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Lee Jun-ki's "Hero" ends with low ratings
2010.01.15 10:58
MBC TV series "Hero", starring Hallyu star Lee Jun-ki, saw a bitter end to its two-month run on Thursday.
According to statistics released by TNS Media Korea the following day, the Wednesday/Thursday evening drama recorded a viewership rating of 4.7 percent for its final episode. Another research firm, AGB Nielsen Media, reported a 5 percent rating.
"Hero", which premiered in November, had taken off to a rough start with two lead actresses pulling out of the show and had failed to fare well against other prime-time dramas, namely KBS2 TV's "Chuno" and SBS' "Will It Snow On Christmas?".
Lee played the role of a passionate reporter working for a third-rate magazine in the drama, about a group of youngsters who rebel and fight against a corrupt society.
"Woman Who Still Wants To Marry" -- starring Park Jin-hee, Uhm Ji-won and Kim Bum -- is scheduled to air starting January 20.
Reporter : Lynn Kim lynn2878@asiae.co.kr
Editor : Jessica Kim jesskim@asiae.co.kr
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[REVIEW] TV series "Hero"
2010.01.19 00:42
"Hero" - Final episode, MBC TV (Thursday, 9:55 PM)
"We are looking for Yongduk Ilbo." After all the stories had ended, the reporters of Yongduk Ilbo took turns during their one-man demonstration wearing a sign on their shoulders with the aforementioned phrase written on it. It seemed like the last heartfelt message that "Hero" had tried so hard to deliver to the world outside. Like the simple and honest drama that it had been from the beginning, the absolute evil was punished in the final episode, "truth had won" and all the conflicts had been solved. It was a naive -- almost boring -- ending but when that phrase came up on the screen, viewers might have had those rare experiences where the message cries out to your heart so desperately that its less-than-sophisticated methods don't matter to you.
But it was disappointing that "Hero" was unable to find a way to get its heartfelt message across on more than a few occasions. The drama had a clear story, appealing characters and a serious theme -- the very reasons that viewers could not empathize with the show. Considering that the story most shined with shameless, hilarious energy when Yongduk Ilbo had been Monday Seoul, it is all the more disappointing because "Hero" had all the potential, in the beginning, to be more dramatic. If the drama had disguised its message in a more seasoned and less honest way -- just as its original title had been "Suspicious Heroes" -- the show's catch phrase "Weird guys change the world" would have been more powerful.
Despite such shortcomings, "Hero" had stuck to its original topic to the end and was thus able to deliver a thread of hope as its ending. The ending about hope was all the more important because the story had hinted of a tragedy from a line delivered by Do-hyuk (played by Lee Jun-ki) -- that the reason Hye-seong(played by Uhm Ki-joon)'s father committed suicide "not because he was weak but because he had no hope." In "Hero", the characters say that "people are more important than anything" and that "each person" counts. The reason they believed that and called it hope is so that they would not repeat such tragedy. Like that someone who dreamed about the beautiful world that people live in.
- Written by Kim Sun-young
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Lee Jun-ki in an official poster for "Hero" [MBC]
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