Lead by Gong Yoo and Yoon Eun Hye, Korea’s MBC Channel’s popular drama Coffee Prince broadcasted Episode 17 Finale on the 26th August. Unfortunately, ratings were unable to break 30%, only reaching 27.7%. MBC has already expressed interest in filming a sequel
Rating hovering at the 30% mark, MBC Coffee prince 1st Shop will bid audience goodbye on the 28th.
Coffee Prince is a pop idol drama, its depicts the love and lives of the youth in a very romantic way.
Since the 90s, audiences begins to like pop idol dramas, but of late had received lukewarm responses. Reasons being, the storyline and the characters portrayed does not change, which the audiences are getting tired of, resulting in a drop of ratings. The target audience of Pop Idol drama are of the 20s, 30s, and as their lifestyle changes for the better, they are getting harder to be attracted to the storylines of the dramas.
Even so, Pop Idol drama Coffee Prince 1st Shop had attracted so many Coffee Addicts, and its popularity remains high, why so?
Westerners say that death and taxes are the only things in life that can’t be avoided.
For Korean males, the aphorism can be modified to death, taxes and military service. Actor Gong Yoo is slated for conscription this October, joining the ranks of men, famous and unknown, who have served their country.
According to the Office of Military Manpower Administration, Gong, 28, will serve at a station in Uijeongbu-dong, Gyeonggi, starting Oct. 9. He will undergo the six weeks of bootcamp required for new conscripts.