iQIYI.com, a popular online streaming service in China recently bought the right to bring South Korean’s new TV drama You Who Came From the Stars to china TV viewer and is attracting a wealth of viewership , reaching a new high of how a popular k- drama in short breeze of time manage top TV raking hitting top viewership in China
The full episodes on iQIYI have been viewed more than 550 million times. And the number doesn’t even take into account of websites that feature the show illegally.Every week when a new episode comes out, it became the top trending topics on Weibo, China’s leading social media, with millions of user searching for details on its storyline or the characters. For example, as both the male actor Do Min-Joon and female actor , Cheon Song-yi is the top searched keyword on Weibo. The show is so popular that it may just as well save China’s declining poultry market amid the recent health crisis affected by the new deadly bird flu fears. “Fried chicken and beer” are the heroine’s favorite treat, especially on a snowing day. During the recent Valentine’s Day, many restaurants in China promoted “fried chicken and beer” as their main Valentine dish. Alien fever triumphs bird flu. The drama brought on New Found Wealth as the advertisement accompanying each serial broadcast each week shot up ,with advertiser hoping to catch up with the hot trends for maximum customer clicking on their advertisement ,the millions of viewers covering from china to South east Asian viewers were mostly streaming to watching online with their portable gadgets . the online streaming each tooks hours as each serial last average 45 minutes per show and viewer were watch average 2 episodes while travelling or relaxing at home . What brought on such popularity was further enhanced as viewer simple shared the video on line using social media and the raking just keep shooting up . The show is a romantic comedy about an alien who comes to Korea during the Joseon Dynasty 400 years ago. He shifts to modern times and falls in love with an actress. The storyline were written by Park Ji Eun, who works include the drama My Husband Got A Family, which will be produced by Jang Tae Yoo. The lead role, Do Min Joon, who has a fascinating appearance and has wonderful abilities, comes to Joseon by UFO, and has lived for four centuries by changing his identity, and falls in love with an actress named Chun Song E , . He meets a young girl during his early years in Joseon whom he saves from death, but later on she gives her life saving him. As time goes by, Min-joon is forced to take on a new identity every ten years, as his human appearance never ages. Do Min Joon (Kim Soo Hyun) is an out of this World handsome Beau , literally. After crash landing on Earth 400 years ago, Min Joon has diligently observed humans for centuries, ultimately coming to cynical conclusions. On top of being a super beau, Min Joon's got enhanced vision, hearing and agility — all the more reason to believe he's superior to everyone on Earth . in the present he works as a college professor and finds out that due to a comet coming in three months, he will be able to return to his home planet. In the meantime he accidentally meets famous actress Cheon Song-yi, the biggest Hallyu star in Korea, when she moves in next door to his luxurious apartment and also turns out to be attending his classes at college. Song-yi is an obnoxious, entitled attention seeker, someone who became a top star in her teens and never learned how to live a normal life. Min-joon finds out that Song-yi looks like the young girl he fell in love with in the Joseon era. He tries to keep himself away from her, as he needs to leave the planet.. For the first time after 400 years in Earth, this beautiful man from outer space starts to understand real love. But the real beating heart of the show is the heroine Cheon Song-yi, played by Jun Ji-hyun. Song-yi has been a star since childhood and was once crowned South Korea’s “national sweetheart.” Her fame gradually vanished after one of her rival stars was murdered by the evil guy in the show. Jun gives the character life by playing her as a proud (about her beauty), creative and outgoing girl , but vulnerable at times “She is a perfect goddess in one minute, and then in the next minute, she is a completely silly girl.”