The Rich Son Explained

Native Name:	Hangul: 부잣집 아들 Rr: Bujatjip Adeul Mr: Puchatchip Atŭl Lk: Rich Family's Son
Director:	Choi Chang-Wook
Country:	South Korea
Language:	Korean
Num Episodes:	100
Executive Producer:	Lee Kwan-hee
Camera:	Single-camera
Runtime:	35 minutes
Company:	Lee Kwan-hee Production
Network:	MBC TV

The Rich Son^[1] is a South Korean television series starring Kim Ji-hoon, Kim Ju-hyeon, Lee Kyu-han, and Hong Soo-hyun. The series aired 4 episodes every Sunday from March 25 to October 7, 2018 from 8:50 p.m. to 11:20 p.m. (KST) on MBC TV.

Cast

Main

• Kim Ji-hoon as Lee Kwang-jae
• Kim Ju-hyeon as Kim Young-ha^[2]
• Lee Kyu-han as Nam Tae-il^[3]
• Hong Soo-hyun as Kim Kyung-ha^[4]

Supporting

• Lee Seung-yeon as Nam Soo-hee^[5]
• Kim Young-ok as Park Soon-ok^[6]
• Yoon Yoo-sun as Park Hyun-sook^[7]
• Park Soon-chun as Seo Bok-soon
• Jeong Bo-seok as Kim Won-yong
• Kang Nam-gil as Lee Kye-dong
• Woo Hyun as Choi Hyo-dong
• Yoon Chul-hyung as Nam Soo-hwan
• Lee Chang-yeob as Choi Yong^[8]
• Jeon Soo-kyeong as Na Young-ae
• Oh Yoon-hong as Chairman Nam's wife
• Park Jae-jung as Kim Jong-yong^[9]
• Shim Eun-jin as Seo Myung-sun
• Kim Min-kyu as Kim Myung-ha
• Elkie Chong as Wang Mong-mong
• Yang Hye-ji as Park Seo-hee

Cameos

• Lee Yong-jin (ep. 7)

Ratings

• In the table below, represent the lowest ratings and represent the highest ratings.
• NR denotes that the drama did not rank in the top 20 daily programs on that date.
• N/A denotes that the rating is not known.
• TNmS stop publishing their report from June 2018.

	Original broadcast date	Average audience share
		TNmS Ratings^[10]		AGB Nielsen^[11]
		width=100	Nationwide	width=100	Seoul National Capital Area	width=100	Nationwide	width=100	Seoul National Capital Area
1	March 25, 2018	4.9%	4.8%	5.1%	5.0%
2
3		9.8%	9.7%	9.5%	9.4%
4		10.2%	9.9%	10.5%	10.2%
5	April 1, 2018	4.4%	4.2%	4.3%	4.5%
6		11.6%	11.3%	11.2%	11.4%
7		8.9%	8.3%	9.9%	10.4%
8		9.3%	8.6%	10.5%	11.4%
9	April 8, 2018	2.8%	2.5%	3.1%	3.3%
10		11.2%	11.1%	10.5%	10.6%
11		9.4%	9.3%	9.1%	9.0%
12		9.2%	9.0%	9.5%	9.3%
13	April 15, 2018	3.7%	3.6%	3.9%	3.8%
14		10.2%	10.0%	10.1%	9.9%
15		9.1%	8.9%	9.0%	8.8%
16		9.5%	9.3%	9.9%	9.7%
17	April 22, 2018	5.2%	5.1%	4.0%	3.9%
18		10.7%	10.6%	10.1%	10.0%
19		8.9%	8.8%	8.7%	8.7%
20		8.7%	8.5%	8.6%	8.4%
21	April 29, 2018	6.0%	5.8%	5.7%	5.5%
22		8.7%	8.0%	8.1%	7.5%
23		7.4%	7.2%	7.3%	7.1%
24		8.2%	7.7%	7.9%	7.4%
25	May 6, 2018	3.7%	3.5%	3.4%	3.2%
26		8.8%	8.4%	7.9%	7.6%
27		8.4%	8.0%	7.1%	6.8%
28		8.2%	7.8%	7.6%	7.4%
29	May 13, 2018	3.8%	3.6%	3.1%	2.9%
30		10.4%	10.1%	9.4%	9.2%
31		9.7%	9.6%	8.8%	8.7%
32		10.0%	9.9%	9.2%	9.2%
33	May 20, 2018	3.3%	3.1%	2.6%	2.4%
34		9.8%	9.3%	8.4%	8.0%
35		9.0%	8.8%	8.7%	8.5%
36		9.4%	9.1%	8.5%	8.2%
37	May 27, 2018	6.4%	6.2%	6.3%	6.3%
38		8.7%	8.6%	8.5%	8.4%
39		8.8%	8.7%	8.3%	8.2%
40		7.6%	7.5%	9.2%	9.1%
41	June 3, 2018	4.4%	4.1%	4.2%	4.0%
42		10.7%	10.2%	9.1%	8.5%
43		10.6%	10.1%	9.2%	8.8%
44		10.5%	9.9%	9.5%	9.0%
45	June 10, 2018	5.6%	5.3%	5.4%
46		10.0%	9.9%	10.1%	10.0%
47		9.8%	9.4%	10.0%	9.6%
48		9.8%	9.6%	10.3%	10.5%
49	June 17, 2018	3.1%	2.8%	2.9%	2.7%
50		10.0%	9.5%	9.8%	9.3%
51		10.2%	9.7%	9.0%	8.5%
52		11.2%	10.8%	9.9%	9.4%
53	July 1, 2018	8.8%	8.6%	8.3%	8.1%
54		10.3%	10.0%	9.7%	9.4%
55	July 8, 2018	3.6%	3.3%	3.2%	2.9%
56		10.1%	9.6%	10.0%	9.5%
57		9.9%	8.4%	8.5%	8.0%
58		10.5%	10.1%	9.6%	9.2%
59	July 15, 2018	3.2%	3.0%	2.8%	2.6%
60		9.0%	8.3%	8.7%	8.0%
61		8.8%	7.9%	8.0%	7.2%
62		10.2%	9.5%	9.5%	8.8%
63	July 22, 2018	3.4%	3.3%	3.1%	2.9%
64		9.9%	9.4%	9.1%	8.7%
65		9.3%	9.0%	8.8%	8.5%
66		10.1%	9.8%	9.7%	9.4%
67	July 29, 2018	3.8%	3.5%	3.4%	3.1%
68		10.3%	10.0%	9.5%	9.2%
69		9.7%	9.6%	9.1%	9.1%
70		10.5%	10.4%	10.3%	10.3%
71	August 5, 2018	3.6%	3.1%	3.2%	2.8%
72		9.4%	8.8%	8.6%	8.0%
73		9.3%	8.7%	8.5%	7.9%
74			8.6%	9.2%	8.5%
75	August 12, 2018
76		9.3%	8.7%	9.8%	9.3%
77		8.8%	8.2%	9.4%	8.9%
78		9.7%	9.3%	10.4%	10.1%
79	August 26, 2018	9.1%	9.0%	9.5%	9.6%
80		10.3%	9.9%	10.8%	10.4%
81	September 9, 2018		2.8%
82		10.5%	9.1%	8.2%
83		9.4%	8.8%	8.0%
84		10.3%	10.0%	9.2%
85	September 16, 2018		5.1%
86			8.8%	7.7%
87			8.6%	7.6%
88			9.9%	8.9%
89	September 23, 2018		4.4%
90			9.0%
91			8.6%
92			9.1%
93	September 30, 2018
94
95
96
97	October 7, 2018
98
99
100
Average

• Each night's broadcast is divided into four 35 minute episodes with three commercial breaks in between.
• Episodes 53-56 did not air on June 24 due to the coverage of a FIFA World Cup 2018 Group G match between England and Panama.
• Only 2 episodes aired on July 1 due to the coverage of the FIFA World Cup 2018 Round of 16 match between Spain and Russia.
• Episodes did not air on August 19 due to the coverage of the 2018 Asian Games and broadcast of the movie 'The Big Swindle'.
• Only 2 episodes aired on August 26 due to the coverage of the 2018 Asian Games.
• No episodes aired on September 2 due to the coverage of the 2018 Asian Games.

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Recipient	Result	Ref.
2018	6th APAN Star Awards	Excellence Award, Actor in a Serial Drama	Kim Ji-hoon		^[12]
	2018 MBC Drama Awards	Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Soap Opera	Kim Ji-hoon		^[13]
			Jeong Bo-seok
		Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Soap Opera	Kim Ju-hyeon
			Hong Soo-hyun
		Excellence Award, Actor in a Serial Drama	Lee Kyu-han
		Excellence Award, Actress in a Soap Opera	Yoon Yoo-sun
		Best Supporting Cast in Soap Opera	Kang Nam-gil
			Lee Seung-yeon
		Best New Actor	Kim Min-kyu

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Rich Son. MBC. May 2, 2018.
2. News: Sung. Jin-hee. 김지훈X김주현, MBC 새 주말드라마 '부잣집 아들' 출연확정. January 27, 2018. The Star Chosun. January 23, 2018. ko.
3. News: Yoo. Ji-hye. ko:[단독] '막영애' 이규한, '부잣집아들' 주연 합류..성실男 변신. http://osen.mt.co.kr/article/G1110819117. January 27, 2018. Osen. January 22, 2018. ko.
4. News: Jo. Yoon-sun. '부잣집 아들' 이규한X홍수현X이창엽 합류…탄탄한 라인업. January 27, 2018. Sports Chosun. January 24, 2018. ko.
5. News: Kim. Yoon-ji. [단독]이승연, MBC '부잣집 아들'로 6년만에 지상파 복귀]. January 27, 2018. Edaily. January 23, 2018. ko.
6. News: Lee. Ji-hyun. ko:김영옥부터 우현까지…'부잣집 아들' 든든한 명품배우 총출동. http://sports.chosun.com/news/ntype.htm?id=201801260100195420013909&servicedate=20180125. January 27, 2018. Sports Chosun. January 25, 2018. ko.
7. News: Yang. Ji-yeon. ko:[공식] '부잣집 아들' 김영옥·정보석·윤유선 등, 명품배우 총출동. http://www.sedaily.com/NewsView/1RUKD8Q2QY. January 27, 2018. Seoul Daily. January 25, 2018. ko.
8. News: Kwon. Mi-sung. ko:‘부잣집 아들’ 이창엽, 흑발 훈남으로 변신…"따뜻한 봄에 꼭 만나요". http://www.topstarnews.net/detail.php?number=351225. January 27, 2018. Top Star News. January 24, 2018. ko.
9. News: Lee. Ji-hyun. [공식]'부잣집 아들' 박재정-심은진-김민규-CLC 엘키-양혜지, 라이징★ 합류]. January 27, 2018. Sports Chosun. January 26, 2018. ko.
10. Web site: TNMS Daily Ratings: this links to current day-select the date from drop down menu. Korean. TNMS Ratings. February 9, 2018.
11. Web site: AGB Daily Ratings: this links to current day-select the date from drop down menu. Korean. AGB Nielsen Media Research. February 9, 2018.
12. Web site: 이병헌·손예진·아이유 APAN스타어워즈 노미네이트. September 27, 2018. Star News. ko.
13. Web site: https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=609&aid=0000038901. ko: 소지섭 ‘데뷔 23년 만에 첫 대상’(mbc연기대상)[포토엔HD]. So Ji-sub Soo'First Debut in 23 Years' (mbc Drama Awards)[Photo and HD]. December 31, 2018. Jung. Yu-jin. Newsen. ko. https://web.archive.org/web/20181231092413/https://entertain.naver.com/read?oid=609&aid=0000038901. December 31, 2018. June 5, 2020. Naver.