Money Game (TV series)

*Money Game*
Money Game
	Promotional poster
Hangul	머니게임
Genre	Drama; Finance
Created by	Studio Dragon
Written by	Lee Young-mi
Directed by	Kim Sang-ho
Starring	Go Soo; Lee Sung-min; Shim Eun-kyung;
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language	Korean
No. of episodes	16
Production
Running time	70 minutes
Production company	JS Pictures
Original release
Network	tvN
Release	January 15 –; March 5, 2020

Money Game (Korean: 머니게임; RR: Meonigeim) is a 2020 South Korean television series starring Go Soo, Lee Sung-min and Shim Eun-kyung. It aired on tvN from January 15 to March 5, 2020 every Wednesday and Thursday at 21:30.^[1]^[2]

Synopsis

As the South Korean government fears that the 1997 Asian financial crisis is about to repeat itself, three people working at the Financial Services Commission and the Ministry of Economy and Finance try their best to avoid the coming crisis.

First script reading was held and filming began in summer 2019.
This series marked Shim Eun-kyung's small-screen comeback after 5 years since Naeil's Cantabile.

Money Game : South Korea viewers per episode (thousands)

Season		Episode number																Average
Season		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Average
	1	774	425	414	320	480	428	493	315	440	419	445	N/A	479	N/A	444	414	N/A

Source: Audience measurement performed nationwide by Nielsen Korea.^[4]

Average TV viewership ratings
Ep.	Original broadcast date	Average audience share (Nielsen Korea)^[5]
Ep.	Original broadcast date	Nationwide	Seoul
1	January 15, 2020	3.520%	3.843%
2	January 16, 2020	1.953%	2.433%
3	January 22, 2020	1.850%	1.775%
4	January 23, 2020	1.293%	1.236%
5	January 29, 2020	2.202%	2.065%
6	January 30, 2020	1.693%	1.621%
7	February 5, 2020	2.187%	2.072%
8	February 6, 2020	1.599%	—
9	February 12, 2020	2.064%	2.054%
10	February 13, 2020	1.709%	1.683%
11	February 19, 2020	2.051%	—
12	February 20, 2020	1.361%
13	February 26, 2020	2.167%
14	February 27, 2020	1.762%
15	March 4, 2020	2.146%	2.053%
16	March 5, 2020	1.890%^[6]	—
Average		1.966%	—^[a]
In the table above, the blue numbers represent the lowest ratings and the red numbers represent the highest ratings. N/A denotes that the rating is not known. This drama aired on a cable channel/pay TV which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS).

^ "On the money". Korea JoongAng Daily. January 9, 2020.
^ Choi, Ji-won (January 8, 2020). "Veteran actors to play 'Money Game'". The Korea Herald.
^ Eun-song Jang (February 5, 2020). "'머니게임' 고수, 박지일과 손잡고 이성민 몰아내기 시작[별별TV]" ['Money Game' Go Soo, Park Ji-il and Park Ji-il start to drive out Lee Seong-min [Byulbyeol TV]]. Star News (in Korean). Naver. Retrieved March 23, 2022.
^ "Nielsen Korea". AGB Nielsen Media Research (in Korean). Retrieved July 29, 2020.
^ "Nielsen Korea". AGB Nielsen Media Research (in Korean). Retrieved January 15, 2020.
^ "[시청률 VS.] '포레스트' 소폭 하락에도 수목극 1위 굳건". theceluv (in Korean). Retrieved March 6, 2020.