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The SBS medical noir posted its best rating yet with episode 3, topping every program of any kind that aired Friday in Korea.
Kim Ji Won's new SBS drama Doctor X reaches a new high with its third episode, drawing an average nationwide rating of 15.1 percent on October 16.
Nielsen Korea measured the figure, Soompi reports. That number made the series the most-watched broadcast of any genre on Friday.
The result keeps the show's upward climb going. It is the drama's strongest showing so far, and it pushes Doctor X past the 15 percent mark only three episodes into its run.
The series is billed as a medical noir. Kim Ji Won leads as Gye Soo Jung, a genius surgeon who relies on raw skill alone to show what being a doctor really means.
Her target is bigger than any single patient. Gye Soo Jung sets out to "operate" on an establishment riddled with corruption, putting her talent in the operating room up against the system around her.
Doctor X adapts the hit Japanese series that carries the same title, bringing its scalpel-sharp surgeon story to SBS with Kim Ji Won at the center.
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