no avail.

Teacher Hwang spots Kwang-soo in one of the security cameras, and gives him and Ji-hyo a fright right outside the elevator. She tears their paper links, eliminating them from the game.

Another picture-in-picture teaches us that Yoon Park and Joy were eliminated, and Suk-jin asks for their hint. Kwang-soo and Ji-hyo do the same for Haha and Seung-yeon, though he tries telling them that they have to look for a red key.

But Haha won’t be fooled and gathers from Ji-hyo’s account that they need to find a green-colored key. They continue the hunt and find a box buried in the dirt—aha, it’s the green key they need.

When they run back to the chest, the lock clicks open. Haha and Seung-yeon put on the rings. Elsewhere, Jae-suk and Han-byul climb into the elevator, which makes an unexpected stop. The doors open… and Teacher Jung enters, saying that he’d been waiting.

Jae-suk tries to reason with him, and Teacher Jung agrees to give them a head start. Running downstairs only leads to more trouble with Teacher Hwang waiting for them with open arms. Needless to say Jae-suk and Han-byul are eliminated.

An abrupt cut takes us back to Haha and Seung-yeon, who make a run for it. The teachers and Jae-suk and Han-byul wait by the elevators. But when the doors open, Jong-kook and Stephanie are already inside. I love how Teacher Hwang nestles herself into Jong-kook.

Haha and Seung-yeon watch all of this unfold and dash to the other side. Too bad Teacher Jung has spotted them and gives chase. They try the rooms down in the first floor basement until they finally spot the heart-shaped safe zone.

Haha and Seung-yeon celebrate their win and have Ji-hyo to thank. Teacher Hwang reenacts her ninja stance while chasing her targets, sending chills down everyone’s spines.

To top it all off, Haha and Seung-yeon sport their diamond rings that commemorates their shiny victory.

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Such a fun episode and I think it was cilantro not coriander - that's what it looked like and the subtitles listed it as?

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Lol..Theyre the same thing.. two different names

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cilantro always refers to the green parts though, while coriander always refers to the seeds that's used as spice.

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cilantro=US coriander=Europe

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That's so cool - thanks to everybody who responded. I cook a good bit but not with cilantro (it's not my favorite) so I'd never known it went by any other name!

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This episode is kinda fun! Although it lost steam towards the end. The guests were so cute! Welcome back Stephanie~~~

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I was so excited to see Jung Kyung Ho in the guest list. Imagine my surprise when I found out there are actually two of them. At least he was very enthusiastic in his role. Now when is the other Jung Kyung Ho going to appear on Running Man?

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I totally get that disappointment.

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Wow, I think Haha have luck to get his lady partner couple ring. How many times is it already that Haha win in couple games?

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Thanks for the recap. Can't wait for Family Outing reunion next week. Chunderella + SpartaKook + Grasshopper^ ^ v

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Next week is kwang soo movie promotion

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We were laughing out loud as Yoon Park crawled to pick up stars with Ji-Hyo on his back. So competitive, that young man!

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I didn't read the instructions on how to rate the episode. I planned to "color" in 4 stars, but when I did the first one, it thanked me and left.

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Park Han-byul is pretty, but is she shy or just plain boring?

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shy i think. YJS mentions it in the beginning when she picks him

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I think some K reality shows always mocking the look of the others : ur ugly, she is fat, ugly.old... It's pissed offff. Wtf r they talking and laughing about? It's so impolite for me.
Each episode, the guy always hope for pairing with a girl, why?? If you want to date a girl then joining Wgm.

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Don't mistake Koreans being very direct about things such as height, weight, age, looks, etc. necessarily as mocking.

Such things are taken very matter of factly and even if someone is teased about it - it isn't taken the same way as in say, the US.

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Ha ha !!! Thanks for the recaps !!! Can't wait to read the next one !!! I usually don't read running man recaps coz I like to watch them more than read !!! But when it's dramabeans I guess I can make an exception !!! I've been hitting the refresh button for the past 4 hours for sassy go go ep 4 recaps !!! I wish more ppl would watch it !!! It's such a wonderful drama !!!

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That was a very fun episode. I really liked all the guests interactions with the cast. But when Park Na Rae entered and stood by Kwang soo, my mouth dropped open, I thought she was sitting?

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Fun episode! ✌️

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Hilarious!

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Good episode!

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I agree this was a fun episode, good mix of guests and fun games.

I know they need to edit it down for time reasons but they left out the bit with the fat suits. That looked hilarious, much more fun than the final challenge.

Totally loved the back story with Jung Kyung-ho and Hwang Seok-jung. There were just off to the side doing their own drama - so funny.

My captions said Park Na-rae looked like a "whack a mole" at the podium!!

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The beginning was funny..but it def wasn't my favorite ep. Excited for next week!

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How can I rate a star? I want 5 stars for this one!!!

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Hahaha this was a fun episode that I enjoyed!!!

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This is a so-so episode for me, some funny moments, but overall a disappointing one.

And the editing was somewhat off.

Enjoyed the previous episode very much and looking forward to the next...

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Aww i guess i was the only one who was disappointed with the episode... Mostly with the couple ring race because nothing much happened and it felt like the guests just... Disappeared in that portion... But the beginning was fun. Too many skipped parts though

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Not only you

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What I really love about RM is the interactions of all the casts ^__^

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I felt like the editing was really off in this episode, if they couldn't fit everything into the hour they shouldn't have had so many challenges/activities. Maybe they just let the rookie PD have a crack at editing, but it seemed off. Would say this episode was only alright, next week looks good though.

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Joy and Kwang Soo look so good together. Please be real life couple!

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This episode was fun! :)

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I like the last mission where they run around to find the keys - it has been long since RM has such a thrilling 'hide and seek' game (although the bells are missing but it is forgivable). However, there are way TOO many guests in this episode. I can't even remember each of their faces or names before this episode ended.

Furthermore, how can they cast Park Han Byul in an episode with so many guests? RM has a special for Suzy where she is the only guest but had PHB as a supporting character in this episode.... unbelievable! Sorry to be biased here but is Suzy ... erm... better, or deserve more privilege than Park Han Byul?

Luckily, Park Bo Young seems to be able to have decent screen time since there will only be 3 guests in the next epsiode! Na Bong Sun!!!

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in suzy's first or 2nd appearance, she joined the show with a few others female idols like luna of F(x). so she doesnt always get solos

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I wish they don't cut the third game..
can't wait for next week..

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Enjoyable episode even though I was really disappointed with the editing. They really should have cut down on the 30 minute introduction and teacher cuts so we could have seen the other games and more of the final mission. Anyway I really enjoyed the bells game this time around, its been a while since the final mission has been quite thrilling.

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Wow thanks for the recap i simply cant get enough of this show thanks a lot

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I sooo love Running Man!

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Definitely one of the longer intros, but worth it as there were a lot of hi-jinks and banter as the boys were scurrying for favor/matches.

Park Han-byul is a fairly well known K-celeb, but she is probably known more for being a "pretty face" than for acting (she has often been referred to as looking like Jeon Ji-hyun, but doesn't really look anything like JJH).

Stephanie is blast from the past and didn't quite recognize her at 1st. Never quite warmed up to her on X-Man since being known as a dance, most of her dancing comprised of the bump-n-grind style which I really don't consider to be dancing, but Stephanie is probably why they did that X-Man style dance stage/party. (PHB and Ji-hyo should have just borrowed Lee Jin's "stiff" dance moves.)

Pretty funny to see Stephanie still causing "trouble" when it comes to love-lines (previously having been YEH's rival for Kookie's affections.)

Kim Ja-in is too cute and that was a great burn on her part on Kookie (and then YJS's overreaction).

Would've wanted to be paired w/ Park Na-rae for that lunch.

Pretty amazing how the 3 bad-luck amigos (and esp. the icon of bad-luck, Kwang-soo) and lady luck Ji-hyo holds true most of the time.

The name-tag ripping game was OK, but despite those who have clamored for it to appear more often, it usually isn't that great unless there is a new/interesting twist to the game (there have been some real duds).

The clips of the 2 teachers on their "date" cracked me up - reminded me of bad K-dramas, except this was probably better than those.

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Great episode, lots of little giggles! This was an episode where lots of female guests didn't deter from the mood. I liked the guests -- Ja-In was SO funny with her random pole climbing (tried a lot harder to be entertaining than a lot of athletic guests)...wish she had more screen time. She looks a little like Taeyeon. Yoon Park was a good male guest. Na Rae was amazingly funny. I didn't know Stephanie's history -- her dance was cool but the funniest part was how warmly Haha greeted her and yet she still chose YJS. Han Byul...is she boring, closed off, or snobby...? My least favorite guest in this episode, I think you could've subbed her in with a cardboard and no one would notice.

Lot of parts felt kind of random, like the too-long lunch scenes/partner picking and the kimbap snack portion which cut out time for the actual challenge.

I liked how Jihyo helped Haha and he gave her a little shout out at the end. LOVE IT.

This was a rare episode that a couple name-tag game wasn't quick and boring. Still, I really miss the old name tag game that running man is known for...intense and suspenseful. Can we bring that back once?

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The worst episode ever because of the bad editing.

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Yeah whats wrong with PHB?

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TOO MANY GUESTS. (Admit it guys, come on). Although there are some good parts, the camera can't keep up with everyone. Okay to be fair, let's take this episode piece by piece.

The introduction part was superb, no doubt about it and yep the line-up of guests was meaty and at first I was expecting it to be exciting and interesting. In fact, when the guests were introduced I was even laughing. That part where the athlete girl offered Kim Jong Kook a sip from her herbal drink hahahahaha that one was hilar!

And oh my gosh, Cheon Mu Stephanie!!! I really didn't recognize her at first but wow she changed a lot!! I don't mean plastic surgery or something but it must've been because of the hair and the make up wow, she totally rocked it. I watched X-Man episodes and hahahaha remember she has a loveline with Kim Jong Kook, right? and it was funny when she picked Yoo Jae Suk and Kim Jong Kook then commented, "So you changed your heart after 10 years, huh?" or something like that..

Of course, how can we miss out Yoon Bak? Yoon Bak's handsome~ too bad he didn't have enough screentime... tsk tsk. Also amazed with Na Rae's lunchbox and I agree with the guys, her lunchbox is too die for~

The dancing initiation is somewhat fun hahaha Joy and her dance moves and oh my gosh the athlete girl hahahahahahaha that was too hilar. Of course, Stephanie is still awesome~ She really dances well even when she was in XMan, she really dances well! Then the part with the catching stars, so-so.

The part with the teachers somewhat makes me cringe though. I acknowledge that it is for the flow of the story and it made the parts of the episode well connected, it still really made me cringe...

For the last part the one with key and treasure chest hunting, it's too.... hurried? Not much interaction from the guests neither with the members because TOO MANY GUESTS.

Over-all, it's a not bad episode but you know it would've been better if they all came from the same group or all actress or all idols, it was not a good strategy to mix them all like that because they would all be fighting for screentime and yep, as predicted not all had enough. Look at Stephanie, I almost didn't see her the whole time during the key and treasure chest hunting... (on the brighter side, let's just assume they had some good catching up with Kim Jong Kook ahehehe) and Narae! She would have blurted out some good comments and lines but heol, still didn't even get enough screentime.

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Dem joy is sexy as hell. I love her so much. Best episode for me tho. Love Joy

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i really liked the reaction Haha had when Stephanie entered the class room. It seemed so genuine (usually they know who the guests are gonna be but i'm not sure he knew Stephanie was coming based on that reaction).

A surprising though that he said "it's been a while, how have you been?". If he is that happy to see his old friend, why didnt he ever see her outside of TV-shows ?

Even so, was great to see how boht YJS and KJK also joined in. Glad to see that they friendships formed 7-10 years ago on Xman isnt forgotten.

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