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Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 10 of Hospital Playlist, starring Jo Jung-suk as Lee Ik Joon, Yoo Yeon-seok as Ahn Jeong Won, Jung Kyung-ho as Kim Jun Wan, Kim Dae-myung as Yang Seok Hyung, and Jeon Mi-do as Chae Song Hwa. We discuss:
The songs we featured during the recap: “The Wind is Blowing” by Lee So-ra and “Monday” by Song Ha-min/
Do Jae Hak’s extraordinary decision to kneel and beg the patient to accept treatment, and how an act he worries makes him look pathetic actually shows how much he has grown as a doctor.
Kim Jun Wan’s powerful lesson to Do Jae Hak: “If the doctor gives up on the patient, he isn't a doctor anymore,” and the touching thank-you note from the patient who realizes Jae Hak refused to give up on him.
Why Lee Ik Jun agrees to perform a risky liver transplant on the wife of the Minister of Education when other doctors and hospitals are worried about the consequences if the surgery fails.
Lee Ik Jun discovering that Ahn Jeong Won is Daddy Long Legs, and finally understanding why his supposedly cheap friend is always broke.
Jang Gyeo Ul’s mysterious “boyfriend,” and Lee Ik Jun’s scheme involving a bouquet of red roses.
Chu Min Ha’s awkward confession to Yang Seok Hyeong and our discussion over whether these two actually have romantic chemistry.
Chae Song Hwa rushing over to care for a feverish Uju, and Lee Ik Jun’s quiet confession the next morning that what he does for himself and what makes him happy are eating and drinking coffee with Song Hwa.
Kim Jun Wan’s shock when he learns from Ahn Chi Hong that Ik Sun has been accepted into a three-year doctoral program in the UK, and what the news could mean for their relationship.
Yang Seok Hyeong’s father suffering a life-threatening aortic dissection, his mother suddenly deciding not to divorce him, and the clever Prison Playbook reference.
Our profiles of Kim Jun-han, Jung Moon-sung, and Moon Tae-yoo, the actors who play Ahn Chi Hong, Do Jae Hak, and Yong Seok Min.
References
When It Mattered Most by Joanna Pineda
Lee So Ra - The wind is blowing Lyrics | Musixmatch
Emergency Room by Izi
Kim Jun Han singing with Ji Chang Wook
Kim Jun Han on Drums
3 Comfort Shows to Fall Into (video clip of the subway recording)
Cervical Cerclage: Purpose, Procedure, Risks & Results
Dilated cardiomyopathy - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic
The Cavitron ultrasonic aspirator in tumor surgery - PubMed
Aortic dissection - Symptoms & causes - Mayo Clinic

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Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 9 of Hospital Playlist, starring Jo Jung-suk as Lee Ik Joon, Yoo Yeon-seok as Ahn Jeong Won, Jung Kyung-ho as Kim Jun Wan, Kim Dae-myung as Yang Seok Hyung, and Jeon Mi-do as Chae Song Hwa. We discuss:
The songs we featured during the recap: “Met You By Chance,” performed by Mido and Falasol and originally recorded by Songolmae, and “Affect” by Song Ha-min.
The Korean concept of jeong: a deep emotional connection that develops over time, and why Yang Seok Hyeong can still feel it toward his ex-wife.
The father determined to donate part of his liver to his daughter, and how his unexpected return forces Lee Ik Jun to question his judgment of other people.
Yang Seok Hyeong’s mother’s recovery, the friends taking turns keeping her company, and her decision to finally divorce her husband.
Jang Gyeo Ul learning to explain a baby’s bile duct surgery in plain language, and why helping patients understand is an essential part of their care.
Chae Song Hwa’s care for the teenager with a brain bleed and her mother, including encouragement to proceed with her yoga studio opening and the Korean custom of giving plants to a new business.
Why operating rooms have different temperatures, and how the doctors and nurses handle medical students who faint during surgery.
Lee Ik Jun learning about his sister’s painful breakup and visiting her military base with food, spending money, and quiet reassurance that he cares.
Cheon Myeong Tae’s dismissive treatment of a patient and her granddaughter, and the uncomfortable surprise awaiting him when he meets his
References
A Chance Encounter by Songolmae
I Met You By Chance by Mido and Falasol
MELD (model for end-stage liver disease) score - Mayo Clinic
CPR Facts & Statistics | Red Cross
What Is ‘jeong’? Why This One Korean Word Can Make You Cry? #LearnKorean #CookieKorea
'Jessica Jingle’ of S. Korean dark comedy-thriller film ‘Parasite’ captivated fans in North America!
The Original Song of Jessica Jingle "Dokdo is our land" (with English CC)
Dokdo Is Our Land - Wikipedia
Arteriovenous malformation - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Endovascular Coiling | Johns Hopkins Medicine
Flowers in Korea: Meanings, Traditions, and the Unspoken Rules of Giving Flowers

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Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 8 of Hospital Playlist, starring Jo Jung-suk as Lee Ik Joon, Yoo Yeon-seok as Ahn Jeong Won, Jung Kyung-ho as Kim Jun Wan, Kim Dae-myung as Yang Seok Hyung, and Jeon Mi-do as Chae Song Hwa. We discuss:
The songs we featured during the recap:“With My Tears” by Whee In
“Sorrowful, Piano Version” by Kim Jin Hak

The heartbreaking case of the baby whose failing heart valves cannot be repaired.
The patient with liver cancer, the importance of determining whether his cancer has metastasized, and how moving him into a shared hospital room gives him.
Chu Min Ha’s terrifying discovery that her difficult pregnant patient is suffering from placental abruption, and how she has to act on her own to save the mother and her premature baby.
How Jang Gyeo Ul and Do Jae Hak both get into trouble after interactions with patients, including the challenges of managing postoperative pain in patients with opioid use disorder.
Kim Jun Wan’s quiet support of Do Jae Hak: he accepts the job of Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery and then rejects the proposed three-month pay cut that would have devastated his struggling resident.
Chu Min Ha’s exhaustion and frustration after Myung Eun Won stops showing up for work.
Why Ahn Jeong Won’s mother and close family friends call him Andrea.
The Korean family registry system and the joke behind Lee Ik Jun asking the wealthy Yang Seok Hyeong to add him and U-ju to his family register.
The dramatic cliffhanger involving Yang Seok Hyeong’s mother, who is rushed to the emergency room in cardiac arrest while her terrified son watches doctors perform CPR.
How the five lead actors really learned and practiced their instruments for Hospital Playlist..
References
With My Tears by our doctor band in Hospital Playlist
With My Tears by Wheein
With My Tears or Gather My Tears by Seo Ji Won

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Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 7 of Hospital Playlist, starring Jo Jung-suk as Lee Ik Joon, Yoo Yeon-seok as Ahn Jeong Won, Jung Kyung-ho as Kim Jun Wan, Kim Dae-myung as Yang Seok Hyung, and Jeon Mi-do as Chae Song Hwa. We discuss:
The music we discuss and feature during the recap:IU’s new song Dear My Crazy Soulmate
I Wash, the viral K-pop song created by LG to promote a washing machine
You Always by J Rabbit
While Living Life by Oohyo

The theme of finding strength and compassion through difficult experiences.
The extraordinary liver transplant performed on baby Ji-a, including the challenge of reducing the donated liver to the right size, and Ahn Jeong Won’s moving request that Ji-a’s parents remember and thank the young woman whose donated liver saved their daughter.
Ahn Chi Hong performing an External Ventricular Drainage procedure for the first time.
The young police officer undergoing awake brain surgery for an astrocytoma, and how Ahn Chi Hong reveals his own medical history to show the discouraged officer that losing one dream does not mean his life is over.
Lee Ik Jun’s surprising revelation to his patient that his wife cheated on him and that his divorce left him hurt, embarrassed and unable to get out of bed some days.
Yang Seok Hyeong finally telling his mother that his father’s mistress is pregnant, and his mother’s decision to grant her husband a divorce—until the Chairman humiliates their son by checking into the VIP ward at Yulje with his mistress.
The ethical issues surrounding gifts to doctors.
Poor Do Jae Hak discovering that he appears to have lost his 200 million won apartment deposit—about $150,000—to a real estate scam.
Kim Hae-sook, the legendary actress who plays Ahn Jeong Won’s mother, Jung Rosa; her reputation as Korea’s “Nation’s Mother”; and her enormous film and television career.
References
K Drama Chat Hospital Playlist OST Playlist
You Always by Mono
You Always by J. Rabbit
You Always by the Hospital Playlist Band
While Living Life by Jeon In Kwon
While Living Life by Oohyo
I Wash by Al Dol LG commercial song
Dear My Crazy Soulmate by IU
“Reduced Size Liver Grafts in Pediatric Liver Transplantation; Technical Considerations” - PMC
External ventricular drain - Mayo Clinic
External ventricular drain - Wikipedia
Astrocytoma - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic
Awake brain surgery - Mayo Clinic
The power of positive thinking by Johns Hopkins Medicine

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Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 6 of Hospital Playlist, starring Jo Jung-suk as Lee Ik-jun, Yoo Yeon-seok as Ahn Jeong-won, Jung Kyung-ho as Kim Jun-wan, Kim Dae-myung as Yang Seok-hyeong, and Jeon Mi-do as Chae Song-hwa. We discuss:
Two songs from this episode:“In Front of City Hall at the Subway Station” by Kwak Jin-eon, a remake of the 1990 song by Zoo
“Beyond the Rainbow Forest” by DANI

How “In Front of City Hall at the Subway Station,” a melancholy song about unexpectedly encountering an old love years later, beautifully mirrors this episode’s themes of old relationships, roads not taken, and looking back at the person you were 20 years ago.
The medical cases in this episode, including a baby in liver failure who desperately needs a transplant, a pregnant woman with antiphospholipid antibody syndrome who has suffered two miscarriages, and Jang Gyeo-ul’s dangerous anaphylactic reaction to pain medication.
Kim Jun-wan’s complete transformation after Lee Ik-sun says yes to dating him and declares that it is their “Day One.”
Lee Ik-jun’s reunion with his former girlfriend Go Ara and how reconnecting with someone from your past can make you reflect on why a relationship ended and how much both people have changed.
The flashback revealing that Yang Seok-hyeong confessed his feelings to Chae Song-hwa years ago and was devastated when she rejected him—and that Lee Ik-jun may have been planning to confess to Song-hwa that very same night.
Chae Song-hwa finally telling her friends that she found a breast lump, had a biopsy, and is waiting for the results.
Lee Ik-jun quietly showing up to accompany Song-hwa when she receives her biopsy results, knowing that the fiercely self-sufficient Song-hwa would never ask anyone to come with her. Thankfully, her biopsy is benign.
Kim Jun-wan giving resident Do Jae-hak the opportunity to perform his first ASD closure, then delivering a very Jun-wan-style compliment: “You did better than I thought. What’s gotten into you?”
Kim Dae-myung, the actor who plays Yang Seok-hyeong, including his theater background, his breakout role in Misaeng: Incomplete Life, his extensive film career, and his return as Seok-hyeong in Resident Playbook.
What we’re watching and reading now, including East Palace, Run With the Wind, The Affair Was Just the Beginning, and Mad for Each Other.
References
K Drama Chat Hospital Playlist OST Playlist
In front of city hall at the subway station by Mido and Falasol
In front of city hall at the subway station by Kwak Jin Eon
In front of city hall at the subway station by Zoo Kim Chang Gi
Improving self-sufficiency in organ transplantation in Korea - PMC
Biliary Atresia Symptoms & Causes
Atrial Septal Defect | American Heart Association
Antiphospholipid Syndrome and Pregnancy: Background, Etiology, Pathophysiology
Anaphylaxis Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment & Management
Pneumoperitoneum - Wikipedia