Recently, the Netflix series “The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call” has made waves. Released in full on January 24, “The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call” follows the story of a surgeon genius, Baek Kang-Hyuk (played by Joo Ji-Hoon), who once wandered on the battlefield. It takes the challenge of relaunching an ineffective trauma team, offering an electrifying and satisfactory narrative. The drama is based on a popular webtoon with the same name.
At the time of release, the drama immediately passed Netflix’s “top 10 in Korea”, demonstrating its immense popularity. Furthermore, in the rankings of Good Data Corporation drama for the fifth week of January, “The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call” has ensured the first place in the dramatic category, while Joo Ji-Hoon ranked first in the Buzz category actor. In particular, the drama dominated three out of four Buzz metrics: response to Netizen, video content and social media involvement, while its overall buzzing score was more than 2.5 times higher than that of “Squid Game 2”, who ranked second.
The global response was also explosive. According to the Tudum Top 10 of Netflix, “The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call” recorded 11.9 million views from January 27 to February 2, ensuring the first place in the global non -English TV category in its second week of release. In the meantime, “Squid Game 2”, which had been in terms of number 1 for five consecutive weeks from its release of December 26, fell to second place with 5.2 million views.
Meanwhile, “Study Group” is gaining traction on TVing.
In preview on January 23, “Study Group” is a high school comedy full of action based on a successful webtoon with the same name. Yoon Ga-Min (played by Hwang Min-Hyun) follows, a student who desperately wants to excel in academics but is only endowed with fighting. He dives into a brutal academic competition in the worst school, forming a “study group” along the way.
“Study Group” releases two weekly episodes and from the first episodes, it was started strong.
The series successfully captures the energetic and cartoon appeal of the webtoon, while its sequences of frenetic and rhythmic actions improve the thrill of the kind of action of the overwhelming high school. In particular, the exciting combat scenes and the unexpected charm of Yoon Ga-Min, brought to life by the passionate performance of Hwang Min-Hyun, received widespread consents.
The national and international public has enthusiastically responded to the “study group”. According to TVing, the drama ranked first in contributing to new paid subscriptions during his second week of release. In addition, on the Global Platform Ott Rakuten Viki, “Study Group” entered the first five weekly rankings in 143 countries, including the United States, Brazil, the United Kingdom, France, India and United Arab Emirates, within a week of its release.
With a series of OCC productions globally released that obtain enormous success, expectations are increasing for the emergence of a second game of squid.
Released in September 2021, “Squid Game” stormed the world. According to Netflix Patrol, he held position no. 1 for 46 consecutive days, establishing the longest record in the upper part. In terms of the hours of official vision of Netflix, “Squid Game” has accumulated 2.25 billion hours in 91 days, making it the most viewed series in the history of Netflix. “Squid Game 2” was previewed in December last year and the 3 season will be released on June 27.
