The battle for succession of the Sunyang Group family begins in earnest… Episodes 15 and 16 air on the 24th and 25th
The viewership rating of JTBC’s Friday-Saturday drama ‘The Youngest Son of a Conglomerate’, which is soaring in popularity every week, reached 25%.
According to Nielsen Korea on the 19th, the ratings for the 14th episode of ‘The Youngest Son of a Conglomerate’, which aired at 10:30 pm the previous day, was 24.9% (non-terrestrial paid households).
It is its own highest rating and surpassed the highest rating of 23.8% for ‘Sky Castle’ (2018-2019), rising to second place in the history of JTBC drama ratings.
The first place is ‘The World of the Married’ (2020) with 28.4%.
‘The youngest son of a conglomerate family’ is breaking its own highest ratings every week.
In the first week of airing, the ratings exceeded double digits, from 6.1% for the first episode to 10.8% for the third episode.
In the second week, episode 4 11.8%, episode 6 14.9%, episode 7 16.1%, episode 8 19.4% in the third week, beating the ENA drama ‘Strange Lawyer Woo Young-woo’, which recorded the highest viewer rating this year, with 17.5%.
In the fourth week, it jumped from 17.0% in episode 9 to 21.1% in episode 11, becoming the first drama to exceed 20% in viewer ratings among the dramas aired this year, and in the fifth week, it continued its upward trend with 19.8% in episode 12 and 24.9% in episode 14.
On the previous day’s broadcast, the succession battle of the Sunyang Group family began in earnest following the death of Chairman 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 sets out to secure funds by securing a stake in Sunyang Corporation as collateral.
At the end of the drama, Jin Do-joon met Yoon Hyun-woo (Song Joong-ki), his original self, who was kicked out on the street while driving a designated driver, stimulating curiosity regarding the future development.
The remaining 15th and 16th episodes of the drama, organized three times a week on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday with a total of 16 episodes, will be broadcast on Saturday, the 24th and Sunday, the 25th, respectively.
On Friday, the 23rd, episode 14 will be rebroadcast.
/yunhap news
