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'What a Boss Wants' and 'Happy Anding' Premiere at 1.3% and 1.7% Ratings

MBN's 'What a Boss Wants' and tvN's 'Happy Anding' both premiered on Nov. 11, drawing nationwide ratings of 1.3% and 1.7% respectively, according to Nielsen Korea.

By 2FC NEWSROOM · Published

Posters of 'What a Boss Wants' with Sung Hoon and Oh Se-young and 'Happy Anding' with Kang Hoon, Cho Hyun-chul and Kim Jung-jin
Image: MBN, tvN (via Soompi)

Two new Wednesday-Thursday dramas got off to modest starts. According to Nielsen Korea, tvN's 'Happy Anding' premiered on Nov. 11 with a nationwide rating of 1.7%, while MBN's 'What a Boss Wants' opened the same night at 1.3%.

'What a Boss Wants' is a romance starring Sung Hoon as Kwon Do-hyuk, a chaebol boss trying to find the mysterious woman whose voice he heard on an album, and Oh Se-young as Lee Eun-chae, the lead vocalist of an indie band who becomes the one variable in his perfect life.

'Happy Anding' is a coming-of-age story about the comedy trio Asura: Kang Tae-gu (Kang Hoon), Kim Nam-il (Cho Hyun-chul) and Han Jun-seo (Kim Jung-jin), who have spent a decade in obscurity. The series is a Korean remake of NTV's 2021 drama 'Life's Punchline', Cineplay reported.

Confirmed

  • According to Nielsen Korea, the Nov. 11 premiere of tvN's 'Happy Anding' recorded a nationwide rating of 1.7% (Cineplay, Soompi).
  • According to Nielsen Korea, the Nov. 11 premiere of MBN's 'What a Boss Wants' recorded a nationwide rating of 1.3% (Ilgan Sports, Soompi).

Reported by other outlets

  • 'What a Boss Wants' stars Sung Hoon as chaebol boss Kwon Do-hyuk, who searches for a woman whose voice he heard on an album, and Oh Se-young as indie band vocalist Lee Eun-chae (Soompi).
  • 'Happy Anding' follows comedy trio members Kang Tae-gu (Kang Hoon), Kim Nam-il (Cho Hyun-chul) and Han Jun-seo (Kim Jung-jin) after 10 years of struggling, and is a Korean remake of NTV's 2021 Japanese drama 'Life's Punchline' (Cineplay, Soompi).

Conflicts of interest: None.

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