Tuesday Running Man: Episode 181, Secret Couple.

Running Man's theme this week is "girls" vs boys, but the problem is that between this opposing teams, there is a secret couple!

The two teams meet each other. Boys team: Haha, Gary, Suk JIn, Lee Jong Suk and Jae Suk. Girls team: Ji Hyo, Lee Sae Young, "Jong Sook," Lee Bo Young and "Kwang Ja." These two teams will be going against each other in the games.

However, the secret couple, Ji Hyo and Lee Jong Suk will have to do a mission without anyone of the members knowing. They will have to do a lovey-dovey act with the members present but they must not be caught. If they do get caught, the winning team for the game will receive only a real clue, but if they succeed, the winning team for the game will receive two clues, one real and one fake. The clues pertain to who the "secret couple" is, which they have to guess on the last mission.

Running Man high school's secret couple.

I must admit that these two doing the mission together made me go "aww" because they're just too cute! I'm not betraying my Monday Couple heart though. Maybe it's just because I have a thing for secret lovers...

The girls team lead by the two most manly girls I've ever seen, Kwang Ja and Jong Sook.

Of course, the boys team is lead by Jae Suk, the best dancer in school. Haha! Kidding.

The first mission for the lovers is to link arms while doing the first game.

The first game is to go above that straw platform and they must stay there until the whistle is blown by the staff. There is also a maximum of members that can pass a round. Once a member passes, he or she will not participate anymore. The first team to have all members pass, wins.

In the first round, Lee Sae Young passed, and so these gangster girls are left. They had a strategy to leave Ji Suk Jin alone (and letting the other boys pass) so that they'll easily win, with Kwang Ja and Jong Sook being left against Suk Jin.

Wanko-hyung did all his best to win...

While Suk Jin struggles against the two manly girls, the secret couple finished their secret mission, which is to link arms.

Poor Suk Jin, fighting a bunch of girls who are much stronger than he is.

The girls won this round, while the boys claimed that they just let the girls win because they're gentlemen. The boys went delusional. The girls got two clues, but they don't know which one is a fake clue or a real one.

The next mission for the secret couple is to hold hands (with interlocked fingers).

Gary saw the two staff members who were showing the secret mission to the secret couple holding hands, and so he thought that they were dating!

The next game is called the "Scarecrow Game," where they have to move 4 steps (including a swing on the horizontal bar because they cannot step within the "pond" made across the bar). After moving four steps, they must stay there until everyone is done. The next step is to go back, without ruining the pose of another "scarecrow."

The two did it again stealthily. Whew! They were so cute.

The winner for this game is the boys team, and so they get the real and fake clues.

The next mission for the lovers is the "forehead kiss."

The next game is in a market place. The boys and girls will be partnered up (according to whom they want to be partnered with) and they will buy anything that they want, come back to the mission room and receive the actual mission that they should do with the bought goods from the market.

The secret couple were partnered in the first round, and so they were able to do the mission while buying stuff from the market. 

In the second round, they had different partners.

The mission for the couples is to put the thing they bought between their cheeks for one minute.

For the last round, they change couples once again. The choosing of the couples was so funny because of Kwang Ja and Jong Sook.

The last round's mission is a word relay from the thing that they bought. They only had 30 seconds to do that, and they won. Both teams receive clues.

While buying in the market, these two succeeded their secret mission and even did the mission 3 times just to make sure. They did it at the first round of the game, that's why it was fine for them to be partnered up with different people on the 2nd and 3rd round.

The next game was "Saranghae Game!" This game was also played in Family Outing and it was fun because of the pretty boys who were guests in the show back then, since the girls (Lee Hyo Ri and Park Ye Jin) get to be kissed by them. The rule is simple, they will just be saying "Saranghae" to the one next to them and if they laugh or react, they will be guilty of "falling in love" and so the person will be "punished" of making the his or her two neighbors kiss him or her on the cheek.

When Lee Sae Young whispered "saranghae" to Gary, Gary replied with "me too."

That's why he was punished by the two guests, Sae Young and Bo Young! He then screamed "hurray!"

The girls won this game, and the secret couple didn't get to do their mission because of the lack of space. They were supposed to do a back hug. The girls team then gets the real clue only.

They then went to the final location, where they had to agree on who to guess as the "secret couple" in their groups, based from the clues. They guessed right because Lee Jong Suk was so obvious that he's the guy and that Ji Hyo was suspiciously close to Jong Suk. The secret couple then got bombed with flour on their faces.

I was looking forward to this episode because of the countryside games that they did. I was a little disappointed though because the games were not that highlighted because of the secret couple thing. I wish that they just didn't do the countryside games along with the secret couple so that the games were given more attention to. Well, I just hope that they would do those kinds of game again in future episodes!

The guests for next week's episode are Yeo Jin Goo, Si Wan (ZE:A), and Do Hee (Tiny G). The games were requested by a Running Man fan from Hong Kong. That fan is so lucky! We should be jealous. Haha! I just hope her games would be exciting (it did seem fun from the preview).

Tuesday Running Man: Episode 180, Cooking Battle part 2.

The part 2 of the cooking battle (and the actual cooking battle) was aired in this week's episode of Running Man. This episode was completely different from the usual Running Man episode with all the games, and so I don't have much to say about it except for the kinds of dishes that each group tried to come up with during the battle. Okay, one more thing. I was nearly drooling while watching them cook because I really like Korean food and just looking at it makes me daydream about eating it. Haha!

Yoo Jae Suk and Park Soo Hong team made use of the rockfish that Park Soo Hong caught himself to cook spicy fish soup and sweet and sour fish. 

While Park Soo Hong is a certified Korean food chef who even has his own set of knives (with his name engraved on it),

Yoo Jae Suk received a one-on-one lesson on how to chop garlic from one of the judges, Shim Young Soon.

Song Ji Hyo and Lee Dong Wook team's dishes were all made from king crab all the way from Ji Hyo's hometown, Pohang. Their dishes included steamed king crab, king crab porridge, and king crab stew.

Kim Jong Kook and Song Kyung Ah team had chicken as their main ingredient to cook chicken stew with abalone, octopus, and (hardboiled) egg.

Kim Jong Kook doesn't know how to cook, and so Kyung Ah took the lead in cooking, but Jong Kook came up with the idea of cooking chicken stew.

Haha and Sung Kyu team had Jeonju bibimbap as their main dish, with dduk kalbi and bean sprout soup.

Haha is known to have good cooking skills, and they both learned from a Jeonju person on how to cook Jeonju bibimbap, so I think nothing could go wrong in their dish.

Ji Suk Jin and Kim Kyung Ho team cooked stir fried eel and teot muchim.

Gary and Jae Kyung team had Naju pear as their main ingredient and cooked sanjeok, a special pear dessert, and pear tea.

Jae Kyung's mom is a chef, and so she asked for tips from her mom about some stuff about plating. She also is quite skilled in her cooking.

Kwang Soo and John Park team had noodles as main ingredient, and so their dish is a spicy Korean noodle soup with hand made dough.

These two only needed to put the ingredients all together (except for the noodles) because they gained special pork, and a special sauce for their dish already.

They were given 100 minutes to cook, and they all finished just in time. Now, it's time for the judges to taste the food.

Jae Suk-Soo Hong team was the first team to be judged.

Spicy fish soup and sweet and sour fish.

Jong Kook-Kyung Ah team was next.

They had beautiful plating with pretty flower designs. This is chicken stew with abalone, octopus and egg, with a side dish of special kimchi.

Ji Hyo-Dong Wook team was next. Spoiler alert: they received the harshest remark from a judge.

Steamed king crab, king crab porridge, and king crab stew. I think that they indeed ruined the porridge (judging from how it looks) and the ingredient was really good that you cannot go wrong unless you don't put much effort on it. They had a king crab for an ingredient, but the end result was not as amazing as the ingredient itself.

Haha-Sung Kyu team was next with their cheesy group cheer.

This was the easiest to cook, especially that Haha is good at cooking. This is a Jeonju bibimbap. I am definitely going to try cooking it this way, since it was pretty detailed when they tried to cook it.

They also added dduk kalbi and bean sprout soup for added harmony of the dishes.

Suk Jin-Kyung Ho team was next. Their response from the judges was also great, but the only thing was that the eel wasn't cooked properly, although the seasoning is good.

This is the stir-fried eel.

This is the teot muchim.

Next was Gary-Jae Kyung team. I think that their dishes were the most sophisticated one, with all the design and also the kind of dishes that they (mainly Jae Kyung) made.

Sanjeok, beautifully lined up.

Special pear dessert.

Special pear tea.

Lastly, we have Kwang-Park team. No one was expecting anything from these two right from the start, and so lowered expectations means greater chance of not being scolded.

The glorious pork that they brought from a shop.

Their buckwheat noodle soup with special gold flakes (design), that got questioned by the judges.

To repay for the sloppiness of their meal, John Park sang "My Girl" for the judges.

The judges finally decided on the top three contenders and the final winner.

The top three contestants were Jong Kook-Kyung Ah, Gary-Jae Kyung, and Jae Suk-Soo Hong.

The final winners were Kim Jong Kook and Song Kyung Ah!

Their healthy dish, chicken stew with abalone and octopus along with the special kimchi was the ultimate dish for the first new year's weekend!

Even though they had a simple dish, they were still able to impress the judges. Watch it yourself so that you could see why and how it was able to amaze the judges.

I am excited for next week's episode because it seems like the games they will be playing are Family Outing style games.

The boys: Jae Suk, Haha, Gary, Suk Jin, and Lee Jong Suk.

versus the girls (?): Ji Hyo, Lee Sae Young, Park Bo Young, Kim Jong Suk, and Lee Kwang Ja.

Look! They will be playing on hay and it seems like they will have a "Saranghae game!"

Until the next episode!