'MZ wannabe icon' IVE's Rei will appear on the 400th episode special of Amazing Saturday.
According to a recently released tvN Amazing Saturday (hereafter "Amazing Saturday") trailer, the episode airing on the 10th will be a special honoring the 400th episode, with 'Amazing Saturday family' members representing each generation all gathering together. Among them, Rei has been chosen as the guest representing people in their 20s for this special, and she will richly celebrate the 400th episode alongside Heo Kyunghwan, Girls' Generation's Hyoyeon, and ILLIT's Wonhee.
With this appearance, Rei marks her fourth visit to Amazing Saturday overall, and given her deep ties to the program, she is expected to show exceptional adaptability befitting an 'Amazing Saturday family' member by taking part in the meaningful 400th episode special. In particular, having appeared alongside IVE members in 2022, 2023 and 2025, Rei will appear this time as a solo guest and demonstrate even more matured variety show skills.
In the released trailer, Rei displayed sharper catch skills and variety show instincts, declaring her escape from the 'leftover rice zone' with a changed image, attracting attention. In addition, she showed a special senior-junior chemistry with Wonhee, forming the so-called 'guinea pig zone' and offering viewers an explosion of cuteness and enjoyable synergy.
Rei continues to be active in various fields as well as variety shows. Recently, Rei participated for the first time in a featuring role on MONSTA X's Juyeon's pre-release track 'Push (Feat. Rei of IVE),' proving her unique tone and solid vocal ability. She also presents diverse content on her solo YouTube channel 'Try to imitate Rei,' and last year she helped make the 'Raging Guinea' challenge, which used choreography from IVE's 'ATTITUDE,' a hit. In October of the same year she won the 'Best trend leader' award at the TikTok Awards 2025, once again demonstrating her status as an 'MZ wannabe icon.'
Also, IVE, the group Rei belongs to, consecutively hit with their mini third and mini fourth albums last year, recording first-week sales of more than 1 million copies and setting the great record of 'seven consecutive million-seller' albums. Then in October they successfully opened the curtain on their second world tour 'Show What I Am,' and they are expected to continue the world tour's momentum through 2026, further proving the strengthened 'IVE syndrome.'
Having captured the public's heart with her own color in every activity, expectations are building to see what kind of performance Rei will show as a 'variety show trend' star on the Amazing Saturday 400th episode special.
Meanwhile, the tvN Amazing Saturday episode featuring Rei will air on the 10th at 7:40 p.m.
[Photo] Starship Entertainment, tvN Amazing Saturday trailer capture
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