Korean polling platform Good Data provides weekly buzz rankings based on search words and this past week was worth a visit since there were three new dramas premiering and four total dramas released in the last two weeks. Topping the most talked about (buzz) rankings on the drama side are Encounter (Boyfriend) first followed by Sky Castle, Memories of Alhambra, An Empress’s Dignity, and Clean With Passion For Now rounding out the top 5. On the actor/actress side, the top two spots were for the noona-dongsaeng couple of Encounter, with Park Bo Gum in first followed by Song Hye Kyo in second. Coming in third is Hyun Bin for Memories of Alhambra, fourth was Kim Yoo Jung as the cleaning cutie pie, and fifth spot goes to Park Shin Hye also for Memories. The surprises for me is how much buzz both Encounter and especially Park Bo Gum is trending, and it’s probably because of how it really exceeded expectations. I am enjoying both Encounter and Memories at the same interest level but the former just blew me away by how much better than I expected it to be (maybe my expectation was too low, I dunno) whereas Memories is as good as I hope for and totally cool to watch. December will certainly be a fun month with lots of buzzy dramas to watch!
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Encounter is definitely my favourite drama in recent years. It has been sooooooo long since I felt this attached to a drama. While I’m not surprised with Song Hye Kyo’s superb and Park Bo Gum’s very good acting, the scriptwriter and director are both doing a much better job than I thought.
Encounter boyfriend I love the drama so much her in Philippines
It also seems that “Encounter” is the most talked about drama on your site, Ms Koala, given the number of posts and comments. It’s fun to see so many posts and comments on the drama.
Love the flow of the story and how PBG and SHK's differences complimented each other and makes it interesting, enjoyable and heartwarming.
PD and crew did a great job with everything. Main leads visuals are daebal but production made everything pleasing. Colours used are beautiful. Can't wait for EP3
To my surprise Encounter is really good! Better than MOA.
Sky Castle is great too.
I would rank Encouinter no.1 and Sky Castle a close second at first tier.
Cleaning With Passion, MOA, Fate & Furies at another tier.
Encounter is the Best Drama Ever❤? I really enjoyed watched this Drama becoz of SHK, the Best Actress and Goddess of All...Am her Big fan from Philippines
The first behind the scenes clip is out (this drama is under promoted, other dramas have released many BTS clips).
https://tv.naver.com/v/4687470?openType=nmp
Yup but drama still got so much love. Can't wait for EP3 tomorrow.
Trying so hard to not ship PBG with SHK, eventho they looks so cute in that BTS
Felt that TVN just understimate PBG and SHK's popularity because they put encounter as their wed-thursday drama. The best one, always in weekend.
There's no pre-premiered in CGV, and this one is underpromotion. Even PBG'cf more active promoted this drama than tvn lol
mostly fans of both are promoting it, and media attention for the clicks, not the production coz they are always behind, even the 1st teaser they need to put out a statement a day before 1st teaser was out coz fans were flooding them with comments, asking them to release something
True. I also expected them to have a pre-premier in CGV like what they have done for other recent major dramas.
Hi...as I understand..weekend dramas have more episodes while wed-thur dramas are shorter (usually 16 episodes) even on public broadcast...and shk almost always prefer shorter number of episodes per drama..thus we almost always watched her dramas on a wed/Thurs slot like TWTWB and DOTS.
I'm talking about TVN. Reply 1988, Goblin, Hwayugi, Mr Sunshine, all of it was TVN weekend's drama. and yeah goblin just 16 eps.
I like Boyfriend but I don't understand the buzz yet. The story is nothing new, the acting is good but they didn't have any great scenes to act yet. The characters are still in the awkward phase. My favourite thing was the Cuba scenery. It was beautiful.
Sky Castle is the typical drama about awful parents but the casting is great and it's dark and fun.
An Empress's Dignity is so ridiculous, it makes it funny to watch. But I wonder if Koreans watch it seriously...
Clean with Passion is so funny. I love the comedy part. I like the webtoon vibe and KJY is so beautiful.
I'm happy for Children of Nobody. The story is very intriguing and the casting is good.
MoA is innovative for now and it's fun to watch.
u can never predict the gen.public bf was prejudge coz of the writer and the age gap,before the drama premier people are xpecting it to flop even with 2 popular actors,even after epi 1 rating came out, knets are xpecting epi2 rating to go down,
It is true that TVN has not done a lot of promotion for the drama. I waited so long for the first teaser to come out and it is only now that they released this short BTS clip. But it is so cute.
Just watched the BTS footage of Encounter. Love how SHK and PBG looked so comfortable with each other. :)