“...This is getting insane. Seriously now.” The Chief of Code Entertainment's PR team, Min So-Yeong, muttered in amazement while looking at her monitor displaying Kang Jin-Ho's name and the TV show's title. Those two topics were still dominating the real-time search results.

'This is on a historic level. Unprecedented, even!'

She also wanted to check out the situation on the TV show's own bulletin board. However, its home page couldn't be accessed due to the high volume of users, preventing her from seeing the truth herself.

'This has to be the first time I'm seeing stuff like this...'

Indeed, when was the last time a single scene in a TV show managed to produce such an impact? It had to be the first time since a certain teen star, in their bid to reinvent themselves into a serious actor, stood on a rainy street and raised their umbrella to reveal their smile. That scene catapulted the teen star into a mega star literally overnight, and no one managed to pull a similar feat ever since.

Back then, social media was still in its infancy, and audience feedback wasn't as active as now. So, Min So-Yeong didn't think the impact back then wasn't as powerful as the current event. Although she had a feeling that had social media been a thing back then, the craziness would have been far more over the top than now...

In any case, just one episode was enough to set off a massive explosion of fervent reactions online. Word-of-mouth had to be incredibly strong, too, since the viewer rating for the rerun in the middle of the...