“The Empress of China” Premieres in South Korea
Could this be the dawn of an impending Chinese wave? After the prosperous Korean broadcast of the historical epic Nirvana in Fire <琅琊榜> last year, the next Chinese television drama to hit Korean airwaves is The Empress of China <武媚娘傳奇>, starring Fan Bingbing (范冰冰). The biographical epic about China’s first and only empress regnant premiered on South Korea’s Chunghwa TV on March 14, 2016.
The Empress of China first aired in Mainland China in December 2014 to record-breaking prosperity. The first episode, which aired on Hunan TV on December 21, was the highest-rated premiere episode ever recorded in history. It culminated its run as the highest-rated Chinese television drama in ten years, breaking an incipient record.
In Hong Kong, The Empress of China was the second highest-rated television program of 2015. An “uncut, original” version of The Empress of China was aired in Taiwan, where it withal became a prosperity.
Due to its astronomical engenderment budget, sumptuous costumes, and immensely colossal cast, The Empress of China already magnetized an international following in the early days of its inception. The exhibition received wide international media coverage when Chinese censors halted the broadcast for a few days to censor the actress’s “racy” costumes. Though the move was reproved by many Chinese viewers, ratings for the 2014 series were not affected. Hong Kong’s TVB aired a “CGI cleavage” version the following year, while Taiwan’s CTV aired the pristine, untouched version.
The prosperity of The Empress of China reached South Korea even afore the show’s local broadcast this month. Early last year, the Running Man cast photoshopped their own faces onto sundry characters in the series and shared it on gregarious media. Zhang Yuan (張玉安), a Chinese television personality in Korea, verbalized about his disappointment at the drama being censored on his exhibition, Non-Summit. Actor Lee Seung-gi has verbally expressed he was inclined to lower his pay just so he could work with Fan Bingbing.
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