Dr. Park’s Clinic Korean Drama

Network: TVING

Episodes: 12

Genre: Comedy, Medical

Aired: Jan 14, 2022 – Feb 18, 2022

Aired Day: Friday and Saturday

Grade: A+

Dr. Park’s Clinic Korean Drama is the story of Dr. Park Won Jang who is an internal medicine doctor and recently opened a clinic. As many of us think he also thought that money will be rushing in after opening a new clinic. But the reality is only very few patients came to the clinic and the income was very low. This made him depressed adding to that he started having hair loss. He was married to Sa Mo Rin, who supports her husband in everything. The story is all about how he breaks all the stereotypes, and get succeeds in his profession, and turns into an acknowledged doctor.

Main Characters:

Lee Seo Jin as Dr. Park Won Jang

He is a middle-class man and an Internal Medicine graduate. With a lot of dreams and visions, he started up a new clinic to acknowledge him as the best doctor and to earn a lot of money.

Ra Mi Ram as Sa Mo Rim

Sa Mo Rim is the wife of Park Won Jang. She doesn’t believe in medicine or whatever her husband says, she blindly trusts the medical TV Programs. Mo Rim is an affectionate and loving wife;

Highlights of Dr. Park’s Clinic Korean Drama

Doctor’s Life:

Every Doctor strives to be successful in their profession. On opening we get to see two contrasting doctors, one is Park Sung Woon who has all the wealth fancy car, fancy house, and a load of patients who worship him as a god. In contrast to him our lead, Park Won Jang has opened a new clinic, with no patient flow and income. His wife Sa Mo Rim adds on to his burden, she spends lavishly and even a single penny is not saved. Park Won Jang, his wife, and nurse works for the new clinic

Patient Flow:

As Park Won Jang still does not have any patients, he visits tops Doctors around the town for advice to develop his clinic. He gets mixed advice such as being sympathetic towards the patient, using sugar-coated words, taking all the investigations for a simple disease. Then at last we get to see Dr. Park’s first patient who has come to cut her toenails!! it was indeed funny at the same time emotional how a middle-class doctor struggles in his career.

Misery:

Park’s life is full of problems. he is trying to build up his career, in mids of which he needs to support his wife and 2 children. Due to loss of stress and depression, he also faced extreme hair loss (alopecia), he started covering it up with a wig. His life is a complete mess now. He struggles a lot to establish himself as a doctor.

Promotion:

Dr. Park struggled day and night to establish his clinic for the world. In the process, he even lost his hair. He replaced this with a fancy wig to attract patients. Dr, Park’s wife Sa Mo Rim promoted the hospital with her beauty. Head nurses are also involved in aggressive marketing by treating day and night and endless coffee mix. Amidst all the struggles, he trusted himself and his passion for his profession. So, his clinic started blooming off but with very little patient flow, But, he treated everyone with utmost care

Struggles:

He started facing many problems like stress, debt, and family burden which made him collapse. As the patient flow was very minima, he struggled to meet the ends of his family and to pay the debts. He can’t even pay the nurse. After many struggles, his clinic was acknowledged by the people and Dr. Park’s clinic turned out to be one of the famous clinics in the town.

Overall Thoughts on Dr. Park’s Clinic Korean Drama

Dr. Park’s Clinic Korean Drama is a sitcom with medical elements over it. The first few episodes are out and we get an idea about Dr. Park’s situation and other characters’ introduction. As of now, it is a good drama that gives you some laughs now and then. In upcoming episodes, we may expect hilarious screenplay and acting. Let us witness if Park succeeds in his journey as a doctor. This drama is for someone who needs good laughter therapy. This drama is based on the quote that “Hard work pays off, even if not now but shortly” It is one of the light-hearted medical comedy-drama which depicts the struggles of the emerging or budding doctors. This portraits the sad reality that people always get attracted to a fancy big hospital and never to the passionate small clinics. If you are a fan of medical drama, then give this a try!!!

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