# Brain-fficial

Brain-fficial (Korean: 뇌피셜) is a South Korean web television program on the History Korea channel, hosted by Kim Jong-min. Every week, a different guest appears, to have a one-on-one debate with Kim Jong-min on various topics. The show has aired on the channel's official YouTube, Naver and Facebook channels, starting from July 19, 2018.
On November 5, 2018, Brain-fficial opened its new channel and new episodes were released starting from November 15, 2018 after the last episode that was released previously on September 20, 2018.
On Season 2, the title of the show was changed from My Brain-fficial to Brain-fficial.
Starting from December 26, 2018, Brain-fficial started airing every Wednesday instead of every Thursday at 5pm KST.

## Episodes
### Season 1

| No. | Date of Release | Debate Topic | Stand | Good-talker |
| 1 | July 19, 2018 | Do aliens exist? | Kim Jong-min: No Jessie: Yes | Jessie |
| 2 | July 26, 2018 | Is male Brazilian waxing necessary? | Kim Jong-min: Necessary Yang Se-chan: Not necessary | Yang Se-chan |
| 3 | August 2, 2018 | Is alcohol your foe or your friend? | Kim Jong-min: Alcohol is your foe Shin Ji: Alcohol is your friend | Shin Ji |
| 4 | August 9, 2018 | Is there a correlation between blood types and personalities? | Kim Jong-min: No correlation DIA: There is a correlation | Chae-yeon, Jueun and Somyi of DIA |
| 5 | August 16, 2018 | Do such things as ghosts exist in this world? | Kim Jong-min: No Haha: Yes | Haha |
| 6 | August 23, 2018 | Which is better, JonBuh or YeoPo? | Kim Jong-min: JonBuh is the best Hong Jin-young: YeoPo are the best | Hong Jin-young |
| 7 | August 30, 2018 | Impromptu battle | — | YooA |
| 8 | September 6, 2018 | Which hero in Marvel is the strongest of them all? | Kim Jong-min: Thor Hyejeong: Dr. Strange Lee Seung-gook: Scarlet Witch | Hyejeong of AOA and Lee Seung-gook |
| 9 | September 13, 2018 | Which one is more accurate, Saju or Physiognomy? | Kim Jong-min: Saju Kim Hee-chul : Physiognomy | Kim Hee-chul and Park Sung-jun |
| 10 | September 20, 2018 | Which one is more accurate, Saju or Physiognomy? | Kim Jong-min: Saju Kim Hee-chul : Physiognomy | Kim Hee-chul and Park Sung-jun |

### Season 2

| No. | Date of Release | Debate Topic | Stand | Good-talker |
| 1 | November 15, 2018 | Are friendships between men and women possible? | Kim Jong-min: Impossible Cha Tae-hyun: Possible | Cha Tae-hyun |
| 2 | November 22, 2018 | Does food taste good when roasted or when eaten raw? | Kim Jong-min: Food tastes good when it's roasted. Defconn: Food must be eaten raw | Defconn |
| 3 | November 29, 2018 | Can a person tell a white lie? | Kim Jong-min: One can tell a white lie Gugudan's Sejeong, Nayoung and Hana: One should not tell a white lie | Gugudan's Sejeong, Nayoung and Hana |
| 4 | December 6, 2018 | Will you save a little bit of your salary or invest everything you have? | Kim Jong-min: Save a little bit of your salary to invest Kim Joon-ho: Invest everything at one shot | Kim Joon-ho |
| 5 | December 13, 2018 | Is SNS your friend or your enemy? | Kim Jong-min: SNS is my enemy Shin Ji: SNS is my friend | Shin Ji and Bbaek Ga [ko] |
| 6 | December 20, 2018 | Collection of viewers' topics | — | Ji Sang-ryeol |
| 7 | December 26, 2018 | — | — | DDOTTY [ko] |
| 8 | January 2, 2019 | Is geomancy a superstition or science? | Kim Jong-min: The geomancy is supertition Han Bo-reum: Geomancy is science | Han Bo-reum |
| 9 | January 6, 2019 | Do people have superpowers? | Kim Jong-min: No Kim Gun-mo: Yes | Kim Gun-mo |
| No. | Date of Release | Debate Topic | Stand | Expert |
| 10 | January 9, 2019 | — | — | Kim Sung-jun (A calendarist) |
| No. | Date of Release | Debate Topic | Stand | Good-talker |
| 11 | January 16, 2019 | What is the best martial arts in practice? | Kim Jong-min: Kendo Sleepy: Jiu Jitsu DinDin: Boxing | DinDin and Sleepy |
| 12 | January 23, 2019 | Can you lend your money with your best friend? | Kim Jong-min: Cannot Hong Jin-kyung: Can | Hong Jin-kyung |
| 13 | January 30, 2019 | What is the strongest of the three human needs? | Kim Jong-min: Sleeping Kim Joon-ho: Sexual desire Defconn: Appetite | Kim Joon-ho and Defconn |
| 14 | February 6, 2019 | — | — | — |
| 15 | February 13, 2019 | — | — | Shin Ji and Bbaek Ga [ko] |
| 16 | February 20, 2019 | Where can you see a man's style? | Kim Jong-min: Clothes Shindong: Hair | Shindong (Super Junior) |
| 17 | February 27, 2019 | What is ramen to you? | Kim Jong-min: Ramen is ramen in the bag. Jung Eun-ji: Ramen is cup ramen. | Apink's Jung Eun-ji |
| 18 | March 6, 2019 | What is the standard of old man? | TBA | Parc Jae-jung, Kang Yu-mi and Christian Burgos |
| 19 | March 13, 2019 | What is the representative sport of Korea? | Kim Jong-min: Golf Park Sung-kwang: Baseball GAMST: Football | Park Sung-kwang and GAMST |
| 20 | March 20, 2019 | Do you believe there is a thing call "previous life"? | Kim Jong-min: No Solbi: Yes | Solbi |
| 21 | March 27, 2019 | Do doppelgangers exist? | Kim Jong-min: No Hong Jin-ho: Yes | Hong Jin-ho |
| 22 | April 3, 2019 | — | — | Shin Ji and Bbaek Ga [ko] |
| 23 | April 10, 2019 | TBA | TBA | Chan Mi, Young Bin and Genius SKLee |
| 24 | April 17, 2019 | — | — | |
| 25 | April 25, 2019 | TBA | TBA | Kwanghee |
| 26 | May 1, 2019 | Is human nature good or bad? | Kim Jong-min Moon Se-yoon: Good | Moon Se-yoon |
| 27 | May 8 | TBA | TBA | Dayoung, Soobin and Yoo Yeon-jung (WJSN) |
| 28 | May 15 | TBA | TBA | Doyeon, Yoojung and Sei (Weki Miki) |
| 29 | May 21 | TBA | TBA | Hwang Jae-seong [ko] and Lee Jin-ho [ko] |
| 30 | June 6 | TBA | TBA | Lee Yong-jin |
| 31 | June 12 | TBA | TBA | Kim Ji-min and Kim Min-kyung |
| 32 | July 3 | TBA | TBA | Yoo Byung-jae |
| 33 | July 19 | — | — | Chaebin, Sunshine, Saebom (Nature) and Shin Ji |
| 34 | July 31 | TBA | TBA | Jang Do-yeon |
| 35 | September 18 | TBA | TBA | Ahn Il-kwon [ko], Micky Gwang-soo [ko] |
| 36 | September 25 | TBA | TBA | Lee Sang-jun [ko] |
| 36 | October 2, 2019 | TBA | TBA | SinB, Umji (GFriend) |
| 36 | October 9, 2019 | TBA | TBA | Exy, Seola, Soobin (Cosmic Girls) |
| 37 | October 10, 2019 | TBA | TBA | Yoo Min-sang [ko] |
| 38 | October 16, 2019 | Are superstitions reliable? | Kim Jong-min: Not reliable Eun Ji-won: Reliable | Eun Ji-won |
| 39 | October 23, 2019 | TBA | TBA | |
| 40 | October 30, 2019 | TBA | TBA | Oh Ha-young (Apink) |
| 41 | November 6, 2019 | TBA | TBA | Jang Gyu-ri, Lee Na-gyung [ko], Lee Chae-young [ko] (Fromis 9) |