The Price is Right (South Korean game show)

The Price is Right (Korean: 가격이 맞다, RR: Gagyeogi Majda) is a South Korean game show based on the American version of the same name, which premiered in syndication on September 11, 2021 and can be seen throughout the globe on BTS TV and KBS World. The show is hosted by Lee Dong-wook, who also serves as one of the executive producers on the show, and narrated by Choi Yeon-jun.
The first season aired from September 11, 2021 to May 14, 2022 for a total of 36 episodes. The series was then renewed for a second season which will premiere on September 10, 2022 with a Chuseok special. A third season is in development for 2023. A fourth season is in development for 2024. A fifth season is in development for 2025.
==Gameplay==
The gameplay of the show consists of four distinct competition elements, in which nine preliminary contestants are eventually narrowed to two finalists who compete in the game's final element, the "Showcase.” Each episode lasted for around 60 minutes.
=== One Bid===
At the beginning of the show, four contestants are called from the audience by the announcer to take a spot in the front row behind bidding podiums, which are embedded into the front edge of the stage. This area is known as "Contestants' Row" or "Bidders Row.” The announcer shouts "Come on down!" (Korean: 내려와!) after calling each selected contestant's name. The four contestants in Contestants' Row compete in a bidding round to determine which contestant will play the next pricing game. A prize is shown and each contestant gives a single bid for the item. In the first One-Bid game of each episode, bidding begins with the contestant on the viewer's left-to-right. In subsequent One-Bid rounds, the order of bidding still moves from the viewer's left-to-right, but it begins with the contestant most recently called down. Contestants are instructed to bid in thousands of won, since the retail price of the item is rounded to the nearest thousand, and another contestant's bid cannot be duplicated. The contestant whose bid is closest to the actual retail price of the prize without going over wins that prize and gets to play the subsequent pricing game. If all four contestants overbid, several short buzzer tones sound, the lowest bid is announced and the bids are erased. The host then instructs the contestants to re-bid below the lowest previous bid. Because of shorter air times in recent years, these bids may be edited out of the final broadcast, especially if multiple situations occur. If a contestant bids the actual retail price, a bell rings and the contestant wins a ₩500,000 bonus (approx. $361) in addition to the prize. After each pricing game except the final one, another contestant is called to "come on down" to fill the spot of the contestant who played the previous pricing game. The newest contestant bids first in each One Bid round. Contestants who fail to win a One Bid round and do not make it onstage to play a pricing game receive consolation prizes, often sponsored by companies revealed by the announcer near the end of the show, before the Showcase.
===Pricing games===
After winning the One Bid, the contestant joins the host onstage for the opportunity to win additional prizes or cash by playing a pricing game. After the pricing game ends, a new contestant is selected for Contestants' Row and the process is repeated. Six pricing games are played on each episode. Pricing game formats vary widely, ranging from simple dilemma games in which a contestant chooses one of two options to win to complex games of chance or skill in which guessing prices increases the odds of winning. 
As of the end of the first season, 38 pricing games have been featured on the show:
* Any Number
* Bargain Game
* Bonus Game
* Bullseye
* Card Game
* Check Game
* Check-Out
* Cliff Hangers
* Clock Game
* Danger Price
* Dice Game
* Double Prices
* Five Price Tags
* Give or Keep
* Golden Road
* Grand Game
* Grocery Game
* Hi Lo
* Hit Me
* Hole in One
* Lucky Seven
* Make Your Move
* Money Game
* Most Expensive
* Pick-A-Pair
* Plinko
* Punch-A-Bunch
* Race Game
* Range Game
* Safe Crackers
* Secret X
* Shell Game
* Squeeze Play
* Switcheroo
* Take Two
* Temptation
* Ten Chances
* 3 Strikes
The following pricing games will be introduced in Season 2, keeping the other 38:
* 2 for the Price of 1
* Bonkers
* Bump
* Cover Up
* Double Bullseye
* Easy as 1-2-3
* Finish Line
* Flip Flop
* Freeze Frame
* Gas Money
* Hurdles
* It's In The Bag
* Joker
* Magic Number
* Pay the Rent
* Phone Home Game
* Pick-A-Number
* Professor Price
* Rat Race
* Shower Game
* Split Decision
* Stack the Deck
* Telephone Game
* Time Is Money
* To The Penny
* Vend-O-Price
* Walk of Fame
The other pricing games that will be confirmed for Season 3 (2024), keeping every other pricing game:
* Add Em Up
*Balance Game
*Clearance Sale
*Coming or Going
*Credit Card
*Do The Math
*Double Cross
*Double Digits
*Fortune Hunter
*Gallery Game
*Gridlock!
*Half Off
*It's Optional
* Let Em Roll
* Line Em Up
*Make Your Mark
*Match Maker
*More or Less
*Mystery Price
*Now... Or Then
*On the Nose
*On the Spot
* One Away
*One Right Price
*One Wrong Price
*Pass the Buck
*Pathfinder
*Poker Game
*Shopping Spree
*Side by Side
* Spelling Bee
*Step Up
*Super Ball!!
*Super Saver
*Swap Meet
*Switch?
*That's Too Much!
*Trader Bob
*Triple Play
The pricing games confirmed for Season 4, keeping all the other pricing games from the previous seasons. All games are foreign games, imported to South Korea:
* 3 In A Row
* 50-50 (Le 50-50 in France)
* Ace of Cups (As de Copas in Spain)
* All Nine (Alle Neune in Germany)
* Ball In! (Le Ball-in in France)
* Balloon Rain (La Pluie de Ballons in France)
* Balloon Wall (Le Mur de Ballons in France)
* Barcode Game (Le code barre in France)
* Boats (Los Barcos in Spain)
* Boom! (Boum! in France)
* Bowling Game (Le Bowling in France)
* Boxed Price (Le Prix en Boite in France)
* Bricked (Le Brique Au Prix in France)
* Cheesy (Les Fromages in France)
* Construction (Quel Chantier! in France)
* Darts Game (Les fléchettes in France)
* Dinosaur Adventure Game (Juego De La Aventura Jurásica in Spain)
* Distributor (Le distributeur in France)
* Farting! (Le Prix qui Pète in France)
* Fatal Alarm (L'alarme fatale in France)
* Flight of Prices (L'Envol des Prix in France)
* Give Him To Pay (Dale Que Te Pago in Spain)
* Goling (Le Goling in France)
* Grand Voyage (Le Grand Voyage in France)
* Half Past Seven (Las Siete y Media in Spain)
* Hoop (Les cerceaux in France)
* Jukebox (Le Jukebox in France and Jukebox in Italy)
* Labyrinth (Le Labyrinthe Electrique in France)
* Laser Corridor (Le Couloir Laser in France)
* Little By Little (Poco A Poco in Spain)
* Menu Game (Gran Menù in Italy)
* Milk Hunt (La Gran Cazada de Leche Pascual in Spain)
* Mini-Bar (Le Mini-Bar in France)
* Movie Quiz (Le ciné-quiz in France)
* Pentanque (La Pétanque in France)
* Per Kilo (Le Prix au Kilo in France)
* Permutation
* Pharaoh's Game (Juego Del Faraón in Spain)
* Photo Booth (Le Photomaton in France)
* Pirate Game (Juego De Los Piratas in Spain)
* Pinball!! (Le Flipper in France)
* Ping Pong (Le Ping Pong in France)
* Price Ladder (La Escalera de Precios in Spain)
* Quotes (Le Citations in France)
* Rolling Ball (Boule qui Roule in France)
* Rub It, Bite It (Qui s'y Frotte s'y Pique! in France)
* Scale It (Les Echelles in France)
* Scramblers (Kraxlhubers in Germany)
* Seven Zeros (Siete Zeros in Spain)
* Select-a-Price (Le Prix Sélectif in France)
* Skate! (Le Skate Park in France)
* Skyscraper (Le Gratte-Gratte in France)
* Speed Limit (El Gran Juego de Banesto in Spain)
* Stars (Le Stelle In Gioco in Italy)
* Store Window (Schaufenster in Germany)
* Sunflower Game (Girasole in Italy)
* Super Bonus (Le Super Bonus in France)
* Super Win (Super Vincita in Italy)
* Suspended Price (Le Prix Suspendu in France)
* Synchro Dance (La Danse Synchro in France)
* Time-Play
* Tooth Game (A 1 Dent Près in France)
* Top to Bottom (Le Dessus-Dessous in France)
* Traffic Game (El Libretón BBV's Game in Spain)
* Tricky (Triki in Colombia)
* True or False (Le Vrai ou Faux in France)
* TV Quiz (Le TV-quiz in France)
* Upside Down (Le Monde à l'Envers in France)
* What Colours? (Quelles Couleurs? in France)
* Which of the Two? (Chi Dei Due in Italy)
* Yes or No (Le oui ou non in France)
Season 5 will have the following pricing games from BigJon's video game, keeping all the others:
* Jam
*Left or Right
* Master Price
* Movin' On Up
* Play Your %'s
* Price Search
* Radical
* Shot in the Dark
* Starting Points
* Tower of Cash
===Showcase Showdown===
The Showcase Showdown occurs after the third and sixth pricing game. Each playing features the three contestants who played the preceding pricing games spinning "The Big Wheel" to determine who advances to the Showcase, the show's finale.
The contestants play in the order of the value of their winnings thus far (including the One Bid), with the contestant who has won the most spinning last.
The wheel contains 20 sections showing values from 5 to 100 points, in increments of 5 points. Contestants are allowed a maximum of two spins. The first contestant spins the wheel and may choose to stop with his or her score or spin again, adding the value of the second spin to their first. The second contestant then spins the wheel and tries to match or beat the leader's score; if he or she fails to do so, the contestant must spin again. If the second contestant's first spin matches or beats the score of the first contestant, he or she has the option of stopping or spinning again. The third contestant then spins; if his or her score is less than the leader then he or she will be required to spin again. In the event the second or third contestant's first spin ties the score of the leader, he or she will be given the option of spinning again as an alternative to entering a "spin-off" as described below.
If the total score of any contestant is less than that of the current leader, is beaten by the score of any subsequent contestant, or over 100 points, the contestant is eliminated from the game. The contestant whose score is nearest to 100 points without going over advances to the Showcase at the end of the episode. Any spin that fails to make at least one complete revolution does not count; the contestant is given the opportunity to spin again, and if the contestant has visible difficulty in physically performing the task, the host is allowed to assist them.
If the first two contestants both spin twice and go over 100 points, the last contestant automatically advances to the Showcase and is given only one spin to determine their score; this is to ensure that a contestant advances to the showcase, avoiding a potential "triple over" scenario in which no one advanced to the showcase. Any contestant whose score equals 100 points (from either the first spin or the sum of two spins) receives a ₩1,000,000 (approx. $722) bonus and is allowed a bonus spin. The contestant wins an additional ₩5,000,000 (approx. $3,609) for landing on either 5 or 15 space (which are adjacent to the 100 space and painted green), or an additional ₩10,000,000 (approx. $7,218) for landing on 100. If the wheel stops on any other amount or fails to make at least one revolution, the contestant wins no more money. The wheel is positioned on 5 prior to the bonus spin so that it cannot land on a winning prize without making a complete revolution.
Two or more contestants who are tied with the leading score compete in a "spin-off". Each contestant is allowed one additional spin and the contestant with the higher score advances to the Showcase. Multiple spin-offs are played until the tie is broken. Those who hit 100 in their spin-off spin still get ₩1,000,000 and a bonus spin. If two or more contestants tie with a score of 100, their bonus spins also determine their spin-off score. Only the spin-off score, not any bonus money won, determines which contestant moves on to the Showcase. For example, a person who wins the ₩5,000,000 bonus for landing on 15 loses the spin-off if their opponent lands on 20 or more. A tie in a bonus spin spin-off means the ensuing second spin-off will be spun with no bonuses available. Each spin must make one complete revolution in order to qualify. If a player's bonus spin spin-off does not make a complete revolution, the contestant must spin again, and the spin will be scored as in a second round of a spin-off (no bonuses).
===The Showcases===
Near the end of the show, two winners from the Showcase Showdown participate in the Showcase round. A "showcase" of prizes (usually three or four prizes) is presented and the top winner has the option of placing a bid on the total value of the showcase or passing the showcase to the runner-up, who is then required to bid. A second showcase is then presented and the contestant who had not bid on the first showcase makes his or her bid. Unlike the One Bid, the contestant bidding on the second showcase may bid the same amount as their opponent on the first showcase, since the two contestants are bidding on different prize packages. The contestant who has bid nearer to the price of their own showcase without going over wins the prizes in his or her showcase.
Any contestant who overbids automatically loses regardless of their opponent's result. A double overbid results in neither contestant winning a showcase. Any contestant who comes within ₩250,000 or less from the actual retail price of their own showcase without going over wins both showcases.
== History==
thumb|Left: Lee Dong-wook, host (2021-present) Right: Choi Yeon-jun, announcer (2021-present)
The show was originally planned to be a daily primetime show, airing five days a week. However, due to KBS wanting a celebrity as host and a K-pop rapper as announcer, the plan was deemed too atrocious for the cast, so they decided to change to a weekly primetime basis, with bigger prizes.
===Hosts===
Actor Lee Dong-wook was hired as host starting from September 2021.
===Announcers===
Three idols (G-Dragon, Suga, Yeonjun) auditioned, and one pilot for each was taped. The job eventually went to Yeonjun, and in July 2021, the announcement was made.
==Transmissions==
Season	Start date 	End date 	Episodes	Cumulative	Time (KST)	Notes
1 	September 11, 2021	May 14, 2022	36 	36 	20:00 	Shown every Saturdays.
2 	September 10, 2022	TBA 	TBA 	TBA 	20:00 	Shown every Saturdays.
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