# Little Forest (TV program)

Little Forest (Korean: 리틀 포레스트) is a South Korean television entertainment program broadcast by SBS every Monday and Tuesday from 12 August to 7 October 2019. The program starred Lee Seo-jin, Lee Seung-gi, Park Na-rae and Jung So-min.

## Overview

The program is a 16-episode series program to "Caring for Kids in the Nature" for children who have no place to play with and is a healing variety program designed as a home kids garden development project for children. The kids will spend 2 days and 1 night with the cast, away from their parents for the first time.
Lee Seung-gi and Jung So-min are certified child psychology counselor and Lee Seo-jin is a certified chef who went through training for a cooking course to cater for young kids. Park Na-rae also took a cooking course. Lee Seung-gi has some experience in woodworking and utilizes the wood workshop to build fun activities for the kids.

## Location and facility

The filming location is at Jjigbaggol, Inje, Gangwon Province with the land area of about 33,000m$^2$. The place consists of a big open field with an open concept kitchen, front yard, workshop, living quarters (for kids and cast), garden, small animal farm and Pine forest.

### Addition of facilities

* Suspension bridge — Seung-gi, Seo-jin and So-min added a suspension bridge course in the Pine forest for the kids to play with. Further improvement is made in episode 3 to adapt to younger kids.
* Treehouse — Seung-gi designed and built a treehouse, in the Pine forest, under the supervision of a teacher in episode 5. Seo-jin and the workers help in the construction of the treehouse.

## Airtime

| Airdate | Broadcast Start Time (KST) | Broadcast Start Time (KST) |
| 12 August – 7 October 2019 | Part 1 | Mondays & Tuesdays at 10:00 pm |
| 12 August – 7 October 2019 | Part 2 | Mondays & Tuesdays at 10:40 pm |

## Cast
### Main cast

| Name | Episode |
| Lee Seo-jin | 1 – 16 |
| Lee Seung-gi | 1 – 16 |
| Park Na-rae | 1 – 16 |
| Jung So-min | 1 – 16 |

### Kids

* Listing of the kids are in the sequence of arrival at the Little Forest.
| Name | Korean Age | Gender | Episode |
| Ma Yi-hyeon | 4 | male | 1 – 8, 16 |
| Brooke | 5 | female | 1 – 16 |
| Grace | 5 | female | 1 – 16 |
| Kang Yi-han | 7 | male | 1 – 16 |
| Choi Yoo-jin | 4 | female | 1 – 16 |
| Lee Jeong-heon | 6 | male | 5 – 8, 12 – 14, 16 |
| Kim Ye-jun | 4 | male | 8 – 9, 16 |
| Kim Ga-on | 6 | female | 8 – 9, 16 |
| Kim Yoo-na | 5 | female | 12 – 14, 16 |

## Ratings

* In the ratings below, the highest rating for the show will be in red, and the lowest rating for the show will be in blue.
| Episode | Broadcast Date (2019) | AGB Nielsen (Nationwide) | AGB Nielsen (Nationwide) |
| Episode | Broadcast Date (2019) | Part 1 | Part 2 |
| 1 | 12 August | 5.1% | 6.8% |
| 2 | 13 August | 3.5% | 5.0% |
| 3 | 19 August | 3.1% | 5.2% |
| 4 | 20 August | 4.0% | 5.4% |
| 5 | 26 August | 3.0% | 3.5% |
| 6 | 27 August | 3.1% | 4.5% |
| 7 | 2 September | 3.9% | 4.7% |
| 8 | 3 September | 3.6% | 4.2% |
| 9 | 9 September | 2.9% | 4.1% |
| 10 | 16 September | 3.5% | 3.9% |
| 11 | 17 September | 3.4% | 4.5% |
| 12 | 23 September | 3.2% | 3.5% |
| 13 | 24 September | 2.9% | 3.6% |
| 14 | 30 September | 2.8% | 3.5% |
| 15 | 1 October | 3.1% | 3.6% |
| 16 | 7 October | 3.0% | 3.8% |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Recipient(s) | Result | Ref. |
| 2019 | 13th SBS Entertainment Awards | SNS Star Award | Park Na-rae | Won | |
| 2019 | 13th SBS Entertainment Awards | Producer's Award | Lee Seung-gi | Won | |