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KBS' 'Uncontrollably Fond' off to strong start in China with 40 mln views
KBS TV's new series "Uncontrollably Fond" is off to a great start in China, a PR company here said Tuesday.
The romance drama, starring Bae Suzy and Kim Woo-bin, premiered last Wednesday and has been broadcast in Korea and China simultaneously.
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"On the first day of broadcast, there was an overflow of traffic and the server of Youku crashed," an official from the company said.
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On Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter, the drama's search results shot up to 17.6 billion from 500 million after the first episode ended, demonstrating a great interest in the drama among Chinese fans.
Production company Samhwa Networks Co. said it was amazed by the explosive responses from China and expected the popularity to continue to rise as the story develops from the third and fourth episodes onwards. (Yonhap)