🔥Korea is remaking Doctor-X with Kim Ji Won, and the nickname alone is a good sign
SBS has released new stills for its Korean version of "Doctor X," the long-running Japanese medical series. It premieres October 9 at 9:50pm KST.
Kim Ji Won plays Gye Soo Jung, a genius surgeon who gets sent by a staffing agency to Guseo University Hospital, which is full of corruption and politics. Inside the OR she is untouchable. Outside it, she ignores the rules, ignores the hierarchy, and says exactly what she thinks to people above her. The staff call her the "crazy Gye of the operating room." Her surname sounds like 개 (gae), dog, so it's basically "the mad dog of the OR." I love it when a Korean adaptation finds a joke that only works in Korean. The rest of the cast reads well too. Lee Jung Eun is the loud, money-driven head of the staffing agency, who is actually a sharp strategist, and the two of them bicker like an aunt and niece. Son Hyun Joo is the hospital director who made deals with the corrupt side to keep the place running while still wanting to be a real doctor. Kim Woo Seok is the kind, ambitious intern who becomes her mentee. Speaking as a nurse, a surgeon who refuses the hierarchy is the purest fantasy television can offer. The real wards don't look like that. But Korea also already has a very strong tradition of hospital dramas, from the warm side (Hospital Playlist) to the political side, so I'm curious which one this ends up closer to. Japanese medical shows tend to be more episodic and theatrical, while Korean ones like to build up long relationship arcs. Has anyone here seen the Japanese original? Is a straight remake a good idea, or should they change her a lot for Korean viewers?
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- 🔗Soompi — Kim Ji Won’s Arrival At A Corrupt Hospital Brings Change To Everyone Around Her In “Doctor X”https://www.soompi.com/article/1875473wpp/kim-ji-wons-arrival-at-a-corrupt-hospital-brings-change-to-everyone-around-her-in-doctor-x
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