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‘Queen of Tears’ soars to No. 3 on Netflix chart for non-English TV shows

March 20, 2024

The South Korean romantic series “Queen of Tears” emerged as the third most-watched non-English TV show on Netflix, the global streaming service said Wednesday.

The tvN drama, starring Kim Soo-hyun and Kim Ji-won, claimed the No. 3 spot on Netflix’s non-English TV show list for the week of March 11-17 with 19.1 million viewing hours, climbing four places from the previous week.

Premiered March 9, the Saturday-Sunday drama saw its fourth episode, released Sunday, set its own viewership record of 13 percent nationwide.

The 16-part series chronicles the marital crisis and subsequent rekindling of love between Baek Hyun-woo (Kim Soo-hyun), a scion of a rural village supermarket in Yongduri, and Hong Hae-in (Kim Ji-won), heiress to the third-generation conglomerate running Queens Department Store.

Posters for "Queen of Tears" are shown in this combined image provided by tvN. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)
Posters for “Queen of Tears” are shown in this combined image provided by tvN. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)