Actor Seo Kang-joon is out to dominate both topicality and popularity.

Seo Kang-joon is showing off his all-out performance in the MBC Friday-Saturday drama ‘Undercover High School’, playing the role of Jung Hae-sung, a National Intelligence Service agent who goes undercover and infiltrates a high school to carry out an operation.

In particular, Seo Kang-joon is leading the immersion of viewers with his visuals as well as his outstanding acting skills, and is driving the success of ‘Undercover High School’ by announcing the birth of his ‘life character’.

Seo Kang-joon‘s online topicality is also overwhelming. He ranked first for two consecutive weeks in the TV-OTT drama topicality cast category recently announced by Good Data Corporation’s official platform, FUNdex. ‘Undercover High School’ also achieved surprising results, such as maintaining the top spot in the TV-OTT drama topic category for two consecutive weeks.

Seo Kang-joon showed off his wide acting spectrum by crossing over various genres from action to comedy. In proportion to Seo Kang-joon‘s performance, ‘Undercover High School’ viewership ratings also rose with each episode. ‘Undercover High School’ started with a nationwide viewership rating of 5.6% for the first episode (based on Nielsen Korea), and showed a noticeable change to 8.3% in the recent fourth episode, demonstrating its popularity as well.

In addition, ‘Undercover High School’ is receiving enthusiastic support from viewers, taking first place in overall viewership on the OTT platform Tving and first place in the Wave drama category. The broadcast summary of ‘Undercover High School’ ranked at the top of YouTube’s trending videos, proving ‘’Seo Kang-joon‘s power‘’.

‘Undercover High School’, starring Seo Kang-joon, airs every Friday and Saturday at 9:50 PM on MBC.

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Jo Sung-woon, Donga.com reporter madduxly@donga.com

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