The dopamine burst due to Seo Kang-jun's performance..Undercover High School topped the list for 3 consecutive weeks
Mar 11, 2025
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MBC's Friday-Saturday drama 「Undercover High School" (played by Lim Young-bin, directed by Choi Jung-in, hereinafter 'Under School") controls the small screen with an exciting narrative that perfectly combines comic, action, thrill and twist amid rapid development.
In particular, in the 6th episode, the scene where Jung Hae-sung (Seo Kang-joon) and Oh Soo-ah (Jin Ki-joo), who shared an umbrella, hugged while trying to avoid water baptism, exploded the excitement index with a maximum viewership of 10%. The 2049 ratings, a key indicator of channel competitiveness and popularity, also soared to 3.3%, topping all programs aired at the same time as well as at the same time, proving hot popularity
In addition, Hae-sung and Su-ah's heart-throb moments in the fourth episode made viewers' hearts flutter. The scene where Sua stepped on a massage ball in Haesung's rooftop room, fell, and kissed rose to 10.3% of the viewership, marking the best moment of the day. The subtle romance surrounding the two is expected to change the relationship between Haesung and Sua, raising expectations for the main broadcast about what stories will be drawn in the future.
The cider moment given by Haesung is also a hot topic. In the third episode of the broadcast, Haesung dragged CEO Koo (Cho Jae-yoon), an illegal gambling site operator related to Park Tae-soo (played by Jang Sung-beom), to the site of the school violence committee, and the scene recorded a high viewer rating of 7.8%.
Stories related to ghost stories spread in schools also contributed to driving viewership. While looking at the old building that Haesung did not use to dig up the first ghost story, the scene where he found an electric meter running and questioned it rose to 6.4%, causing goosebumps from the first episode. The epilogue scene, which featured Seo Myeong-joo (Kim Shin-rok) watching Hae-sung looking at the basement of the old building on CCTV in the second episode, led to the highest viewership of 8.8 percent, leading to the highest level of tension.
Meanwhile, according to Fundex, the official platform of Good Data Corporation, a K-content competitiveness agency, Undercover High School has been on the top of the TV integration hot topic in the first week of March, topping the list for three consecutive weeks. In addition, it ranked second in the TV-OTT integration hot topic, and Seo Kang-jun also topped the TV-drama cast's hot topic for three consecutive weeks, increasing his popularity day by day.
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