'The Trauma Code' Becomes the Next 'Squid Game,' Topping Popularity Rankings
Feb 04, 2025
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KinoLights, which will unveil its weekly integrated content ranking and OTT service overall popularity ranking on the 4th, announced that 'Severe Trauma Center' topped the weekly content ranking in the first week of February for the first time since its release.
Released on the 24th of last month aimed at the Lunar New Year holiday, 'Severe Trauma Center' is a delightful story about genius surgeon Baek Kang-hyuk, who was on the battlefield, when he took over to resuscitate the notorious severe trauma team. Based on the popular webtoon of the same name, which was greatly loved for its hot and ingenious development, director Lee Do-yoon, who directed the movie 『Good Friends』(14), and writer Choi Tae-gang of 『Adamas" joined forces to increase the completeness. In addition, Joo Ji-hoon, who recently showed a variety of charms in 'Light Shop'Love on a Single Tree Bridge', has renewed another life character by playing the role of Baek Kang-hyuk, a genius doctor who performed an uncompromising bulldozer even in extreme situations.
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'Severe Trauma Center', whose popularity increased by 138.7%, ranked first in two weeks after its release, which became more than 2.5 times more popular than the second season of 'Squid Game' (written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk). Among the four categories that make up the topic, VON (Voice of Netizen), video, and SNS, excluding news, were ranked first.
Joo Ji-hoon also topped the list in the topical category of drama actors, with Choo Young-woo as Yang Jae-won, who played Baek Kang-hyuk's No. 1 disciple in Severe Trauma Center, ranked fourth, Ha-young as Cheon Sang-mi, a senior nurse with five years of severe trauma team, ranked 11th, and Yoon Kyung-ho as an anal surgery manager Han Yu-rim ranked 12th.
Regarding the results of a qualitative analysis of netizens' responses to the 「Severe Trauma Center」, Data PD Won Soon-woo of Good Data Corporation said, 「"The comic performance of Yoon Kyung-ho, the head of the anal surgery department, is a major issue along with the reaction that the story of the work and the character in the play can feel a pleasant and cool feeling"
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