Is PHYSICAL 100 The Show We All Needed? 

This show is a good counter-balance to other American shows that tend to portray Asians as nerdy/chubby. It shows to tv audiences that Koreans and, by extension, Asians are dynamic and have strong body types as well. Thank you Korean for elevating the image of Asians in media! Now I need to hit the gym xD!

Used to go the gym 2-3 times a week to maintain health. After watching Physical 100, 3-4 times a week. Quite motivating to get stronger for me lol.

The show is pure entertainment. As a short buff Asian guy I really do appreciate being represented

The show is not just impressive for featuring the Asian physique, but also for portraying how people love, respect, and have fun. The camaraderie among the contestants also flourishes right from the start. After watching the show, I have been inspired to improve my physique.

I am fan of Return to Superman so seeing Choo was amazing. I was cheering him on. I love how he is not only physically strong but his wisdom and caring nature makes him super Sexy in a whole other level.

Koreans have been killing it. Much respect for the south koreans

About damn time the media shows very fit and muscular Asian men. Seeing is believing.

My little sister been obsessed with this show. She said it makes her want to start lifting 😂 I like watching it too. Different from a lot of Korean shows I watch and not to mention a lot of hot people, guys & girls bahaha

I bow down to Sexy Yama. RESPECT TO THE MAN. 🙏🙏🙏🙏

I loved how diverse they showed Koreans unlike Kdrama's where the main male protagonists are always skinny pretty boys.

As an Asian who grew up in the US, I would love to see more Asians becoming professional dunkers. It's like the ultimate FU to negative stereotypes of Asians (especially Asian men).

As a woman let me tell this made me want to workout more (already working out but more amped) Also yes we should be focusing strength. And if u ever don't feel like working out just think like this ---"the chances of me surviving a zombie apocalypse is more if I am physically fit" 🤣

American shows pretty boring now

I watch lot of MMA fights and most of Asian Heavyweight fighters are Koreans or Mongolians. One of my favorite HW fighter is Kang ji won.

Why when they try to talk like Korean People it sounds like East LA Mexican Accent?? 🤔🤦‍♂️

I just started the show, but as far as i can pronounce my thoughts, I think it s great to have a different perception of asian people around the globe!! 🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏😃

I didn't expect to like the show at first, but it ended up being so addicting to watch. I'm glad that they added some white, black and latino people in the mix to make it more interesting for the global audience

Loved the show. Did hear & read that some of the contestants were injured pretty seriously for months (cracked ribs, numbness, unable to walk, blood loss...).

This show is insane. I’m hooked. I want to learn abt everyone on this show and learn more more abt Korean culture

I don't personally like overly muscular guys but after watching this show, it changed a lil bit. Lol

Love the show, the competition was amazing

Sexyama is basically what every Asian guy aspires to look like. Dude is an ageless wonder.

Y'all gotta realize Koreans have their own culture and a way of talking. Some of it simply does not translate to the English language when it's literally translated word for word. I'm Korean and didn't really hear too much of people sounding airheaded or anything like that, except for that one cheerleader girl who literally sounded like an airhead in Korean lol

I LOVED THIS SHOW‼️🇰🇷💯 I've lived in Japan and China for 2+ years each so have respect for Asian culture and love to compare and contrast. I've only visited Korea once decades ago so I'm only getting to learn and think about contemporary Korean society through the lens of pop culture output. K-pop will never be my thing but K-dramas, movies, reality shows are my jam these days. I'm fascinated by the cultural nuances around showing respect and using the proper honorifics based on age. Even in the dramas there's usually some re-enforcement of showing the proper deference to someone senior. Now I understand even better why the contestants on Singles Inferno couldn't know each others' ages because they wanted to factor that out. Plus I loved in Physical💯 how the teamwork and respect for each other were woven throughout. The American, in-your-face cockiness was never a thing. Mad props to the producers and looking forward to another season! Hope they bring back certain competitors like Yun Sung Bin for a second go‼️❤️🙏🏾

I can see this show getting bigger and bringing in contestants from all over Asia it will be dope

Finished it last night and it was unreal. Best tv show of its kind to ever come out.

Watching that show motivates me to start working out more.

The physical / athletic abilities on display was amazing of course, but I love the humility and sportsmanship as well. Korean entertainment / reality shows are killing it!

Main gripe i had was that it shouldn’t have been men vs women. It should of had a men and woman’s champ. A lot of the competition was pure strength and no way the women would have competed fairly. It was cool during the team games but they should change the format next time they do it.

I LOVE THIS SHOW. ❤It’s raw. It’s emotional. And the characters are extremely interesting! I hope productions keeps going BUT doesn’t get tainted with commercialization.

Ok I was one of the guys who asked the Fung Bros to watch. Now here is another lead to show more Asian representation. Look at all the pro soccer players in Europe. Several Korean players in the English league. Most famous is Song Min of Tottenham. Lots of Japanese players in the German league. Do a video on these soccer players to show Asian diversity. Let me know if you want any more ideas. With love from Canada.

I was so pumped watching the show, I was ready to hit the gym.

Damn Koreans are really representing us Asians to the world well

Good show. Very exciting to watch :) SPOILER ALERT, stop reading this comment if you haven't seen the show yet! I found it interesting in the end that it were not the truly ripped guys that prevailed, but rather the stocky built dudes. When you see that one guy, the one who had his gf on the show. He's massively built, but then you saw him struggle hard in the Atlas contest, against 2 stocky guys who went on for over 2 hours! Now, tbf, that contest is more about endurance than pure strength, yet there was this one little voice in the back of my head that kept creeping up..."roids", and how they may bulk up your muscle, but actually not build up your true strength.

This was well needed

Korean movies are the best, I love all things korean❤️ Oh I'm team Agent H😍😍😍

yes I've been expecting this video from you guys!!

Let's be honest this show still won't change the minds of Western men and women about their stereotype of Asian men.

I’m obsessed with Mr. Bart kwan, Geo is one lucky woman 😭

Binge watched it, it's excellent

Finally, we buff Asian dudes getting some love. The pretty K-pop boys get enough attention already, lol

That show is fire

Mostly East Asians, specifically Koreans.

The editing on that show is horrible. But good looking people! Good for Asian dudes.

Man, Asian men representing Asian-Americans, that’s something else. But I’ll take it.

I remember Sexyama from UFC. Didn’t do too well, but entertaining

Any Asian rep is good and also Thank you guys for doing these videos, there still a lot of weak ass Asians that don't want to talk about the Asian American experience shoutout to you guys!

Fun show…enjoyed watching

It's great that Kshows are doing more for Asian representation than what American TV will ever do. We're gonna see alot more Kreality shows. They're very cheap to make and they get good ratings. Most people don't know this, but Singles Inferno 2 got almost as high a rating as Too Hot to Handle 4 which both aired earlier this year on Netflix. But SI2 didn't even give prize money and was a fraction of the cost. That's Korea's business model for TV and everything else it exports. Make high quality content at a low price. The best example of this is Squid Game which cost a ridiculously low $21M to make.

Don’t forget the show A Clean Sweep all baseball and it made me understand the game more and grew to love it.

I started the show to watch all the hot guys....but I left the show loving the hot guys...and the girls 🥰🥰🥰 hopefully 2nd season we learn MORE about their real lives. That would be more interesting.

I will admit I watch a lot of Korean content simply because what you get out of the West is rehashing the same thing over and over again. I did enjoy this show and found myself holding my breath during some of the events. I was surprised that some of the more physical challenges pitted men again women and did note there was a bit of mysoginy from the male contestants. It was good to see when the one team lead by a women was able to win their event and then get the props they deserved. I do hope seeing more variety of body types as shown here will filter into other areas of entertainment. The only time you see a buff man in a KDrama is when they are playing a thug or the strong arm in a police drama.

I love physical 100

Wow. You guys are amazing hosts.

I’m more motivated to workout for sure!! But also game 1 of the final quest wasn’t even exciting. It was a no brainer that the two biggest dudes would pull the smaller contestants over. I would have like to see 조진형 and 정해민 on opposite sides of each other during the lineup to level the playing field.

I think the perfect NBA comparison are the San Antonio Spurs. For like 2 decades they were championship contenders and won 4 titles being respectful and never bragged when they won yet they're considered the most boring team. America loves the players and teams surrounded by drama

All I’m saying is, my gym saw an increase in Asian men all of a sudden 😂 and my man feels good about being a stocky Asian now. He disliked that kpop was the only representation of his people for so long cause many Koreans don’t look like that.

What you said about Korea leading the culture in Asia was discussed 3 years ago by this lecture in Penn state. I really like his videos and it's very clarifying. Pay attention from 4:30, where he starts to discuss when Korea decided to put their efforts in their culture. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CLQC5RLkJf8.html

Never watched the show, not a big fan of reality or Netflix, but man I might just have to check this out

Also Rok Marines, so ya....they are selective I would say but that's what keeps the culture hard corps

They look like Korean celebs. Wow they look good!

This was a Korean series I watched in a long time and was surprised to see them so ripped and wasn't the soft feminine kind they usually show. Lived the show overall. Nice to see something different on tv.

I like the commentary but the accents are unnecessary

LOVE THIS SHOW

I've been watching Fung Bros for some years now, but I almost can't watch these anymore because of the accents they put on constantly.

I cried during the finally when the dude in the final 3 collapsed. That show is great!

Love the show! ❤️👏💯

This show does far more for me as a "buff asian dude" than K-Pop ever did.

I didn’t watch this strictly because of “representation.” I watched it because I like these sort of The Challenge-like competitions and thought it was cool to see something like this take place in another country where their citizens compete, instead of it being Americans and Europeans competing on a show in a different country. I also like how the competitors were all very respectful to each other, even though they may have been some that were cocky, etc. I also love that it was a Challenge-like show without all the drama. The ONLY thing I ABSOLUTELY HATED about the show was it’s EDITING!!! I got irritated very quickly by the incessant use of replaying shit over and over. It was like a kid discovering PowerPoint slide transitions for the first time. To make matters worse not only do they replay the footage, they replay the audio. So you have to hear the same cheers three times too. It was too damn much and while I hope they have more seasons of this, I pray that they clean up the horrendous editing.

the bodybuilding show looks like fun; like your typical Korean dramatic soap opera ("World of the Married" (2020) or "The Doctors (Doctor Crush)" (a 2016 medical drama tv series)

great fking show. point. full stop.

I'm Asian who loves combat sports. This is a good show but labeling it as Asian is kinda IDK cause the show is Korean and no other ethnicity

10:14 they actually had several shows where people loss weigh and also doing a makeover with plastic surgery for ugly people but it got canceled lol

Not really though, it's literally just featuring asians in extreme western standards of attraction. Only saying, hey, asians can be attractive too, according to western standards. But how about appreciating asian beauty standards too and the culture leading to that

it's an amazing show!!

As a fan of WWE/AEW, some wrestlers show respect to each other. Even when they don't, it's probably because there's a heel turn coming or they are heels. They are playing characters. I can't speak for MMA or other sports though. Wrestling has always been about playing characters.

10:14 lmaooooo so true tho lol

When I look at it, I think, "I should exercise," but the next day, I see myself not exercising...😅

Let’s not forget Bruce Lee 💪

I miss going back to Hong Kong but sometimes I can’t stand the beauty standards where chicks find skinny anorexic guys more attractive than muscular dudes

This only makes Koreans look good not all Asians (imo)

Sarang's dad

3:41 these comments makes me happy 😚

Has the boxer Bo Mi Rae Shin fought the wrestling superstar yet?

Fung Bros, please stop the impressions.

I agree with everything you said expect for the women. their has been in increased interest in strong women even if you are not a gym guy, this show just help show anyone who has been sleeping that you can look both strong and beautiful. I believe extra seasons of 100 should be in other countries and maybe have a tournament between those counties if it goes on long enough.

Cmon other asian countries... why do we koreans have to always rep for the asians... other asian countries need to help out!

Yun Sung Bin had big anime MC energy!

This show has it's strength on promoting the image of potentially peak performance (on the surface). But as a physical worker (food industry and carpenter) I've often surpassed many on endurance on the daily as I have extra weight (extra reserves 😜) to help me go throughout the whole day. It has been proven that under a specific % of body fat. Most cannot work (physically) over several consecutive hours as they need to stop and consume more energy. As you said some have strength in specific fields and therefore can't compete with others. Just in construction the worst "killer" for most (gym junkies) is the endurance as we work easily 11 to 14 hrs per day with 2 breaks in our day. Our diet is based on huge amounts of carbs and protein as to be able to work for long periods of time. Without the intake of carbs in our diet we would have chiseled bodies like theirs but we wouldn't be able to work with the same intensity as we do right now.

Who is the girl in the thumb?

Watching Korean movies then seeing those Korean tourists in my country. 😊

Fun show

I watched all nine episodes. found that show unsatisfying. I didn't like how people got voted off in teams. I would rather see more individual competition to make it more fair for all the contestants.

Shout out to A-Reum and Eu-Ddeum, probably the two hottest ladies on the show

If you think big guys can't be poetic you should listen to Keith Lee talk.

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I was blessed with the non typical Chinese/Asian genes physically very tall muscular lean body type. I’ve alway competed with top athletes in basketball and football at my public school systems that produced many NFL and NBA players. When I was competing race never entered my mind.

Not sure if that accent helps w the archetype or representation 😂

Anyeonghaseyo (bow)... some were respectful, for like the old guy with glasses or the bald guy with the "Fu Manchu" look. If I was offensive, to people, then I am sincerely sorry. You had the two quiet "Squid Game"-type guards with the gray suits. This Show had a White Guy and a Black Dude. Cool people from All Walks of Life: Buff Fitness/Bodybuilders (Sexy Yama), (Euro) Strongman contest types, armed forces types, Tae Kwon Do martial artists, amateur wrestlers, Olympic bobsled athletes, boxers and MMA (Octagon) cage fighters. It is kinda like "American Ninja Warrior." This Show will definitely Make Bank.

Shout out to bart kwan...just kidding news