Life (Kdrama Review & Summary)
Life poster
- Genre: Medical, Mystery, Crima, Hospital Drama
- Date Released: July 2018
- KDrama: 16 Episodes
Cast:
- Lee Dong Wook as Ye Jin Woo
- Cho Seung Woo as Koo Seung Hyo (President)
- Won Jin-A as Lee No Eul
- Lee Kyu Hyung as Ye Sun Woo
- Yoo Jae Myung as Joo Kyung Moon
- Moon So Ri as Oh Se Hwa
- Moon Sung Geun a
- Kim Tae Sang (Deputy Director)
- Cheon Ho Jin as Lee Bo-Hoon (Director)
- Tae In-Ho as Sun Woo Chang
- Yum Hye Ran as Kang Kyung-A
- Choi Yu Hwa as Choi Seo Hyun
- Eom Hyo Seop as Lee Sang Yeob
- Kim Won-Hae as Lee Dong Soo
- Park Min Gwan as Ko Young-Jae
- Woo Mi-Hwa as Kim Jung Hee
- Jung Moon Sung as Jo Nam Hyeong
- Park Ji Yeon as Lee So-Jung
- Lee Sang Hee as Kim Eun Ha
- Jung Hee-Tae as Seo Ji-Yong
Based from the first episode, Life would be a cracking hospital drama. It sets to follow the tautness and sophistication of the 2017 legal drama, Secret Forest, which also came from the pen of the same writer, Lee Soo-Yeon.
There are also a lot of the actors from Secret Forest who are now playing different roles in Life.
Episode 1
The medical staff at the A&E department were on tenterhook waiting for a patient to be brought in by the medical emergency team.
The lead doctor was Ye Jin Woo, who was absolutely shattered to find out that the patient was DOA (dead on arrival).
The patient happened to be the much loved and respected Director, the head of Sangkook University Hospital.
There were some whispers that there is more to the death than meet the eye.
It was said that the Director had been drinking when he visited the Deputy Director in his house. After more Soju drinking, the Director apparently decided to smoke despite his dicky heart. The Deputy Director told him to smoke in the rooftop as he can’t abide smoking.
The director then ended up all broken up on the pavement, having fallen from the rooftop.
Secrets started to come out about the Director. Apparently, he had been embezzling funds, which Ye Jin Woo found out and confronted the Director about on the same day of his death.
For some reason, Ye Jin-woo got the information from his brother, who may be dead. Strangely enough, the brother appears disabled at one time and then be hail and hearty during his visit to the hospital. Ye Jin Woo seemed to suffer from schizophrenia?!!!
With all the sadness of the passing of the Director, the hospital is plunged into chaos as a new president has been appointed, who is a businessman from a large corporation.
The president is trying to make Sangkook University Hospital more viable in a business point of view.
His first task was to transfer three major departments, including the A&E, which is hemorrhaging funds, into rural hospitals.
The doctors and nurses were in revolt.
There are a number of interesting story lines and characters in this series. Some get close to a soap opera-ish feel, but, all in all, well done. Good acting and cinematography and a pretty interesting soundtrack, too, When this series works, which is most of the time, it really works well, Also a good window into modern Korea.
Still need to finish watching the drama.