She barks at someone to get Dong-joo out of her face, when suddenly a man with a metal rod through his abdomen rolls into the ER.
When he continues to badger her, insisting that the other patient is also very ill, Seo-jung shouts at him that this patient’s condition is more critical. Staring at a reflection of his past, he tries to call over Seo-jung, but she’s got her hands full, and brushes him off.
The staff rushes to assess the injuries of the new arrivals, and Dong-joo runs out to join them when a student shouts at him that her mother came first and needs immediate medical attention. Seo-jung attempts to comfort the humiliated sunbae, when suddenly someone shouts that there was an accident at a construction site, and four patients are on their way. Dong-joo then walks out declaring that he will not be anyone’s little errand boy. The sunbae asks Dong-joo why he became a doctor and he responds sincerely, “To fix people,” an answer that earns him sneers from the doctors around the room, but a look of interest from Seo-jung, who watches on quietly. Dong-joo fails to see the correlation between making him coffee and being a good doctor. Which is the exact scene Seo-jung walks into, as a sunbae doctor rags on new intern Dong-joo for refusing to make him coffee. To top it off, word around the block is that this intern pays little regard to seniority, and liberally mouths off to his seniors. He emerges anew and as an adult in 2011, wearing a white doctor’s coat-this is KANG DONG-JOO ( Yoo Yeon-seok).Įlsewhere in the hospital, seasoned ER doctor YOON SEO-JUNG ( Seo Hyun-jin) gets the latest on a sassy new genius intern that just showed up. Then the doctor disappears into the crowd.Īfter a few waves of self-doubt, the boy clenches his fists, and walks through the hospital door with a determined look in his eyes. Got that? If you don’t change, then nothing will,” he says. “Don’t get revenge with anger, but with skill. If he really wants to get revenge on those that caused him pain, he says, he must become a much better human being than those people. He tells the boy that venting his frustrations will not satiate his desire for revenge. The next moment, the boy opens his eyes as Teacher Kim treats his various wounds. He pulls out a syringe and swiftly injects the boy with it, then counts down. Though we never get a clear shot of his face, we can safely assume this to be BU YONG-JOO ( Han Seok-kyu), otherwise known as our titular Teacher Kim. At that moment, a mysterious man enters the scene, and in an impressive display of dexterity, he disarms the boy using only a scrub shirt. Later, the boy returns to the emergency room with a metal bat, and begins wreaking havoc on everything in sight, as payment for the injustice he feels. He rushes forward to attack, but is immediately restrained, as Dr. Do, asserting that his father arrived before the assemblyman and should have been treated first. DO YOON-WAN ( Choi Jin-ho) exits the operating room to inform an assemblyman’s family that the surgery was a success. Sadly, he never does get the help he needs, and dies there in the ER. It became an era in which patients were discriminated against.”ĭuring the narration we see a teenage boy desperately begging someone to save his dying father, who has been waiting hours for treatment. In voiceover, a man depicts a bleak medical landscape: “In an era of injustice. Together they battle against life and death, irate sunbaes, and mainly each other, as they try to survive the numerous obstacles of working in the ER.ĬHAPTER 1: “How to put an elephant in a refrigerator” SBS’s new Monday-Tuesday drama Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim premiered this week, and though veteran actor Han Seok-kyu has top billing, this first episode is really all about our two cheeky apprentices. 126 NovemNovemRomantic Doctor Teacher Kim: Episode 1 by murasakimi