Song Joong-Ki had his fan meeting in China "2016 Asia Fan Meeting Tour". Song Hye-Kyo showed up as a surprise guest to celebrate the fan meeting together and boasted their friendship.

Song Joong-Ki and Song Hye-Kyo sang "Descendant of Sun" OST together as well.

Song Joong Ki was very happy and thankful for her to come as a guest.

Regarding the dating rumors he was heard many times referring to her as “sunbae-nim” and “noona.”

In April Song Hye-kyo clarified that they are not dating and they are good friends "After "Descendant of Sun" was done, I went to New York to travel and had a chance to have dinner with Song Joong-Ki. I met many people not only him and met many friends. Isn't it weird not to have dinner with him being scared of scandals? I think that's not what I wanna do"

The successful drama Descendants of the Sun's global claimed to economic growth worth 1 trillion won (approximately $840 million) for Korea, this shows economic influence that even create 4000 jobs.

Descendants of the Sun was a big hit and has become the most popular drama on social media, with cumulative views of 440 million views on Chinese video iQiyi, according to a Chinese online media company.

 DOTS even overtook the increasing number of views of 2014 hit drama "My love from the Star" starred by Jun Ji-hyun and Kim Soo-hyun.