Lee Min-ho is 'pretty boy sensation' again through "City Hunter"

Lee Min-ho is gaining tremendous popularity through his drama once again.

Lee Min-ho is currently proving the real value through the SBS drama "City Hunter".

With the ending of MBC drama "The Greatest Love", "City Hunter" rose to the throne and is showing signs of going over 20% which the former only managed to do on its last episode.

The advancement of "City Hunter" is thanks to Lee Min-ho and of course, Park Min-yeong. However, they say that he is indeed the core of leading the drama.

It is true that his previous MBC drama "Personal Taste" from last year didn't do quite as well as his first KBS 2TV drama "Boys over Flowers" in 2009. However, he is re-living the fame he experienced in again in "City Hunter".

Going to action schools and preparing for the drama in other ways, he is earning the favor of viewers with his high level action and natural acting. Not only to women love him but even male viewers are taking his side.

His many faces in the drama are causing a big issue among viewers giving him the title, 'thousand faces of Lee Min-ho'.

His management chairman Han Soo-han from Starhaus said, "Lee Min-ho is especially attached to this drama. He is working very hard not to make the nicknames he's earned just modifiers but to be called a real 'actor'".

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SBS’s ‘City Hunter’ achieves #1 in viewer ratings

SBS’s mini-series, ‘City Hunter‘, is finally taking the lead now that some of its strongest competitors have been taken out of its time slot.

According to a report by AGB Nielsen Media on June 30th, the 11th episode of ‘City Hunter’ recorded 18.4% in viewer ratings, the highest its ever seen since it’s debut.

Despite the strong story line, ‘City Hunter’ had previously maintained its position in second place due to the popularity of MBC’s ‘The Greatest Love‘. Now that the drama came to an end on June 23rd, ‘City Hunter’ is quickly on the rise to take its place.

Meanwhile in the same time slot, competing dramas KBS’s ‘Romance Town‘ and MBC’s ‘Heartstrings‘ each recorded 11.1% and 7.6% in viewer ratings respectively.

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City Hunter’s Lee Min Ho: “My rival is Pororo!”

[enews24 reporter Lee In Kyeong] Lee Min Ho has become the rival of Pororo for the title of ‘Cho Tong Ryeong’. [Note: Cho tong ryeong is a play on words. Cho - means chodeng hakseng or elementary school student, while 'tong ryeong' originates from the word Dae Tong Ryeong meaning president.]

SBS Wed-Thurs drama ‘City Hunter’s protagonist Lee Min Ho is recently actively known as ‘action Min Ho’ and is now stealing the hearts of male viewers. In particular, his popularity has soared and surpassed pororo amongst elementary school students. In fact, he is competing against pororo for the nickname ‘Cho Tong Ryeong’.

In fact, elementary students who are LMH’s fans have daily flooded the viewer message board and LMH’s fanpage leaving messages like “LMH oppa is our president!” and “Long live to Cho Tong Ryeong LMH”, showing their warm support for LMH.

LMH’s management company Starhaus Entertainment commented saying “If we say he has a lot of nuna-fans previously, now he is gaining ground amongst male fans. It seems like the spectacular action scenes he’s showing in ‘City Hunter’ is not only well received by middle aged and older men, but also by elementary school students.”

LMH has been performing the majority of the action scenes himself without a stand-in. Due to that reason, he was involved in a car wreckage when filming a car pursuit scene. However, he’s able to show various action scenes since he’s been constantly attending the action school to perfect the drama.

He has fully assimilated his role 100% and won praise for the various action scenes that uses judo, fencing techniques and wall/rock climbing.

Owing to that reason, the viewership ratings are soaring. AGB Nielsen media research revealed on the 30th that episode 11 of City Hunter broadcasted on the 29th received a viewership rating of 18.4%, clinching the first place amongst the Wed-Thurs dramas. Since it’s competitor MBC’s ‘Best Love’ finished its run last week, the ratings of ‘City Hunter’ has soared. Other dramas shown during the same time slot including ‘Best Love’s replacement ‘Heartstrings’ received a ratings of 7.6% while KBS2 ‘Romance Town’ received a rating of 11.1%.

Meanwhile, ‘City Hunter’s development on the 29th included Nana (park min young) who interferes and saves Lee Yoon Sung who she realizes is City Hunter, igniting the romance and suspense between the two.

Source: Enews24

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