The COVID-19 pandemic is as soon as once more standing in the best way of the native broadcasting business, with an extended listing of TV exhibits that includes prime Korean comic Yoo Jae-suk being canceled Tuesday, after he examined constructive for coronavirus.

Yoo is not going to be collaborating in each native broadcaster SBS’ hit TV present “Operating Man” and the annual SBS Leisure Awards this Saturday, which Yoo has been attending for the previous 11 years.

“The unique six members will movie “Operating Man” with out present host Yoo,” an SBS official advised The Korea Herald on Tuesday.

Though the forged and workers of tvN’s “You Quiz on the Block” haven’t been in shut contact with Yoo, filming was canceled for that present as nicely.

Tv community MBC introduced Monday {that a} particular live performance organized by its standard selection present “Dangle Out With Yoo,” can be postponed from its scheduled date of Wednesday.

“After receiving information about Yoo’s an infection, all forged and workers members took PCR assessments. Nevertheless, a postponement of ‘Dotori Competition’ (unofficial translation) appears inevitable. We will even contact the members of the viewers who had been chosen to attend the present. The dates can be determined after contemplating the security of the viewers and the artists,” the TV community mentioned in a press launch on Monday.

Information of Yoo’s anticipated participation in KBS and MBC’s Leisure Awards, to be held on Dec. 25 and 29 respectively, had not been introduced as of press time.

The 49-year-old comic is complying with authorities measures and Korean Illness Management and Prevention Company tips, based on his leisure company Antenna.

As essential instances and deaths hit document highs amid considerations over the unfold of the omicron variant, the variety of breakthrough infections amongst celebrities, together with artists Yoo Hee-yeol, Choi Si-won of Tremendous Junior, and actor Yun Eun-hye, are additionally growing

By Lee Si-jin ([email protected])