50+ Top-Rated Medical Korean Dramas

Korean dramas have a way of captivating audiences with their unique mix of romance, comedy, and suspense. On top of this, Korean dramas enjoy having a focus on medicine–everything from playing doctor in hospitals to psychiatry.

While some dramas take a more lighthearted approach to medicine, others delve into the darker side of medical practice, raising important questions about ethics, morality, and politics.

No matter what direction they go in, Korean dramas with a medical focus are always fascinating to watch. Be sure to snag that K-drama watching blanket and snuggle in for some medical romance!

Read below for a full list of medical Korean dramas with English subtitles!

Medical Korean Dramas

Although many medical Korean dramas can be accessed from anywhere, there may be certain platforms that work better with a VPN (aka, Netflix).

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1. Once Upon a Small Town (2022)

Quick facts: 12 episodes | Veterinarian, Countryside, Comedy, Romance | Watch on Netflix

Han Ji Yool is a veterinarian working in Seoul when he receives a serious-sounding call from his grandfather from Heedong Village. Ji Yool’s grandfather runs a small animal clinic.

When Ji Yool arrives, he discovers that his grandfather is touring Europe and he will need to take care of the animal clinic for 6 months.

Ahn Ja Young is a passionate police officer in her childhood home in Heedong Village. She is always the first to show up whenever there is a need and solves cases quickly.

When Ja Young continuously helps Ji Yool solve inconveniences in relation to his grandfather’s animal clinic, they start to fall in love.

2. Ghost Doctor (2022)

Quick facts: 16 episodes | Medical, Fantasy, Comedy | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Genius Cha Young Min is an arrogant and selfish doctor with excellent surgery skills. Young Min doesn’t care for more than furthering his career and alienating himself from people.

The complete opposite is resident surgeon Go Seung Tak, who only has a name in medicine because his grandfather started one of the country’s most renowned hospitals.

Due to an accident and strange events, Young Min’s spirit possesses the body of Seung Tak and he gains amazing medical skills and soon becomes the talk of the town.

How long will Seung Tak be possessed? And what happens when Young Min’s girlfriend has suspicions about Seung Tak’s skills?

3. Dr. Park’s Clinic (2022)

Quick facts: 12 episodes | Medical, Comedy | Watch on MyAsianTV

Dr. Park Won Jang dreams of becoming a well-known physician and so he opened up his own clinic and believed the money would come pouring in.

Unfortunately, Dr. Park takes in very few patients and his clinic is on the verge of bankruptcy. In fact, his wife Sa Mo Rim trusts the medical advice on TV more than she trusts him.

Will Dr. Park be able to reconcile his bank account and become world-famous?

4. Hospital Playlist (2020, 2021)

Quick facts: 12 episodes | Medical, Life, Drama, Romance | Watch on Netflix

Five friends have gone through a lot together in the last 20 years. Starting from when they became friends in 1999, pursuing medical school together, and now are co-workers at the same hospital.

Hospital Playlist depicts the daily grind of being a doctor in a hospital and how people can be born in one or end their life on a hospital bed.

5. Forest (2020)

Quick facts: 32 episodes | Business, Psychological, Romance, Medical | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Kang San Hyuk is a fearless CEO of an investment company and would do anything for a good business deal. San Hyuk joins an emergency rescue team to Miryeong Forest in the name of research for resort development.

Jung Yeong Jae is a surgeon who’s been “punished” by being sent to the hospital along the Miryeong Forest. When San Hyuk and Yeong Jae meet in the whimsical forest, they are strangely drawn to one another.

Can it be that San Hyuk will find answers to his childhood secrets with the help of Yeong Jae?

6. Dr. Romantic (2020)

Quick facts: 16 episodes | Romance, Medical, Melodrama | Watch on Viki

Dr. Kim returns in this Korean drama sequel as one of the top surgeons at a large hospital. Now he is the chief surgeon at Doldam Hospital in the countryside.

As Dr. Kim has students coming and going under his supervision, he meets 2 people who remind him of his former students, Seo Woo Jin and Cha Eun Jae.

Will Dr. Kim be able to keep his reputation of training excellent doctors?

7. Fix You, Soul Mechanic (2020)

Quick facts: 32 episodes | Romance, Drama, Comedy, Medical | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Lee Si Joon is a quirky and eccentric psychiatrist who is passionate about treating his patients. Si Joon uses unorthodox methods to help his patients overcome their issues.

Han Woo Joo is a rising musical actress, but she has deep emotional scars that threaten her career. Because of her honest character, she is becoming well-liked, but Woo Joo struggles with anger management and mental breakdowns.

Will Si Joon be able to help Woo Joo overcome her emotional scars?

8. Birthcare Center (2020)

Quick facts: 8 episodes | Comedy, Motherhood, Life | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Not the typical medical Korean drama, Birthcare Center revolves around the postpartum care of mothers and their babies.

Oh Hyun Jin had a successful career and is used to being the best at everything. Even though she knew what she was doing for work, the whole process of giving birth and caring for a baby is a mystery to her.

After she delivers her baby, Hyun Jin moves to an exclusive establishment to get postpartum care among other new mothers.

9. Chocolate (2019)

Quick facts: 16 episodes | Romance, Medical, Melodrama, Life | Watch on Netflix, Watch on MyAsianTV

As a young child, Moon Cha Young had a meal prepared by Lee Kang at a restaurant in a small seaside town. Cha Young was inspired to become a world-famous chef because of that meal.

Lee Kang had always dreamed of being a chef, however, he is a neurosurgeon instead. When Cha Young and Lee Kang meet again at a hospice ward many years later, they work together to prepare meals for the patients there and hopefully, mend their hearts.

10. Doctor John (2019)

Quick facts: 32 episodes | Romance, Medical, Mystery, Life | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Cha Yo Han is an extraordinary anesthesiologist who can tell a patient’s condition in under 10 seconds. Kang Shi Young is also an anesthesiologist at the top of her class who has her father’s empathy and her mother’s talent.

When Yo Han and Shi Young partner together, they strive to find a cure for pain and try to solve an open criminal case.

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11. Doctor Prisoner (2019)

Quick facts: 32 episodes | Medical, Thriller, Revenge, Crime | Watch on Viki, Watch on DramaCool

Na Yi Je was one of Seoul’s most exalted doctors and treated his patients with utmost care. When his medical license gets revoked because of medical malpractice, Yi Je turns to prison with the goal of getting revenge against the people who treated him poorly.

Using his medical knowledge and position as a chief doctor in the prisons, Yi Je will find anyone and everyone who will help him move forward in his revenge plot.

12. Doctor Detective (2019)

Quick facts: 32 episodes | Thriller, Mystery, Drama, Medical | Watch on MyAsianTV

Do Jung Eun is an industrial health doctor who partners up with Heo Min Ki. As they work together, Jung Eun and Min Ki treat patients in industrial accidents and diseases that come from industrial sites.

There are, however, reports that are covered up and incidents that are swept under the rug. Can Jung Eun and Min Ki uncover the truth?

13. Risky Romance (2018)

Quick facts: 32 episodes | Romance, Medical, Comedy | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

After a car accident leaves pieces of debris in surgeon Han Seung Joo’s brain, he changes completely from a warm personality to a highly competitive person.

Internal health doctor Joo In Ah believes that hormones control a person’s health, and personality, and even provide feelings of love. Wanting to test out her theory, In Ah chooses Seung Joo as her test subject.

14. A Poem A Day (2018) 

Quick facts: 16 episodes | Romance, Medical, Life | Watch on MyAsianTV

Ye Jae Wook is a physical therapist at a hospital and teaches about the subject as well. Woo Bo Young has been working as a physical therapist for a few years but she actually wanted to be a poet.

When Jae Wook and Bo Young start working together at the same hospital, will they find true love?

15. Cross (2018) 

Quick facts: 16 episodes | Medical, Thriller, Mystery | Watch on MyAsianTV

Kang In Kyu’s father was brutally murdered 15 years ago. Being gifted, In Kyu decides to become a doctor in his plot to take revenge against the people responsible for his father’s death.

In Kyu volunteers in a prison medical office where the murderer is currently imprisoned.

16. Life (2018)

Quick facts: 16 episodes | Thriller, Psychological, Drama, Medical | Watch on MyAsianTV

Lee Dong Wok works as an emergency doctor in a hospital where the power struggle is real. Although doctors have the power to save lives, the board members can also end the doctors’ careers anytime.

17. Heart Surgeons (2018)

Quick facts: 32 episodes | Medical, Life, Drama, Action | Watch on Viki, Watch on DramaCool

Park Tae Soo is a heart surgeon fellow in Taesan Hospital’s Chest Surgery Department and he needs to save his mother who is waiting for a heart transplant.

Choi Seok Han is the chief of the Chest Surgery Department and has the authority to decide if Tae Soo will continue to be a fellow.

As patients continue to rely on the doctors, whose skills will win out to show confidence in performing heart surgeries?

18. Live Up To Your Name (2017)

Quick facts: 16 episodes | Historical, Romance, Medical, Fantasy | Watch on Netflix

Heo Im was born in the Joseon era and has very talented medical skills for his time. When something goes wrong for Heo Im as he was trying to treat a patient, Heo Im travels through time to modern-day Seoul, 400 years later.

In Seoul, Heo Im meets Dr. Choi Yeon Gyung and is fascinated that a woman can be a doctor. Yeon Gyung just wants to get rid of the weird man, but they both end up traveling back to the Joseon time together.

19. Hospital Ship (2017)

Quick facts: 40 episodes | Romance, Medical, Drama | Watch on DramaCool

Several doctors from different backgrounds come together on an army ship to provide medical care for island residents.

Although still young in life, they have gained medical skills through their long years of study. As doctors on the medical ship, each one will learn the meaning of compassionate care.

20. Descendants of the Sun (2016)

Quick facts: 16 episodes | Romance, Food, Comedy | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

When the captain of a Korean special forces unit, Yoo Shi Jin, and his fellow soldier catch a thief on their day off, Shi Jin has a chance encounter with Doctor Kang Mo Yeon.

Mo Yeon mistakenly believes that Shi Jin is part of the criminal gang while Shi Jin falls in love with her at first sight. When things are cleared up, they begin an unlikely relationship.

However, it soon is apparent that their outlooks on life are the complete opposite: Shi Jin kills to protect lives while Mo Yeon does everything in her power to save lives.

When they decide that their differences are too great, they each go their own way. Until Mo Yeon is sent to Uruk where Shi Jin is stationed and they are reunited in a war-torn country.

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21. Doctors, Doctor Crush (2016)

Quick facts: 20 episodes | Comedy, Romance, Drama, Medical | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Yoo Hye Jung is a reckless student who has always displayed a tough exterior and let no one into her heart for her own protection. Hong Ji Hong was a doctor turned high school teacher at Hye Jung’s school.

Their deep relationship resulted in accusations of them being in a romantic student-teacher relationship. However, 13 years later, Ji Hong and Hye Jung meet again in the neurosurgery department as doctors.

Hye Jung will get her revenge for her grandmother’s death due to medical malpractice and Ji Hong will protect her.

22. Dr. Romantic (2016)

Quick facts: 20 episodes | Romance, Drama, Medical | Watch on Viki

Kim Sa Bu was at the peak of his doctor career at a well-known hospital when he suddenly resigns and moves to work at a small countryside hospital. There he goes by the name “Teacher Kim” and lives in seclusion.

Meanwhile, Kang Dong Joo is the highest scorer in the medical licensure exam and desperately wants to achieve success as a doctor. Yoon Seo Jung is passionate about being a doctor until a mistake in her past causes her to hesitate.

As Dong Joo and Seo Jung are reassigned to the small countryside hospital and are under the supervision of Teacher Kim, their lives will be forever changed.

23. Mirror of the Witch, Secret Healer (2016)

Quick facts: 20 episodes | Historical, Romance, Medical, Fantasy | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

When Queen Sim cannot conceive children, she turns to a shaman who uses black magic to help the queen give birth to twins, a boy Soon Hwae, and a girl, Seo Ri.

With black magic comes to a price and Seo Ri pays it when a curse is placed upon her life. Abandoned in the mountains, a man rescues Seo Ri and becomes friends with his son Poong Yeon.

As Seo Ri grows up, she is faithfully trying to find a way to lift the curse. Seo Ri meets royal physician Heo Jun who sees her dedication to healing people and wants to help her.

24. Beautiful Mind (2016)

Quick facts: 14 episodes | Mystery, Psychological, Romance, Medical | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Lee Yeong Oh is a genius neurosurgeon newly returned to Korea after finishing his studies abroad. On his first day on the job at Hyunsung Hospital, Yeong Oh meets Gye Jin Sung, a rookie officer who comes in after trying to save a person from a car accident.

Soon after, a series of bizarre deaths start occurring in the hospital, which leads Yeong Oh to investigate. With the help of Jing Sung, Yeong Oh learns how to love his patients and care for others.

25. Heart to Heart (2015)

Quick facts: 16 episodes | Romance, Comedy, Psychological, Medical | Watch on MyAsianTV

Cha Hong Do has social anxiety and also suffers from severe blushing. Even still, Hong Do is curious about the outside world and learns what she can from books and the internet.

When her grandmother, and only connection to the outside world, dies, Hong Do decides to become a maid. She disguises herself as an elderly woman.

Through eventful incidents, Hong Do meets Ko Yi Seok, a psychiatrist who takes interest in her.

26. Yong-Pal, The Gang Doctor (2015)

Quick facts: 18 episodes | Romance, Food, Comedy | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Talented surgeon Kim Tae Hyeon is a straight-laced doctor treating VIP chaebol heirs by day and Yong-Pal, a house-call doctor treating criminals by night.

Tae Hyeon is in need of money to pay for his sister’s medical bills, which is why he’s resorted to his nighttime job. As Tae Hyeon makes a house call and rescues Han Yeo Jin from a medically induced coma, they start to fall in love.

But what Tae Hyeon has done upsets many people and puts their lives in danger.

Note: Chaebol is the Korean word meaning a family-owned business or conglomerate.

27. D-Day (2015)

Quick facts: 20 episodes | Romance, Drama, Medical | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

When an unprecedented 6.5-magnitude earthquake hits Seoul, a medical team works together to save lives and help the survivors.

Lee Hae Sung is a compassionate doctor who puts the care of his patients above all else–this also puts in him a bad position with the calculating hospital director.

Jung Ddol Mi has always wanted to be a doctor for fame and money, but after working with Hae Sung, she truly wants to become a passionate doctor like him.

As Hae Sung, Ddol Mi, and Han Woo Jin, one of Korea’s rising doctors, work together, will they be able to provide hope to a paralyzed city?

28. Kill Me, Heal Me (2015)

Quick facts: 20 episodes | Romance, Medical, Comedy, Psychological | Watch on Viki, Watch on Kocowa, Watch on VIU

A traumatic childhood experience leaves Cha Do Hyeon, suffering from memory loss and dissociation, which results in Do Hyeon creating 7 different personalities.

Needing to gain control of his life, Do Hyeon asks first-year psychiatric resident Oh Ri Jin to become his doctor. While working with Do Hyeon, Ri Jin falls in love with one of his personalities.

29. Blood (2015)

Quick facts: 20 episodes | Romance, Action, Medical, Supernatural | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Park Ji Sang is a doctor in the best cancer research hospital in South Korea. Ji Sang is also a vampire.

Even though he seems cold and unemotional, Ji Sang longs to be close to people. He believes so much in the gift of life that he suppresses his thirst for human blood and does his best to treat the terminally ill.

Ji Sang starts to fall for Yoo Ri Ta, a prideful woman who entered medical school at the young age of 17. Ji Sang and Ri Ta find themselves fighting for the lives of their patients even as the hospital chief is out for power.

30. Emergency Couple (2014)

Quick facts: 21 episodes | Romance, Medical, Comedy, Drama | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Oh Jin Hee is a happy dietitian when she meets medical student Oh Chang Min. Chang Min’s family is full of successful doctors and has a strong opposition to him marrying Jin Hee.

In spite of that, the couple decides to get married anyway. Their lives as a married couple have many twists and turns as Chang Min is forced out of his medical internship and his family won’t let up on Jin Hee.

Eventually, Chang Min and Jin Hee have no more love for each other and decide to get a divorce.

Several years later, both Chang Min and Jin Hee are medical student interns and find themselves working together at the same hospital. How will these 2 ex-lovers work together in a high-stress environment for 3 months?

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31. Doctor Stranger (2014)

Quick facts: 20 episodes | Romance, Thriller, Drama, Medical | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Park Hoon was captured by North Korea with his father and taken to start a new life there. His father is a successful doctor who trains Park Hoon in medicine.

Park Hoon becomes a genius heart surgeon and finally flees back to South Korea, working in the top hospital, Myeongwoo University Hospital.

Even though he’s at the top of his game, Park Hoon can’t help but feel like an outcast. His goal is to work and save enough money to bring the love of his life to South Korea.

32. It’s Okay, That’s Love (2014)

Quick facts: 16 episodes | Psychological, Comedy, Romance, Drama | Watch on Kocowa, Watch on Viki

Award-winning author Jang Jae Yeol and psychiatrist Ji Hae Soo sit down together on a talk show panel and get caught up in a heated debate on a book about goodness.

When Jae Yeol finds out that his girlfriend plagiarizes his work, he needs to lay low so he moves into a house he owns and rents out to tenants. One of the tenants just happens to be Hae Soo, making them roommates.

As personalities clash, will everyone be able to get down to the heart of deeply-rooted emotional scars?

33. Angel Eyes (2014)

Quick facts: 20 episodes | Romance, Medical, Melodrama | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Park Dong Joo is a bright high school student who grew up in a warm home with his mother and sickly younger sister. Even though they’ve lost their father, Dong Joo does his best to take care of his little family.

During one of his numerous part-time jobs, Dong Joo meets a blind girl, Yoon Soo Wan, and they fall in love. However, they are separated due to family issues.

Twelve years later, Dong Joo returns home from America as an outstanding surgeon and meets Soo Wan once again. This time, Soo Wan can see after her eye transplant and doesn’t recognize Dong Joo.

Soo Wan also has a new boyfriend. Will Dong Joo tell her who he is? And if he does, can they overcome their family histories?

34. Good Doctor (2013)

Quick facts: 20 episodes | Romance, Life, Drama, Medical | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Park Shi On is autistic, but a genius. Even though he lacks the ability to connect with other people, he graduated from medical with honors, and his medical skills are exceptional.

However, due to his lack of interpersonal skills, the hospital superiors are concerned about his ability to connect with his patients. Will Shi On be able to continue his work as a pediatrician or will he quit out of frustration?

35. Medical Top Team (2013)

Quick facts: 20 episodes | Romance, Drama, Medical | Watch on MyAsianTV

Medical Top Team focuses on the journey of creating Korea’s best multidisciplinary medical team.

All the doctors will come together to save patients and work through the struggles of being a doctor.

36. The Virus (2013)

Quick facts: 10 episodes | Medical, Thriller, Mystery | Watch on MyAsianTV

Lee Myung Hyun leads the special infectious disease crisis response team which is set up to investigate a mysterious virus. This virus causes 100% fatality when a person is infected.

Will Myung Hyun and his team be able to win the fight against an invisible enemy?

37. Hur Jun, The Original Story (2013)

Quick facts: 135 episodes | Historical, Drama, Medical | Watch on MyAsianTV

Hur Jun (a.k.a. Heo Jun) was an illegitimate child of a governor in northern Korea. Hur Jun became the leader of a smuggling ring. When he was caught, his father arranged to move Hur Jun and his mother down south.

It was here that Hur Jun met reputable Dr. Yoo Do Ji. Hur Jun soon learned medical skills and ways to heal people and turns his life around.

38. Faith (2012)

Quick facts: 24 episodes | Romance, Historical, Medical, Supernatural | Watch on MyAsianTV

General Choi Young who lives in the Goryeo Era is a warrior. Eun Soo is living in the modern day as a 33-year-old plastic surgeon. Although she started off as a general surgeon, she wasn’t getting enough pay for the work she was doing.

Needing more medical skills than what is currently known in his time, Choi Young kidnaps Yoo Eun Soo from the present-day and time travels back with her.

Traveling back in time with General Choi Young, what will happen to the doctor and warrior when they fall in love spanning multiple centuries?

39. Golden Time (2012)

Quick facts: 23 episodes | Romance, Medical, Comedy | Watch on MyAsianTV

Lee Min Woo returns to a city hospital after spending 2 years teaching in the country. Although he’s free-spirited, Min Woo is jaded about being a doctor and isn’t sure if this is the right path for him.

First-year resident Kang Jae In comes from a family of successful doctors and only wants to do her best to treat her patients.

As Min Woo and Jae In work together in the emergency room, will these two come to an understanding of who they are in the medical world?

40. Time Slip Dr. Jin (2012)

Quick facts: 22 episodes | Medical, Historical, Romance, Fantasy | Watch on Viki, Watch on DramaCool

Dr. Jin Hyuk is a genius neurosurgeon who seeks perfection, which causes him to have a cold demeanor and keep people at a distance.

Mysteriously, Dr. Jin finds himself waking up in the Joseon Dynasty where medical knowledge is still rudimentary and a plague has just struck the villages.

As Dr. Jin strives to save people, will he ever make it back to his timeline?

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41. The King’s Doctor, Horse Doctor (2012)

Quick facts: 50 episodes | Romance, Historical, Medical, Drama | Watch on DramaCool, Watch on MyAsianTV

During the late period of the Joseon Dynasty, Baek Gwang Hyun is a horse doctor and works his way to becoming a well-known veterinarian.

Although he comes from a lower run in the caste system, Gwang Hyun’s skills boosted him to become appointed as a doctor in the royal palace and he starts personally treating the king.

42. Syndrome (2012)

Quick facts: 20 episodes | Romance, Drama, Medical | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Lee Hae Jo is a first-year neurosurgery resident who comes from an underprivileged background, but she has great ambitions to be the best neurosurgeon.

Cha Yeo Wook is also a first-year neurosurgery resident and graduated from one of the top medical schools. Unlike Hae Jo, Yeo Wook does come from a family of neurosurgeons.

Their chief resident is Kang Eun Hyun. When he starts to develop feelings for Hae Jo, things start getting a little complicated for everyone.

43. The Third Hospital, Third Ward (2012)

Quick facts: 20 episodes | Drama, Medical, Life | Watch on MyAsianTV

The third ward is in the neurosurgery department of an alternative hospital. Here, doctors test out different medical philosophies such as those from the eastern world and those from the western.

44. Brain (2011)

Quick facts: 20 episodes | Drama, Medical, Slight Romance | Watch on MyAsianTV

Lee Kang Hun graduated top in medical school, works in the top hospital and is the top neurosurgeon. Because of his past, Kang Hun has great ambition and is obsessed with success.

Kang Hun is in a psychological battle to outwit the top medical experts in his hospital and one day become the director. Through all of this, Kang Hun might just find true love in the form of Yoon Ji Hye, a warm doctor who treats her patients well.

45. God’s Quiz (2010)

Quick facts: 10 episodes | Medical, Thriller, Mystery, Drama | Watch on MyAsianTV

In this Korean drama series of CSI meets House, Han Jin Woo leads a group of experts in medical crime investigation. As one of Korea’s top medical examiners, Jin Woo partners with Kang Kyung Hee, a female detective with excellent martial arts skills, to solve crimes.

Note: There are several seasons of God’s Quiz available to stream.

46. Obstetrics and Gynecology Doctors (2010)

Quick facts: 16 episodes | Romance, Medical | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

Seo Hye Young is a talented and passionate obstetrician. Although she is successful professionally, her love life is suffering.

Hye Young is involved with a married man, which becomes even more entangled as her long-time friend confesses his love for her and she meets the chief of NICU, Lee Sang Shik.

47. Jejoongwon (2010)

Quick facts: 36 episodes | Romance, Historical, Drama, Medical | Watch on MyAsianTV

Set in the late 1800s of the Joseon era, Jejoongwon is the first modern hospital to be established in South Korea and focuses on different people who become practicing doctors in Jejoongwon.

48. Dr. Champ (2010)

Quick facts: 16 episodes | Romance, Medical, Sports | Watch on MyAsianTV

Kim Yeon Woo was fired from her job as an orthopedic doctor and so she takes up a new position at Taereung National Village, which is the training center for Olympic athletes.

In her new life, Yeon Woo becomes falls for Park Ji Heon a young Judo athlete. Things get a little complicated when swimming coach Kang Hee Young also wants Ji Heon for herself.

49. Cain and Abel (2009)

Quick facts: 20 episodes | Action, Thriller, Drama, Medical | Watch on MyAsianTV

Similar to the biblical story of Cain and Abel, Lee Seon Woo is jealous of his. brother Lee Cho In.

Cho In is a very gifted doctor who has everything he wants in life. His older brother Seon Woo is jealous that Cho In is always receiving all the attention and blames his brother for taking everything away from him including their father’s love and the woman he wanted to marry.

Will the story of these 2 brothers end in the same fashion as Cain and Abel?

50. New Heart (2007)

Quick facts: 23 episodes | Romance, Medical | Watch on MyAsianTV

Lee Eun Sung graduated from a medical school in the southern province of the country, rather than a well-known university in the city. Because of this, Eun Sung was not highly regarded in the hospital he worked in.

Nam Hye Suk graduated top of her medical class and was proud to work as a surgeon in a hospital. What will happen when Eun Sung and Hye Suk both apply for residency in the hospital after the newly assigned head of the heart surgery department?

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51. Surgeon Bong Dal Hee (2007)

Quick facts: 18 episodes | Romance, Medical, Melodrama | Watch on MyAsianTV

Bong Dal Hee has a heart problem. Despite that, Dal Hee does her best to become a surgeon and works under Dr. Ahn Jong Geun, a cardiac specialist.

Although Jong Guen and Dal Hee start off on the wrong foot, their relationship gets better with time.

In this medical Korean drama series, viewers will see the lives of resident doctors and the politics that come from those who sit in management.

52. Jewel in the Palace (2003)

Quick facts: 54 episodes | Romance, Medical, Food, Historical | Watch on Viki, Watch on MyAsianTV

During the Joseon Dynasty of about 500 years ago, society was set in a rigidly hierarchical and patriarchal structure.

Despite her poor background and being a woman, Jang Geum became the first woman physician to the king in this historical Korean drama based on a true story.

Jang Geum overcame social discrimination and become a royal cook, then rose to the position of the royal physician while finding true love in the process.

Final Thoughts: Medical Korean Dramas

While medical Korean dramas may not be everyone’s cup of tea, they offer an interesting look into the world of medicine and the human experience.

I hope you’ve enjoyed this list of the best medical Korean dramas and that it has given you some new shows to watch.

If you have any thoughts, please let us know in the comments section below!

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