Dr. Romantic
May values not die and beauty not be shallow...
An eccentric, triple board-certified virtuoso surgeon leaves a top job in Seoul and ends up at a provincial hospital, where he mentors young doctors.
Seasons
1. How to Put an Elephant into a Fridge?
Air Date: 2016-11-07
A heroic doctor steps in to help a distraught boy. Intern Gang Dong-ju helps Dr. Yun Seo-jeong with emergencies at Geosan University Medical Center.
2. The Result of the Hypersecretion of Adrenaline
Air Date: 2016-11-08
Dong-ju wonders whether hard work is enough to get ahead. Doldam Hospital gets a new doctor in general surgery. Seo-jeong sees a face from the past.
3. Friday of 13 People
Air Date: 2016-11-14
Dong-ju questions Teacher Kim's ways, despite his awe-inspiring skills. Seo-jeong must deal with the ramifications of her actions.
4. Necessary and Sufficient Condition
Air Date: 2016-11-15
Dong-ju finds that he's no match for Teacher Kim and becomes desperate to leave. Doldam receives a VIP visitor. Seo-jeong gets a new role.
5. Principle of Relative
Air Date: 2016-11-21
Being principled may be relative. It's all hands on deck after a major highway accident. Dong-ju tries to find out more about Teacher Kim's identity.
6. Motivation
Air Date: 2016-11-22
Teacher Kim makes demands of his own. Myeong-sim shows the staff how it's done. Associates from Seoul stop by Doldam. In-beom makes a gut call.
7. Unstable Factor
Air Date: 2016-11-28
When Doldam gets a surprise, everyone tries to cope. Dong-ju wants to know where he stands. Teacher Kim gets what he wants -- for now.
8. The Manifestation of Humanism
Air Date: 2016-11-29
A patient comes first -- no matter what. Seo-jeong gets an unexpected pep talk. Teacher Kim's compassion proves to be multilayered.
9. The Boundary of Good
Air Date: 2016-12-05
Dong-ju makes a call -- to Chairman Shin. Teacher Kim reminds Yun-wan of the importance of basics. Seo-jeong vexes an old mentor. It's Friday at Doldam.
10. Crush
Air Date: 2016-12-06
The inspector from Geosan tries to stop the Doldam staff from treating patients. But there's a multicar accident -- and a drunk driver at the scene.
11. Psychological Entropy
Air Date: 2016-12-12
Yun-wan wants to know if Dong-ju is on his side. A soldier goes missing. Seo-jeong doesn't back down, but Teacher Kim shows her how it's truly done.
12. The Boiling Point
Air Date: 2016-12-13
Dong-ju gets bad advice and faces the consequences. Seo-jeong gets put on the spot. Yun-wan dials up the pressure but Teacher Kim pushes back.
13. The Art of Turmoil
Air Date: 2016-12-19
The staff starts preparing for Chairman Shin's surgery and Seo-jeong gets her big chance. Doldam may have an epidemic on its hands.
14. Paragonimiasis Effect
Air Date: 2016-12-20
Seo-jeong volunteers to deal with a critical patient. Doldam averts a crisis. Dong-ju shows his appreciation. Teacher Kim catches In-beom's mistake.
15. The Cornered Stone Syndrome
Air Date: 2016-12-27
In a twisted world that demands blind obedience to its rules, there's no room for those with integrity and ability. Shin's surgery gets complicated.
16. Burden of Risk
Air Date: 2017-01-02
Teacher Kim plans to do the impossible, and Yun-wan will do anything to stop him. In-beom wants to do the surgery -- for the team, not his father.
17. Moment of Truth
Air Date: 2017-01-03
A large audience waits outside the operating room -- and not everyone wants the team to prevail. A shifty reporter starts lurking around Doldam.
18. Whether You Want It or Not
Air Date: 2017-01-09
It's only after time passes that seemingly minor moments in life start taking on greater meaning. Yun-wan gets his way -- and orders Doldam's closure.
19. Doctors and Righteous People
Air Date: 2017-01-10
Yun-wan makes sure that old wounds don't lie dormant. The furtive reporter keeps snooping around. Dong-ju confronts Teacher Kim about the past.
20. The Law of Conservation of Romance
Air Date: 2017-01-16
Teacher Kim takes the staff to Seoul. Yun-wan won't let his old rival have the spotlight. Bu Yong-ju is hurt but stands by romance and his principles.
1. Rainmaker
Air Date: 2020-01-06
During his trip to the main hospital, Teacher Kim leaves an impression — especially on three young doctors who find themselves in his hospital lobby.
2. Mechanism of Accidents
Air Date: 2020-01-07
Teacher Kim shocks Seo U-jin with his unconventional approach to saving a high-ranking official, and bans Cha Eun-jae from assisting his surgeries.
3. Undefined Setting Value
Air Date: 2020-01-13
Do Yun-wan creates chaos by bringing his own team of doctors. U-jin's participation in Park Min-guk's surgery sparks a misunderstanding.
4. Utilizing Conflict
Air Date: 2020-01-14
U-jin gets caught in the middle of two feuding teams of doctors when the family of a patient threatens to sue for malpractice.
5. A Living Friday Night
Air Date: 2020-01-20
New doctors get a taste of their first Friday at Doldam Hospital. U-jin refuses to treat a patient who triggers his childhood trauma.
6. Placebo
Air Date: 2020-01-21
Teacher Kim leads his team in saving two critical patients at the same time. Eun-jae steps in to protect a woman from her abusive husband.
7. The Line that Should be Protected
Air Date: 2020-01-27
Min-guk becomes determined to turn people away from Teacher Kim. A situation Eun-jae tries to mitigate takes a turn for the worse.
8. Walk of Respect
Air Date: 2020-01-28
Even in her final moments, a paramedic helps save another's life. U-jin shows Eun-jae his way of resetting the mind from worries.
9. Trauma
Air Date: 2020-02-03
U-jin looks into diagnoses for Teacher Kim's arm pain. A bus accident conjures up a regretful moment that haunts Min-guk's conscience.
10. The Effects of an Adequate Amount of Anxiety
Air Date: 2020-02-04
Yoon A-reum protects a patient's rape kit from falling into wrong hands. Min-guk finally brings up the bus accident from 11 years ago to Teacher Kim.
11. Minimum Boundaries
Air Date: 2020-02-10
Min-guk asserts his authority by restructuring the hospital staff. U-jin is stunned to learn which surgeon was behind a faulty operation.
12. An Error of Exchange of Equivalents
Air Date: 2020-02-11
A recruiter with bitter resentment for U-jin tries to tempt staff members to leave Doldam Hospital. Eunjae's mom asks for a favor.
13. Defense Mechanism
Air Date: 2020-02-17
Eun-jae panics when she runs out of medication from Teacher Kim before surgery. U-jin gets coerced into leaving Doldam Hospital.
14. Selective Dyslexia
Air Date: 2020-02-18
Teacher Kim tasks U-jin with a final assignment. Min-guk performs surgery on a VIP patient despite pushback from Shim Hye-jin.
15. Rapport; Trust Relationship
Air Date: 2020-02-24
Do In-beom returns to Doldam Hospital to investigate an unsuccessful surgery. Min-guk decides between his greed and the truth.
16. Koi's Law
Air Date: 2020-02-25
Bae Mun-jeong comes clean to U-jin about the connection between their families. Teacher Kim secures a safe future for Doldam Hospital.
1. Break Line
Air Date: 2023-04-28
The medical staff of Doldam Hospital fly out in a helicopter to a ship lost out at sea on behalf of Teacher Kim, who is absent on vacation.
2. Between Ethics and Reality
Air Date: 2023-04-29
As the patient's lung condition deteriorates due to tuberculosis, Teacher Kim opens the trauma centre operating room for Ri Bok-young's surgery.
3. How to Put an Elephant into a Fridge? Part 2
Air Date: 2023-05-05
Doldam Hospital hires new personnel. The people of Doldam, who thought Teacher Kim would be the new head of the trauma centre, hold an emergency meeting.
4. Abracadabra
Air Date: 2023-05-06
Patients injured in a residential fire are rushed into the emergency room. Seo U-jin treats the suspected arsonist despite Jang Dong-hwa's criticism.
5. Code Clear
Air Date: 2023-05-12
Cha Jin-man hates that Teacher Kim's methods are deeply rooted into Doldam Hospital and takes everyone except Lee Seon-ung and Dong-hwa to the trauma centre.
6. Empathy & Sympathy
Air Date: 2023-05-13
The trauma centre loses a patient and receives another patient in critical condition. Meanwhile, a child visits Teacher Kim at Doldam Hospital.
7. Inciting Hope
Air Date: 2023-05-19
Wounded soldiers are rushed to Doldam Hospital. A-reum is left alone to tend to the emergency room when rogue patients suddenly cause a scene.
8. Underdog Effect
Air Date: 2023-05-20
Patients rush into the emergency room while the staff tends to surgeries. Doldam Hospital falls into chaos as the gunman's identity is revealed.
9. The Righteous Doctor Complex
Air Date: 2023-05-26
When an old building collapses resulting in several casualties, a disaster medical support team is dispatched to the site.
10. The Abuse of Justice
Air Date: 2023-05-27
Doldam Hospital receives news of a second collapse, but the place is still full of injured people. Teacher Kim leaves everything and heads to the scene.
11. The Certainty of Uncertainty
Air Date: 2023-06-02
Go Gyeong-suk does not give up the legal battle over her son's death. She proposes a secret deal to bring down Jin-man, but Teacher Kim opposes to it.
12. The Courage to be Ordinary
Air Date: 2023-06-03
Jin-man fails to find the culprit who broke into the director's office. His reputation is further ruined as incidents from his past become known.
13. The Parrotbill Paradox
Air Date: 2023-06-09
Gang Dong-ju returns to Doldam Hospital, with his unconventional proposals causing a stir in the trauma centre.
14. The Addiction to Success
Air Date: 2023-06-10
Eun-jae performs emergency surgery on a non-trauma patient while she must join another surgery for a patient with multiple traumas.
15. The Game Changer
Air Date: 2023-06-16
People injured from a forest fire rush into Doldam Hospital. Yet, the trauma centre is empty due to the staff staging a boycott against Dong-ju.
16. Dreamers
Air Date: 2023-06-17
A fire approaches as if it would devour Doldam Hospital at any moment. Only after evacuating all the patients do the staff realise Teacher Kim was gone.
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Rating
8.3/10
Release Date
2016-11-07
Episodes
52 (3 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
Production Companies
Samhwa Networks
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