Sunday Night (South Korean TV program)

*Sunday Night*
Sunday Night
Genre	Variety show
Starring	King of Mask Singer; Gim Seong-ju;
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
No. of episodes	1419
Production
Running time	175 minutes
Original release
Network	MBC
Release	March 29, 1981 –; present
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Sunday Night (Korean: 일밤; RR: Ilbam) is the longest-running South Korean television entertainment programme airing on MBC. It runs for 175 minutes, including roughly fifteen minutes of advertising. Previously named Big March of Sunday Night (Korean: 일요일 밤의 대행진; RR: Iryoil Bam-ui Dahaengjin) when it debuted in 1981, and changing its name to Sunday Sunday Night (Korean: 일요일 일요일 밤에; RR: Iryoil Iryoil Bame) in 1988, in March 2011, the show has changed its name for the second time in its history in an effort to increase its popularity again at the 5:20PM timeslot, with its rival contenders, KBS2's Happy Sunday and SBS's Good Sunday.^[1]^[2] As of April 29, 2012, the name was once again changed to its most commonly known abbreviation, Sunday Night (일밤).^[3]

^ ‘일밤’ 23년만에 대수술, 코너 및 ‘우리들의 일밤’으로 명칭 교체 (in Korean). Newsen. March 2, 2010. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
^ '일요일일요일밤에'→'일밤', 이름도 갈았다…'나는 가수다' 기대만발 (in Korean). Sisa Seoul. February 15, 2011. Archived from the original on March 19, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2011.
^ ‘우리들의일밤’, ‘일밤’으로 명칭 복귀..변화 필요성 절감했나 (in Korean). Newsen. April 27, 2012. Archived from the original on January 23, 2019. Retrieved April 29, 2012.

[1] ‘일밤’ 23년만에 대수술, 코너 및 ‘우리들의 일밤’으로 명칭 교체 (in Korean). Newsen. March 2, 2010. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved March 4, 2011.

[2] '일요일일요일밤에'→'일밤', 이름도 갈았다…'나는 가수다' 기대만발 (in Korean). Sisa Seoul. February 15, 2011. Archived from the original on March 19, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2011.

[3] ‘우리들의일밤’, ‘일밤’으로 명칭 복귀..변화 필요성 절감했나 (in Korean). Newsen. April 27, 2012. Archived from the original on January 23, 2019. Retrieved April 29, 2012.

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