Actor Song Joong-ki and actress Song Hye-kyo, who are playing lead roles on KBS2’s TV drama series “Descendants of the Sun,” will attend a promotional event in Hong Kong.

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“The drama is set to be aired on Viu TV on April 6 when the station starts to broadcast,” reported a local media outlet Monday.

The exact date of the promotion has not yet been revealed, but is scheduled for the first week of April, said an official from the crew members.

Hype is currently heating up both in Korea and China. In China, the 16-episode drama has been broadcast through video-streaming website iQiyi, and surpassed 100 million views on average for the six episodes that have aired.

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The romantic drama revolves around the love story between a soldier, Yoo Si-jin, who serves as part of U.N. peacekeeping forces and a female doctor named Kang Mo-yeon.

It has showed a constant rise in its viewership ratings since its release on Feb. 24.

Starting with 14.2 percent domestic viewership for the first episode, it soared to 28.5 percent in the latest episode, according to AGB Nielsen, a television ratings company.

By Kim Soo-hyang (shkim@heraldcorp.com)