KBS has scheduled two tribute broadcasts for the late actor Choi Bool-am, honoring the veteran performer with special programming that looks back on his long run as the face of “Korean’s Table.”
The first special, “Warm Adult, Choi Bool-am: You Were the Road,” airs on October 30 at 11:10 p.m., according to NewsEn. It draws on footage from a spring trip two years ago, when Choi Bool-am traveled on the road to film “Korean’s Table,” capturing the actor in the field doing the work viewers knew him for.
The second special, “Table Keeper Choi Bool-am, Remembering You,” airs on November 1 at 8:10 p.m. It traces the path Choi Bool-am walked over 14 years as he traveled the country in search of its tables, revisiting the journeys that made the program a fixture of Korean television.
Narration for the tributes will be handled by Choi Soo-jong, who has succeeded Choi Bool-am as the host of “Korean’s Table.” According to NewsEn, Choi Soo-jong will narrate and appear in interviews, calmly looking back on the road his senior walked and speaking about the meaning of the table he will now carry forward.
The scheduling gives the tributes a deliberate shape. The first program, airing late on the night of the announcement, leans on a single journey and the warmth of its title, while the weekend program takes the wider view, covering 14 years of travel and the tables that defined the show.
Choi Bool-am’s death was reported earlier this week, and the tributes arrive as colleagues and viewers continue to mourn. The choice of Choi Soo-jong as narrator adds a note of continuity: the man now responsible for the program’s future is the one guiding audiences through its past.
For KBS, the two specials serve both as memorial and as handover. They honor a host whose travels became part of the national routine, and they introduce the next chapter of “Korean’s Table” under a new host who is explicitly framed as carrying on, rather than replacing, what came before.
No additional tribute programming was announced in the report. The two specials, on October 30 and November 1, stand as the broadcaster’s formal on-air farewell to one of its most familiar faces.
