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Is ‘Strong Woman Do Bong Soon’ the new ‘Descendants of the Sun’?

| Mar 26, 2017 09:11 PM EDT

Park Bo-Young arrives for the 34st Blue Dragon Film Awards at Kyung Hee University on November 22, 2013 in Seoul, South Korea.

"Descendants of the Sun" starring Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo was the most popular South Korean drama series in early 2016. In early 2017, it appears that "Strong Woman Do Bong Soon" is the new drama series can potentially become the most popular one in South Korea.

"Strong Woman Do Bong Soon" episode 10 titled "Find a Hidden Heart" aired on JTBC on March 25, Saturday. The episode gathered 9.668 percent ratings, according to Nielsen Korea, as cited by Soompi.

This is 2.245 percent higher than the previous episode's ratings. Episode 11 titled "Love of Life," which aired on March 24, Friday, obtained 7.423 percent ratings.

Written by Baek Mi Kyung and directed by Lee Hyung Min, "Strong Woman Do Bong Soon" is a romantic comedy drama series starring Park Bo Young, Park Hyung Sik and Ji Soo. The story revolves around the title character (Bo Young) who is trying to use her inborn superhuman strength for good.

Do Bong Soon's strength earned her a job as a bodyguard to a Ahn Min Hyuk (Hyung Sik), a spoiled rich heir and the CEO of a gaming company called Ainsoft. The title character wants to develop a video game with herself as the main character and become a soft and elegant woman like the ideal type of her crush, a police officer named In Guk-doo (Ji).

The entire cast and crew of "Strong Woman Do Bong Soon" will go to Bali, Indonesia, for a celebratory vacation. Towards the end of March, they will stay there for around three nights and five days as their reward, All Kpop quoted a representative of the show as saying.

The new OST for "Strong Woman Do Bong Soon" is a song by MAMAMOO titled "Double Trouble Couple." Released as a single on March 24, Friday, this is the fifth OST for the JTBC drama series.

Watch the music video of "Double Trouble Couple" here: 

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