Perfect Crown is Disney‘s new streaming king in the Korean drama category. The smash-hit rom-com, which launched on Disney+ on April 10, has achieved the platform’s biggest-ever viewership for a Korean series within five days of launch.
Disney+ announced the record on Thursday but declined to release specific viewership figures, saying only that Perfect Crown has become the No. 1 most-viewed Korean series premiere on the platform globally.
The series — which also airs domestically on MBC in Korea’s coveted Friday-Saturday prime-time slot — is set in an alternate-reality version of modern South Korea where the country remains a constitutional monarchy. Pop-star-turned-actress IU stars as Seong Hui-ju, the sharp-elbowed heir to a major Korean conglomerate whose commoner status grates against her ambition. Byeon Woo-seok plays Grand Prince I-AN, the king’s second son, whose royal title comes with little else. When mounting pressures push the two into a
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