"Tails of Tales" is launching a massive project to find long-term missing children for Family Month in May, and a large number of new Kkomulis will join its first broadcast.
On the 14th, OSEN reported that actors Keum Sae-rok and Ryu Soo-young and TWS member Shin Yu recently finished filming SBS "Tails of Tales." Their appearances are scheduled to air in late April.
"Tails of Tales" (directed by Lee Keun-byeol, Lee Dong-won, Kim Byung-gil; hereafter "Kkokkomu") is a program in which three storytellers study on their own and convey what they have learned one-on-one to their respective "story friends" in the most everyday settings, unfolding a variety of themes and stories in an engaging way that has drawn much viewer interest. In a 200th episode special, it highlighted the sinking of Coast Guard ship 72, drawing public attention that led to government budget allocation and exerted a positive influence, and its three-part special "Target K," which examined crimes against Koreans, led to the domestic extradition of the "drug lord" Park Wang-yeol.
Such a socially influential program, "Kkokkomu," will, for Family Month in May 2026, embark on a "national project to find long-term missing children" so that children who have remained missing for long periods can return to their families. With about 1,100 children in Korea having been missing for more than 20 years, the project aims to re-examine the long-term missing child issue, which had fallen out of social attention beyond broadcasting, and to bring about tangible change.
"Kkokkomu" is collaborating with the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) AI·Robotics Research Center to restore missing children's appearances at the time of disappearance to their present-day faces using the latest generative AI technology, "facial age-conversion AI technology," and to produce these as ultra-high-definition videos. Around "Kkokkomu," research institutes, civic groups, public institutions and private corporations have joined forces.
Keum Sae-rok, Ryu Soo-young and TWS member Shin Yu will join the first broadcast of the "national project to find long-term missing children." Ryu Soo-young, who joins as an "experienced Kkomuli," previously worked with "Kkokkomu" on "Death row inmate Oh Hwi-woong, 50 years of anguish," and having married actor Park Haseon and having a daughter born in 2017, he is expected to form a strong bond of empathy in this child-related special.
Actor Keum Sae-rok and TWS member Shin Yu will join the "national project to find long-term missing children" as "new Kkomulis." The synergy expected from Keum Sae-rok, who has shown variety skills on shows such as Paik Jong-won's Alley Restaurant and Iron Girls 2, and Shin Yu, who has attracted attention as an entertainment idol by appearing on Omniscient Interfering View, Synchro-U and Mr. House Husband 2, when they meet the "Kkokkomu" storytellers, is anticipated.
Meanwhile, SBS "Tails of Tales" airs every Thursday at 10:20 p.m.
[OSEN]