Dr. Romantic (Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim / Nangmandakteo Kimsaboo / 낭만닥터 김사부)

Geosan University. Surgical Department.

Jang Hyun Joo?

What are you doing?

Teacher Kim.

I'm sorry. The door was open, so I came in for a bit...

What do you think about Bu Yong Joo?

Do you think that he's a good person?

Get out.

Doctor.

I want to know why you're asking me such things, sir.

I thought I'd have to know that before trying to win you over.

Well?

What do you think about teaming up with me?

Get out!

Um...

I'm a bit taken aback.

It wasn't long ago that you kicked me out of the hospital.

Think of that as a prerequisite for me to see whether or not you had potential.

When you get to be my age, there's something that becomes clear to you.

Whether or not someone is fake.

And whether someone has potential or not.

So...

do I seem as if I have potential to you, Director Do?

I'll increase your yearly salary by 15 percent

and add an additional 100 million won per year toward your pension.

I was thinking of starting there.

This is all so unexpected that it's making me uncomfortable.

I'll give you a proper look at how different it is to be one of my men.

No matter what you may want, you'll receive far more than that.

There's no way that you'd just be giving all that to me for free.

So what is it that you want from me in exchange?

Bu Yong Joo. That bastard.

That bastard has been entrusted with the chairman's surgery.

And it's really grating on my nerves.

Are you worried about the fame and glory that Teacher Kim will get

after he successfully completes the surgery?

Even if he ends up doing the chairman's surgery...

he mustn't succeed.

What do you mean by that?

Come on, why are you being like this? I know you're plenty smart.

So why did you do that?

Why did you go into someone else's empty office?

It was because I saw that Chief Jang was emptying only Teacher Kim's trash bin.

So I went in there out of curiosity.

Chief Jang was?

I was happy to no longer be non-clinical personnel

but it looks like I'll end up on his hit list again.

What should I do, Nurse Oh?

What should you do?

If your luck is that bad, it's clear that it's your fate to be on his bad side.

I think that it must be because of that student ID.

What student ID?

I found the student ID of someone named Jang Hyun Joo.

And I think he's mad because of that.

Do you know anything about this, Nurse Oh?

It said that she was a student at Geosan and was in the class of '98.

I don't know anything about it if it happened at Geosan Hospital.

I first met Teacher Kim in the winter of 2002.

The year Korea hosted the World Cup.

And that was before that, so...

I see.

Oh, wait. There is someone.

What do you mean?

There's someone who may know who Jang Hyun Joo is.

Jang Hyun Joo?

You were originally in the class of '99, right?

Even though you interned with us since you were two years behind.

Hey, do you really need to mention that so casually?

So? Do you know this Jang Hyun Joo or not?

I do know her. I do, but...

But?

When I was a second or third year, I heard she died.

While having surgery for a liver abscess.

Oh...

[STUDENT ID CARD: JANG HYUN JOO]

Mister!

Do you know Doctor Bu Yong Joo, by any chance?

The age in which the truth is concealed.

If you want, I can make you the second Bu Yong Joo.

The age in which truth submits to power and lies run amok.

"SURGERY SUCCESS RATE: 97 percent."

Bu Yong Joo didn't create that legend. I did.

How is that even possible?

That's a matter of life and death.

I just found a great marketing point appropriate for the time, is all.

"Hand of God." I came up with that, too.

And I can build you up to become someone like that, too.

Baseless rumors and a plethora of tales have piled up

while the truth has been forced to take a back seat.

So rest at ease.

And it has become hard to tell...

I'll take care of the rest.

what is real and what is fake.

Such is the world we live in now.

Do you know who performed that liver abscess surgery, by any chance?

No, I don't. I wasn't super close to her or anything.

It probably wasn't Teacher Kim, right?

Oh, no way!

Right?

Wait a second. That's not entirely impossible.

Chief Song said that Bu Yong Joo was kicked out because he killed someone.

And I think he said that he killed his disciple, too.

Killed his disciple?

Wait, wait!

'98...

I think that Jang Hyun Joo died around the same time Bu Yong Joo was kicked out.

Maybe the disciple he killed was Jang Hyun Joo?

Wow! This is freaking me out.

Hey, I'm totally freaked out right now.

Where's the effusion patient?

The effusion patient.

In the hybrid room, sir!

Looks like you went somewhere.

Yes.

Did you meet with Director Do, by any chance?

Yes, I did.

What kinds of things did you discuss with him?

Do I really need to report things like that to you?

I was just wondering if he said anything about me.

Actually...

I received an incredible offer.

An incredible offer, eh?

And what was that, I wonder?

He said he'd give me a 15 percent salary increase

and 100 million won toward my pension every year.

So?

Did you agree to take him up on his offer, then?

Did you agree to take him up on his offer?

Did you agree to take him up on his offer, Doctor Kang Dong Joo?

I told him that I'd think it over.

It was so unexpected, you see.

So I didn't want to accept it right then and there.

So by that, you're saying that you will eventually accept his offer.

Wouldn't it be weird not to accept such an offer?

It's quite a tempting offer, after all.

I'll be heading in, then.

I'm a bit tired, you see.

We're ready to perform the thoracentesis.

All right.

All right, then. I'll get started.

All right, almost done.

Please send this out to a lab to be examined.

Understood.

Let me know if you get more than one liter of fluid out.

I'll decide whether or not to extract more depending on his condition.

Yes, I will.

All right, good work.

What? Do you have something to say to me?

Yes, well, that's...

If it's not about the patient, save it for later.

- Teacher Kim! - Yes?

Thank goodness I found you here.

We have an emergency on our hands.

An emergency?

Apparently, Director Do made an unexpected offer to Doctor Kang Dong Joo.

He offered a 15 percent increase in his yearly salary

as well as 100 million won toward his pension every year!

He made direct attacks to try and kick people out

in the incident involving Doctor Yoon

but this time, he's attacking by appealing to Doctor Kang with money.

If this happens, Doldam Hospital faces the risk of shutting down.

Isn't that right?

What? Doldam Hospital shutting down?

What are you doing? Stop making so much noise.

Hey, can't you hear me?

I said, can't you see that I'm sleeping right now?

No, I didn't see you. You were sleeping?

Wow.

I heard that you met up with Director Do.

You heard about that already, Senior?

I heard you'd be getting a 15 percent pay raise

as well as 100 million won toward your pension every year.

So? Are you going to go?

I'm still thinking about it.

So that means that you really do want to take the offer.

Wouldn't you be on the fence about an offer like that, too?

No. Not at all.

The fact that he offered a surgical fellow lacking in experience

that kind of money means that he really wants something from you.

And you'll do whatever it takes to meet his expectations due to what he gave you.

It'll consume you and wear you out.

And then your life, as well as your conscience, will be destroyed.

Aren't you being a bit overdramatic?

All I did was hear out his offer.

So there's no way he'd be able to ruin my life and my conscience.

Nothing in life is free.

That's based on my own life experience, anyway.

Why are you so worried?

If he wants to go, he'll go. Otherwise, he won't.

It's because he could end up losing everything in one go

just because of a seemingly tantalizing offer.

Do you like Kang Dong Joo that much?

What are you saying, all of the sudden?

That came out of nowhere.

Aren't you two dating?

Dating? Who's dating?

Me? And Kang Dong Joo?

Oh, that's just ridiculous. Who said that we were dating?

Did Kang Dong Joo say that?

No. It just seems that way to me.