Drama viewership ratings for the week of Jun. 20-26, 2022
by DB Staff
Red Heart ends on a high, Woori the Virgin ends on a not-so-high, and our weekend wars continue, with Why Her and Alchemy of Souls duking it out. Honorable mention goes to TV Chosun’s The Witch is Alive, which pulled in over 3% right out of the gate, and will likely only go up from there.
Drama viewership ratings for the week of June 20-26, 2022
| Ep. # | Station | Rating | |
| Monday, June 20 | |||
| Red Heart | 15 | KBS | 7.7% |
| Woori the Virgin | 13 | SBS | 3.1% |
| Link: Eat, Love, Kill | 5 | tvN | 1.9% |
| Tuesday, June 21 | |||
| Red Heart | 16 | KBS | 8.9% |
| Woori the Virgin | 14 | SBS | 3.6% |
| Link: Eat, Love, Kill | 6 | tvN | 2.5% |
| Wednesday, June 22 | |||
| Jinxed at First | 3 | KBS | 4.2% |
| Insider | 5 | JTBC | 3.2% |
| Eve | 7 | tvN | 3.6% |
| Thursday, June 23 | |||
| Jinxed at First | 4 | KBS | 4.5% |
| Insider | 6 | JTBC | 3.4% |
| Eve | 8 | tvN | 4.1% |
| Friday, June 24 | |||
| Doctor Lawyer | 7 | MBC | 6.4% |
| Why Her? | 7 | SBS | 8.7% |
| Saturday, June 25 | |||
| It’s Beautiful Now | 26 | KBS | 21.7% |
| Doctor Lawyer | 8 | MBC | 5.4% |
| Why Her? | 8 | SBS | 9.2% |
| Alchemy of Souls | 3 | tvN | 5.3% |
| Cleaning Up | 7 | JTBC | 2.0% |
| The Witch is Alive | 1 | TV Chosun | 3.4% |
| Sunday, June 26 | |||
| It’s Beautiful Now | 27 | KBS | 25.0% |
| Alchemy of Souls | 4 | tvN | 6.8% |
| Cleaning Up | 8 | JTBC | 2.2% |
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1 jerrykuvira
June 27, 2022 at 6:11 AM
How Tv Chosun raked in the ratings with this and L ft M&D premiere I do not understand. They seem to have a secret ingredient.
My watchlist are doing so well, even the weekender. I hope Alchemy of Soul's Naksu-Mudeok sync arc moves along with the ratings.
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2 lapislazulii
June 27, 2022 at 6:42 AM
Okay but Woori ending on ratings higher than Link is genuinely a crime
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Kurama
June 27, 2022 at 7:42 AM
Woori getting these ratings is a crime in general. It doesn't deserve it.
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lapislazulii
June 27, 2022 at 5:09 PM
TRUE! I could cry 😂 😭
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Whoops
June 27, 2022 at 7:51 AM
Woori totally deserves it with bad writing, outlandish acting and horrible adaptation.
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DaebakGrits
June 28, 2022 at 5:57 AM
I haven't even watched Link, and I know this to be true. I can only suspect people turned in to see which man Woori picked. I'd love to see minute-by-minute ratings of the final episode to confirm it tanked after they showed who she picked.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
June 28, 2022 at 6:52 AM
Oh no I was one of them! Good thing my view doesn’t effect the ratings🤣🤣
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SooHa
June 28, 2022 at 11:34 PM
Definitely a crime, even though I didn't watch the last episodes because of spoiler but still it just a meh
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3 FiyaShady
June 27, 2022 at 8:00 AM
Rise Alchemy of Souls, RISE!!!
Lets hit double digit soon 🤞🤞🤞
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4 Nal
June 27, 2022 at 8:11 AM
What are these ratings for Link 😩?
I'm happy that Red Heart ended well.
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5 miss h
June 27, 2022 at 8:12 AM
I'm glad Red Heart's ratings rose some toward the end and went out on a high. I wish it could have hit double digits.
Link's ratings make me sad. It deserves so much more.
It's Beautiful Now just can't get past 25%. Pretty much every weekender I've watched has hit 30% by this point.
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OldLawyer
June 27, 2022 at 10:27 AM
IT'S BEAUTIFUL NOW is a lower key story that has far less makjang than the weekender which came before. It ratings are starting to creep up although it is doubtful that it will ever match those- which was a real hit ratings wise even though I think that IT'S BEAUTIFUL NOW is actually dramatically superior.
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6 oosiee
June 27, 2022 at 8:13 AM
I am thoroughly enjoying AOS! And this week, LJW really took the centre stage with his acting skills and action prowess. JSM is delivering amazingly too. And not to mention, their chemistry is off the charts!! No wonder the ratings are coming in.
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7 Lelly19
June 27, 2022 at 8:28 AM
The low ratings for Link might be a sign I should pick it up at some point! XD
Recently my fav shows are all low rated ones!
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panshel
June 27, 2022 at 8:38 AM
I want to apologize to Love All Play, Shooting Stars, and Link: Eat, Love, Kill because clearly I'm bad luck.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
June 27, 2022 at 9:39 AM
🤣🤣🤣 It’s gutting isn’t it that other shows seem to find it easy to reach those higher numbers even though the general consensus is that they are not that good.
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Whoops
June 27, 2022 at 10:16 AM
General consensus from you guys from outside Korea maybe...but it is the Koreans who watched them. Def proof that the shows are better than you think
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
June 27, 2022 at 11:56 AM
Good point, we all have different tastes. The number of channels and options domestically will influence which shows are selected by the audience. Therefore, as we only have a fraction of the shows available and are not watching live we are likely to prioritise differently.
Hopefully there will be different polls and awards to recognise the shows and I guess the actors and actresses will be fine with their ratings as they will see the bigger picture in terms of their career trajectory.
8 Passerby
June 27, 2022 at 9:47 AM
I’m glad Eve keeps on rising, I’m totally enjoying all the campy fun with their outlandish theatrics also shows that syj wasn’t cowed by the scandal
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9 OldLawyer
June 27, 2022 at 10:22 AM
Our weekender IT'S BEAUTIFUL NOW is doing OK - which makes sense now that real conflicts and problems have really come out. It is still far less makjang than its predecessor (which had higher ratings) but I am enjoying it far more precisely because it is not employing plot tricks like amnesia.
As for WOORI- what started well fizzled due to poor plot choices by the writer. No wonder that the ratings disappointed.
ALCHEMY OF SOULS is starting well, and one has to hope that it continues that way. Given that this is a Hong Sisters drama one has to be a bit anxious about that. I would note that this is not really a Sageuk Fantasy: The Hong sisters draw inspiration from non-Korean sources and in this case, they seem to be modelling their story on Chinese fantasy dramas and Wuxia martial arts dramas. That is a very rich (if not inexhaustible) source of ideas so perhaps they will deliver a show which is good to the end. The superior cinematography also reflects the Chinese shows- the Chinese often lavish a great deal of expense and attention to that in their costume fantasies.
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Elinor is trapped in the timeslip
July 2, 2022 at 12:36 PM
I'm also enjoying the glorious costumes, scenery, cinematography, CGI, and overall production values of Alchemy. It should be much higher than ~6%! I'm a little worried that the show has blown too much of its budget on visuals early in its run, though, and that it will go downhill aesthetically when money gets tight. That seemed to happen to Master's Sun, which looked pretty good in the first several episodes and rather threadbare by the end.
Woori deserved even lower ratings than it got, by the end. I wonder how many viewers either kept hate-watching it or just left the TV on after whatever preceded it. Some long-ago American TV columnist (I forget the name) had a negative rating system based on how many shoes he wanted to throw at the screen during a show, and Woori would need an NBA player's closet's worth.
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10 brown25
June 27, 2022 at 11:00 PM
Red heart deserved this high rating for last two episodes. Unfortunately, it couldn't hit double digits but overall was great for this Sageuk.
Insider has average rating but was the lowest among othe dramas in the same time slot. I hope it's not lower than 3%
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11 SooHa
June 28, 2022 at 11:37 PM
How could Alchemy of Souls ratings not soar?!!
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