Moon Ga-young ♥ Choi Hyun-wook‘s ‘That Guy is a Black Flame Dragon’, Kim Hye-yoon ♥ Byun Woo-seok’s ‘Seon-eop-twi’ surpassed!

tvN‘s ‘That Guy is a Black Flame Dragon’ beat ‘Seon-jae-piggied-up’ and became the most talked-about Monday-Tuesday drama of all time on tvN.

tvN’s Monday-Tuesday drama ‘That Guy is a Black Flame Dragon’ (directed by Lee Soo-hyun/written by Kim Soo-yeon/produced by Studio N/planned by Studio Dragon) is an office romance that unseals the seal between Team Leader Baek Soo-jung, the ‘Chief Killer’ who suffers from her first love that has become a dark history, and Chief Ban Joo-yeon, the ‘third-generation chaebol’ who lives while hiding her otaku self, Black Flame Dragon, in her heart. It contains a story of two people who met in an online game as children and ended up with the worst relationship ever, meeting again at work and having a soft first love reunion.

‘The romantic comedy master’ tvN, which is receiving attention as the first romantic comedy drama to be presented in 2025,‘That guy is a black flame dragon’, aired its first episode on Monday the 17th. It told the story of Baek Soo-jung (played by Moon Ga-young) and Ban Joo-yeon (played by Choi Hyun-wook), who met in an online game 16 years ago and fell in love, meeting face-to-face at an offline gathering and their exciting first love turns into a dark history they want to forget. The two then reunite 16 years later in the office, boasting excitement, laughter, and even visual chemistry, garnering attention from the first episode. As such, ‘Black Flame Dragon’ recorded the highest viewership ratings in the same time slot in the metropolitan area, taking over the baton from ‘Won-gyeong’ and continuing the throne of Monday-Tuesday dramas by maintaining the top spot in the same time slot for 7 consecutive weeks. (provided by Nielsen Korea)

Meanwhile, ‘That Guy is a Black Flame Dragon’ is also showing extraordinary box office success in terms of online topicality. According to tvN, ‘That Guy is a Black Flame Dragon’‘s YouTube, TikTok, Naver TV, Instagram, and Facebook combined pre-material views (as of January 6 to February 16) surpassed 62.6 million views, recording the highest record for a Monday-Tuesday drama of all time. This is the highest record for a Monday-Tuesday drama since ‘The Uncanny Counter 2’, the first drama for which the statistics were first compiled, and even including Saturday-Sunday dramas, it ranks a whopping 2nd. In particular, it is foreshadowing the hot storm of ‘The Black Flame Dragon’, as it has far surpassed the 58.83 million views recorded by ‘Seonjae Upgo Twit’, which was the most talked about drama of last year.

In the drama, Soo-jeong and Joo-yeon are foreshadowing the start of an office romance, and the viewer response starting from the pre-views is also getting hotter by the day. Accordingly, expectations are soaring for ‘The Black Flame Dragon’, which is proving its popularity with its topicality figures. Airs every Monday and Tuesday at 8:50 PM.

Jung Hee-yeon, Donga.com reporter shine2562@donga.com

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