Good Doctor (South Korean TV series)
Good Doctor is a 2013 South Korean medical drama television series starring Joo Won, Moon Chae-won, Joo Sang-wook, Kim Min-seo, Chun Ho-jin, Kwak Do-won, and Ko Chang-seok. It aired on KBS2 from August 5 to October 8, 2013, on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. The early working title was Green Scalpel.
Synopsis
Park Si-on is a resident surgeon on the autism spectrum with savant syndrome who was sent to a specialized care center as a child, where he was discovered to have a genius-level memory and keen spatial skills. He eventually becomes a pediatric surgery resident and is given six months to prove himself capable. However, due to his atypical mental and emotional condition, Si-on faces conflict from his peers and patients, who view him as childlike and unreliable. Most critical is the hotheaded surgeon Kim Do-han. Do-han was requested by the young surgeon's mentor and hospital director, Choi Woo-seok, to guide him but is unwilling to do so, as he criticizes him as overly dependent on his photographic memory rather than empathy for patients. Despite help from understanding and fair colleagues like Cha Yoon-seo and Han Jin-wook, the hospital is a fierce and competitive world, and the challenges Si-on faces become only greater when he falls in love with Yoon-seo, a fellow doctor at the hospital.Cast
Main
- Joo Won as Park Si-on
- *Choi Ro-woon as young Si-on
- Moon Chae-won as Cha Yoon-seo
- Joo Sang-wook as Kim Do-han
- Kim Min-seo as Yoo Chae-kyung
Supporting
Sungwon University Hospital officials
- Chun Ho-jin as Choi Woo-seok, director
- Kwak Do-won as Kang Hyun-tae, deputy director
- Na Young-hee as Lee Yeo-won, chairwoman of the board
- Jo Hee-bong as Go Choong-man, head of the Pediatric Surgery department
- Lee Ki-yeol as Lee Hyuk-pil, managing director of the foundation
- Jung Man-sik as Kim Jae-joon, head of the Hepatobiliary-Pancreatic Surgery department
Department of Pediatric Surgery
- Kim Young-kwang as Han Jin-wook
- Yoon Park as Woo Il-kyu, second-year resident
- Yoon Bong-gil as Hong Gil-nam, second-year resident
- Wang Ji-won as Kim Sun-joo, intern
Nursing division
- Ko Chang-seok as Jo Jung-mi, senior nurse
- Jin Kyung as Nam Joo-yeon, head nurse
- Lee Ah-rin as Ga-kyung
- Ha Kyu-won as Hye-jin
Children's ward
- Kim Hyun-soo as Na In-hae
- Uhm Hyun-kyung as Na In-young
- Ahn Sung-hoon as Lee Woo-ram
- Yoo Je-gun as Park Ho-suk
- Lee Jang-kyung as Kim Ye-eun
- Oh Eun-chan as Cha Dong-jin
- Yoo Hae-jung as Eun-ok
- Jung Yoon-seok as Kyu-hyun
Others
- Yoon Yoo-sun as Oh Kyung-joo, Shi-on's mother
- Jung Ho-keun as Park Choon-sung, Shi-on's father
- Seo Hyun-chul as Byung-soo
- Jeon Jun-hyeok as Park Si-deok, Shi-on's older brother
- *Ryu Deok-hwan as adult Si-deok
- Ban Min-jung as Kyu-hyun's mother
- Kim Chang-wan as Chairman Jung
Special appearances
- Kwak Ji-min as Lee Soo-jin
- Moon Hee-kyung as Mrs. Jang, Soo-jin's mother-in-law
- Kim Sun-hwa as Eun-ok's aunt
- Seo Kang-joon as one of the punks who want to beat up Shi-on
- In Gyo-jin as Soo-jin's husband
- Yoo Jae-myung as the killer
- Kim Young-hee as staff of the family restaurant
- Gong Jung-hwan as Professor of Neurosurgery Department
- Park Ki-woong as Woong-ki