Doctors ( Korean Drama 2016 )

Chapter 1

Doctors may not be about doctors quite yet, but I can see a promising story to be told through the journey of becoming one, particularly with our hot-headed heroine. We start out with the backstory of our characters' involvement in each other's lives, looking back at the nature of their first impressions. Youth is a turbulent time for our heroine, and she's about to test the limits of her teacher, who's also no easy match for her. He's ready to instill purpose and meaning into his students' lives, even while he's searching for purpose himself.

Chapter 1

An ambulance speeds through the night to the emergency trauma center of the hospital. There, a woman ties her hair up in the locker room and narrates, "If you're destined to meet a person, you will eventually. The person I'm destined to meet is here."

The ER is packed with patients and full of action, and our narrator, YOO HYE-JUNG (Park Shin-hye) tells us that death may be a surprising thing elsewhere, but not here. The person she's destined to meet is not surprised by death.

A gang causes a scene in the ER, and just as one of the gangsters lifts his fist to punch a trembling doctor, Hye-jung grabs his arm and effectively throws him aside. She clarifies that this is a place for patients, so the irrelevant gang members should step outside for their hyung-nim to get treated.

The injured hyung-nim (cameo by Lee Ki-woo) contends that he won't accept treatment from a woman, but Hye-jung argues that he's just a patient in her eyes and once again orders the gang members to go outside. They refuse and try to escort her outside, so she handles things the harder way - with force.

She flips and throws down the gangsters, single-handedly wiping out the whole gang - at one point tackling three guys at once - with her badass fighting skills. She apologizes for hurting them (and their egos, though she's surely not sorry about that) and promises to treat their injuries. Then suddenly, the hyung-nim faints on the bench, and Hye-jung becomes more demanding. Are they going to let him die? The gang gives her approval to treat him, along with a threat if anything goes wrong, and she gets started.

Thirteen years ago. Hye-jung sits in her school office, blasting music through her earphones. The teacher smacks her for not doing as told and says that she's getting off easy. For the sake of her father, who pleaded for her to stay in school, they're transferring instead of expelling her.

Hye-jung collects her things and kicks the chair as she walks out, but her teacher stops her, demanding a proper salutation. Rolling her eyes, she wishes her teacher a healthy life until she paints her wall with poop. That calls for another beating, but Hye-jung grabs her teacher's arm and reminds her that she's not her student anymore. Her teacher predicts that Hye-jung will end up in jail, and Hye-jung warns the teacher to watch her back at night. "You're the devil," her teacher responds.

Hye-jung's dad waits for her at school and warns her that he won't be able to support her forever. Hye-jung scoffs that Dad makes it seem like he's a good father, coming to school to beg and all.

In the car, Dad asks how Hye-jung is going to live, and she says that she's going to live carelessly. He hits her multiple times, but Hye-jung doesn't lose her disdainful attitude. She looks at Dad and tells him to kill her instead, just like he did to Mom. He looks at her, a little frightened, and asks why she doesn't cry. She looks back fiercely and says, "Because my heart is already dead."

Dad drives Hye-jung to her grandma's place in the country and dumps her things out of the truck. He tells her that their relationship is over now, though Hye-jung insists that it was already done when he brought that woman home. That woman is her stepmom, and clearly Hye-jung doesn't approve. Dad dumps an envelope of money on the ground before he drives off and officially cuts off ties.