Often cited alongside 来自星星的你 (My Love from the Star, 2013) as the two Korean dramas that defined 韩剧 boom moments in mainland China. Simulcast was part of a brief window before the 限韩令 (Korean-content limit) after the THAAD dispute later that year.
16-episode Korean drama aired 2016 on KBS2, starring Song Joong-ki (宋仲基) and Song Hye-kyo (宋慧乔). Romance between a Special Forces captain and a surgeon deployed to a fictional war zone. Simulcast on iQiyi in China, where it pulled over 2 billion streams and became a phenomenon — temporarily spiking interest in Korean-army culture items and wedding dresses. The lead actors married in 2017 and divorced in 2019.
