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Doctor Stranger () is a 2014 starring , , and . It aired on SBS from May 5 to July 8, 2014 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:55 KST (UTC+9) for 20 episodes.


Synopsis
As a child, Park Hoon () and his father Park Cheol, a well-known surgeon () were sent to North Korea to conduct an open-heart surgery on Kim Ill Sung to prevent the Second Korean War. After being sent to North Korea, Park Hoon and his father were denied access to go back to South Korea. It is revealed that Park Cheol is suing the Myungwoo University Hospital for a serious malpractice case and Park Cheol's friend, Dr Park Choi wanted to take responsibility. However, the director of the Hospital Oh did not want the malpractice case to become public which will ruin the hospital's reputation. As the result, he conspired with Jang Seok-joo, a national security official to make Park Cheol and his son trapped in North Korea. In North Korea, Park Hoon was trained to become a doctor by his father who was already a famous doctor. He became a genius cardiothoracic surgeon after attending medical school in North Korea while moonlighting as a smuggler, selling South Korea K-pop DVD. There, he fell deeply in love with Song Jae-hee (). After Park Hoon's father died, he tried to flee to South Korea with Jae-hee, but lost contact with her in the end. Park Hoon was able to flee to South Korea alone.

In South Korea, Park Hoon begins to work as doctor in a top hospital Myungwoo University Hospital. Meanwhile, he found a girl that looks exactly like Jae-hee, Doctor Han Seung-hee, who claims not to know Park Hoon. At the same time, Lee Sung-hoon, a leading doctor in the hospital plans his revenge against the institution for the death of his father in the malpractice case 10 years ago.


Cast

Main
A South Korean who was raised in North Korea after his father was conned into going over to North. He trained to be a genius doctor in North Korea and later defects to South Korea in a bid to live a better life with his lover.
  • as Song Jae-hee 송재희/Han Seung-hee한승희
    • Seo Ji-hee as young Song Jae-hee
Jae-hee is Park Hoon's soul mate who was separated from him while they were escaping from North Korea; Seung-hee is a North Korean woman and is a specialist in oriental medicine anesthesia.
  • as Han Jae-joon 한재준/ Lee Sung-hoon 이성훈
    • Kim Ji-hoon as young Lee Sung-hoon
A genius who graduated from Harvard and became a doctor to take revenge on Myungwoo Hospital for the death of his father in a malpractice case, as Park Hoon's rival.
Daughter of the chairman of Myungwoo Hospital, a cardiothoracic surgeon


Supporting
  • as Cha Jin-soo (North Korean agent)
  • as Prime Minister Jang Seok-joo, the primary antagonist of the series.
  • Jeon Gook-hwan as Oh Joon-gyu (Soo-hyun's father and chairman of the Myungwoo Hospital), he is the major antagonist of the series as he responsible for deporting Dr Cheol and his son to North Korea in the first place.
  • as Moon Hyung-wook
  • Nam Myung-ryul as Choi Byeong-cheol
  • as Lee Chang-yi
  • Kim Sang-ho as Yang Jeong-han
  • Hwang Dong-joo as Geum Bong-hyun
  • Kang Tae-hwan as Oh Sang-jin
  • Lee Jae Won as Kim Chi-gyu
  • as Kim Ah-young (Chi-gyu's younger sister)
  • Uhm Soo-jung as Min Soo-ji
  • Han Eun-sun as Eun Min-se
  • as Kim Tae-sool
  • Kim Ji-eun as Joon-gyu's secretary
  • as President Hong Chan-sang
  • Kim Ji-young as Jeong-min
  • as Park Cheol (Park Hoon's father)
  • Zhang Liang as Sean Zhang (Jae-joon's friend)
  • as Nurse


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Part 6

Production and broadcast
Director previously directed (2009), City Hunter (2011), Master's Sun (2013). Co-screenwriter Park Jin-woo previously wrote Conspiracy in the Court (2007) and The Kingdom of the Winds (2008).

In , the online streaming rights for drama were sold for $80,000 per episode and the drama was made available for online streaming on both and where it received 330 million and 50 million views, respectively. As of July 7, 2014 it has been streamed close to 400 million times. Due to the drama's success in China there are currently plans to edit the drama into a film and release it theatrically exclusively in China with an alternate ending. According to the website DailyNK, which reports on North Korea-related issues, the drama was highly popular among North Korean youth who would obtain it illegally at the jangmadang (markets).


Ratings


Awards and nominations
20147th Korea Drama AwardsTop Excellence Award, Actor
Excellence Award, Actress
3rd APAN Star AwardsExcellence Award, Actress in a Miniseries
Popular Star Award, Actress
SBS Drama AwardsSBS Special Award
Excellence Award, Actress in a Drama Special


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