The broadcast featuring Park Moondae and Seon Ahyun, , was filmed together with about five or six cast members.

And for the sake of the show's stable progression, there was of course a fixed cast member who sort of took on the role of an MC.

'Ah, this is just perfect.'

The one who was thinking was a great senior MC in the entertainment industry who checked the faces of the guests.

'A popular top idol or an idol from a prestigious university? They couldn't miss this kind of subject material and subtly compare them.'

Having worked on more than twenty episodes of this show, he could already imagine in his mind how the editing would turn out.

Of course, if they were being thoughtlessly compared to each other, there would be a huge amount of criticism coming from the fans of 'TeStar', the popular top idols.

This was thoroughly a liberal arts program so it wouldn't be too blatant.

TeStar members' active scenes would somehow be shown bit by bit, or if it didn't work out, they would be edited cutely.

'Wow~ But it's going to be difficult if it's a Korea University student against a middle school graduate.'

The MC chuckled to himself, saying that the production team would have to work hard to make the editing heartwarming and pretty.

Right then, a sign was given.

"Ah, they're coming, they're coming!"

The MC shouted to the camera and quickly waited in the corner of the filming set.

"When can I take this off?"

"Where is this?"

The six cast members, whose entire faces were covered with headscarves, waddled around following the guide.

The MC raised his thumb to the camera and passionately shouted.

"What are those garments?"

"Ack!"

"You scared me!"

"Remove those outlandish things with haste!"

"Uuh..."

The cast members removed the headscarves, dawdling in confusion.

Then they got surprised.

"Huh, where is this??"

"It looks like Hanok...?"

//TN: Hanok is a village in Seoul with a long history starting from the 14th century.

"It's like the Joseon Dynasty."

The cast members whispered to the ones they were familiar with or the ones they wanted to appear close to.

And the MC took notice of today's person of interest, Park Moondae, who was listening to Seon Ahyun's whispers without much agitation.

'He's composed~'

He had black hair and a handsome, calm expression. The MC unintentionally had a prejudiced idea, thinking that he did not give the impression of a high school dropout.

'Even idols these days have a great character.'

He nodded his head in his mind at the blonde Seon Ahyun and quickly said his lines before the confused cast members said something funny themselves.

"There shall be a great event today. Do not be late, be sure to dress up and attend the event on time! Then, I shall get going."

The MC, who roughly spoke with modern language mixed in, placed his hands behind his back and slipped out of the door covered with window paper.

"No, where are you going?"

"Hyung-nim! Hyung-nim!"

"Wow, there's no plan in this program."

The door firmly closed, leaving the confused cast behind.

"Ah~ It's going to be a big catch today, too!"

The MC proficiently threw a comment and moved to the monitoring room with a smirk.

Here, the MC's duty was to react and add commentary while watching the guests' awkward behavior and performance.

'Let's see~ I'm going to talk some nonsense for 20 minutes to get enough footage.'

The MC sat down in front of the monitor and predicted the trend so far.

And he saw an exception in the trend.

Park Moondae progressed in a flash.

"Wow~ he's really fast!"

The MC was perplexed even if he exclaimed in accordance with his duties while clapping his hand.

'What is he?'

He didn't give people time to talk nonsense and explore the room. He was swift.

What was more surprising was the next scene.

A long-time comedian pulled a traditional handmade Korean paper out of a small box next to the door and recited their first quiz.

//The Hall of Worthies or Jiphyeonjeon Hall was a royal research institute founded by King Sejong in the Joseon Dynasty

Below that were several lines of inconsistent conditional sentences, starting with, 'If Eul and Gap are signed to the Hall of Worthies together, Byung is also assigned to the Hall of Worthies'.

It was a fairly complex practice problem used in practical logic.

It was a bombardment of historical and liberal arts entertainment.

"Hahaha! Ah~ Everyone's faces!"

And that was when the MC was just starting to enjoy the freaked-out reaction of the cast members.

//TN: Gap = 1st, Eul = 2nd, Byung = 3rd, Jeong = 4th, Mu = 5th, Gi = 6th

Park Moondae pressed the first and the sixth buttons at the same time on a six-step wooden lock.

The lock was released.

"No way??"

It took him less than three seconds to answer. The MC looked at the monitor with his mouth wide open.

He almost asked the production crew sitting in front of him if that guy was the one from a prestigious university.

"Would you usually be able to solve it as soon you heard it like that?"

The production crew members shook their heads here and there and made an X sign. The MC burst out laughing. Then he cried out in his mind.

'Isn't he supposed to be a middle school graduate!'

Even the guy, who was a student at Korea University clapped his hands on the monitor. It meant that this kind of speed wasn't usual.

And this situation was repeated several times.

Seon Ahyun, who searched the room and discovered a hidden box with a question, handed over the role of reading the question example to the student from a prestigious university.

It was a logic puzzle that required common sense with a little bit of irrationality added, but as soon as he heard the question, Park Moondae opened his mouth.

//TN: Azure Dragon is the guardian god of the east and Red Phoenix of the south.

The locking device, which could be pulled up and down on both sides, was quickly released by the excited cast members.

"Huuh? I don't think that was how it was supposed to go??"

Park Moondae on the screen bowed his head to the praises and head pats from the cast members, and the production crew murmured in response to the MC's words.

"That thing was supposed to be solved by only turning it once..."

There were sounds of them saying that he solved this purely with his own wits and logic without having any hints of the feng shui geography and locations.

At the PD's words, the MC intentionally acted like he took offense.

"Oh~ If you cast such a smart kid then you should have raised the level of difficulty drastically and showed them the very bitter taste of liberal arts!"

The camera captured the scene of the PD sinking. The purpose to make it seem funny worked well enough, but the MC was deeply impressed.

'Wow~ As expected, an intuitive brain is more important in things like this!'

He was half correct and half wrong.

In fact, Park Moondae in the monitor was a little reluctant.

'Hmm, they copied these from the past LEET and PSAT questions.'

Even when he watched the past episodes to prepare for the appearance, he thought that the questions seemed familiar, since they were almost the same with only a few added words and steps.

'I mean, once you solve it, it stays in your head one way or another.'

That was why his speed was a lot faster.

And even if that wasn't the case, it would truthfully still be advantageous for Park Moondae.

'If you know the signs of the logic you can just sort it out in one line.'

These problems were even embarrassing for Park Moondae, who took a logics course for his senior class to prepare for the PSAT in his last semester and received good grades.

'It's like comparing me to someone who took a leave of absence after finishing the freshman year.'

Park Moondae looked at the Korea University student with slightly pitiful eyes but soon noticed that he already had enough worries of his own.

'Anyway, it's going smoothly.'

The people around Park Moondae, who was quite satisfied, were busy checking the contents of the box.

The content of the box, which was wrapped in silk... looked like a book that had just been made.

And both the cover and the contents were filled with Chinese characters.

Right then, Park Moondae spoke to Ahyun.

Park Moondae quickly looked through the book he received, and then smiled.

Seon Ahyun took the book back into his arms, and the cast members stuck to the door and opened it after counting down.

And then they stiffened.

Outside the door... was a busy corridor with court ladies coming and going.

It was time to proceed to the next step.

"Ah~ Soon it's going to be fun~"

As the MC spoke while watching the monitor, a full-scale skit continued.

The cast members, who came out of the room, began to hide in the vast, enclosed palace while being berated by the court ladies.

Finding an unlocked door, they found clothes in the closet of the room.

//TN: Gwanbok = collective term for historical official attire in the government court

It was not.

//TN: FYU, they are talking in a very old-fashioned way, like in historical dramas, since it's not very apparent translated into English.

The cast members realized through the skit with the court ladies that what they wore was a kind of school uniform worn by Sungkyunkwan Confucian scholars.

And they learned from a self-proclaimed professor of Sungkyunkwan that the event they were going to attend was the king's event.

In Sungkyungkwan, you had to obtain small food to sort of pay your respect to the teacher and ask them to teach you instead of paying tuition fees, and so they managed to get real gwabok uniforms and move on to the next step after doing that.

"Park Moondae, he's also good at cooking."

The MC, who was drinking a product placement beverage while watching the monitor, spoke in a resigned tone.

A sigh could be heard from the production crew all over the place.

The performance of the cast members this time was truly swift. The amount of footage was worrying just by looking at the problem-solving.

Of course, Park Moondae was entirely to blame, but that was not the most shocking part.

It was rather cute to see Seon Ahyun diligently trying to answer as Park Moondae's evasion flustered him.

'That guy looks after his dongsaengs for the gag footage.'

The MC, who misunderstood Seon Ahyun as a member younger than Park Moondae, felt slightly warm and overwhelmed seeing Park Moondae subtly giving away the skit to Seon Ahyun and Golden Age's main vocalist.

'He didn't win 1st place in the audition for no reason~'

Just looking at him, this guy had spooky wits.

In some quizzes, he even stepped back and gave the chance to the student from a prestigious university, although it did not have as much impact as the fast and accurate Park Moondae.

'Hey, how is the editing going to turn out~'

The MC, who quietly clicked his tongue, realized it right after.

At first, the production crew intended to show off the student from a prestigious university doing the quizzes while giving TeStar members heartwarming and cute scenes, but it became quite the opposite.

Besides, the student from a prestigious university was from a group they had only barely heard of, so now, the production crew didn't even have to pay much attention to him.

Even the other TeStar member, Seon Ahyun, seemed more like a Confucian scholar because of his good demeanor and elegant response.

'Wow, how scary. He's scary.'

The MC stuck his tongue out.

Park Moondae certainly took care of his junior, the prestigious university student, but it became a picture that made the prestigious university student look weak.

In the meantime, the cast members' story in the monitor quickly advanced, reaching the final gateway.

However, the gate was already open.

The object that the person, who introduced himself as a government official at the Hall of Worthies, wanted to find, was the book that the cast members immediately found in the first room.

Park Moondae endured the head pats from the cast members once again.

The cast moved their steps excitedly and finally arrived at the royal palace.

Then, a hidden quiz was revealed.

It was time for the cast members to plan a strategic retreat with their pupils shaking.

Park Moondae whispered to the cast members.

"You again!"

As the MC joyfully shouted, everyone else in the monitoring room excitedly waited for Park Moondae's next words.

Park Moondae picked up the book, that they were told to deliver as a mission, and turned over the contents inside. Numerous Chinese characters were revealed.

Then Park Moondae's hand stopped at one spot and pointed at the top.

The first letter of the chapter, which he unintentionally passed by... had the exact resemblance to the Hangeul letter 'ㄱ'.

The cast members checked each chapter of the book in detail.

The shape was definitely different from the modern letter, so it seemed a little unfamiliar, but when looked closely, things that looked like Hangeul vowels and consonants were all over the top.

//TN: Hunminjeongeum = "Correct Sounds for the Instruction of People", a document that King Sejong created to describe an entirely new script to the Korean language, which came to be known as Hangeul.

Park Moondae vaguely nodded and articulated himself.