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| yna@yna.co.kr 2022-06-15 09:58:18
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SEOUL, June 15 (Yonhap) – The SBS' Friday and Saturday drama “Why Her” starring Seo Hyun-jin as a lawyer with no specific academic background, is being loved by the audience.
According to the CJ ENM’s CPI·Content Power Index for the first week of June (May 30~ June 5), “Why Her” ranked third. The CPI recorded 310.5, which rose compared to the fourth week of May (258.5).
“Why Her,” which premiered on June 3, is in the leading position with their viewership among weekend dramas that started around the same time. The first episode started off with 6% of viewer rating, and rose to 10.1% just in four episodes.
On the other hand, the highest viewership for MBC’s Friday and Saturday drama “Doctor Lawyer” starring So Ji-sub was 6.5%, and JTBC’s Saturday and Sunday drama starring Yum Jung-ah, Jeon So-min, and Kim Jae-hwa was 2.7%.
“Why Her” is the story of Oh Soo-jae (Seo Hyun-jin), a coldhearted lawyer who aims for the highest, and Gong-chan(Hwang In-youp ), a law school student who is not afraid of anything to protect Oh Soo-jae.
From the fist episode, Oh Soo-jae rose to the position of a representative lawyer at TK Law firm, but Park So-young, the client’s plaintiff, committed suicide, and Oh was demoted to a professor at Seojung University law school. Through the fast development of the story, it drew attraction to the viewers.
After the first episode, tension kept brewing in a fast pace till the fourth episode through the revelation of a sexual assault case from a law school professor to a student, and with the truth behind the death of Park So-young.
Above all, Seo Hyun-jin, who has mainly appeared in romance dramas, appears as a cold-blooded lawyer, exuding charisma is leading the narrative continuously.
The character Oh Soo jae (Seo Hyun-jin) is also also attractive.Oh Soo-jae, who always tried relentlessly to win her cases, transforms into a person who fights for justice after the death of Park So-young’s death. Oh stands on the side of those who are powerless and bursting out of anger from hopelessness by coming up with a “winning strategy.”
A drama critic Gong Hee-jeong said, “Oh Soo-jae is a person with no special academic background or family, yet overcomes reality with only her own abilities, determination, and effort. There were also several scenes where she was neglected and ignored at first, but it is satisfying to see such a character succeeding.”
☞ The CPI measures the consumer behavior of dramas, entertainment, music, and infotainment programs on 29 channels including terrestrial networks and cable channels, during prime time. Through RACOI, program-related viewer data (video views, posts, and comments) are collected every week and converted into a standard score based on 200 points to calculate an average.
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Kwon Yoonseo.)
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