Drama viewership ratings for the week of Mar. 2-8, 2020

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Drama viewership ratings for the week of Mar. 2-8, 2020

by SailorJumun

It’s the first week of March, and with a new month we get a new drama — the first of many. Replacing the hit drama Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim 2, we had the premiere of Nobody Knows, actress Kim Seo-hyung’s first drama since SKY Castle. The thriller came in at 9.0 percent, a great place to start. Meanwhile, I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day and The Cursed both saw a bit of an increase.

On Thursday, cable drama Money Game finished off its 16 episode run with 1.9 percent. Then on Saturday, family drama No Second Chances finished off its much longer 72 episode run with 12.7 percent. Fellow family drama Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life (which is even longer) will also be ending pretty soon. I’ve been seeing these two shows on the charts for so long now, it’ll take some time to get used to their absence.

I’ll be looking forward to getting those new weekend shows, seeing how they compare, as well as the other newbies. We’re gonna get hit with quite a lot — especially near the end of the month — so everyone get ready.

Drama viewership ratings for the week of Mar. 2-8, 2020

	Ep. #	Station	Rating
Monday, Mar. 2
Nobody Knows	1	SBS	9.0%
I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day	3	JTBC	2.5%
The Cursed	7	tvN	4.2%
Tuesday, Mar. 3
Nobody Knows	2	SBS	8.8%
I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day	4	JTBC	2.5%
The Cursed	8	tvN	5.0%
Wednesday, Mar. 4
Forest	21	KBS	4.3%
Forest	22	KBS	4.9%
The Game: Towards Zero	25	MBC	3.0%
The Game: Towards Zero	26	MBC	4.0%
Money Game	15	tvN	2.1%
Thursday, Mar. 5
Forest	23	KBS	4.8%
Forest	24	KBS	4.5%
The Game: Towards Zero	–	MBC	–
The Game: Towards Zero	–	MBC	–
Money Game	16	tvN	1.9%
Friday, Mar. 6
Hyena	5	SBS	10.7%
Itaewon Class	11	JTBC	13.8%
Saturday, Mar. 7
Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life	89	KBS	24.3%
Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life	90	KBS	29.5%
No Second Chances	69	MBC	9.8%
No Second Chances	70	MBC	12.2%
No Second Chances	71	MBC	11.3%
No Second Chances	72	MBC	12.7%
Hyena	6	SBS	10.4%
Itaewon Class	12	JTBC	13.4%
Tell Me What You Saw	11	OCN	2.5%
Hi Bye, Mama!	5	tvN	5.7%
Sunday, Mar. 8
Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life	91	KBS	28.8%
Beautiful Love, Wonderful Life	92	KBS	32.3%
Tell Me What You Saw	12	OCN	3.8%
Hi Bye, Mama!	6	tvN	5.8%

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1 Kurama

March 8, 2020 at 6:22 AM

I hope I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day will get viewers because it's a beautiful, warm, quiet and still exciting drama.

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ohduhree

March 8, 2020 at 7:57 AM

I hope with you. Sad that we'll have to wait for another week to see new eps

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OldLawyer

March 8, 2020 at 11:32 AM

I hope so too. JTBC is not one of the Big Three in Korea so the potential audience is somewhat smaller.

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Selena

March 8, 2020 at 4:39 PM

JTBC, regardless of big three or cable, is still on the level with tvN. In fact, after Sky Castle hit, I would say JTBC is little bit above tvN due to the quality and rating in certain cases.

I just think the drama is not enough of pull for audiences to watch. Park Min Young's previous drama, Her Private Life, didn't do so well either. Avg 3.3 rating.

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candycane

March 8, 2020 at 4:48 PM

IC in JTBC is going strong. So it is not based on which cable channel, it is the quality of the drama & the genre that counts. The Beautiful Day plot is moving too slow and without any episode next week may break the momentum. Anyway PMY can never carry any drama, it will be the story which will attract viewers is my observation. I won’t compare with any of PMY dramas because those were not sold under her name.

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Selena

March 8, 2020 at 5:42 PM

That's what I just said.

It doesn't matter whether JTBC is cable or not, the drama is not pulling audience because the plot is tedious or overdone. Even if this drama is on SBS, it won't attract audience either way because Korean viewers are now more attracted to mystery/suspense type of genre.

Kurama

March 8, 2020 at 10:01 PM

Sky Castle started with 1.7% and there was no big actors.

I don't need big ratings, I don't care about it, just people should watch this drama because it's great.

It's clearly not an easy drama to watch and requires some attention from the viewer, it's why the ratings won't be very high.

It's not a mystery/suspens drama...

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OldLawyer

March 8, 2020 at 10:36 PM

Really good shows eventually draw people in- just like Sky Castle did. I too hope that it happens with this show- because it is a show which deserves to be watched.

Lancaster

March 9, 2020 at 3:21 AM

IMO the star status of lead actors does account for the ratings of at least the first couple of episodes. PMY's latest 2 dramas probably proved that she is still not a big enough name.
And IFYOABD doens't look like it'll go down the Sky Cascle route writing-wise.

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C

March 9, 2020 at 6:35 AM

PMY never had star status. All her dramas without a star power male lead have failed to get ratings. Q7D, HPL and now IFYOABD is going the same route. Not only are the ratings poor but it has zero impact on CPI or buzz charts just like HPL.

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Lancaster

March 9, 2020 at 2:52 PM

I think that fact that PMY's been cast in these dramas shows the networks do consider her a star, only she keeps underperforming. I'm a bit surprised at this as well cuz I thought she, although not seen as a great actress or anything, was at least well-liked by local audience.

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C

March 11, 2020 at 3:24 AM

Local audiences hate PMY ever since she admitted to getting plastic surgery.

sal

March 9, 2020 at 3:54 AM

Good news is that there was an increase in rating from 1 % opening week. So it got more people watching! i Since there is a break this week JTBC are doing rerun on ep 1-4. So maybe this gonna bring in even more audience. :) They are heavy promoting the rerun on social media.

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2 OldLawyer

March 8, 2020 at 11:34 AM

FOREST is still outperforming the other shows in its time slot- although just barely. Yes- those other shows are actually worse.

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3 skelly

March 8, 2020 at 5:55 PM

Forest gets better ratings than I'll Find You...??? This is a Scandal and an Outrage. and a Travesty, too, just for good measure.
(and totally off-topic but this is my 11-year anniversary on Dramabeans. yay me!)

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candycane

March 8, 2020 at 6:04 PM

Can’t really compare Mon-Tues drama with Wed-Thurs. The Wed-Thurs slot usually has lower ratings, don’t know why though...

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OldLawyer

March 8, 2020 at 10:39 PM

You are right about Wednesday-Thursday- it probably has something to do with the Korean workweek. But I totally agree that ratings for I’LL FIND YOU ON A BEAUTIFUL DAY are a travesty, a scandal and an outrage. There are also utterly ridiculous.

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Jessi

March 9, 2020 at 12:05 AM

Technically it should be the other way around. Wed-Thurs is famously THE prime time slot while Mon-Tue has generally lower ratings. This was true until just last year during Camellia and Women of 9.9 Billion.