94 minSeason 1 • Episode 16
LatestAt Korea's top university medical center, ideals and interests collide between a patient-centered ER doctor and the hospital's newly-appointed CEO.
Acting
Cho Seung-woo's ice-cold CEO is mesmerizingly unreadable
Writing
No heroes, no villains—just impossible choices
Direction
Tight hospital corridors feel like corporate battlefields
Creator
Lee Su-yeon
Lee Dong-wook
Ye Jin-Woo
Cho Seung-woo
Koo Seung-Hyo
Won Jin-ah
Lee No-Eul
Lee Kyoo-hyung
Ye Sun-Woo
You Chea-myung
Joo Kyung-Moon
Moon So-ri
Oh Se-Hwa
Moon Sung-keun
Kim Tae-Sang
Cheon Ho-jin
Lee Bo-Hoon
Tae In-ho
Sun Woo-Chang
Yeom Hye-ran
Kang Kyung-A
Choi Yu-hwa
Choi Seo-Hyun
Uhm Hyo-seop
Lee Sang-Yeob
Kim Won-hae
Lee Dong-Soo
Oh Hye-won
Committee Member Jung
Cha Rae-hyung
Mr. Bang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lee Dong-wook and Cho Seung-woo reunited here after 'Stranger'—their chemistry as reluctant allies-turned-adversaries was deliberately built on that prior dynamic.
The drama aired during real 2018 protests against South Korea's healthcare privatization, making its corporate-hospital critique uncomfortably timely.
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