Yesterday’s ratings for the latest crop of Monday night dramas offerno surprises. Little has changed since last week except that the overallpercentage of viewers has declined.
The winner in the Monday night ratings race continues to be MBC’s “GuFamily Book,” but it leads the KBS series, “God of the Workplace” byonly a few points.
Although the fantasy saeguk “Gu Family Book” dropped from last week’sNielsen Media research score of 15.1 percent to this week’s 14.4percent, it still edges past “God of the Workplace” which drew only 14.0percent of the viewers.
Each of the shows lost a few percentage points in ratings.
More viewers may have turned in to “Gu Family Book” last week to seehow the delayed introduction of the stars Lee Seung Gi and miss A Suzy wouldshape the direction of the drama. Lee Seung Gi plays Choi Kang Chi, thehero, a half-mythical/half-human creature who wants to become morehuman. Suzy plays Dam Yeo Woo his fighting partner and love interest.The first few episodes told the story of how Choi Kang Chi’s parents met
“God of the Workplace,” the story of a super temp who impresses herworkplace superiors, is still going strong. “God of the Workplace” starsKim Hye Soo as super temp Miss Kim and Oh Ji Ho as Jang Kyu Jik, herworkplace superior.
The only obvious loser in this week’s ratings race is the SBS series”Jang Ok Jung.” The anticipated series has apparently not caught on withfans, despite its popular stars Kim Tae Hee and Yoo Ah In, the gorgeousperiod costumes and historical content. That drama only earned a 6.9percent rating yesterday.
No one is sure why the drama lags so far behind. It may be that dramafans have just seen the story of Jang Ok Jung one too many times, sincethere have been at least seven previous film and drama versions. Inthis drama version, Kim Tae Hee plays Jang ok Jung, the courtesanexecuted for plotting to poison Queen Inhyun. Yoo In Ah plays her lover,the King Suk Jong.
Netizen reactions to these three series have been mixed with no overwhelmingly obvious favorite.
Meanwhile, the ratings for the KBS drama, “Cheer Up, Mr. Kim”remained steady, earning 28.7 percent, while variety shows, KBS’”Hello,” earned 9.8 percent ratings and SBS’ “Healing Camp” earned 5.3percent.
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