The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call

January 24, 2025

Baek Kang-hyuk (Ju Ji-hoon) arrives at Hankuk National University Hospital via helicopter at Bestian Hospital's rooftop helipad. He immediately clashes with the hospital director over the trauma center's chronic underfunding.

January 24, 2025

Kang-hyuk recruits his first resident, Yang Jae-won, who had been reassigned to proctology to avoid trauma surgery. The Ewha Womans University Medical Center becomes the team's home base.

January 24, 2025

A multi-vehicle accident brings an impossible patient load to the trauma center. Kang-hyuk's methods — fast, loud, unconventional — save lives the conventional approach would lose.

January 24, 2025

The hospital director escalates his campaign to shut down the trauma center. Kang-hyuk and the director square off in a confrontation that makes national news. The hospital exterior at Ewha is surrounded by reporters.

January 24, 2025

A terrorist incident overwhelms every hospital in Seoul. The trauma center operates beyond capacity. The team's first real crucible — and the moment they become, unmistakably, a unit.

January 24, 2025

Each team member's backstory is revealed in full. Why they chose trauma surgery. What they have lost. What keeps them running back into the operating room.

January 24, 2025

Kang-hyuk is called to a crisis overseas, leaving the team to operate without him for the first time. A test they nearly fail — and nearly pass.

January 24, 2025

The season finale. A catastrophic emergency forces the team and the hospital administration to finally choose sides. Kang-hyuk's past — and his reason for returning to Korea — is fully revealed.