Season 1
21 episodes
60 min. per episode
Where to watch
This title is not available anywhere yet. Click the button below to promote it and highlight it.
A brilliant yet disillusioned doctor confronts his past while healing broken hearts and lives in a struggling rural hospital.
Episodes
After his father dies in hospital, a wise doctor encourages the teenage Kang Dong Joo to seek revenge by bettering himself. Dong Joo does this by becoming a doctor. Years later as an intern he gets a series of difficult patients as a form of punishment, but after seeing Yoon Seo Jung perform surgery he is smitten.
5 years later as a general surgeon, Dong Joo is forced to transfer to a rural hospital after losing a VIP patient. Here he is reunited with Seo Jung and the enigmatic Teacher Kim and meets the quirky characters of Doldam Hospital.
Seo Jung must face the consequences of her actions whilst recovering from her injuries. Dong Joo is put to work on a busy Friday night and questions if he should stay.
Teacher Kim and Dong Joo fight after treating burn patients and Dong Joo hands in his resignation. Seo Jung begs for another chance and Nurse Myung Sim stands up to Teacher Kim. Chairman Shin asks Teacher Kim to be his heart surgeon much to the chagrin of Do Yoon-wan, the Director of Geosan hospital.
With Teacher Kim's identity revealed, Dong Joo decides to remain at Doldam. Seo Jung begins as an orderly and Director Do's scheming ways are beginning to be known. Dong Joo performs a surgery alongside Teacher Kim.
"Romantic Doctor Kim" is a "real doctor" story set in a small, humble hospital called Dol Dam Hospital. It is a story about people who meet Kim Sa Bu (Han Suk Kyu), a genius doctor, and discover "real romance."