K-Drama: 용팔이 / Yong Pal (The Gang Doctor) SBS 2015 Medical drama. Airs Wed-Thu on station LA 18.1 (SBS) from 9:15p-10:30p. Eng Subs.
(Replaced: Mask)
Production Company: HB Entertainment
Chief Producer: Park Young Soo
Director: Oh Jin Suk, Park Shin Woo (박신우)
Screenwriter: Jang Hyuk Rin
Episodes: 16 Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period in Korea: 2015-Aug-05 to 2015-Sep-24
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 22:00
Original Soundtrack: Yong Pal OST
Drama Homepages: Dramawiki; Asianwiki (cast photos); SBS (Korean)
SYNOPSIS (from Asianwiki) class ul Kim Tae-Hyun (Joo Won) is an excellent surgeon, but he is constantly harassed by debt collectors due to his younger sister. His younger sister requires expensive kidney dialysis. To make more money, he goes to see patients privately for a high fee. He doesn't care whether these patients are criminals as long as they can pay him.
Tae Hyun becomes a pawn in the chief’s priority of catering to VIP patients within the hospital. But his life changes when he meets Han Yeo Jin (Kim Tae-Hee), a chaebol heiress, who has been in a coma for three years.Tae Hyun helps Yeo Jin to wake from her sleep. CAST & CHARACTERS class ul Main Cast Joo Won as Kim Tae Hyun
Kim Tae Hee as Han Yeo Jin
Jo Hyun Jae as Han Do Joon
Chae Jung Ahn as Lee Chae Young
12th Floor at Hanshin Hospital Jung Woong In as Chief Surgeon Lee
Bae Hae Sun as Nurse Hwang
Stephanie Lee as Cynthia
Hanshin Hospital Jo Bok Rae as Park Tae Yong
Cha Soon Bae as Chief Surgeon Shin
Kim Mi Kyung as Head Nurse Kang Soo Min, general surgery
Oh Na Ra as nurse, ICU
Park Pal Young as hospital director Byung
Moon Ji In as nurse Song
Yoo Joon Hong (유준홍) as resident 1
Im Hwa Young (임화영) as resident 2
Kim Dong Suk as resident 3
People around Kim Tae Hyun Song Kyung Chul as Doo Chul
Ahn Se Ha as Man Shik
Park Hye Soo (박혜수) as Kim So Hyun
Do Yong Goo (도용구) as Tae Hyun's father
Kim Na Woon as Tae Hyun's mother
Hanshin Group Nam Myung Ryul as Chae Young's father
Jang Kwang as President Go
Police Yoo Seung Mok as Detective Lee
Jo Hwi (조휘) as Detective Kim
Other Choi Min as Choi Sung Hoo
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Original post by Hyena:
This is airing W-TH on Ch. 18 in LA. Anyone watching? Interesting so far.
Re: I started this K-drama last thur. with ep. 2 and I've been hooked with the story and the young doctor, and his coworkers at the hospital though not with the crooked senior doctors of the hospital. I hope we will learn more about the back story of the heiress in a coma, and her family's drama!
Re: I watched episode 8 last night and I'm still not invested. Aside from the young doctor and the chairman's wife I find the rest of the characters uninteresting, including the comatose girl. Kim Tae Hee may be THE most boring actress in Korea. I know she's in a coma, but she always appears to be in a coma. I don't get her. I know I'm in the minority here. Just saying...
--- Bizarre Bunch Forever!!!!!!!!
Jongnam and Suky forever!!!!!
Re: Hi, smoochie! Well, after episode #4, I'm tending to agree with you. The lead's character is interesting, so I'll stick with it for a while. I think they're laying on the young doctor's problems a bit too much.
Took me awhile--the chairman's wife was the older girl in Coffee Prince. Haven't seen her recently.
Re: The chairman's wife, actress Chae Jung An, has appeared in so many dramas and I like her in this one. She usually plays one of those clingy annoying women, but I like her in this. Seems she's an okay girl. It's actually not a bad cast, Jo Hyun Jae is an actor I always like to see and I never see him enough, but he seems wasted in this. There's also Kim Mi Kyung who's always great, but this role seems a little too non-important.
I'm still watching because they're speaking Korean and it doesn't really matter whether I love this or not. If these were American actors speaking English I'd have dumped this one already. Don't judge me.
--- Bizarre Bunch Forever!!!!!!!!
Jongnam and Suky forever!!!!!
Re: agree with Smoochie re Kim Tae Hee. I glanced at this drama but could not stick to it. Love the young doctor but he is wasted here. Too many bad things cluttering up this drama.
Re: haha smoochie! Sometimes I turn on the Korean news just to hear the language.
I haven't seen Kim Tae Hee before, that I remember. I'm already tired of the opening of the drama--not a very good opening. However, I'm on another Kdrama board, and most of the people there like this one. I often disagree with them! Right now, it's better than the other one on WTh.
Re: K-Drama: 용팔이 / Yong Pal (The Gang Doctor) This is a drama that I have enjoyed watching. I like the basic story. It keeps my interest and the cast is to my liking, as well.
I think we still have a couple episodes to go here in LA.
