| Good Doctor | |
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Promotional poster for Good Doctor
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| Genre |
Medical drama Romance Comedy |
| Written by | Park Jae-bum |
| Directed by | Ki Min-soo Kim Jin-woo |
| Starring |
Joo Won Moon Chae-won Joo Sang-wook |
| Composer(s) | Choi Cheol-ho |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language(s) | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 20 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Kim Sung-geun |
| Producer(s) | Lee Jae-hoon Park Woo-ram |
| Location(s) | Korea |
| Cinematography | Kim Jae-hwan Kim Yong-soo |
| Editor(s) | Kim Mi-kyung |
| Running time | Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 (KST) |
| Production company(s) | Logos Film |
| Release | |
| Original network | Korean Broadcasting System |
| Original release | August 5 – October 8, 2013 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Shark |
| Followed by | Marry Him If You Dare |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Good Doctor (Hangul: 굿 닥터; RR: Gut Dakteo) is a 2013 South Korean medical drama television series starring Joo Won, Moon Chae-won, Joo Sang-wook, 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. Joo Won played an autistic savant who becomes a genius pediatric surgeon.
The early working title was Green Scalpel (Hangul: 그린 메스; RR: Geurin Meseu; lit. "Green ").
Park Shi-on (Joo Won) is an autistic savant 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 enters the field of pediatric surgery as a resident, where he is given 6 months to prove himself capable. However, due to his atypical mental and emotional condition, Shi-on faces conflict from his peers and patients, who view him as childlike and unreliable. Most critical is the hotheaded surgeon Kim Do-han (Joo Sang-wook), who labels him a soulless robot of a doctor who can only rely heavily on his photographic memory instead of feeling what the patient needs. Despite help from understanding and fair colleagues like Cha Yoon-seo (Moon Chae-won) and Han Jin-wook (Kim Young-kwang), the hospital is a fierce and competitive world and the challenges Shi-on faces become only greater when he falls in love with Yoon-seo.