According to Nielsen Korea, episode 8 of the Korean drama “The Judge from Hell” aired on SBS on the evening of October 12 recorded an average nationwide rating of 13.6% - the highest achievement since its broadcast.
After two episodes aired each week, "Judge from Hell" sets a new rating record every Saturday night, surprising the audience.
The show started with episode 1-2 ratings of 6.8% and 9.3% respectively, the second week increased to 9.7%, the third week increased to 13.1% and currently in the fourth week it has reached 13.6%.
In episode 8, the relationship between the evil judge Kang Bit Na (Park Shin Hye) and police officer Han Da On (Kim Jae Young) has new developments. Demons cannot shed tears for humans, but Kang Bit Na is gradually moved.
This could put her in danger, as the demon Lee Ah Rong - the girl who always follows and helps Bit Na - is actually the one assigned to track down demons who have fallen in love with humans or started to become humans. Lee Ah Rong becomes suspicious and begins to pay attention to Bit Na's behavior towards Han Da On.
In another development, when trying the case of company director Choi Won Jung, who was accused of causing his employee to commit suicide, Kang Bit Na continued to give him a lenient sentence to help him escape the death penalty before the law. But she will personally send him to hell as a devil.
When Bit Na was about to go and execute Choi Won Jung, Han Da On stopped her.
Kang Bit Na suddenly talks about the murderer J who killed Da On's family. She asks him not to get in her way but to help her find the murderer. But as a police officer, Da On refuses. He hugs Bit Na and thanks her for comforting him about his parents' death.
In the next scene, after making Choi Won Jung pay and sending him to hell, Bit Na discovers that her actions were filmed by Da On. Only then does she realize that Da On intentionally put the camera in his collar when he hugged her earlier.
Kang Bit Na, shaken by betrayal, demanded that Da On hand over the phone containing the footage. But Da On subdued her with sulfur powder and handcuffed her. Kang Bit Na was unable to move for several hours due to the sulfur powder.
At this time, a colleague called to inform Da On that they had found Kim So Young - the person who had just gone missing, and also the superior he considered his mother. But Kim So Young was murdered by the murderer J.
Han Da On, desperate, returned to find Kang Bit Na. He destroyed the phone containing the evidence with his own hands. Da On suggested that Kang Bit Na find the murderer and the two of them would kill him together to get revenge.
Kang Bit Na refused, but Da On said that after killing him, he would let Kang Bit Na send him to hell himself. Bit Na laughed triumphantly, asking Han Da On to keep that promise.
However, as soon as she turned to leave, Kang Bit Na's heart suddenly started to beat erratically and tears fell from her eyes. The fact that a demon was shedding tears for a human signaled a major change in the events that followed.
