Lee Seung Gi and Lee Se Young’s New Drama “The Law Cafe” is up to a great start!
According to Nielsen Korea, KBS’s newest drama “The Law Cafe” is up to a stellar start, it recorded an average nationwide rating of 7.1% coming in first place in its time slot across all channels, public and paid.
The drama took over “Cafe Minamdang” time slot. “The Law Cafe” first episode’s rating is higher than the highest rating the previous drama had achieved.
“The Law Cafe” is a romance law drama based on the popular web novel of the same name. The Story takes place at a café which is both a law firm and a café called Law Café. The drama tells the story about a former prosecutor turned landlord and a lawyer who has a 4D personality and also runs the café.
Lee Seung Gi and Lee Se Young play the roles of Kim Jung Ho and Kim Yu Ri respectively, this is their second work together since tvN’s “A Korean Odyssey.”
Lee Seung Gi will play Kim Yu Ri’s friend of 17 years Kim Jung Ho, he is a former prosecutor who was once known as “monster genius,” and is now a landlord.
Lee Se Young will play Kim Yu Ri, a beautiful lawyer with a 4D personality who cannot stand injustice.
Have you seen the premiere of “The Law Cafe” yet?
Ratings Source: Nielsen Korea
Yes, we have seen the premiere – they both are simply adorable!! 16 episodes will be a challenge but they have an amazing chemistry. Only one setback for me – if this will be similar to The Extraordinary Attorney Woo in the structure, i.e. – each episode has one legal process – I’ll get bored, because we just have had so many legal stories in The Extraordinary Attorney Woo, I think I have had my share of legal courtroom action for a while. I hope it will be more about them, their story, their romance.
Posting an update after the 2nd episode….. ah, what a disappointment already…I really really dislike when the writers portray a hysterical woman.. Why? Why did they have to do it? I liked the character of Kim Yu Ri in the first episode- passionate, smart, funny. What did they do to her in the 2nd episode? That scene in the cafe when she was interviewing somebody to hire in order to help her with the cafe – she was screaming at Kim Jung Ho like a crazy, hysterical, violent woman. I really dislike when they portray women in this way. To give a man a reason to say to us one more time: “Why are you so hysterical, do you have your period.?” What a turn off for me. Even if I like the acting of Lee Seung Gi and wanted to continue watching- now I really do not know if I want to continue. Also – too many clichés – the love triangle with the doctor, the jealousy, the guilt..this is all so old… I am disappointed..