Probably for the best, most kdramas can't keep their stories interesting for 16 eps anyway.

No! Can't be! So disappointed! I mean Beautiful mind is an awesome show,what if it affects the story? So so disappointed! Less jang Hyuk and Park So Dam I guess :(

Love the show so very much.... So disappointed that it will be cut. I prayed the quality won't be affected

It's really really really official. :-(

When it ends up on Dramabeans, you know its super duper official. Damn.

I seriously think this is one of those rare shows which could have done with a longer run, maybe even 20 episodes. The idea of only 4 more episodes is pretty damn painful.

Considering how much KBS seems to have been trying to cut it down from the beginning, I suppose I'm grateful I'm getting at all.

???

I so wanted to photoshop Jang Hyuk's fingers and leave the middle one up to KBS!

This is why i have no respect for major 3 networks they want generic romance heavy dramas that have no story, cliche second leads etc like Doctors. Cable channels like tvn, JTBC, OCN would respect a hailed drama despite low ratings.

Also blame many of Korean fans who give their ratings to every cliché drama hitting 15-20% because their bias is the lead. The fans also have something to do with the fact acclaimed shows get cut, the major networks cant grow in quality.....

I don't buying it KBS!! BM is one of the masterpiece.. It's rarely we got drama with solid & detailed story. *hiks*

Jang Hyuk and all casts & crew.. FIGHTING! ❤

Is KBS so poor yah they have no money to pay for 2 more episodes? Where did all the money earned from Dots go?

Jang Hyuk and BM team fighting ! We will support you all the way to the last episode !!

So pissed!!!! This is a fascinating, quality drama. I am really invested in the main characters and this cut will kill the pacing. Doctors is just so poorly written by comparison I can't even. Ugh. :'(

*brandishing a knife at KBS. What a big shame on KBS!!! As I mentioned somewhere, they are like Hyung Sung Medical - putting out regenerative medicine for profits only without caring about quality! I hope they get handcuffed and crap for doing such a thing!

I have never been so pissed off. This is the second time this has happened to me. Once was the tvn drama Ex-girlfriend Club an now this AHHAHAALKHLDHFOPSFBJDB. (Intrernal screaming) I'm just going to vent b/c I believe I have that right. The story was compelling for me since the first two episodes. It was the first drama in a long time where I grew so impatient I watched the drama raw. As an actor and a actress I can only imagine how jang hyuk and park so dam feel. When you hear your show has been cut it makes you think maybe your acting was bad or maybe you weren't believable enough. I seriously have read some comments on here and other sites that are starting the blame game mostly towards Park so dam. "They should of never casted her." "She's wasn't even pretty enough to be a lead." "She has zero chemistry with jang hyuk it's probably cause she's ugly." If I could just reach through my computer screen to knock out all the people who said that omg!!! Some also said it's probably for the best most dramas fall apart afterwards...Yeah MOST dramas but we don't find that out till after the drama comes to an end. The plot was compelling and the hospital was nuts with many terrible doctors that only care about money first an patients second. Now the suspense between young oh an his father are going to be too rushed and the developing feelings(?) Young oh seems to have for jin-sung are going to be either put on the back burner due to cut episodes an I already know there is going to be plot holes left an right. My heart also goes out the writer. Who thinks her writing isn't engaging enough to viewers. (sigh) I will eventually watch the rest of Doctors because i'm a park shin hye fan but I stopped cause it was just too much chessy romance between the doctors that spent more time ROMANCING than actually working on patients (lol) I did fell a bit salty that DOCTORS was getting the high ratings that I honestly didn't think they deserved but people like myself will watch a drama if it has there favorite actor playing in it regardless of the stale plot. But I told myself it's okay if the ratings are only in the 3-4% range KBS is known for letting dramas finish there run regardless of the low ratings (Bel ami, Blade man, masked prosecutor, Assembly, Sassy Go Go,I remember you) an the list goes on I REMEMBER YOU was an amazing drama to me but they couldn't pull past 6% the whole sherlock holmes vibe and psycho killers and the bromance it was all amazing seo in guk did a wonderful job and despite low ratings it still finished. So i'm going to believe b/c of this damn rio olympics they cut it down to 14 instead eps instead. But they have the audacity to actually get the writer to cut down to 12 episodes like wtf?!??!! It's already at the 10 episode mark she isn't GOD what could she possibly finish telling and closing in an perfect bow with only two episodes (sigh) This is really is a bitter pill to swallow this summer.

Im always happy with KBS's failures.
I hate this channel since DOTS:

What the next KDrama after BM?

Well that's business..when you run a business like this maybe we can understand the position of the management but because of the success of DOTS they demands every show to have high ratings .The show is great because of the male lead actor but dont drag Doctors here if you dont like the show dont say bad things about it..The show have their own merit and we appreciate it and were not forcing anyone to watch Doctors.Actually Ii like Beautiful mind because of the actor but I have decided to watch Doctors first and maybe later when Doctor is finished then I am going to watch it.Well it so sad that they have to cut it.Well money changes everything

This is a pity. I pick up on this drama a little bit too late, but once I started... I binge watched the entire 8 episodes. This is how compelling this drama is... Well... we'll have a nice run...

@Aline,it's Moon Light Drawn By Clouds

Quoting a sentence from Dramajjang's reveiw ; “Sadly, pretty faces and flatfooted scenarios we’ve seen countless times before sell more than thought provoking and intriguing dramas that have the potential to play the piano with one’s brain cells”

So true.

Sad face. I like this drama, Jang Hyuk fighting!

KBS what have you done. How you make profits+respect in 1 go? By diversifying your content. Beautiful Mind is here to earn respect of specific set of fans and other cliches shows are to generate money.

I understand their position clearly but it also shows their unprofessionalism that they could alot proper time to this show and Pitted it against that romance-porn.

They lacked strategy from the start and Only 1 Ost is released? I hardly see any promotions of it. Show's budget seems like cut too. Yet Director and writer and Actors did their best to make a show worth watch. This show is Food for Brain and it deserve all the applause.

As for 1st 4 episodes. I think they were interesting and compelling enough to attract anyone's attention who are not in your usual overly cliche annoyance.

So many watch TV through the web these days and as far as I understand it, that never added into the real % of who is watching what. So a 4/5 % rating is not really that bad, sure it not great, but hardly worth the risk of a backlash in dumping it. I remember You had pretty much the same rating and as far as I know it was never in threat of getting cut, just pressure on maybe a writing change. At lest they covered themselves with the lead actor, though I sure he still hardly happy about a show he in getting treated like that.

Its a deeper film than Doctors and the question is poised is really worth thinking about... exactly what are emotions and do they determine the way people relate... or is it the rational mind...

16 episodes is good... there is a different story every episode and one lingering story that connects all the story... its beautifully crafted...

Extremely disappointed!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
SO MAAAD RIGHT NOW.

IT COULD HAVE BEEN AN AMAZING DRAMA.

I believe now that everything is going to be rushed and Young-Oh will be miraculously cured.

People expected to see what they want to see on a drama from the beggining and then they will decide if its good.
A lot of sites announced that BM will have romance (I read some synopsys like: "Neurosurgeon with zero simpathy falls in love and gains his humanity.")
But Beautiful Mind started really weird with the two leads not having much of a chemistry, the guy stabbing the girl on the first episode and this same girl doing pretty stupids things as a cop that made us want her out of the show.
Then what happened was that most of the people dropped the drama and didnt wait to see it develop.
I'm not saying that I wanted them to fall in love on the first episodes, but I wanted to see that a romance was possible there. Do you guys were seeing it comming? I didn't.

Romance sells guys, if people had bought the romance on this drama from the start they wouldnt have given up on this.
The difficult medical language and the realistic surgery procedures could also explain the low ratings. Medical dramas are not that famous unless you put together famous actors and a lot of romance on it like the drama Doctors (I'm not watching because I can't handle Park Shin Hye)

I was glad I didn't give up and now I'm sad that they are going to cut down the episodes.

I always say this on my comments: Excuse my English, it's not my first language.

Actually I am not surprised they decided to cut some episodes (and not necessarily because of the low ratings).
The plot was great in the first episodes (it was very gripping and it focused mainly on the male character's mental disorder and on the father-son relationship; I liked it very, very much); but then it began to become boring as they kept showing all kinds of irrelevant patients and Jang Hyuk's character suddenly stopped being developed (not to mention that the female character almost disappeared).
I mean the writer should have focused more on the psychological issues in the drama... the ratings would have been higher...

Don't cut this lovely drama KBS.

I found this campaign. You can contribute by signing this petition:

KBS: Beautiful Mind KBS drama Requesting to Keep the Original Episodes.
https://www.change.org/p/kbs-beautiful-mind-kbs-drama-requesting-to-keep-the-original-episodes?recruiter=577199798

I was surprised by the decision because from what I notice from last year.. they don't usually shorten drama even if it's low rating. I rather they give the show a break for the olympics then resume. I just don't think this drama needs to be shorten.