Life

July 23, 2018

Koo Seung-hyo (Cho Seung-woo) arrives as the new CEO of Sangkook University Hospital with a mandate to make it profitable. Doctor Ye Jin-woo (Lee Dong-wook) immediately understands that the CEO's priorities and his own are incompatible. Severance Hospital exterior establishes the world.

July 23, 2018

The hospital's existing culture — its politics, its loyalties, its unwritten rules — and how Seung-hyo is already disrupting it.

July 30, 2018

The specific patients whose care becomes collateral damage in the hospital's corporate transformation.

July 30, 2018

Jin-woo's professional resistance to the CEO's decisions — the individual doctor against institutional management.

August 6, 2018

Seung-hyo's business case for the hospital's transformation — shown with enough intelligence to complicate the drama's moral picture.

August 6, 2018

Corporate strategy meetings in the Seocho business district — the management world that treats the hospital as an asset.

August 13, 2018

The medical staff's collective response to decisions affecting patient care.

August 13, 2018

The institutional battle at its midpoint — neither side able to win without destroying something valuable.

August 20, 2018

The CEO's own history — why he became the person who makes these decisions — examined with unusual sympathy.

August 20, 2018

The first compromise — and what it costs both sides.

August 27, 2018

The hospital board's interests — separate from both the doctors' and the CEO's — introduced.

August 27, 2018

What Jin-woo's resistance has cost him professionally.

September 3, 2018

An unexpected alliance between Jin-woo and Seung-hyo against the board.

September 3, 2018

The drama's direct statement of what a hospital is for — and for whom.

September 10, 2018

Every institutional decision's consequence arriving simultaneously.

September 10, 2018

The finale. One of 2018's most intelligent institutional dramas — a medical thriller that cared more about systems than symptoms.