kdrama1-7, Exercise 3: Channels and ratings

Model answer:

Terrestrial networks are KBS, SBS, MBC (and EBS); tvN is cable. The article says cable channels "normally have a relatively smaller audience", but the examples show cable can break records: Extraordinary Attorney Woo set an ENA record, and The Uncanny Counter was the highest-rated OCN series so far.

A contradiction in the article's own cable list: it is headed by The World of the Married (JTBC) at 28.371 percent, yet it also lists Crash Landing on You (tvN) at number 5 with 29.683 percent, which is higher. Both figures are therefore unverified. (Another: the Uncanny Counter finale is given as 10.999, 11 and 11.9 percent in three places.)

Ratings from different years are not strictly comparable because the measuring bodies changed: Media Service Korea gave ratings from 1992 but only for the Seoul area; TNS Media Korea began in 1999 and was bought by AC Nielsen that August; TNmS stopped on 1 January 2024, after which Nielsen Korea alone supplies them. This caution is the chapter's, not a claim in the article.

Source: Wikipedia, Korean drama; Extraordinary Attorney Woo; The Uncanny Counter.