This is Part 1 of an exclusive interview by Esquire Korea featuring the participants of Transit Love 4 (EXchange 4), which recently concluded with its series finale.

A controversy has broken out after claims emerged that a participant on a romance variety program was previously involved in an extramarital relationship.

Netflix Korea is heading into 2026 with an ambitious slate built around “every emotion,” and unscripted is clearly one of the big pillars—from reality romance and brainy survival games to travel-adventure variety and food competitions.

Netflix has renewed its bold Japanese reality dating series Badly in Love for a second season, signaling that the experiment of putting yankee romance in the spotlight is far from over.

Netflix is turning up the heat to kick off 2026. Single’s Inferno returns for Season 5 on January 20, 2026, and a newly released teaser promises another all-out battle of flirting, jealousy, and hard-to-ignore chemistry.

SBS is starting 2026 with a dating reality concept it calls a first for broadcast television. “Project Off the Nest: Dating Camp” brings romance and family pressure into the same living space by having mothers move in with their children during a five nights and six days matchmaking stay.