Dr. Romantic

November 7, 2016

Boo Yong-joo (Han Suk-kyu), now known only as "Teacher Kim," runs Doldam Hospital — a tiny trauma centre in the Wonju countryside. Two young Seoul doctors arrive: Kang Dong-joo (Yoo Yeon-seok) and Yoon Seo-jung (Seo Hyun-jin). The Wonju rural hospital establishes the drama's world.

November 7, 2016

Doldam Hospital's first emergency with the new doctors — Teacher Kim's methods immediately at odds with the Seoul training they received.

November 14, 2016

The specific challenges of a rural trauma centre — limited equipment, limited staff, unlimited emergencies.

November 14, 2016

Seo-jung's connection to Teacher Kim's past — why she came to Doldam.

November 21, 2016

Dong-joo's ambition and his gradual realisation that what he thought he wanted and what he needs are different things.

November 21, 2016

The elite Seoul hospital that Teacher Kim left — its politics still reaching into the countryside.

November 28, 2016

A life saved with Doldam's limited resources that would have been lost in a larger hospital's bureaucracy.

November 28, 2016

Teacher Kim's two students at their midpoint — both changed by Doldam in ways they could not anticipate.

December 5, 2016

The Seoul medical establishment's move to shut down Doldam.

December 5, 2016

Dong-joo's most important lesson — the drama's most direct statement of what genuine medicine requires.

December 12, 2016

A mass casualty event at Doldam — the hospital's capacity tested beyond its limits.

December 12, 2016

The full story of why Boo Yong-joo left Seoul and became Teacher Kim.

December 19, 2016

Seo-jung's professional choice — the Doldam that has changed her, or the Seoul career she came from.

December 19, 2016

The Seoul medical establishment's aggressive move against Doldam's independence.

December 26, 2016

Teacher Kim's response — the drama's most cathartic professional assertion.

December 26, 2016

Dong-joo and Seo-jung's professional and personal resolutions.

January 2, 2017

What Doldam's future looks like after the institutional battle.

January 2, 2017

What Teacher Kim has built at Doldam — the medicine and the doctors.

January 9, 2017

The drama's climactic medical sequence — everything Doldam's team has learned deployed together.

January 9, 2017

The team that Doldam has become — the drama's most warming image.

January 16, 2017

The finale. 27.6% nationwide — the highest-rated drama of 2016. Han Suk-kyu's Teacher Kim became one of Korean drama's most beloved mentor figures.