Global Talk Show

Global Talk Show, is a television program on Korean Broadcasting System in South Korea. The show features a panel of foreign women residing in South Korea who discuss their experiences and cultures in a talk show format in the Korean language. After high viewer ratings from its first broadcast on October 7, 2006 during the Korean Chuseok holiday, it became a regularly broadcast program starting November 26, 2006. Its final episode was aired on Christmas 2010. A portion of the program was also published as a book featuring the same subject. The show is hosted by Nam Hui-Seok, a television personality and comedian, and later Announcer Eom Jiin, joins as co-host for the talkshow, and later Lee Yun-seok and Seo Gyeong-seok as the final hosts. The song "Bring It All Back" by S Club 7 is played after the opening cut to the studio floor that follows the playing of the opening intro and the viewer advisory that it is a rated "15" program. The popularity of the program has given celebrity status within South Korea to some of the panelists.