The Rich Son

The Rich Son^[3] (Korean: 부잣집 아들; RR: Bujatjip adeul) 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.

The Rich Son
Promotional poster
Hangul	부잣집 아들
Lit.	Rich Family's Son
RR	Bujatjip adeul
MR	Pujatchip adŭl
Genre	Family Melodrama
Written by	Kim Jung-Soo[1]
Directed by	Choi Chang-Wook[1]
Starring	Kim Ji-hoon Kim Ju-hyeon Lee Kyu-han Hong Soo-hyun
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
No. of episodes	85[a]
Production
Executive producer	Lee Kwan-hee
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	35 minutes[a]
Production company	Lee Kwan-hee Production
Original release
Network	MBC TV
Release	March 25 (2018-03-25) – October 7, 2018 (2018-10-07)

Cast

Main

• Kim Ji-hoon as Lee Kwang-jae^[4]
• Kim Ju-hyeon as Kim Young-ha^[4]
• Lee Kyu-han as Nam Tae-il^[5]
• Hong Soo-hyun as Kim Kyung-ha^[6]

Supporting

• Lee Seung-yeon as Nam Soo-hee^[7]
• Kim Young-ok as Park Soon-ok^[8]
• Yoon Yoo-sun as Park Hyun-sook^[9]
• Park Soon-chun as Seo Bok-soon^[8]
• Jeong Bo-seok as Kim Won-yong^[8]
• Kang Nam-gil as Lee Kye-dong^[8]
• Woo Hyun as Choi Hyo-dong^[8]
• Yoon Chul-hyung as Nam Soo-hwan^[8]
• Cha Seo-won as Choi Yong^[10]
• Jeon Soo-kyeong as Na Young-ae
• Oh Yoon-hong as Chairman Nam's wife
• Park Jae-jung as Kim Jong-yong^[11]
• Shim Eun-jin as Seo Myung-sun^[11]
• Kim Min-kyu as Kim Myung-ha^[11]
• Elkie Chong as Wang Mong-mong^[11]
• Yang Hye-ji as Park Seo-hee^[11]

Cameos

• Lee Yong-jin (ep. 7)

Ratings

• In the table below, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers 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.

Ep.	Original broadcast date	Average audience share
		TNmS Ratings[12]		AGB Nielsen[13]
		Nationwide	Seoul National Capital Area	Nationwide	Seoul National Capital Area
1	March 25, 2018	4.9% (NR)	4.8%	5.1% (NR)	5.0% (NR)
2		12.6% (4th)	12.4%	12.0% (4th)	11.8% (5th)
3		9.8% (10th)	9.7%	9.5% (12th)	9.4% (12th)
4		10.2% (9th)	9.9%	10.5% (7th)	10.2% (8th)
5	April 1, 2018	4.4% (NR)	4.2%	4.3% (NR)	4.5% (NR)
6		11.6% (5th)	11.3%	11.2% (4th)	11.4% (5th)
7		8.9% (12th)	8.3%	9.9% (10th)	10.4% (9th)
8		9.3% (10th)	8.6%	10.5% (8th)	11.4% (5th)
9	April 8, 2018	2.8% (NR)	2.5%	3.1% (NR)	3.3% (NR)
10		11.2% (6th)	11.1%	10.5% (7th)	10.6% (7th)
11		9.4% (10th)	9.3%	9.1% (13th)	9.0% (14th)
12		9.2% (11th)	9.0%	9.5% (11th)	9.3% (13th)
13	April 15, 2018	3.7% (NR)	3.6%	3.9% (NR)	3.8% (NR)
14		10.2% (4th)	10.0%	10.1% (5th)	9.9% (5th)
15		9.1% (9th)	8.9%	9.0% (10th)	8.8% (11th)
16		9.5% (7th)	9.3%	9.9% (6th)	9.7% (6th)
17	April 22, 2018	5.2% (NR)	5.1%	4.0% (NR)	3.9% (NR)
18		10.7% (7th)	10.6%	10.1% (9th)	10.0% (10th)
19		8.9% (11th)	8.8%	8.7% (12th)	8.7% (11th)
20		8.7% (12th)	8.5%	8.6% (13th)	8.4% (12th)
21	April 29, 2018	6.0% (NR)	5.8%	5.7% (NR)	5.5% (NR)
22		8.7% (10th)	8.0%	8.1% (11th)	7.5% (11th)
23		7.4% (15th)	7.2%	7.3% (13th)	7.1% (13th)
24		8.2% (12th)	7.7%	7.9% (12th)	7.4% (12th)
25	May 6, 2018	3.7% (NR)	3.5%	3.4% (NR)	3.2% (NR)
26		8.8% (10th)	8.4%	7.9% (10th)	7.6% (9th)
27		8.4% (12th)	8.0%	7.1% (13th)	6.8% (13th)
28		8.2% (13th)	7.8%	7.6% (11th)	7.4% (11th)
29	May 13, 2018	3.8% (NR)	3.6%	3.1% (NR)	2.9% (NR)
30		10.4% (6th)	10.1%	9.4% (9th)	9.2% (8th)
31		9.7% (10th)	9.6%	8.8% (12th)	8.7% (12th)
32		10.0% (8th)	9.9%	9.2% (10th)	9.2% (8th)
33	May 20, 2018	3.3% (NR)	3.1%	2.6% (NR)	2.4% (NR)
34		9.8% (7th)	9.3%	8.4% (12th)	8.0% (13th)
35		9.0% (12th)	8.8%	8.7% (9th)	8.5% (10th)
36		9.4% (11th)	9.1%	8.5% (11th)	8.2% (12th)
37	May 27, 2018	6.4% (16th)	6.2%	6.3% (17th)	6.3% (18th)
38		8.7% (6th)	8.6%	8.5% (10th)	8.4% (8th)
39		8.8% (5th)	8.7%	8.3% (11th)	8.2% (11th)
40		7.6% (12th)	7.5%	9.2% (8th)	9.1% (6th)
41	June 3, 2018	4.4%	4.1%	4.2% (NR)	4.0% (NR)
42		10.7%	10.2%	9.1% (13th)	8.5% (12th)
43		10.6%	10.1%	9.2% (9th)	8.8% (11th)
44		10.5%	9.9%	9.5% (7th)	9.0% (9th)
45	June 10, 2018	5.6%	5.3%	5.4% (NR)	(N/A)
46		10.0%	9.9%	10.1% (8th)	10.0% (9th)
47		9.8%	9.4%	10.0% (9th)	9.6% (11th)
48		9.8%	9.6%	10.3% (7th)	10.5% (6th)
49	June 17, 2018	3.1%	2.8%	2.9% (NR)	2.7% (NR)
50		10.0%	9.5%	9.8% (6th)	9.3% (7th)
51		10.2%	9.7%	9.0% (9th)	8.5% (11th)
52		11.2%	10.8%	9.9% (5th)	9.4% (5th)
53	July 1, 2018	8.8%	8.6%	8.3% (13th)	8.1% (15th)
54		10.3%	10.0%	9.7% (10th)	9.4% (12th)
55	July 8, 2018	3.6%	3.3%	3.2% (NR)	2.9% (NR)
56		10.1%	9.6%	10.0% (7th)	9.5% (7th)
57		9.9%	8.4%	8.5% (12th)	8.0% (13th)
58		10.5%	10.1%	9.6% (8th)	9.2% (9th)
59	July 15, 2018	3.2%	3.0%	2.8% (NR)	2.6% (NR)
60		9.0%	8.3%	8.7% (11th)	8.0% (13th)
61		8.8%	7.9%	8.0% (14th)	7.2% (15th)
62		10.2%	9.5%	9.5% (8th)	8.8% (12th)
63	July 22, 2018	3.4%	3.3%	3.1% (NR)	2.9% (NR)
64		9.9%	9.4%	9.1% (11th)	8.7% (11th)
65		9.3%	9.0%	8.8% (12th)	8.5% (12th)
66		10.1%	9.8%	9.7% (8th)	9.4% (10th)
67	July 29, 2018	3.8%	3.5%	3.4% (NR)	3.1% (NR)
68		10.3%	10.0%	9.5% (9th)	9.2% (11th)
69		9.7%	9.6%	9.1% (10th)	9.1% (12th)
70		10.5%	10.4%	10.3% (6th)	10.3% (7th)
71	August 5, 2018	3.6%	3.1%	3.2% (NR)	2.8% (NR)
72		9.4%	8.8%	8.6% (9th)	8.0% (12th)
73		9.3%	8.7%	8.5% (11th)	7.9% (13th)
74			8.6%	9.2% (8th)	8.5% (10th)
75	August 12, 2018	1.9%	1.4%	2.3% (NR)	1.8% (NR)
76		9.3%	8.7%	9.8% (8th)	9.3% (9th)
77		8.8%	8.2%	9.4% (10th)	8.9% (11th)
78		9.7%	9.3%	10.4% (6th)	10.1% (7th)
79	August 26, 2018	9.1%	9.0%	9.5% (5th)	9.6% (5th)
80		10.3%	9.9%	10.8% (3rd)	10.4% (4th)
81	September 9, 2018	—	—	2.8% (NR)	—
82		10.5%		9.1% (9th)	8.2% (12th)
83		9.4%		8.8% (11th)	8.0% (13th)
84		10.3%		10.0% (7th)	9.2% (7th)
85	September 16, 2018			5.1% (NR)	—
86				8.8% (11th)	7.7% (16th)
87				8.6% (13th)	7.6% (17th)
88				9.9% (9th)	8.9% (11th)
89	September 23, 2018			4.4% (NR)	—
90				9.0% (8th)
91				8.6% (9th)
92				9.1% (7th)
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	Nominated	[14]
	2018 MBC Drama Awards	Top Excellence Award, Actor in a Soap Opera	Kim Ji-hoon	Nominated	[15]
			Jeong Bo-seok	Nominated
		Top Excellence Award, Actress in a Soap Opera	Kim Ju-hyeon	Nominated
			Hong Soo-hyun	Nominated
		Excellence Award, Actor in a Serial Drama	Lee Kyu-han	Won
		Excellence Award, Actress in a Soap Opera	Yoon Yoo-sun	Nominated
		Best Supporting Cast in Soap Opera	Kang Nam-gil	Nominated
			Lee Seung-yeon	Nominated
		Best New Actor	Kim Min-kyu	Nominated

Notes

1. In order to circumvent Korean laws that prevent commercial breaks in the middle of an episode, what would previously have been aired as single 70 minute episodes are now being repackaged as two 35 minute episodes, with two episodes being shown each night with a commercial break between the two.^[2]