Descendants of the Sun drama hits 30% peak ratings.

KBS2 drama 'Descendants of the Sun' once again brought the limelight on Yoo Shi Jin (played by Song Joong Ki) is torn between the sense of responsibility, duty for his soldiers and the love of his life. 

On 30th March, the episode brought viewers to tears seeing Lieutenant Yoon Myeong Ju (played by Kim Ji Won) was infected with M3 virus and slowly fading off. Her boyfriend Sergeant Seo Dae Young (played by Jin Gu) is heartbroken seeing her suffer. 

The camp soldiers were told to move the patients to the hospital by the US Military. This day Shi Jin vows to fight against the epidemic situation without any hesitation. With a firm attitude, he told them

there is no point to fight anything else if they fail to keep everyone safe. 

In addition, at the very end of the episode the main villain Argus (played by David McGuinness) kidnapped Dr. Kang Mu Yeon (played by Song Hae Gyo) and it was where Shi Jin goes all out in a mission- that is to save her out.

The ratings peaked at 35.92% during the broadcast. Compared to last week's ratings, it was rising average of 7.76% and the highest went up 7.37% in a minute. Since last month the drama was aired, ratings just jumped 3 times - recorded 15.5% and 14.3% for first 2 episodes.

By 3rd and 4th episode ratings soared up to  23.4% and 24.1%. Ratings continue going up 27.4% and 28.5% for Episode 5 and 6. Descendants of the Sun has sort of broke the record compared to MBC drama Moon Embracing the Sun on the prime time slot few years back when ratings also exceeded over 30%. Will we be expecting the ratings to break record to 40%? Let's wait and see....