New SBS series “Athena” which premiered this week, took off to a flying start, ranking first place amongst dramas in the Mondays and Tuesdays prime time slot.
“Athena,” a spy action-thriller scored an average viewership rating of 26.5 percent this week, according to Total National Media Statistics (TNmS) and 21.9 percent on a survey by AGB Nielson Media Research.
The first episode of "Athena" opened with a large-scale clash between South Korean agents and a mysterious spy duo struggling to get hold of a North Korean scientist who developed a high speed nuclear reactor and expressed his wish to flee to South Korea.
The show then went onto introducing the headquarters for the National Anti-Terror Service (NTS), the intelligence agency where the main characters will serve their missions.
The drama starring Kim Nam-joo, Jung Joon-ho, Park Si-hoo and Chae Jung-an depicts on the joy, sorrow and struggles in the workplace through business projects, lay-offs and rivalry.
Meanwhile KBS romantic comedy “Marry me, Mary” starring Moon Geun-young, Jang Keun-suk and Kim Jae-wook continued to struggle on charts, reporting an average ratings of 5.8 percent on TNmS' survey and 6.2 percent on AGB's data.
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