[Drama 2018] Life 라이프

cbabe89 · July 24, 2018

Does anyone know where I can watch this drama legally in HD? Viki and dramafever doesn’t seem to be showing this!

reut · July 24, 2018

5 hours ago, triplem said:

If Netflix bought the sole subbing rights the others can’t . This team is the same as Stranger /FoS , which Netflix also bought the subbing rights for & that of course became a commercial success for Netflix . But Stranger was pre-produced so it was possible for Netflix Asia to release subs immediately ( an hour later) after the episodes premiered in SK. This drama is not pre-produced , so we will have to wait patiently for a few days.

Thank you for the explanation! Ah well... As long as it's going to be subbed at all, I guess we can wait. Since there's no other option but waiting anyway

plappi · July 24, 2018

preview 3ep

marykarmelina · July 24, 2018

@irilight

Hi Dear :)

I'm afraid it has to do with JTBC.

I think they have a contract agreement with DF and NF. Hope it's only for this year

Sigh... Viki couldn't even create a channel...

irilight · July 24, 2018

14 minutes ago, marykarmelina said:

@irilight

Hi Dear

I'm afraid it has to do with JTBC.

I think they have a contract agreement with DF and NF. Hope it's only for this year

Sigh... Viki couldn't even create a channel...

Thank you @marykarmelina... How sad.... I would have thought with such a contract - maybe DF and NF will have priority, but Viki will have the option if the the others do not pick it up. That would have been a "Win-Win" for everybody.... JTBC, Viki, and us...

jongski · July 24, 2018

9 hours ago, triplem said:

By the way not all Jtbc dramas are automatically bought by Netflix, it depends on who the cast / Director / writer is . Netflix will usually go for the ones with big names , A list cast or crew ( Writers/producers ) .

Ugh so it's like that, huh. I. Now that suxx big time. Of course from the business perspective, that's how things are done. One has to have big star, big director, well know writer. If a drama is small time, with lesser known stars and stellar writer and director.. forget about being subbed. Popularity still is the name of the game. And I thought it only happens during awards ceremony, popularity over acting skills always wins. It's frustrating as I watch a lot of dramas. Just going to wait. My bitter post about subbing. Thanks for indulging. Because this drama is not sub. I'm annoyed. pardon the OT.

It's a medical drama and for that genre.. gotta have subtitles otherwise, viewers like me will be clueless. I was excited when I first saw this thread but... this drama had a premiere and nothing. No discussion of story and scenes and all that

July 24, 2018

Ratings rose further . ( Keep your fingers crossed that it will appear on Netflix soon . The subbing team at NF is apparently not that big from what I read from another thread . )

bedifferent · July 25, 2018

Thanks @triplem for letting us know. Netflix is prolly busy with Mr Sunshine subs. It’s doing something different airing the subbed episode 1 hr after live airing almost worldwide. For a preproduced drama, only 14 out of 24 are queue for release on the list. The drama is doing well ratings wise so maybe a lot of efforts go into subbing it first. Hopefully, they will start switching over to Life soon. Otherwise, we may have to wait till all episodes for Mr Sunshine are subbed before Life will get its turn.

All hopes are pinning on Netflix picking up the drama. We are positive that it bought the airing right yeah?

Good numbers on the ratings. I watched the first 5 min of E1 before stopping to avoid spoilers. Very nice and real depiction of the ER. Not sure how the paramedics in SK operate their ambulances. The only time the US paramedics turn off the ambulance lights and siren is when the sounds interfere with resuscitative efforts. I think it’s pretty dramatic for a trauma ER doc waiting to receive pt to see the ambulance shuts off its siren/lights on approach. All signs point toward a failed effort and DOA pt. In real life, paramedics will continue their efforts until the pt is transferred into ER care. They cannot stop and cannot pronounce.

bedifferent · July 25, 2018

New star-studded TV series to expose capitalist logic weighing on medical industry

2018/07/23 17:50; Yonhap

SEOUL, July 23 (Yonhap) -- A new TV series starring two heartthrobs will kick off its eight-week run on Monday to expose the reality of the medical service sector coming being driven by the capitalist logic of profit making.

The investigative drama "Life" starts with the arrival of Koo Seung-hyo, played by Cho Seung-woo, as the new head of a top-level university hospital.

As a loyal employee and young executive at the business conglomerate Hwajeong, which took over the loss-making hospital, Seung-hyo seeks to reform the institution and clashes with the director of the hospital's emergency medical center, Ye Jin-woo, played by Lee Dong-wook.

Jin-woo, a faithful doctor who puts the value of human life above anything else, fights Seung-hyo's business-minded management style quietly but consistently.

"Jin-woo is a common doctor who strives to achieve the ultimate goal of saving people's lives. A series of episodes he sees happening around him bring in a change in Jin-woo's mind and make him decide to act to save the hospital," Lee said in a press conference promoting the TV series from cable channel JTBC.

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Actor Lee Dong-wook, who plays the role of Ye Jin-woo in the new TV series "Life," poses for photos during a press conference in southern Seoul on July 23, 2018. (Yonhap)

Cho said that his character started off as a villain who kowtows to the powerful and tramples on the weak. "But he comes away with something he learns from the hospital, learns his lesson and sees a change taking place inside him."

He continued, "He's not a entirely evil person. (At the end) he does everything he can do in his power to save the hospital and his business group at the same time."

Moon So-ri, who plays the hot-tempered director of the hospital's neurosurgery center, Oh Se-hwa, said that the message from the series may be applicable to not only the medical service sector but the education field or other areas where capitalist logic clashes with traditional values.

"It is a work that raises the question of how we can raise our immunity (to capitalist logic) and what values we have to hold onto," Moon said.

The scenario was written by Lee Soo-yeon, whose 2017 TV series with tvN, "Stranger," drew solid critical acclaim and won her the best TV scenario award for the 2018 Baeksang Arts Awards.

It's Cho's second collaboration with the star scenario writer, having starred in "Stranger." Two more actors, including Yoo Jae-myung, appear in the new TV series, having previously worked on the 2017 series.

"At first, I felt burdened by working once more with writer Lee Soo-yeon. Her work is something that gives me a headache to interpret and act on. I was anxious, asking myself if I could make it," Cho said, adding that he made the right choice in the end.

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Cho Seung-woo, who plays the role of Koo Seung-hyo in the new TV series "Life," poses for photos during a press conference in southern Seoul on July 23, 2018. (Yonhap)

For Lee, it was out of his wish to shatter the image of a sad lover that he established in the sensationally successful tvN fantasy series "Guardian: The Lonely and Great God," which ran from late 2016 to early 2017.

"I chose this work as I was looking for a role that was opposite to (what I did then) and that could change my image entirely," Lee said.

"Having played a messenger from the underworld in the fantasy, I was attracted to this very realistic story," he said.

Producer Hong Jong-chan hinted at a turning of the tide in the story and the opposing characters of the two main male actors: "Seung-hyo harbors innocence behind his hard-headed image, while Jin-woo seems to be sharpening a sword (for revenge) deep inside him that his more terrifying than that of Seung-hyo."

Starting Monday, the 16 episode-series with will be broadcast every Monday and Tuesday. Currently, the actors and actresses are filming the 13th and 14th episodes, according to the channel.

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The cast of the new JTBC TV series "Life" pose for photos during a press conference in southern Seoul on July 23, 2018. (Yonhap)

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‘Antigen-antibody reaction’ between Lee Dong-wook, Cho Seung-woo

By Im Eun-byel, Korea Herald

Published : Jul 23, 2018 - 17:40
Updated : Jul 23, 2018 - 17:40

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. The phrase describes actors Lee Dong-wook and Cho Seung-woo’s relationship in the upcoming JTBC medical drama series “Life.”

Lee plays a passionate emergency room doctor, while Cho takes on the role of a coldhearted president of the hospital. Having different goals and interests, the two confront each other.

Producer Hong Jong-chan described the two actors’ relationship as an antigen-antibody reaction that may make one sick at first, but strengthens the immunity.

“Cho, a newcomer to the hospital group, can find problems that the hospital people do not realize. It may come as a shock at first, but through the struggles, the hospital can become better and stronger,” Hong said at a press conference Monday in southern Seoul.

“It’s not so much about the good and the evil. Lee’s character is sometimes colder than that of Cho. Cho’s character is sometimes more understanding than that of Lee. It’s the system we’d like to talk about,” he said.

This is Lee’s first role since his previous work, the tvN hit series “Guardian: The Lonely and Great God,” in which he played a humorous and sweet grim reaper.

“The grim reaper takes dead people, but this time I am saving the lives of people who are on the verge of death,” Lee said. “The previous work was fantasy, but this time it is very realistic. I was attracted by the differences.”

The medical drama touts itself as different from other works of the genre, as its plot centers on a power struggle in a university hospital, rather than operations and medical treatments.

It is Cho’s second time working with scriptwriter Lee Soo-yeon after the tvN mystery-thriller drama “Stranger” last year. The drama, praised for its tight and gripping plot, won the grand prize at the Baeksang Arts Awards earlier this year. Cho received the grand prize for his acting as well.

“It’s always about the roots,” he said, explaining the similarity in the two productions. “The scriptwriter, in the end, always talks about the essence, the systemic and structural problems.”

The first episode of the 16-part series airs Monday at 11 p.m

By Im Eun-byel (silverstar@heraldcorp.com)

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ganko · July 25, 2018

I'm really excited for this drama, i want to watch it so bad but i also remember how hard it was to wait for the next episode of Secret Forest last summer, i almost went crazy with anticipation the last episodes haha....Maybe it's good that i can watch it in one go later...I'm happy to see that many actors returned to this one. This writer is a gem, I don't particularly like law or hospital dramas, i always avoid those, but Secret Forest was truly well made, i wasn't bored one second. I have no doubt that Life will be intriguing too

annagriss8 · July 25, 2018

Jtbc 'Life' episode ratings (AGB Nielsen)
ep 1 : 4.334% (Nationwide); 5.232% (Seoul)
ep 2 : 4.971% (Nationwide); 5.631% (Seoul)
(source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(2018_TV_series))

July 25, 2018

5 hours ago, bedifferent said:

Cho said that his character started off as a villain who kowtows to the powerful and tramples on the weak. "But he comes away with something he learns from the hospital, learns his lesson and sees a change taking place inside him."

He continued, "He's not a entirely evil person. (At the end) he does everything he can do in his power to save the hospital and his business group at the same time."

Lol! So he basically starts off as a capitalist and ends up as a socialist! . Thanks for the articles. Like that the characters are layered . A little grey , my cup of tea ....

Bee, isn’t the guy on the left Do San in About Time ? We get to see him here !

Agency updates

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lingkoo · July 25, 2018

They're all so cute and look friendly

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Edited July 25, 2018 by triplem
Pls don’t post consecutively within an hour. Edit to add. TQ

annagriss8 · July 25, 2018

Message posted @ dramabeans:

From Lalalili: Life will be available on Netflix beginning August 4, with 2 episodes weekly.

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bedifferent · July 25, 2018

6 hours ago, triplem said:

Lol! So he basically starts off as a capitalist and ends up as a socialist! . Thanks for the articles. Like that the characters are layered . A little grey , my cup of tea ....

Bee, isn’t the guy on the left Do San in About Time ? We get to see him here !

Not quite a socialist. Maybe a Liberitarian? Haha Goo Seung-hyo has a hard job of pleasing everyone - shareholders, patients, doctors, staff. Takes money to operate the hospital. Healthcare is expensive. We demand the best care yet no patient is capable or willing to pay the true cost. Who will pick up the check? How much responsibilities do we demand of our society and government when we can't extend the same care toward others around us? When is it become too much of an expectation, a right rather than a shared cost?

Yeah, writer-nim keeps her streak of grey characters going. From the character synopsis, I'm guessing we are involved in some sort of organ transplant scandal. Trauma, surgeons, pediatrics, ER, ethics committee member... I didn't realize the drama has 2 good PDs on board known for delivering relatable heartfelt stories. Maybe they will manage time better with two people. No ego clash please.

PD Hong Jong-chan of Dear My Friends and PD Im Hyun-wook who’s worked on Awl and This Week My Wife Will Have an Affair (from Dramabeans).

Good catch, that's Jung Moon Sung, he's a CEO of sort? LOL . I'm wondering if CSW will PPL mens wear. He looks great in suits.

@annagriss8 thanks for letting me know about 8/7/18. I called US Netflix. They don't have Life in their content yet. Rep said they usually add movie/drama into the content list about 1-2 weeks prior to release date. They also send out notifications based on your watch preferences. I am thinking it's Netflix Asia that has Life released on Aug 7, will be different for everyone else based on where you are. Yay for subs finally.

Soooo we may have to be slightly cautious when posting here or use spoiler tags for videos/IG/photos and anything that could spoil the drama. Either that or avoid this thread together. It's hard for me since simply browsing for the drama brings up all sorts of things. How not to ruin medical thrillers even for yourself is what I am thinking

plappi · July 25, 2018

HA DONG KYUNG – HOME (LIFE OST PART 1)

Drive me home of my own
before the break of dawn
Used to be a little dreamer
kept running rain or shine
After all those thousand rainbows
now I’m knocking on the door
Can someone will be there for me

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All the joys all the sorrows
not a thing behind the door
You keep me warm like the fire
just place me in your arms
After all your thousand kisses
now I know that you’re my home
You left the door wide open while I’m gone

Before I know what I know
thought that I’m made out of gold
Was young and wild dare to face end of December
and there’s no one by my side
All alone when I’m down
Before the dawn bring me back to my home

Drive me home of my own
Just before the break of dawn
Used to be a little dreamer
kept running rain or shine
After all those thousand rainbows
now I’m knocking on the door
I need the door wide open while I’m gone

Before I walk on this road
heard the stories from my old
What to smile and what to cry what to remember
You can’t define what’s wrong and right
Believe yourself, it’s fine
Don’t you know, there is always your home

I look up to the sky and reach the stars
The moon is shining on my soul
And all of my dreams all that I wish
Doesn’t mean a thing on my own
Take me home
The place I can hide

Oh I know yes I know
Was just blind and fool so long
Now I smile and now I cry and I remember
Everyday and every night
There was your candle light
Now I know, you’re the home of my own

Drive me home of my own
Just before the break of dawn
Used to be a little dreamer
kept running rain or shine
After all those thousand rainbows
now I’m knocking on the door
I need the door wide open while I’m gone

POPGASA

bedifferent · July 26, 2018

Life' takes viewers behind-the-scenes of hospital

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http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.asp?newsIdx=252777

annagriss8 · July 26, 2018

New star-studded TV series to expose capitalist logic weighing on medical industry

http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/culturesports/2018/07/23/0701000000AEN20180723009600315.html