AKA: Dr. Jin
Genre: Period, Medical, Time travel, Romance
Episodes: 22
Broadcast period: 2012-May to 2012-Aug
Cast: Song Seung Hoon, Park Min Young, Kim Jae
Joong and Lee Bum Soo
This is the Korean version of the Japanese
drama JIN.
One night, Jin Hyuk (Song Seung Hoon)
wakes up in a forest dazed and confused. As he walks he stumbles upon people
fighting with swords and dressed in historical cloths. Believing they are
actors filming a period movie, he approaches, only to witness a man getting
slayed in front him. When he is noticed the people start to follow him, and he
starts to run and almost falls of a cliff. Yelling for help, a man saves him in
the last minute, where after he passes out.
Few hours ago he had surgically removed a fetus-looking-a-like tumor,
from a badly hurt patient. That evening had been preparing to propose to his
girlfriend Yoo Mi Na (Park Min Young), who is a fellow doctor at the same
hospital where he is. But due to a fight the two spilt up in anger, and Mi Na
ends up in a car accident witnessed by Jin Hyuk, who ends up operating on her,
though with slim chances. Being upset he goes to the rooftop, and sees his
badly hurt tumor patient, follows him and ends up falling off the hospital
building. Coming to his senses he finds himself on the cliff, with his savior
(Lee Bum Soo). He informs him that he is in Joseon in the year 1860, 150 years
in the past. Not believing, he is stunned by the view striking him, untouched
scenery.
Now the questions are: how and why did he
come here?
This drama is a partial copy of the
Japanese drama JIN, like the entire storyline is almost identical, except for
the third love interest - JaeJoong. It
might have been because I am so fond of the Japanese drama that I really found
the Korean version boring, and long. The scenes that should have been exciting
were not, and the romance was just bad - like I felt absolutely nothing, not
even a inch. I really felt bad for the supporting actor, like Dr. Jin was the reason
for his misery, mostly, and then he just walks back to his reality and gets the
girl he wanted. Like ruined a life of two - probably more - people and just
walks back as if nothing happened.
I thought the acting was mediocre, but
have to admit I was astonished by JaeJoong. Actually thought he did a good job,
and I didn’t want to watch it in the beginning because I though his acting was
bad - how wrong I was. In my eyes, he - and the brother of the leading female
character - was the star.
The drama is okay, you can watch it, I
just wasn’t too excited in watching it - that might’ve ruined it for me, but generally
good drama. I think, again my personal view, if the drama only had focused on
the historical par, without Jin in it, it would’ve been way better.
☆☆☆½/ 3½ out
of 5 stars
♥♥♥/ 3 out of 5 hearts
