Ma Dong-seok’s TV Return ‘Twelve’ Slumps to 5.9% in Ep.2 After 8.1% Debut

By Jeeyoung, Jo

Aug 25, 2025

Ma Dong-seok’s TV Return ‘Twelve’ Slumps to 5.9% in Ep.2 After 8.1% Debut
A production presentation of 'twlv' was held at Ambassador Seoul Pullman Hotel in Jangchung-dong, Seoul on the 20th. Actor Ma Dong-seok is posing. Jangchung-dong = Song Jeong-heon Reporter's songs@sportschosun.com/2025.08.20/



Ma Dong-seok's world view, which was boiled like a beef soup in the theater, was also revealed in his home room. At the end of the first episode, which was barely grabbed by the collar, he was humiliated by recording a vertical decline from the second inning.

According to viewer rating research company Nielsen Korea on the 25th, the second episode of KBS2's Saturday-Sunday drama Twelve (directed by Kim Bong-han, Ma Dong-seok, Kang Dae-gyu, and Han Yoon-sun), which aired on the 24th, was 5.9%.

'Twelve' is an eight-part action hero film in which 12 angels confront evil forces to protect the human world. It is the first attempt by STUDIO X+U, a production company, to release the stories of 12 god characters through KBS and Disney+ without distributing them through U+tv and U+ mobile tv, the services of its parent company LG U+. On top of that, action actor Ma Dong-seok drew attention with his first home comeback in nine years since the OCN drama '38 Fraud Dongdae'.




Ma Dong-seok’s TV Return ‘Twelve’ Slumps to 5.9% in Ep.2 After 8.1% Debut
As such, 'twlv' has shed its veil amid many expectations, but it has struggled due to harsh criticism since the first broadcast. Unlike the huge setting of the revival of 12 angels and evil forces that have been around humans for thousands of years, it disappointed with its awkward and shabby CG and loophole. The viewer is like a children's drama. 'Empty cart was loud'Like watching Shim Hyung-rae's 'Uroumae' Are you sure you're an action master? The action was so clumsy that there were sharp reactions such as '.

The viewer's real-time evaluation immediately led to ratings. The ratings of the 1st episode of 'Twelve', which first aired on the 23rd, seemed to announce a good start with 8.1 percent using the topic, but in the 2nd episode, when the bottom line was revealed, the figure fell 2.2 percent from the previous day to the 5 percent range, which was shunned by viewers.

As "Twelve" fell, tvN 'The Tyrant's Chef' (written by fGRD, directed by Jang Tae-yu) continued its success with an upward trend. The number of viewers for the second episode of `Chef of the Tyrant' topped the cable and general programming channels at the same time, averaging 6.5% and 8.7% for households in the metropolitan area, 6.6% and 8.6% for households nationwide.








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