Volleyball is my whole life, I'll try until the end...Tall setter Gu Sol's awakening → Kim Yeon-kyung found it again Touching storm (new director Kim Yeon-kyung)
"Baseball is a pitcher's play". In other words, the position of a pitcher has a great impact on the entire baseball game. Substituting this word into volleyball, the position 'setter' appears.
The setter is a position that coordinates the entire game and creates attacks. It's considered a legendary volleyball cartoon and Kim Yeon-kyung also mentions it often 'Hi Q!!In ', one of the two main characters 'Volleyball Genius'Tobio Kageyama's position is setter. Setter is the most frequently appearing position in MBC 'new director Kim Yeon-koung'.
The must-win wonderdox has three setters. Lee Na-yeon, the main setter, overcame IPS and got on track, drawing attention as she recently joined Incheon Heungkuk Life Pink Spiders. Lee Jin, a setter with idol-class beauty, played his part in the team by telling the story around 'Doggi'.
And non-mainstream setter Gusol. The 6th episode, which aired on the 2nd, featured 'Underdog'. On this day's broadcast, Gu Sol, who was reborn as a stable setter, although not spectacular, impressed viewers. Gusol took a volleyball after practice and has been training to revive the sense of the ball by himself every night. "I think if I do what I'm going to do in my place, there will be an opportunity," said Gusol, who said "I'm not good enough to have one more ball"
The match against Suwon Special City Hall, the strongest team in professional volleyball, came to him 'opportunity'. Before the game, all staff recommended Gu Sol as a starting member, and Kim Yeon-kyung also chose him. And Gusol did not live up to that expectation.
"Volleyball is everything in my life, so I want to do it as much as I canGu Sol, who says ," demonstrated himself to be a 'growth character' with a strong performance in the game. Gusol is a tall setter from a middle blocker who can even attack directly, so the opposing team has one more variable to consider. In the match, Gusol drew attention by showing various attack routes, such as trying to coordinate attacks on both sides as well as painting attacks from the center. Of course, there are still areas to grow, such as sub-misses, but so expectations for Gu Sol are rising.
Will the Wonder Dogs, who have three sets including Lee Na-yeon, Lee Jin and Goosol, overcome 2 wins, 2 losses, and 50% winning rate to avoid team dissolution. With the Suwon Special City Hall match, which has already won the first set, there is now a showdown between the runner-up and the winner of the 2024-2025 V League, the Daejeon Jeonggwanjang Red Sparks and Heungkuk Life Insurance, and the two most difficult teams.
Meanwhile, the 6th episode continued to be popular with a 3.0% viewer rating (hereinafter, based on Nielsen Korea's tally and the metropolitan area). It is the No. 1 entertainment show on Sunday for three consecutive weeks. Household viewership rose 0.5 percentage points to 4.8%, and the scene where the analysis volleyball of coach Kim Yeon-kyung and the players of 「Pilseung Wonder Dogs」, which was awakened, rose to 6.0%, with Incusi, who became the ace in the second set of the match against Suwon Special City Hall, succeeding in the third tip and Kim Na-hee, who was prepared for a quick attack against her former team, scoring a blocking score.
In addition, the TV-OTT Sunday non-drama category topped the non-drama category for the third consecutive week in the 「Fundex Report: K-Content Competitiveness Analysis" released by Good Data Corporation. In addition, Kim Yeon-kyung ranked first for three consecutive weeks in the non-drama category, and both the program and the cast are at the top of the list.
In particular, Mongolian Inkush, also known as 'Nepkush', ranked fourth in the popularity of TV non-drama performers, drawing keen attention from viewers not only from director Kim Yeon-kyung but also from 'Pilseung Wonder Dogs'.
