Song Joong-ki to appear on prime time news
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Song Joong-ki / Courtesy of Blossom Entertainment
By Kim Da-hee
Actor Song Joong-ki, who plays lead character Yoo Si-jin in KBS 2 TV’s hugely popular drama "Descendants of the Sun," will appear on the channel’s 9 p.m. news, “News 9,” Wednesday.
He is the first actor to be invited to the nationwide live prime-time news show.
This reflects his tremendous popularity and that of the drama, which is set to be the next hallyu (Korean wave) success.
According to KBS, the program’s main host will ask Song some questions the program has collected from its official website, Facebook and Twitter.
The drama’s latest episode on March 24 recorded a 31.6 percent viewer rating, the first mini-series drama to exceed 30 percent in four years.
The Wednesday/Thursday drama, which airs simultaneously in Korea and China, has garnered some 1.5 billion hits on iQiyi, a Chinese online video platform.