Drama viewership ratings for the week of May 24-30, 2021
by SailorJumun
Our chart is starting to feel a little more balanced in genre — we’ve still got the dark thrillers going, but we’re also seeing more fantasy and romance. And it seems like Korean audiences are enjoying the change in variety, seeing My Roommate Is a Gumiho premiere to 5.3 percent. Guess the gumiho craze is still going strong!
Of course, the darker side of dramaland is going strong as well, as usual. Melodrama Youth of May, legal thriller Law School, and chaebol drama Mine garnered their highest ratings this week, with Mine inching closer to double digits. Then there was Taxi Driver, which finished off its 16-episode run just as positively as it started.
Drama viewership ratings for the week of May 24-30, 2021
| Ep. # | Station | Rating | |
| Monday, May 24 | |||
| Youth of May | 7 | KBS | 5.0% |
| Doom at Your Service | 5 | tvN | 3.4% |
| Tuesday, May 25 | |||
| Youth of May | 8 | KBS | 5.7% |
| Doom at Your Service | 6 | tvN | 3.3% |
| Wednesday, May 26 | |||
| Sell Your Haunted House | 13 | KBS | 5.9% |
| Law School | 12 | JTBC | 5.6% |
| My Roommate Is a Gumiho | 1 | tvN | 5.3% |
| Thursday, May 27 | |||
| Sell Your Haunted House | – | KBS | – |
| Law School | 13 | JTBC | 6.9% |
| My Roommate Is a Gumiho | 2 | tvN | 4.3% |
| Friday, May 28 | |||
| Taxi Driver | 15 | SBS | 14.4% |
| Undercover | 11 | JTBC | 3.8% |
| Dark Hole | 9 | OCN | 0.9% |
| Saturday, May 29 | |||
| Revolutionary Sisters | 21 | KBS | 28.8% |
| Taxi Driver | 16 | SBS | 15.3% |
| Undercover | 12 | JTBC | 3.8% |
| Dark Hole | 10 | OCN | 1.0% |
| Mine | 7 | tvN | 8.6% |
| Sunday, May 30 | |||
| Revolutionary Sisters | 22 | KBS | 30.5% |
| Mine | 8 | tvN | 9.0% |
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1 Jezz
May 30, 2021 at 6:57 AM
Bossam: Steal the Fate's May 29 ratings: 6.9%
Source: https://www.soompi.com/article/1471952wpp/taxi-driver-ends-on-4th-highest-ratings-of-any-friday-saturday-drama-in-sbs-history-mine-hits-new-high
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2 panshel
May 30, 2021 at 9:04 AM
tvN's fantasies make my week. Doom's OTP is hotter (banmal can make or break a romance and maybe don't call your boyfriend "eoreusin"), but Gumiho's side characters are more fun (Bae In-hyuk is hot and Kang Han-na is sexy, whereas other than God, I'm not interested in Doom's second leads).
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3 OldLawyer
May 31, 2021 at 10:27 AM
Does this mean that I need to give REVOLUTIONARY SISTERS another shot?
I wonder how SO I MARRIED AN ANTI-FAN is holding up?
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panshel
May 31, 2021 at 4:14 PM
So I Married The Anti-Fan doesn't air on television, so no ratings.
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Peaches
June 1, 2021 at 5:00 AM
Why does it not air in television???
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panshel
June 2, 2021 at 7:29 PM
Because it's a web drama.
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OldLawyer
June 3, 2021 at 2:39 PM
I had not realized that it was web-only. (Their is a separate ratings system for the web but those would not be used by DB)
4 bong-soo
May 31, 2021 at 11:25 AM
Why am I watching and even current with DARK HOLE?
Maybe out of loyalty to LJH (1984). Maybe because of the fast subbing on Viki (which I am sure is a result of there being so little dialogue) while patiently waiting for BOSSAM to be subbed.
At this point I am 2 episodes way from earning my fifth bean so I will finish it.
LJH you can repay my loyalty by signing up for FOS 3.
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WishfulToki
June 2, 2021 at 9:28 AM
Fighting bong-soo!
The other Lee Joon Hyuk is doing great as the comedy relief and steadfast friend in BOSSAM. I think Chun-bae's true calling is as a storyteller.
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Alluvial_Fan
June 2, 2021 at 10:53 AM
Thought exactly the same thing as he mimed climbing a wall. Hmmmm, a sageuk about traveling storytellers would be intriguing, eh? No royals - just people of different regions and the stories that unite them.
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bong-soo
June 2, 2021 at 2:37 PM
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bong-soo
June 2, 2021 at 2:39 PM
@wishfultoki, LJH (1972) is having a ball in BOSSAM.
The bickering between Chun-bae and Court Lady Jo has been great comic relief.
You spurred me on to make only my second Fan Wall post. (I am still a Fan Wall newbie.) I found rare pics of both LJH 1972 and 1984 together. I believe they are from Nov. 2019:
https://dumpor.com/c/9342140110950184812
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