Narrowly Escaping 'High Heat'... Seventh Time Reaching the Top
The drama 'Extraordinary Attorney Woo' has ranked first in viewing hours for non-English dramas on Netflix for five consecutive weeks. According to Netflix's official site 'Netflix Top 10' on the 31st, the viewing hours for the fourth week of this month (22?28) were 53.89 million hours. Although this is a decrease from the third week of this month (15?21, 77.43 million hours), it narrowly maintained its position as number one in the non-English drama category. The gap with second place 'High Heat' (53.39 million hours) is only 0.5 million hours.
'Woo Young-woo' has topped the non-English drama viewing hours chart seven times. It failed to enter the top 10 in its first week of airing but gained popularity through word of mouth, ranking first in the second week of last month (4?10, 23.95 million hours) and the third week (11?17, 45.58 million hours). In the fourth week of last month (18?24, 55.07 million hours), it dropped to second place behind the Spanish drama 'Alba'. However, it reclaimed first place in the fifth week of last month (25?31, 65.63 million hours) and continued its momentum through the first week of this month (1?7, 67.01 million hours), the second week (8?14, 69.36 million hours), the third week, and the fourth week. Notably, in the third week of this month, it surpassed 'The Sandman' (77.24 million hours), which was number one in the English-language drama category, to reach the top spot in overall Netflix viewing hours for the first time.
Starring Park Eun-bin, Kang Tae-oh, and Kang Ki-young, 'Woo Young-woo' is a drama about a lawyer with a genius intellect and autism spectrum disorder. Each episode delivered warm emotions, and the series concluded on the 18th. Meanwhile, in the fourth week of this month’s Netflix non-English drama viewing rankings, tvN's drama 'Alchemy of Souls' ranked third (28.59 million hours), KBS's drama 'Young Lady and Gentleman' ranked eighth (8.78 million hours), and 'The Good Bad Mother' ranked ninth (8.13 million hours).
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