[Full Text] 'Mr. Trot', Final Winner Announcement Delayed "To Be Revealed on Special Broadcast on the 14th, Not the 19th"

Photo by TV Chosun, capture from 'Tomorrow's Mr. Trot'

[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Kim Yeon-ju] The production team of 'Mr. Trot' has issued an official statement regarding the public outrage caused by the delay in announcing the voting results.

On the 13th, TV Chosun's 'Tomorrow is Mr. Trot' (Mr. Trot) stated in an official announcement, "We initially announced that the final competition results would be revealed on March 19th (Thursday) at 10 PM during the 'Mr. Trot' special broadcast. However, to accommodate viewers eagerly awaiting the results, the production team mobilized all available administrative resources and completed the recovery faster than expected."

They added, "Accordingly, TV CHOSUN has decided to schedule a special live broadcast immediately following the 7 PM news on the 14th (Saturday) to announce the final results."

They continued, "Once again, we sincerely apologize to the viewers who have been anxiously waiting for the long-awaited final results of 'Mr. Trot.' The production team and participants of 'Mr. Trot' will hold a donation ceremony to donate the entire amount collected from the paid text votes during the final competition on the 13th (today) to 'Good Neighbors.'"

Meanwhile, in the 'Mr. Trot' broadcast on the 12th, the TOP7 contestants Jang Min-ho, Kim Hee-jae, Kim Ho-joong, Jung Dong-won, Young Tak, Lee Chan-won, and Lim Young-woong performed their final stages competing for the championship. However, at the end of the broadcast, a server issue occurred due to an overwhelming surge of nearly 7.73 million real-time national text votes, leading to the decision to postpone the announcement of the results to the 19th, one week later.

Full official statement from 'Mr. Trot'

Hello, this is the production team of TV CHOSUN's 'Mr. Trot.'

We would like to share the production team's position regarding the announcement of the 'Mr. Trot' final results.

The final round of 'Mr. Trot,' broadcast on the 12th (Thursday), experienced an unprecedented volume of 7,731,781 national text votes in a short period. This sudden influx caused the server speed to drastically slow down during the process of categorizing votes for the seven finalists, making it expected to take several hours or even days to fully tally the votes.

The 'Mr. Trot' production team judged that it would be impossible to announce transparent results on-site under time pressure and took the extraordinary measure of delaying the announcement to ensure more accurate competition results.

Although we initially announced that the final competition results would be revealed on March 19th (Thursday) at 10 PM during the 'Mr. Trot' special broadcast, the production team mobilized all available administrative resources to complete the recovery faster than expected for the viewers who have been waiting a long time for the results.

Accordingly, TV CHOSUN has decided to schedule a special live broadcast immediately following the 7 PM news on the 14th (Saturday) to announce the final results.

Once again, we sincerely apologize to the viewers who have been anxiously waiting for the long-awaited final results of 'Mr. Trot.' Additionally, the 'Mr. Trot' production team and participants will hold a donation ceremony to donate the entire amount collected from the paid text votes during the final competition on the 13th (today) to 'Good Neighbors.' We thank all the viewers who have continuously supported 'Mr. Trot' and will do our best until the moment the final results are announced. Thank you.