Drama viewership ratings for the week of November 20-26, 2023
by DB Staff
It’s an interesting week of premieres and finales, with A Bloody Lucky Day charging in with its first episode, but then seeing a drop afterwards.
While the mid-week slots continue to be even sadder than usual, over the weekend in the Fri-Sat slots we had both My Demon and The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract premiere — the former debuting losing numbers for its second episode, while the latter does the opposite.
As for our finale, Strong Girl Nam-soon hits double digits as it comes to a close, and Castaway Diva and Perfect Marriage Revenge lean into their penultimate weeks.
Drama viewership ratings for the week of November 20-26, 2023
Ep. # | Station | Rating | |
Monday, November 20 | |||
The Matchmakers | 7 | KBS | 3.3% |
A Bloody Lucky Day | 1 | tvN | 4.1% |
Tuesday, November 21 | |||
The Matchmakers | — | KBS | — |
A Bloody Lucky Day | 2 | tvN | 2.7% |
Wednesday, November 22 | |||
Moon in the Day | 7 | ENA | 1.5% |
A Good Day to Be a Dog | 7 | MBC | 2.2% |
Thursday, November 23 | |||
Moon in the Day | 8 | ENA | 1.5% |
Friday, November 24 | |||
The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract | 1 | MBC | 5.6% |
My Demon | 1 | SBS | 4.5% |
Saturday, November 25 | |||
Strong Girl Nam-soon | 15 | JTBC | 9.0% |
Live Your Own Life | 18 | KBS | 15.6% |
The Goryeo-Khitan War | 5 | KBS | 7.5% |
The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract | 2 | MBC | 5.9% |
Perfect Marriage Revenge | 9 | MBN | 2.5% |
My Demon | 2 | SBS | 3.4% |
Castaway Diva | 9 | tvN | 7.3% |
Sunday, November 26 | |||
Strong Girl Nam-soon | 16 | JTBC | 10.4% |
Live Your Own Life | 19 | KBS | 17.7% |
The Goryeo-Khitan War | 6 | KBS | 7.8% |
Perfect Marriage Revenge | 10 | MBN | 2.4% |
Castaway Diva | 10 | tvN | 8.0% |
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1 emsel
November 27, 2023 at 5:02 AM
Although I did not watch the sequel, I read somewhere that a 3rd part to "Strong Woman/Girl" franchise is in the works. Looking at the ratings I am not surprised.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
November 27, 2023 at 8:17 AM
Apparently it will be Strong Man Jang Choong Don.
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emsel
November 27, 2023 at 9:01 AM
This already sounds distasteful.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
November 27, 2023 at 9:41 AM
I do hope it doesn't really materialize.
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vienibenmio
November 27, 2023 at 1:57 PM
But I thought only the women inherit the strength?
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
November 28, 2023 at 5:27 AM
I thought so too, but that is what they are planning.
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vienibenmio
November 28, 2023 at 5:57 AM
To be blunt: wtf is the point of this show if the man is super strong? Half of the storyline, more than half, relates to it being a woman
🌸 Seeker 🌸
November 28, 2023 at 6:21 AM
@vienibenmio I guess the only point is all that 💸 which the production feels is flying towards them.
2 panshel
November 27, 2023 at 5:06 AM
Korea and I agree on Strong Girl Nam-soon's 10% ratings. At first, I'd watched Strong Girl before Castaway Diva, but the Castaway episodes became a struggle to get through, so I switched them and started Castaway first to get it over with and saved Strong Girl for last, which infinitely improved my weekends.
The reason why I loved it is because of the OTP (they were a 10!), the drug investigation team (Chamma was a cutie), and villain Ryu Shi-oh, and they were over half the show.
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emsel
November 27, 2023 at 6:27 AM
It is quite a chore to complete Castaway Diva. I still did not watch Ep 10
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vienibenmio
November 27, 2023 at 1:57 PM
That's fascinating - the eps just fly by for me!
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
November 28, 2023 at 7:13 AM
Oh! You think so too. I'm like oh! it's only 20 mins how is the timestamp saying 74 minutes.
Same with PMR. 🤣
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3 Kurama
November 27, 2023 at 5:07 AM
The week-end is so full and there will be Welcome to Samdal-ri on JTBC... I still didn't start Goryeo-Khitan War, I think it will have to wait a little bit :p
I hope The Matchmakers's ratings won't suffer too much with Jung Woo-sung's return on TV. This drama deserves so much better!
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4 lapislazulii
November 27, 2023 at 5:32 AM
Not too bad a start for My Demon, though the dip for ep 2 💔 I figured anything with KYJ would pull ratings (from memory Red Sky did quite well despite the plot lol) but apparently not a given? Though, it's been holding number 4 in Netflix's Top 10 which rarely charts K-dramas I feel like so that's a win! Fighting MD team for next week!!
Glad to see The Marriage Contract drama landing very solidly though and Castaway Diva is doing great too - it'd be cool if it hit 10 for its final week at least. Feels like The Dog Show is actually not faring that badly, all things considered with how botched its already slim schedule has been over the past few weeks!
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lapislazulii
November 27, 2023 at 5:51 AM
*should clarify, it's my region's Top 10 that rarely charts K-dramas, so was a pleasant surprise to see this quite high up!
But also after looking into it more, it seems like My Demon is charting well internationally & is in the Top 10 list across many countries. Which on reflection, sounds about right for a Song Kang drama, his stuff does tend to do better internationally, I think ?
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Unaspirated
November 27, 2023 at 8:27 AM
I have no idea if Song Kang's stuff does better internationally in general (would love to see those data though), but he has been in a lot of Netflix Originals and Exclusives, so maybe people who only have Netflix are just familiar with him and ready to watch more?
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Kurama
November 27, 2023 at 1:22 PM
He's the favourite son of Netflix since Love Alarm that did really well on Netflix.
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5 peiyeelai
November 27, 2023 at 5:39 AM
My Demon is a simple romcom that wins on the visual side (both leads are good looking), but Park's Marriage has more to offer than simple fluffy romance as it combines time-travelling, thriller, mystery, comedy and family drama. The ending of episode 1 and 2 keep the audience on their toes and guessing what is coming up next. Don't forget that the main actress has a good history in MBC, as she previously acted as Deuk Im in The Red History, thus making her a wonderful bonus in this saeguk fantasy. As for trending, this drama comes third after Smugglers and A Bloody Lucky Day, when it comes to all the OTT in South Korea.
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tabong
November 27, 2023 at 11:13 AM
Are both shows airing at the same time?
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lapislazulii
November 28, 2023 at 1:08 PM
Yeah I think so, PMC airs at 9:50pm KST and My Demon at 10pm KST, so it's a battle for viewership I suppose.
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tabong
November 28, 2023 at 2:16 PM
Good for us we don't have to choose. But it's a shame these shows are competing. They're both fun and deserve a lot of attention.
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lapislazulii
November 28, 2023 at 3:58 PM
Yeah I wish they weren't so they'd get more love from SK audience :( And because I love them both it feels like picking between children or something. Maybe with Strong Woman ending and PMR ending soon, some of those viewers will migrate over to both PMC and MD and they'll both get a boost! It'd also be interesting to get viewership data on streaming since PMC is Viki/Viu for international and MD is on Netflix 🤔
I too am glad we don't have to choose and have both on accessible platforms!! (*side eyes Disney*)
6 peiyeelai
November 27, 2023 at 6:00 AM
I am not surprised with the strong performance showed by the two saeguks as 1. Daeha (true/accurately researched) saeguks are still popular among Koreans, especially when it is aired on a public channel, KBS has been doing it for ages, and these saeguks are hard to find these days (very, very rare) unless it coincides with some anniversary or so. 2. Although fantasy saeguk/fusion saeguks are rather unpopular as compared to daeha and faction saeguks like TRS, it comes after the ever popular My Dearest, plus the drama has two main leads from the The Red Sleeve (the young girl who played Deuk Im when she was small) and Lee Se Young, the actress who won the Best Actress Award through her perfomance as Deuk Im in The Red Sleeve in 2021-2022
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7 vienibenmio
November 27, 2023 at 6:58 AM
Castaway Diva has also consistently been in the global top five for non-English TV shows on Netflix
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vienibenmio
November 27, 2023 at 6:58 AM
Er... consistently in the top ten, and this past week it was in the top five
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8 OldLawyer
November 27, 2023 at 7:27 AM
Our weekender struggles and this week's episodes really gave us little reason to watch.
I have no idea what has happened with PERFECT MARRIAGE REVENGE other than noting that there are simply too many things loaded into the weekend in general and Saturday in particular.
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9 jillian
November 27, 2023 at 8:13 AM
Its an increase for PMR compared to last week! I count it as a win despite being against other weekend show on bigger networks.
I love the strong start for The Story of Park's Marriage Contract. It was a solid first two episodes.
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10 Asha13
November 27, 2023 at 8:13 AM
Glad to see castaway diva and my demon doing well, but did PMR fall precipitously? Man.
LYOL needs to show some movement. Perhaps having HS finally stand up for herself will bring viewers back
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
November 27, 2023 at 8:21 AM
It will certainly bring me back ... the weekends have been a little to busy and somehow LYOL has fallen through the cracks.
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11 tabong
November 27, 2023 at 11:08 AM
LOL I love how consistent Moon Day fans are.
By accident I read PMarriageR ratings as Park's Marriage (EP2) ratings and I got scared for a second LOL.
I'm happy with Park and tabong's Demon ratings! I hope our demon gets that 1% back. Fighting!
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12 Dylan [Suffering from Judge from Hell brainrot]
November 27, 2023 at 2:18 PM
I'm always surprised when my experiences are completely opposite to South Korean audiences. I had the exact opposite reactions to My Demon and Park's Marriage Contract. I thought the first ep of the latter was very rough while the second one was a slight improvement. Meanwhile, I was on board the Demon train from start to finish. surprised on the ratings for those two...
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
November 28, 2023 at 7:10 AM
Same. I thought My Demon was sharper, don't know how long it can be that way. But I loved Park too, just a tad less. No one can compete with that pink water arch. 🤣
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13 HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦞
November 27, 2023 at 2:23 PM
Whoa, way to go Story of Park's Marriage Contract!! Haha this may be the first time I'm live-watching something with ratings over 4% 😂
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