"The Devil" Ko Hyun-jung vs "My Youth" Song Joong-ki and Friday's small screen showdown...Who is the winner?

By Minjeong, Cho

Sep 05, 2025

'The Devil' Ko Hyun-jung vs 'My Youth' Song Joong-ki and Friday's small screen showdown...Who is the winner?
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Actors Ko Hyun-jung and Song Joong-ki will have a showdown on the small screen on Friday night.

SBS's Friday-Saturday drama `The Devil: The Killer's Going Out' and JTBC's Friday-Friday series `My Youth' will begin airing side by side on Sept. 5, bringing home theaters to a head-to-head battle between the two genres of melodrama and thriller.

'The Devil' Ko Hyun-jung vs 'My Youth' Song Joong-ki and Friday's small screen showdown...Who is the winner?
'The Devil' Ko Hyun-jung vs 'My Youth' Song Joong-ki and Friday's small screen showdown...Who is the winner?
A production presentation for the drama 'My Youth" was held at The Link Hotel in Guro-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 4th. Song Joong-ki, Chun Woo-hee, Lee Joo-myung, and Seo Ji-hoon are posing.

Song Joong-ki and Chun Woo-hee Ju-ryeon's 'My Youth' is a work about an emotional romance between a man who started his normal life later than others and a woman who has to break the peace of her first love. Directed by Lee Sang-yeop and written by Park Si-hyun, it will premiere on the 5th night. Reporter Jung Jae-geun cjg@sportschosun.com /2025.9.4/
First, JTBC 'My Youth' is the work that will appear at 8:50 p.m. Actor Song Joong-ki drew attention as he returned to the melodrama genre after nine years. In the play, Song Joong-ki plays the role of Sun Woo-hae, a florist and novelist from a child star, and depicts a normal life that came late and his first love that started again. Chun Woo-hee stars as management team leader Sung Je-yeon and has a reunion romance with Song Joong-ki. Director Lee Sang-yeop and writer Park Si-hyun join hands to continue the sensuous directing and writing skills shown in 'Yumi's Cells' and 'RunOn'.




In this regard, Song Joong-ki said at the production presentation that "My Youth" is a calm and warm drama. Rather than a fancy device, it conveys excitement through relationships and lines," he said. "It's the first melodrama in nine years, so I want viewers to feel the feelings of their first love anew."

JTBC's Friday series is a newly introduced program and is characterized by two consecutive broadcasts every Friday. However, as the previous work 'Good Guy' remained at the highest viewer rating of 3.2%, 'My Youth' also has the task of rebounding in viewership.

'The Devil' Ko Hyun-jung vs 'My Youth' Song Joong-ki and Friday's small screen showdown...Who is the winner?
SBS Fri-Saturday Drama"'s production presentation was held at SBS headquarters in Mok-dong, Seoul, on the 4th. EL, Jang Dong-yoon, director Byun Young-joo, Ko Hyun-jung and Cho Sung-ha are having photo time. Mokdong = Reporter Park Jae-man pjm@sportschosun.com /2025.09.04/
At 9:50 p.m., SBS 'Warts: Murderers' Outing' will be aired.




The movie was directed by Byun Young-joo of the movie 『Hwacha" and Lee Young-jong of 『Seoul Spring』 tried to write the first drama, which was highly anticipated even before the broadcast. It tells the story of a serial killer who killed five perpetrators of abuse of women and children more than 20 years ago and imprisoned by his son Cha Soo-yeol working together to investigate copycat crimes.

Ko Hyun-jung took on an unconventional transformation as a brutal killer and mother, Jeong In-shin. Jang Dong-yoon plays the role of Cha Soo-yeol, a detective who hates his mother but pursues the truth. In addition, Cho Seong-ha and EL joined to predict synergy in acting.

At the production presentation, Ko Hyun-jung said, `Jung Shin is a complicated person who is a murderer to someone but can be revered to someone else.' `Please watch why he made that choice, not just how many people he killed.'




SBS Friday-Saturday drama has aired various popular works one after another and is known as a ratings guarantee check. The previous work 'Tri: We Become a Miracle' also achieved compliance with 6.8%. Analysts say that the joining of the trend could put pressure on JTBC 'My Youth' from the beginning.

On the other hand, JTBC's Friday series tried to differentiate itself with a new attempt of airing two consecutive episodes once a week, but has not produced any results yet. Attention is focusing on whether Song Joong-ki's return to the melodrama genre for the first time in nine years and his breathing with Chun Woo-hee will revitalize the Friday series.

Expectations are high on what report cards the two works, which are based on the emotions of both extremes, Melo and Thriller, will accept in the afternoon of the 5th.





mj.cho@sportschosun.com