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Drama viewership ratings for the week of Mar. 13-19, 2017

This may sound like old news at this point, but Defendant once again climbed higher than it ever has before at 25.6%. It still has one week left to blow us away, and maybe to blow its own record away with another leap in numbers. But we won’t know till we get there, which is half the fun! (The other half spent waiting for the finale? Not so much.)

Otherwise, Introverted Boss finally put itself out of its misery at 1.8%, and I suppose we should be glad that it ended at sixteen episodes rather than twenty. Rebel: Thief Who Stole the People seems to be holding onto its viewership, since its numbers haven’t been fluctuating for good or ill lately, but at least they’re in the warm comfort zone of double digits. Hopefully they don’t drop back into the dreaded singles.

In the middle of the week, Radiant Office began its run in the slot previously left behind by Missing 9, which wasn’t exactly the best lead-in the show could have hoped for. It didn’t win over new viewers between its first and second episodes, but there’s always next week.

As for the weekend, Strong Woman Do Bong-soon got so close to the coveted 10% mark (especially for cable), so there seems little doubt it’ll reach it soon—maybe even as soon as next week, at the rate it’s going. More power to it.

 
Drama viewership ratings for the week of Mar. 13-19, 2017

Ep. # Station Rating
Monday, Mar. 13
Perfect Wife 5 KBS 3.5%
Rebel: Thief Who Stole the People 13 MBC 10.6%
Defendant 15 SBS 25.6%
Introverted Boss 15 tvN 1.7%
Tuesday, Mar. 14
Perfect Wife 6 KBS 4.7%
Rebel: Thief Who Stole the People 14 MBC 10.4%
Defendant 16 SBS 25.4%
Introverted Boss 16 tvN 1.8%
Wednesday, Mar. 15
Chief Kim 15 KBS 18.4%
Radiant Office 1 MBC 3.8%
Saimdang, Light’s Diary 15 SBS 10.4%
Thursday, Mar. 16
Chief Kim 16 KBS 17.1%
Radiant Office 2 MBC 3.9%
Saimdang, Light’s Diary 16 SBS 10.2%
Friday, Mar. 17
Strong Woman Do Bong-soon 7 JTBC 6.8%
Tomorrow With You 13 tvN 1.0%
Saturday, Mar. 18
Father Is Weird 5 KBS 22.5%
You’re Too Much 5 MBC 11.4%
Father, I’ll Take Care of You 36 MBC 13.6%
Our Gap-soon 54 SBS 14.4%
Our Gap-soon 55 SBS 19.2%
Strong Woman Do Bong-soon 8 JTBC 9.6%
Tomorrow With You 14 tvN 1.1%
Sunday, Mar. 19
Father Is Weird 6 KBS 27.1%
You’re Too Much 6 MBC 14.6%
Father, I’ll Take Care of You 37 MBC 16.1%

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go do bong soon!! hit that 10%

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Dear @HeadsNo2 Is it possible to include viewership rating for Super Family 2017 as well? ?

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this comment by a knetz made me laugh:
"Bong soon said 'come on' and the ratings really did come.'

seems like even the ratings are afraid of BS' strength lol

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No mention that Strong Woman Do Bong Sooon broke the drama ratings record for jTBC?

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After being the lone cable powerhouse (tvN), JTBC and OCN have been coming on strong, whereas tvN has been faltering a bit, irrespective of the ratings for "Goblin" (which were not a great indicator of the quality of writing).

Seems like "Introverted Boss" had its issues (including casting), but it's a shame that TWY has been lingering at the bottom in ratings when it's a pretty well written show.

Took a few eps for TWY to get up to speed and unfortunately, it's not the type of show that one can easily pick-up mid-way as things that happen in later eps are based on things that happened earlier (which is so refreshing - as so many K-drama writers just pull things out of the air for no rhyme or reason, except to "move the story along," even if it doesn't make much sense or seems very choppy).

Hopefully, this doesn't make the execs over at tvN try to take the "easy" route for ratings and abandon projects with good, promising writers.

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i hope to see Defendant rating could reach to 30%, thats all im rooting for compare to the lowest kdrama ratings >>>

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man, strong woman do bong-soon is stroooong. no pun intended.

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I don't understand how the ratings keep on increasing every week...i mean after a while there is only a set of people who are watching a show..so how?

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Way to go, Do Bong Soon! The latest two episodes got my heart flutter. I am falling for Min Hyuk's character!! *love* *love*

Bong Soon, Min Hyuk is just a perfect guy for you! Love him back soon! ;)

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Chief Kim's audience will shift to Radiant Office in upcoming weeks so doube digits are possible for it. Perfect Wife will struggle through out its run.

Well, i have dropped all shows but Chief Kim and ratings wise it is doing good.

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I swear, nowadays i come here just to check do bong soo ratings..
you have to get to that coveted 10%..lets make record for jtbc. fighting!!!

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MBC channel need to be called "MBC Flop" seriuosly, i think the only hit they had the last 18 months was "W" and no more than 13% in ratings.

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10% is way too easy for SWDBS to reach. Plus, JTBC already had a drama that reached 10% back in 2013 if wikipedia were to be believed. So JTBC drama getting 10% is nothing new.

I thought PBY's drama aiming to beat Reply 1988 and of course beating Rebel and Chief Kim along the way? Who know beating Defendant as well?

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i don't understand why people fight over their drama ratings. Like TWY and SWDBS aren't even aired at the same time people could literally watch them both in the same day. It's just that TWY isn't the type of drama a lot people may enjoy.

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Really happy for SWDBS! The cast are all doing so well and I'm really glad that it's been well received in Korea and here. It's such a feel good drama with all the addictive elements right. I'm constantly excited every episode and when it ends, I'm already thinking of re-watching the episode to relive the best moments... but there's so many esp every time PBY and PHS are together. Sometimes, as viewers we just conveniently ship the leads together because we know they're end game but here, PBY and PHS are just sooo adorable together with such electric chemistry that it's hard not to ship.

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Will Chief Kim exceeds 19% in rating? The casts promised to do something. Hee.. Junho said he will dance Hands Up and Namgoong Min will sing a balad song. They will distribute coffee to ppl in subway...

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So happy that SWDBS already broke JTBC records!! ?? Bravo!!

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I don't get nor understand the appeal of Strong Woman Do Bong Soon. I tried watching the show but good lord it was tough, I wanted to fast forward through so many scenes. I see people say that it's funny but I am still waiting to laugh because truly the funny is not there. Personally, I feel that 50% of the reason as to why SWDBS is successful is because of PBY and maybe the chemistry between PBY and PHS does play a part as well. The drama clearly has writing issues, etc so while I am happy for PBY for this success, I can't say that this drama deserves the ratings it's been getting. SWDBS is overrated and may even be overhyped to me.

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Go, JTBC!
very happy for actors who deserve love (Park Bo Young, Park Hyung Shik, Nam Gong Min) :).

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What happened to the beanies? Few years back i love reading all the comments here where everyone was so watchful about what they say. There were critisisms but were very objective and very midful of what others would feel. I loved this community back then. Feels like lots of lemons are sold here, there and everyone. Hmm..

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I'm intrigued to know how they'll capture the kidnapper in SWDBS. The police for now are very incompetent. They are a bumbling bunch. The police team need to learn from 'bring it on ghost' police team, they were efficient and know what they were doing. And gokdoo is always screaming at bongsoon, i've only seen him with a scowl on his face. I heard lots of good reviews about jisoo, but gokdoo's characterization is making him one dimensional and i dont actually see the need for his character yet except for being bongsoon's 1st love.

I dont like the mom beating dad, i did not like bongsoon flicking out teeth from the gansters mouth. It was unnecessary and violent. Dad is too kind letting mum do whatever she wants. Bongsoon needs to learn to reign in her strength and manage her anger/emotions. I also did not like the part she spun the road bully car and overturned it with the car tyres dismantled, minhyuk had already warned the road bully, but bongsoon still went on and bring justice. In my opinion her view on justice is skewed.

The writer seems to interject a while lot of violence and seems fine with it because the violent one is a cute girl (bongsoon). This needs to stop. No matter how you look, violence should not be promoted if without consequence. Bongsoon is just fine being violent and theres no comsequence for her actions. On the other hand, gokdoo should have been reprimanded for hitting the gangster without cause. The gangster was just talking to bongsoon and he let his fists fly. He was the one who should be lockedup not the gangster.

The only character i can tolerate is minhyuk, minhyuk's sec, bongki, dad and boksoon's friend. Bongki despite being chased by gokdoo's exgirl is a loving brother and son. Hopefully gokdoo's ex will stop finding him. Dad is just lovable. Minyhyuk is a good ceo with good relations with his workers.

I hope if the hype for SWDBS continues, it will feed the ratings for ManXMan after this! Hahaha. I want manXman to get explosive ratings! Park hae jin! Muahahaha

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If u r in SWDBS for the romance and that has definitely dialed up a notch pas t two episodes and along with it the major thing was character development. DBS coming into terms with her power n be confident and comfortable in it is important.she needs to be able to accept herself before any other thing. N im glad that is being addressed this week. Ep8 ends with the only screen shot preview. Ep9 wouldnt suffer to bad from drop on ratings since we know the trio will finally share d same screen space again. Like u put mpre power to the show.

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Can someone explain to me the difference between cable and public channels?

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love swdbs!!!

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Chief kim GO GO! I'm so sad my drama crack is ending in 2 weeks. Crossing my fingers that it can hit 20%. I realised as I watched the show, I tend to forget that Junho is originally an idol and not an actor. He's hitting all the right notes in this drama. In fact, the whole cast is amazing. If people ask me why they should watch Chief Kim, I would answer - for the camaraderie of the cast. We have the obvious leads of course and Nam Goong Min aceing it as TQ's psycho.

Recently I've been in a office-drama mood. Might finally start on Misaeng and also Radiant Office. Though Ha Suk Jin in another prickly boss role makes me hesitate on clicking the play button. I love you oppa, I do! But I don't know anymore.

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From the trend of ratings, I thought I discover this:

HOW TO ENSURE STRONG RATING FOR DRAMAS (Target: WORKING VIEWERS)

1) For Monday and Tuesday, put a heavy, complicated and dark dramas. Why? because its the first and second day of working IRL. Everyone is serious and their brain is active so those dramas will automatically feels more appealing to watch.

2) For Wednesday and Thursday, the dramas should be something between comedy and serious drama. Because usually there are too much work but most viewers are already waiting for weekend to come. Too serious drama will make viewers feel more tired (and want to flip some tables) but too fluffy drama will make viewers even more irritated. haha..

3) For Friday and Saturday, put a romantic comedy, or fantasy drama; as its the time to relax and forget about work. Well, you know how you feel when its Friday.

4) For Saturday and Sunday, obviously it is for family dramas. Weekend is family time, so put a drama about family to watch it together. (However makjang it is because it creates a chance to have a fun and active bickering with your sisters about the plot, until your mother smash your head with newspaper and scream: shut up! I want to watch this!! haha)

and repeat.....

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