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The Red Sleeve Cuff Tops the Good Data Drama Buzz Rankings as Song Hye Kyo Leads the Actor/Actress List

Buzz sometimes translates into domestic television ratings but it’s still a good thing to get on the K-netizens radar even if not everyone interested tunes in to watch the drama. The second week of November was a veritable smorgasbord of newly premiered K-dramas joining the already meaty line up of recently started choices. The Good Data online buzz rankings are out and it’s a split decision between two recently premiered competitor dramas. MBC sageuk The Red Sleeve Cuff topped the drama followed by Now, We are Breaking Up. Next came The King’s Affection, Gentleman and Young Lady, Happiness, Jirisan in 6th spot, the other teacher-student romance Melancholia, idol drama Let Me Be Your Knight, then Secret Royal Inspector and Joy, and in 10th spot Reflection of You. But the rankings are swapped in the actor/actress category as Breaking Up’s Song Hye Kyo came in first followed by her costar Jang Ki Yong. Then it’s the sageuk crowd with Park Eun Bin, then Lee Se Young, Ji Hyun Woo from Gentleman, Ro Woon, Junho, Lee Do Hyun, Lee Se Hee, and Go Hyun Jung. The biggest surprise was the complete non-buzziness of Jirisan, coming in 6th and the leads Jeon Ji Hyun and Joo Ji Hoon not even making the top 10 in any way.

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  • Song Hye Kyo is attractive but god, t she can't act. The one expressionless face seems more like she is worried for her make up going off. She and Suzie are no actors but models.

    Used to find Han Hyo Joo also bland but she tries at times. But Kyo and Suzie, boggles the mind they are called actresses.

    • Commenters here are so obsessed with bringing in Suzy into unrelated articles, it's embarrassing. At least Suzy is an idol whereas SHK has been an actress for 25+ years and still bad at her job. Suzy's next project is a female-centric thriller with a meaty character. She's doing that at age 27 while SHK at 41 is still romancing younger men in the same cold, expressionless role lmfao.

      • SHk was way more successful than woozie at same age and shk was more acclaimed. woozie is a wooden showpiece good for nothing lady. who is used for glamour and to satisfy male audience ( she is still ugly ). suzy can never play blind and slay bcoz she is expressionless wooden piece of shitt. Shk has way more bigger projects. suzy will never have. suzy has countless flops

      • I agree with your comment.. shk acting still the same and most of her character potrayed are the same.. from autumn in my , TWTWB, ENCOUNTER even her movies Fetish, the Queens, the Grandmaster, Hwang yi jin.. the only new to her she's becoming daring, fearless and agressive in bed scenes and kissing scenes with younger actor after her divorce.. i hope someday she will try to potray diff character and genre. She is middle aged woman now .. soon she will potray a mother role now. Just saying

    • suzy can at least bring spunk to a role. i am not sure what's going on with shk but she just seems completely checked out. there is no life in her characters.

    • SHK have her own signature charactor..she nvr copycat others thats why she can stay in this industry for ages..regardless how viewers comment on her she is still the same SHK which always turn any of her project participated into gold..well said

    • If you don't like her why slander her? Better focus on what you love. Song Hye Kyo is a very good actor by the way for a lot of people even outside Korea.

  • I adore Secret Royal Inspector and Joy. I mean, its fun, light and time just flies by when I start it. Not surprised by the buzz Ranking though....glad to see Go Hyun Jung in top 10. It makes me happy everytime I see her secure a win. Poor woman fought hell to get her due.

  • Happy for The Red Sleeve. From reviews so far it sounds like the most well-rounded drama in terms of writing, production, and cast. Hope it keeps that up (although I doubt it but one can hope).

  • Song Hye Kyo’s has been playing the same sassy bossy fashionable girl since Descendants of The Sun. I actually feel like I already know what her next role will look like.

  • Wish it was a different actress in red sleeve ,she just doesn’t do it for me at all and her acting is over the top

    • She is actually nailing her role. While junho is good, he is the one who sometimes overact. Look at the difference

  • I'm happy for The King's Affection. Park Eun Bin and Rowoon are less famous but they're doing good.

    I really like this drama. It's so beautiful and very unpredictable.

    • Second that! They're absolutely adorable and I'm so happy the drama is being loved domestically and internationally on Netflix. For TKA and the individual actors to beat Jirisan in the reputation polls is a seriously enormous feat and I hope they manage to top 10% in ratings soon too.

    • I'm happy too as Park Eun Bin is a good actress with interesting dramas under her belt . I'd like to see her again in a role a la " Age of youth " She aced the comedy too ! Happy about Lee Se Young too .

  • This list surprised me not only is Jirisan all the way at 6th spot but Jun Ji Hyun and Joo Ji Hoon are both missing from this list as are Han Hyo Joo and Park Hyung Shik. Most of these people are making a comeback after a long time but they haven't gained much public interest surprisingly. I'm also surprised at how popular Gentleman and Lady is with the amount of criticism it got in the first 2 weeks. Seeing Lee Do Hyun in the list over Im Soo Jung is also surprising but it basically goes to show this boy can act circles around even the best actresses. His screen presence alone is going to dominate The Glory. Let Me Be Your Knight is also surprisingly popular despite being similar to Imitation which flopped badly.

    • River, Bossam and Sleeve are classic sageuk while Queen, Inspector, Lover, Affection and Joy are fusion sageuk. Overall this has been the year of all kinds of sageuk. Upcoming are Taejong and Flowers which are again classic and fusion respectively. Interestingly every channel except jtbc has released a sageuk this year. 2022 has two sageuk dramas planned for now and that number may go up but I doubt we'll have a sageuk heavy year like 2021 again anytime soon.

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