The love triangle takes off in Good Doctor

156 July 24, 2013July 24, 2013

by girlfriday

I suppose you can’t blame a girl for waffling if she’s got her pick between Joo-won and Joo Sang-wook, can you? Here’s another batch of stills and a new teaser for KBS’s upcoming medical drama Good Doctor, featuring our heroine Moon Chae-won cozying up to cold boss man Joo Sang-wook, and spending more time with intriguing genius co-worker Joo-won. The teaser also gives us a little backstory for the hero, and sets up why he chooses such a difficult profession.

The warm human drama follows the story of surgical fellows at a university teaching hospital, where Joo-won’s character Shi-on, an autistic savant, trains to become a pediatric surgeon alongside Moon Chae-won. Joo Sang-wook is their hard-nosed supervisor, an assistant professor and star doctor at the hospital. The piggybacking stills come from a flashback sequence set in med school, which is a relief, given that Joo Sang-wook is a teacher, not to mention engaged at the start of the drama. But she had a pretty big crush on her sunbae back in school, and made a drunken confession while he piggybacked her home.

She’ll find herself more and more intrigued by Shi-on, of course, and despite his childlike personality, they’ll share a sweet and innocent loveline. New stills feature the hero performing an emergency procedure in the street (I’ll bust a gut if there’s one per episode), and the teaser is a nice little montage of his backstory. He narrates:

The day the tree smelled of ice cream, Rabbit went up to heaven.
The day the mine smelled of rusty metal, Hyung went up to heaven.
Little Shi-on: If I become a doctor, can I make them not go to heaven?
I wanted to let them become adults.
I want to give children the gift of a future.

Awwwww. Good Doctor premieres August 5 on KBS.

Via TV Report

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51 kz

July 24, 2013 at 9:39 PM

Piggyback scenes? I always wonder if being an actor in k-drama means you have to have strong back... hehhehe
But Joowon looks cute..

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52 Lily

July 25, 2013 at 12:55 AM

I Like Joo Sang Wook .

Looking forward to see GD.

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53 kyptonj

July 25, 2013 at 4:27 AM

Yes it's true that not all individuals with savant syndrome has the mental capacity of a child. There are individuals that are diagnosed with savant syndrome but has the mental capacity of an adult.

I'm disappointed though because Joo Won has already stated it in Entertainment Weekly interview that his character has the mental capacity of a 10 year old. If they really would like to change the perception of the people regarding indiciduals with autism or savant syndrome,then Park Shi On should have been diagnosed as an individual with savant syndrome but with mental capacity of an adult. A story of an individual with autism or savant syndrome with a mental capacity of a child, that has been done before in Forrest Gump or Rain Man. Why not write a story of a surgeon with savant syndrome but has the mental capacity of an adult?

And I hate to say this, but in reality by medical standard no one will be allowed to operate (surgery) on a human body if they found out that the individual has the mental capacity of a child.

I'm still gonna watch it though despite the criticisms and the flaws. It's hard to say no especially if one of the actors is Moon Chae Won. I simply respect her for refusing to be pigeonholed. And she is an actor that continuously improves with her craft.