The National Museum of Natural Science in Greater Taichung and Sun Moon Lake are set to feature in the second series of the South Korean reality show Dad, Where Are We Going? with the show’s crew arriving in Taiwan to film over the weekend.
The show features the adventures of five celebrity fathers and their children.
According to the Tourism Bureau, the host of the show, Kim Seong-joo, and his son arrived on Saturday to shoot scenes, mostly in central Taiwan. In adition to the museum and the lake, they are set to visit Nantou County’s Aboriginal Culture Village and Chun Shui Tang Cultural Tea House in Taiching.
Kim traveled with another son for the first series of the show, which was popular in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and China.
The Tourism Bureau said the show decided to shoot part of its second series in Taiwan after seeing the travel show Grandpas Over Flowers and the variety show Running Man, two other South Korean-made programs.
The show’s production team said Taiwan is close to South Korea, offers a wide variety of delicious food and has a lot of beautiful scenery. Central Taiwan is especially suitable for family trips, the team said, according to the bureau.
The first series has filmed in New Zealand, Hong Kong and Japan, and the show not only has high ratings in South Korea, but also encourages South Korean people to travel abroad, the bureau said.
The bureau’s statistics show that the number of South Koreans visiting Taiwan this year was about 429,000 by last month, an increase of about 61 percent from the same period last year.
The bureau credited the increase to the sensation generated after Grandpas Over Flowers was filmed in Taiwan last year.
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