Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
Running Man is one of Korea's longest-running variety shows, filling Sunday evenings for over a decade with stars and cast members travelling to different locations, playing games, and completing missions. The whole thing is engineered for one purpose: maximum laughter. What it signals about your taste is a love for ensemble energy, absurd competitive stakes, and warmth that sneaks in beneath the chaos — comedy that earns every laugh through effort.
Running Man (Korean: 런닝맨) is a South Korean variety show, formerly part of SBS' Good Sunday lineup. It first aired on July 11, 2010. It is the longest-running Korean variety show.
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Film
Running Man
A movie adaptation of the popular Chinese television series.
Film
Sunday Seoul
Three deliberately nonsensical episodes built around the same anything-goes comedic spirit.
Film
Run-Off
An underdog team dragged into competition against their will — effort and laughter in equal measure.
Film
The Wildgoose Chase
Office friends whose social restrictions become the engine for escalating, ensemble-driven comedy.
Film
Midnight Runners
Two buddies thrown into an unplanned real-world mission, outrunning their own amateur instincts.
Film
On the Pitch
A man so passionate about a competition he can't join that he bends every rule to participate anyway.
Game
Comedy Night
Players face off in live comedy performance under brutal audience judgment and rival smack talk.
Game
Men in Black - The Series: Crashdown
Play as agents Jay and Kay foiling the plans of the diabolical Alpha and his alien army.
Game
Zombies, Run!
Real-world running reframed as urgent mission play, where every step outpaces an unseen threat.
Game
MotoGP 19
The official MotoGP videogame featuring all the adrenaline of the 2019 championship season.
Game
Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards
Five beloved animated shows collide in one collectible card game of competitive chaos.
Game
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People
Strong Bad from Homestarrunner.com stars in a five-episode comedy adventure series.
Book
New Korean wave
Examines how Korean popular culture — the world *Running Man* belongs to — became a global phenomenon.
Book
Survival Korean crash course
A practical Korean language guide for student life, written by exchange students.
Book
Wild ones
A young man wrestling with unruly emotions he's spent his whole life keeping tightly under wraps.
Book
Badical Battles (Disney's Kim Possible
A reader-driven adventure where you pick which villain Kim Possible must face.
Book
Mental Jogging
365 exercises designed to stimulate creative problem-solving and sharpen mental agility.
Book
よつばと! 1
A child outraged by losing a game she asked her father to throw — competitive grievance in miniature.
Series
Outrun by Running Man
A direct spin-off reuniting the same cast for wild competition matches and superstar guests.
Series
A Korean Odyssey
A mythical creature's bid for invincibility backfires, leaving him at the mercy of someone he can't control.
Series
Running Man
Competitors chasing a championship prize and finding unexpected friendships along the way.
Series
The Dream Life of Mr. Kim
A man stripped of his corporate identity goes searching for who he actually is beneath it.
Series
Run Jin
A solo idol navigating self-set challenges — fun, heart, and personal discovery in every episode.
Series
Keep Running
A Chinese variety show built directly from *Running Man*'s format, co-produced by its creators.
If you want more of the same energy, Outrun by Running Man is a direct spin-off featuring the original cast in fresh wild competitions. For something with a different flavour, A Korean Odyssey blends comedy with fantasy drama and several familiar Running Man faces.
Zombies, Run! captures a similar spirit of ridiculous physical challenges with a comedic twist — it turns your real-life run into a mission-based adventure full of surprises and momentum.
New Korean Wave is an ideal companion read — it unpacks the global rise of Korean pop culture, the very wave that carried Running Man to international audiences over more than a decade.