Kim Soo-hyun and Kim Ji-won caught viewers and became a hot topic

tvN's Saturday-Sunday drama 'Queen of Tears' shows signs of becoming a global syndrome.

On the 20th, 'Queen of Tears' ranked 3rd in the global TOP 10 series (non-English) ranking (as of March 11 to March 17) announced by Netflix, rising 4 places compared to the previous week. The total cumulative viewing time recorded so far is 22.4 million hours. In particular, ‘Queen of Tears’ ranked first among all series on Japanese Netflix.

'Queen of Tears' tells the dizzying crisis and miraculous restart of love between Hong Hae-in (played by Kim Ji-won), the third-generation Queen's group conglomerate and queen of department stores, and Baek Hyun-woo (played by Kim Soo-hyun), the son of Yongduri's head and a supermarket prince, married for three years. Contained drama. It is airing on tvN, TVING, and Netflix.

According to Flix Patrol, a global OTT platform ranking service, 'Queen of Tears' immediately took first place as a Japanese Netflix TV show in just three days of service on the 11th, entering the top 10, and has held the top spot every time except for one day. I am guarding it.

It has a high rating of 4.3 points (out of 5) on Filmarks, Japan's largest content review site. This figure is close to the 4.5 points recorded by ‘Crash Landing on You’. In addition, according to the '2023 K-Content Overseas Expansion Status Survey' published by the Korea Creative Content Agency in January, writer Park Ji-eun's previous work 'Crash Landing on You' was selected as the most frequently watched K-drama by Japanese people along with 'Winter Sonata'. 'Queen of Tears' is drawing high interest from Japanese viewers even before it airs, as it is a new work by writer Park Ji-eun, who wrote 'Crash Landing on You'.

Episode 4 of 'Queen of Tears', which aired on tvN on the 17th, recorded an average of 13.9% and a maximum of 15% for households in the metropolitan area, and an average of 13% and a maximum of 14% for households nationwide, breaking its own highest viewer ratings every week. In addition, 'Queen of Tears' ranked first for two consecutive weeks in the TV-OTT integrated drama topicality for the 2nd week of March announced by FUNdex, the official platform of Good Data Corporation, a K-content competitiveness research agency, and the cast was a hot topic. Kim Ji-won and Kim Soo-hyun took first and second place, respectively.

Kang Min-kyung, Ten Asia reporter kkk39@tenasia.co.kr