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.....as it gets for a, "Coming of Age", story. Really well told with brilliant acting and direction. Never seen the two leading actors before, but they were excellent, very convincing, but Kang ki-young, who I had first seen in, "Extraordinary Attorney Woo", and many other series and Park Sung-Geun, who I last saw in, "Stranger". The only thing that let it down production wise, was whoever was in charge of continuity, stuffed up on the popcorn containers and one episode that had two endings and the editor couldn't decide which one to use and submitted both of them and both were used, unless something was lost in translation, I'll leave it up to you to see them and decide. Another glitch was not telling the audience, one scene was filmed in a correction facility, it must have been on the wall in Korean characters, because it wasn't until a second scene was filmed on the same location, that it clicked. But another series, where the ending is very lame and the only excuse, can be that a season 2, 5-10 years later can be made, here's hoping. But this K-Drama, has to be on your watch list.

..with Park Shin-hye, actually a similar role she played in, "Doctors", which she starred in 2016, 8 years earlier, a highly recommended series, But, Lee Seung-joon, who has a supporting role in this series, had a bigger supporting with Park Shin-hye in, "Memories of Alhambra", a different role for her, but another highly recommended series. The story tried to tell some life truths with on a very Asian basis, work hard but try to experience some of life's good as well. A very K-Drama short coming is the strong alcohol theme, where it seems to be ok to continually show characters being drunk to let off steam, but never show a actor actually smoking a cigarette, like it's ok to get serosis of the liver, but not lung cancer. Another reason, I gave this series a 7 rating, is the over acting for the comedic scenes, all very, "Asian", makes it challenging for the series from being accepted internationally. But another series that if you have acquired a taste for K-Dramas, then you should add this on to your watch list.

...I'm writing a review, after just watching 5 episodes and intend finishing all 8 episodes. But I have to state that the acting is so over the top and cartoonish, that the intro with the characters all animated, could quite easily have carried on, without the live actors. What keeps you watching is the very authentic looking surgery scenes to a non medical person like myself, with no blurring out/censored scenes at all, but the story deserves better acting and I'm also not a big fan of dubbed vocals, much rather hear the actors real voices and read the sub titles. Hence only giving this a 7, but you could do worse, if you can put up with the actors, acting like cartoon characters.