Article: Top 10 Korean Medical Dramas Of All Time

We all are curious to know about the daily lifestyle of a person with a different profession than us. A profession that is well respected and is quite hard to pursue is a doctor's profession.Medical dramas are all about the life the doctors live inside the hospital. It tells us about the hardships the doctors face every day. The way they cope with all the stress because of continuous work can be seen in these dramas. Some elements are added to make the dramas more exciting, but medical dramas are a whole package of emotions.Few dramas of this genre are:

1. Doctor Stranger (2014)

Park Hoon's father was a famous heart surgeon forced to go to North Korea along with Park Hoon. The father-son duo was not allowed to leave North Korea. After spending his youth in North Korea, Park Hoon gets used to the lifestyle. He lives a happy life despite all the hard comings. Park Hoon's happiness is not long-lived when his father gets killed, and his only love disappears. He takes his father's place and performs many heart surgeries, which makes him an expert surgeon. He then escapes North Korea to find his girlfriend, Song Jae Hee. Park Hoon returns to South Korea and starts to work as a heart surgeon in one of the top hospitals, Myeongwoo University Hospital. He meets Oh Soo Hyun, an emotional yet good surgeon. Park Hoon and Oh Soo Hyun don't click off well at the beginning, but later they befriend each other. Soo Hyun has a boyfriend, Han Jae Joon, who is also one of the best heart surgeons.

2. Emergency Couple (2014)

Jin Hee was a girl with ambitions and dreams. She met Chang Min at medical school and they started to like each other. Fighting against their family members, they get married, but soon their passionate love dies. Within, a year they get divorced and return to where they belonged. A few years later, they reunited as medical interns in an emergency room. Now, they both equally hate each other and are trying to make it difficult for the other person to survive this internship. Jin Hee falls for her senior doctor, and Chang Min starts to fall for her again. Chang Min is very desperate to make Jin Hee fall in love with him again. Passionate about the opportunity she is given, Jin Hee is doing her best

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3. Yong Pal (2015)

Kim Tae Hyeon is a very skillful surgeon. He had a sister whose medical bills he had to pay off, so he started to work under the name Yong Pal. He works for people who can't get themselves treated in hospitals like gangsters, criminals, or corrupt people. Tae Hyeon gets involved in a tricky situation where he rescues a chaebol heiress Han Yeo Jin who had been in a medically induced coma. He finds himself surrounded by every kind of problem after he rescues her. Tae Hyeon also helps Yeo Jin to regain the rightful legacy as an heiress to the Hanshin Group. While helping each other, romance starts to blossom between them.

4. Blood (2015)

Park Ji Sang is a genius surgeon in the best cancer research hospital, but this genius is hiding the truth that he is a vampire. Unlike other vampires, Ji Sang wants to get close to the people and help them to live more. He suppresses his urge to drink human blood because he thinks life is more precious than his urges. Ji Sang Meets Yoo Ri Ta, a physician who entered medical college at 17. She is a very prideful and capable doctor. Ji Sang starts to fall for Ri Ta. This pair of doctors find themselves fighting against all the evils going on in the hospital. The Chief of the hospital is a man with a dark secret and keeps others in his shadow to achieve his goal of power.

5. Doctors (2016)

Yoo Hye Jung was a girl with a very rough personality and was a bully in school. She had to experience all kinds of scars from childhood. But, she opens up to her mentor Hong Ji Hong who teaches her to live her life with some goals. He encourages her to do well in her studies. Hye Jung finds herself in a tricky situation when her only friend betrays her. She gets jealous because of the close relationship between Hye Jung and Ji Hong, making Hye Jung's life more miserable. Suddenly Ji Hong disappears from her life. A few years later, Hye Jung start to work as a doctor in a well-known hospital. She changed the way she used to live. Hye Jung again comes across Ji Hong, now one of the renowned surgeons in the country. Working under Ji Hong as her junior, the sparks between them flew again. Jin Seo Woo, the friend who betrayed Hye Jung, also works at the same hospital. Seo Woo starts to like her fellow doctor Jung Yoon Do, who gets smitten by Hye Jung's tough personality and her meticulous behavior as a doctor.

6. Hospital Ship (2017)

It is a story about how some doctors board a hospital ship made to serve peoples that are living on remote islands. All the doctors are army doctors except Eun Jae, a genius surgeon whose career is in downfall. Kwak Hyun is a doctor who practices internal medicine. He is also the one who volunteers himself for this good deed. Jae Geol is an Asian medicine doctor who finds himself unlucky as he was selected to volunteer on this ship. These doctors together find themselves working for the people. They suffer from some or other problems in their life. These problems have made them doctors who are not living their life well. They learn to become doctors with compassion and fulfill their lives by living the way they want.

7. A Poem A Day (2018)

A story about people who work in the physical and rehabilitation therapy department. Woo Bo Young has been working as a physical therapist for three years. She wanted to become a poet, but because of her family's financial conditions, she became a therapist. She is still in love with poems and serves her patients wholeheartedly. Shin Min Ho is a new trainee in the hospital who is very carefree and does not want to learn anything. His family made him study physical therapy. Min Ho is surprised to see Bo Young working in the same hospital. Once lovers and now enemies, they don't want to be involved with each other and keep bickering every day. Ye Jae Wook is a renowned physical therapist who also teaches physical therapy. He starts to work as a hospital chief in the hospital. Jae Wook comes across Bo Young, who is passionate about her dream and her love for poetry. They get connected by poems and come to know each other more closely.

8. Doctor John (2019)

A story about doctors who take care of patients in pain. Cha Yo Han is a doctor who takes care of the patient in pain and manages the anesthesia. He can tell what disease a person is suffering from by touching them. Yo Han is a genius and the youngest professor in medical school. Kang Shi Young is also one of the top doctors, as she has been the best since her college. She is warm and emphatic like her father and skilled as her mother. Yo Han with Shi Young tries to discover the truth about the unique cases, that are relatively rare but have become quite frequent in the hospital. They try to resolve the mystery and find out everything about the conspiracy.

9. Hospital Playlist (2020)

A story about five friends who have been together since university. They are loyal to each other and treat each other as a family. Lee Ik Jun is a general surgeon who is very skilled. He is also the heart of the group. Kim Jun Wan is a surgeon who is strict yet very dedicated to his patients. Yang Suk Hyung is a doctor with excellent abilities who loves to enjoy his alone time very much. Ahn Jung Won is a doctor who is very hardworking and dedicated. Chae Song Hwa is a neurosurgeon who is an ace in the department; as the only girl in the group, she is loved by everyone very much. These friends have a band, which they formed in college, and they still perform songs in the band.

10. Ghost Doctor (2022)

Ghost doctor is a drama based on medical fantasy. Cha Young-min is a genius Heart Surgeon who is very arrogant, short-tempered, and has a cold personality. Ko Seung Tak is a genius student who is also the grandson of the hospital's founder. Seung tak was forced by his family to study medicine. He is a genius, but he doesn't have any field experience as he can see ghosts. Young Min and Seung Tak do not like each other in the beginning. After a tragedy happens, only Seung Tak can see Young-min as he becomes a coma ghost due to an accident. Young Min can possess only Seung Tak's body and is not able to touch anyone else other than him. Seung Tak and Young Min become a team to find the ugly truth behind Young Min's accident and the conspiracy behind taking over everything that belongs to Seung Tak.