Doctor Shin (닥터신)

(All characters, places, and organizations are fictional.)

(Children were filmed under production guidelines.)

What a pair...

What's this for?

Are you making flower pancakes?

Did Director Shin ask for them?

Or are you just making them?

Are you all ignoring me? Is Director Shin your only deity now?

You too? Hey, Lee Shim!

Park Soo!

I can fire you both.

I'll be the one making Director Shin's birthday dinner this time.

Don't you two work well together...

Why not just get married?

Who's the senior here?

Lee Shim.

How old are you?

It's impossible to tell her age.

You all have no manners.

I looked into it, and on that day, two babies...

Yes...

But...

I don't think it's you.

I just have a feeling.

You don't resemble my family at all.

Family members don't always have to look alike.

What about the other child left at the church that day?

- Yes. - Can you get in touch with her?

Yes.

Could you explain the situation and arrange for me to meet them?

Yes, but shouldn't we get a test done?

I'll meet her first.

If I feel she isn't the one either...

What's her name?

Kim Jin Ju.

We even have the same last name.

I'd like to call her now.

I'll try calling her.

The phone is turned off.

Please leave a message after the tone.

She must be working.

Her phone's off.

- What does she do? - Jin Ju?

- Yes. - She's a stylist.

- Like celebrity outfits? - Yes.

And where did she go to school?

You can ask her that in person.

You seem to have a job too.

Yes.

- Where do you work? - The culture desk at Sungwoo Daily.

You're a reporter?

Yes. And you?

I was away

this year for a while.

When Kim Jin Ju gets in touch, could you give her my number?

Okay. But

you really don't think it's me?

Do you want me to be your dad?

I need to meet everyone to know for sure.

They're treating him like he's absolute royalty.

I don't eat carbs.

Did you say you wanted to eat these?

It's because I remember how my mom used to make them for me

around this time of year.

So your comfort food is azalea pancakes?

For me,

it's chive and pumpkin pancakes.

I hate the word "bindaetteok."

It just sounds so destitute and poor.

I'll make your birthday dinner this time.

Something really special and grand.

We'll invite your friends.

I'm busy.

And it's too much trouble.

Still, you should have at least one proper meal.

Shouldn't you be resting in bed?

I'm much better now.

I've pulled a muscle before.

Right.

It wasn't this body.

What dishes do you miss the most made by your mother?

Meat and rice.

Meat and rice? How do you make it?

Even when Nurse Park uses prime beef, it just doesn't taste the same.

Although it might look the same.

When will you stop being so formal?

It's going to become a habit.

What if someone hears you?

I'll get there.

I know men can't keep secrets.

Are you telling Ha Yong Joong everything?

It's always the ones closest to you who betray you.

Hey.

You called? I'm out working.

This time,

you might actually get to meet your biological dad.

Is someone looking for me again?

The Self-Reliance Center director contacted me.

So, I met a man named Kim Gwang Cheol.

Kim Jin Ju!

You're not done yet?

I have two scenes left.

I'm the last one off,

so I don't think I'll be done until after 1 a.m.

The news stories drop at dawn, so I need to get to sleep now.

- Tomorrow, then? - Okay.

James!

Hey, you're here.

What is all this?

A monk I know...

What about a monk? Did he give this to you?

- Yes. - Why?

Are you hungry?

Let's have breakfast. It's been a while.

It'll just take 30 minutes.

Why did he tell you to do this?

I told him I had insomnia.

Does it work? Are you sleeping?

Yes.

So is this the logic?

When you get sleep paralysis, the spirits see this and can't get you?

Want rice or toast?

So you gave the painting to Ba Ra after all.

No.

"Do you want to take it back and continue our relationship?"

"Or should I take the artwork, and we go our separate ways?"

When she puts it like that, what can I do? I had to take it back.

She even rejects you in a lovely way, making you feel good about it.

Don't take it too far.

Even if I don't,

you know what they say,

"You can't hide love, poverty, or a cough."

Hide it.

If you cause trouble by being selfish,

I'll be really disappointed in you.

I'm saying this because it's us.

I don't think of Professor Lee or Professor Shin as someone I'd marry.

It's just for a bit of fun, a passing interest.

Reporter Geum may be smart and have the looks and pedigree,

but would just any family accept her as a daughter-in-law?

The age gap aside, she's perfect for me.

We're kindred spirits.

Age doesn't matter these days, as long as you don't look old.

You think you can control that?

We have the world's best cosmetic tech.

It's too late for you.

They'll say you're going senile.

Don't you know what people look for in a marriage prospect?

I don't. All I know is love.

So you think it's best just to rip the band-aid off?

Then go on and confess everything to her.

You'll probably never see her again.

Want to bet?

He said he doesn't think it's me. I don't look alike at all.

What does he look like? His clothes and everything.

- He's just average. - You mean shabby?

No.

But we were the only two babies left

at that church on December 21, 1999.

You have the same last name as him, so it has to be you.

I'm so nervous.

I'll text you his number.

Kim Jin Ju?

Yes.

An iced Americano, please.

- Same for me. - Okay.

We don't even need a DNA test.

You're the spitting image of the mother you've never even met.

Really?

Do you have a picture?

You don't?

I don't have one.

We weren't married.

What was your relationship, exactly?

So you just dated and then broke up?

Or were you already married when you met her,

- and I was the result of an affair? - No.

We dated for about a year.

When we drifted apart, I didn't even know she was pregnant.

How...

I didn't know...

Her name was Hwang Mi Sook.

- My birth mother? - Yes.

She left you with my mother and then disappeared.

- So... - Then who threw me away

in the box at Minjin Church?

- I wouldn't say threw away... - But that's what it was.

I only found out later.

Then my grandmother did it?

Let's not speak ill of the dead.

Her own flesh-and-blood granddaughter?

Given her circumstances,

how could an old woman raise you all on her own?

Then what were you doing?

Do people only raise kids and grandkids when things are easy?

That was a long time ago.

- Does the past really matter? - "The past doesn't matter?"

I grew up in an orphanage without any parents.

I'm so ashamed.

You must resent me so much. I would too, in your shoes.