The succession battle of the Sunyang Group family begins in earnest… Episodes 15 and 16 air on the 24th and 25th
The viewership of JTBC’s Friday-Saturday drama ‘The Youngest Son of a Conglomerate’, which is growing in popularity every week, has reached 25%.
On the 19th, according to Nielsen Korea, a ratings research company, the 14th episode of ‘The Youngest Son of a Conglomerate’, which aired at 10:30pm the previous day, recorded 24.9% (paid households not terrestrial).
It is the highest rating and surpassed the highest rating of 23.8% for ‘Sky Castle’ (2018-2019), climbing to second place in the history of JTBC drama ratings.
The first place is ‘The world of married couples’ (2020) with 28.4%.
“The youngest son of a conglomerate family” is surpassing his high scores every week.
In the first week of airing, ratings exceeded double figures, from 6.1% of the first episode to 10.8% of the third episode.
In week 2, episode 4 11.8%, episode 6 14.9%, episode 7 16.1%, episode 8 19.4% in week 3, beating ENA drama ‘Strange Lawyer Woo Young-woo’, which had the highest viewership rating this year, with 17.5%.
In week four, it jumped from 17.0% in episode 9 to 21.1% in episode 11, becoming the first drama to cross the 20% mark in viewership ratings among dramas broadcast this year.
In the previous day’s broadcast, the succession battle of the Sunyang Group family began in earnest after the death of President Jin Yang-cheol (played by Lee Seong-min).
Jin Do-joon (Song Joong-ki), who knows that a “card crisis” will occur due to the indiscriminate use of credit cards, hands over the Sunyang card to Dong-gi (Cho Han-cheol) and proposes to secure funds by securing a stake in Sunyang Corporation as collateral.
At the end of the drama, Jin Do-jun came across his original self, Yoon Hyeon-woo (Song Joong-ki), who was chased on the road while driving, sparking curiosity for future development.
The remaining episodes 15 and 16 of the fiction, organized three times a week on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for a total of 16 episodes, will be broadcast respectively on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25.
Episode 14 will be rebroadcast on Friday 23rd.
/yunhap news
