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BackDrama ‘Lotto winner also goes to work’ starts with 3.9% viewership rating
Drama ‘Lotto winner also goes to work’ starts with 3.9% viewership rating
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Drama ‘Lotto winner also goes to work’ starts with 3.9% viewership rating

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  • TVING's original drama 'Lotto Winners Go to Work', starring actor Lee Jun-hyuk, started off with a national viewership rating of 3.9% in its first broadcast.
  • This work, which depicts the story of an ordinary office worker winning first place in the lottery, is based on a web novel of the same name, and is pre-released every Thursday on TVING and aired as a Monday-Tuesday drama on tvN.

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Why It Matters

The drama 'Lotto winner also goes to work' is based on a web novel of the same name and tells the story of an ordinary office worker who wins the lottery. It is first released twice every Thursday at 6 PM on TV and then aired as a Monday-Tuesday drama on tvN.

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Jang Jin-ri = The drama 'Lotto 1st place also goes to work' starring actor Lee Jun-hyuk started with a viewership rating of around 3%.

According to Nielsen Korea, a viewership rating research company, on the 15th, the viewership rating for the first episode of TVING's original 'Lotto winner goes to work, too,' which aired on tvN the previous day, was 3.9% (nationwide).

On this day's broadcast, an ordinary office worker, Gong Eun-tae (played by Lee Jun-hyuk), was depicted winning first place in the lottery and winning 1.3 billion won.

Gong Eun-tae, who rose to the position of team leader at a slightly earlier age than others, is ignored by teammate Yang Jun-ho (Seo Hyun-woo), who is his senior at the company, and gets caught up in company politics and is forced to take on the job.

Gong Eun-tae, who was surviving day after day, goes to a convenience store and accidentally buys a lottery ticket because he needs change.

Gong Eun-tae, who was checking the lotto results without much thought, is surprised to see the lottery first prize winning screen saying 'Congratulations'.

‘Lotto winners also go to work’ is a work based on a web novel of the same name. It is first released twice every Thursday at 6 PM on TV and then aired as a Monday-Tuesday drama on tvN.

What to Watch

AI outlook — possibilities, not facts

  • The drama will be pre-released every Thursday on TV and then aired on tvN.

    Very likely · Within weeks

Open Questions

  • What will be the long-term viewership trend of the drama?
  • What is the difference from the original web novel?

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