I'm curious as to why Saturday ratings aren't up yet?

Also have been curious for a long time that TVN, Jtbc are cable channels and so are TV Chosun, Channel A, but the dramas airing in the later are never mentioned in the weekly ratings report?

Good for Red Cuff of the Sleeve to reach 12% on Friday because Ep 11 and Ep 12 were back to being interesting.

What a coincidence Nielsen Korea is down the day Snowdrop premieres.

I'm really happy that The King's Affection ended with such ratings! They continue to be in the top 10 on Netflix too.

I'm not usually fussy with ratings. If a drama that I like has good rating, I'm a happy girl. But when it's not, I just shrug it off, people simply have different taste.
BUT! I want to know where The Red Sleeve stands, as Lee Joonho promised to dance with King Robe if it reaches 15%.
I'm a big fan of his, what can I say.

It looks like The Red Sleeve has a good chance of meeting its rating goal of 15% by the finale.

I hope the ratings for Bulgasal climb. I really liked it and have things to discuss but it looks like DB won't be recapping it?

Not included in the ratings report, but I was glad to see Uncle's ratings rise to 5% and 4.4% this week. It's really good, and Oh Jung-se deserves a successful leading man role.

RED SLEEVE continues to climb- as does YOUNG LADY AND GENTLEMAN.

I have not yet viewed BULGASAL so I do not know if the ratings really tell us anything or not. In any case it seems a promising start.

As for SECRET ROYAL INSPECTOR AND JOY- not bad ratings but I suspect that Korean audiences are not as enamored of non-serious Sageuks.

Have no idea about South Koreas politics 40 years ago, but thoroughly enjoyed Snowdrop's first two episodes. I thought the production was excellent and the acting great throughout. On the question of distortion of history, then sadly, UK has an appalling series which has achieved world-wide acclaim called "The Crown" which distorts, exaggerates and plain lies about the history of our Royal family. It has shaped half the world's view of the history of the British royal family, and particularly the Americans, who believe every scene of it. But I don't believe that you can accuse an actor of having Left or Right-wing beliefs because of a part he is playing in a drama?

UPDATE ON MY IMAGINARY TAEC vs JUNHO HORSERACE.
SRI&J episodes 9-12 ratings: 4.5%, 4.6%, 3.7%, 3.4%
TRS episodes 9-12 ratings: 10.9%, 10.2%, 12.8%, 13.3%

If I assign one horse length to one percentage point in the ratings, my call of the race as of now would be:
“As we make the final turn and down the stretch we go Junho continues to pull away and now leads Taec by 10 lengths”.

Question: By the finish line will Junho reach the coveted 15% rating and be dancing in the winner’s circle?”

(Note: TRS has added one episode and thus extended the finish line. However to keep things fair (and Taec already suffers a handicap being on a cable network) I will call the winner after 16 episodes).

O/T. Upcoming Ratings Preview: Yoo Seung-ho’s MOONSHINE episode one rating is 7.5%. I would say that is quite good.

When Junho made his 15% ratings promise, I just chuckled at him being his usual ambitious self. But damn, they might actually end up doing it.

The only thing that could put a spanner in the ratings works is that two episodes are airing back to back on Christmas Day from 9.50 to 12.50. That's a very late finish. And then again, a week later on the 1st they'll be airing the final two episodes back to back because of MBC's Song Festival on Friday 31st.