Typhoon Family E 7 earns Kdrama’s best Saturday rating yet – still going gangbusters internationally
Michelle Topham 
Typhoon Family‘s Saturday audience share continues to rise
tvN Saturday/Sunday drama Typhoon Family, Episode 7 helped the K-drama go from strength to strength last night as it grabbed the series’ highest Saturday rating yet.
According to Nielsen Korea, Typhoon Family, Episode 7 earned 8.24 percent of the nationwide audience on Saturday, October 1st.
That is an increase of 1.2 percent versus the 7.06 percent that the 1970s-based business-themed series earned last Saturday.
The tvN drama performed even better with viewers in Seoul, where it grabbed 8.05 percent compared to last week’s 6.61 percent of that region’s viewership.
Typhoon Family was also the #1 most-watched show in its time slot.
Now, considering the Korean drama takes place during the late1990s, a dark time in South Korea when the 1997 financial crisis negatively impacted tens of millions of people after a severe recession hit, it is doubly wonderful the drama is doing so well.
After all, people don’t always want to be reminded of the bad times they lived through, do they? While younger people don’t necessarily understand how bad things got.
International ratings for Typhoon Family
Interestingly, the Lee Jun Ho and Kim Min Ha-led drama is still earning the same solid 8.3 out of 10 it has been garnering since Episode 1 on My Drama List.
I say “interestingly” as ratings often fall quite rapidly on that site as a drama continues to air. That, however, has not happened here.
Typhoon Family is also earning 8.1 out of 10 on IMDB, which isn’t a bad rating from users of that site either.
Internationally, the Korean drama is streaming via Netflix, where it is also going gangbusters as it is on that platform’s Top 10 Non-English TV Shows chart for the second week.
It is currently at #7 on the chart, after having fallen from the #5 spot it earned last week — but still earned 1.8 million views this week, and landed in the Top 10 in 8 countries.
Episode 7 of Typhoon Family is now up on the platform, with Episode 8 dropping in a few hours.
And, as Korean dramas based in more recent history go, this one is an absolute gem with solid performances, a well-written, interesting and even fun script, and with a genuinely hopeful vibe as Kang Tae Pung (Lee Jun Ho) tries to save the company his recently-deceased father loved.
Yep, I recommend it. Massively.
Update: Typhoon Family has had a bumper weekend, with Episode 8 grabbing the K-drama’s highest ever rating last night
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