“Dream High” claims No. 1 on primetime chart for 7th week

KBS drama "Dream High" [KBS]

KBS TV series “Dream High” made a successful exit on the final week of its showing, taking first place on the Mondays and Tuesdays primetime slot for seventh consecutive week, according to survey by a Total National Multimedia Statistics (TNmS) on Wednesday.

“Dream High,” which aired its final episode on Monday, posted a viewership rating of 18.2 percent on TNmS' chart.

A story about idol-wannabees at Kirin Art School, the drama attracted much attention for starring actual idol stars Taecyeon and Wooyoung from boy band 2PM, Bae Suzy from miss A, Ham Eunjung from T-ara and solo singer IU as well as major talent agency JYP Entertainment chief Park Jin-young.

In the last episode, all six of the characters of group Dream High are seen leading happy lives seven years after high school in either Korea or abroad, including Sam-dong (played by Kim Soo-hyun) who becomes the first Korean singer to receive a Grammy nomination.

On Tuesday evening, KBS aired the “Dream High Special Concert," on which the entire cast of the show appeared to take part in the singing and talking show filmed last week. The program itself scored a viewership rating of 12.1 percent.

MBC’s historical drama “The Duo” came in second with an average viewership rating of 14.4 percent on TNmS' survey, a whopping three percent increase in figures from the past week.

This week’s episodes showed common people staging a riot against the tyranny of high class officials as Gwi-dong (Choi Woo-sik) and Chun-dung (Noh Young-hak) rescues Dong-nyeo from becoming a courtesan.

SBS drama “Midas,” starring Jang Hyuk, Kim Hee-ae and Lee Min-jung, yielded an average viewership rating of 9.6 percent, reporting about 1 percent increase from last week.

This week’s episodes portrayed the beginning of mistrust between couple Do-hyun (Jang) and Jung-yeon (Lee) after Do-hyun becomes a family lawyer to the rich Yoo family and gets mired in the competition for family inheritance.

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