[article] “The President” keeps hold on prime time chart for 8th week.
*Please note: The drama written about in this piece is 대물 (Dae-mul), which people have loosely translated to “Big Things”, “The President”, “Big Fish”, or “The Substitute.” As far as I can tell, the closest and most proper of all of these to the Hangeul title is “The Substitute.”
And I can’t for the life of me understand why the Powers That Be didn’t adopt either that, or perhaps “The Substitute President”, or something like that for a translation because now, with the new drama 프레지던트 (Peu-re-ji-deon-teu) about to start, which actually does translate to only “President,” people are pretty confused.
Well, anyway.
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10asia 12/3/2010 —Heidi Kim, Correspondent
Viewership ratings for all three Wednesdays and Thursdays prime time series declined this week but SBS drama “The President” continued to keep its lead for the eighth week straight.
“The President” scored an average viewership rating of 24.3 percent, according to data by Total National Multimedia Research (TNmS) and 25.2 percent from statistics by AGB Nielson Media Research on December 3, both seeing about a one percent drop in ratings from last week.
“The President” starring Ko Hyun-jung, Kwon Sang-woo and Cha In-pyo, about one woman’s quest to become the first female president of the country, finally signaled the start to the race for presidency.
The ratings for KBS’ detective story “Fugitive: Plan B” which came in next, declined even further from last week, collecting average marks of 11.8 percent on surveys by both TNmS and AGB.
The same drama had fetched scores of 14.3 percent and 13.9 percent from TNmS and AGB’s polls, respectively, last Wednesday. Its Thursday portion was cancelled due to a basketball match for Guangzhou Asian Games.
“Fugitive: Plan B” starring Rain and Lee Na-young is story about a detective and his female client getting chased by cops and gangs as they get entangled in a case searching for gold that disappeared almost a century ago.
MBC’s “Home Sweet Home,” a family drama shrouded with murder mystery, posted average ratings of 6.7 percent on TNmS’ chart and 7.4 percent on AGB’s data, both also falling short of the single-day record from last week.
The drama, last Wednesday, scored 6.9 percent on TNmS’ survey and 8.6 percent on AGB’s poll while its Thursday show was pushed back to this week due to the aforementioned Guangzhou Asiad basketball match.
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seems that Koreans are preoccupied with outside events, i know i would be. seems that these ratings tell what maybe some are thinking there. something like “What if?” (just a thought).
but, i’m happy to see Fugitive still keeping a sizable lead and maintaining it’s 2nd place. that’s clearly a big lead over 3rd and 4th place. not bad for the writers of Fugitive to have a 1st place drama in early 2010 and 2nd place drama in the last half.
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Yeah… I’m glad that at least Fugitive stayed firmly in second and stayed consistent.
Stephe ^@@^
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