[Drama 2020-2021] Hospital Playlist, 슬기로운 의사생활 - Season 1 & 2

[Ketu R]

3 hours ago, nrllee said:

Yeah I think he went overboard.  She was super uncomfortable with the whole thing.  For me she turned the tables on him?  The whole exercise was meant to make Andrea jealous but in the end who ended up being “jealous”?  IJ.  He was upset because she chose Andrea’s surgery instead of his?  She was supposed to “thank him by choosing his surgery”.  Was she NOT thankful?  Is that why she didn’t choose his surgery and chose to aggravate him (IJ)?  Because he wasn’t expecting that at all from her.  When he said what he said in the end, he meant it.  “How could you do this to me?  After all that I’ve done for you? I hate you”...and he stormed out of the room.  
 

As for the pep talk that IJ gave JWon.  Remember how IJ talked about IS to JunWan (?) about how she never chased any boys/men and they were always the ones chasing her?  Then JunWan said, “he’s talking about himself”.  So that whole pep talk was directed at himself .  He’s the one that should be following his heart.  He was talking about how great GU was to JWon who had this bemused face as if to say, “if you think she has these stellar qualities, why don’t you chase her yourself?”  That’s how I interpreted that scene.  IJ projects romantic notions onto people.  He still thinks Capt Ahn is after IS.  Even though Capt Ahn told him twice that he didn’t think of IS that way and he liked SHwa.    He’s funny IJ.  I can’t stop laughing at his antics.

GU and IJ have chemistry but I think it is the same chemistry that's shared by joon won and Moon-sung. They have a special connection too. But just because this is a male female thing it becomes a ship. Am not saying its impossible. But so far romantic interests have been shown only by certain people towards others. 

IJ - Song hwa

 

Gu- Andrea 

 

There has never been any cross reference of an idea of romance between these pairs. 

 

All you said could make sense if IJ did not make that confession to song hwa. To be really honest I dont think he even sees GU like that. If he wanted to be so desperately with her why would he always keep going to song hwa for 'treats' as he calls them. The guy has never chased after a women. But he keeps going to song hwa again and again recently. Coz she was the one he just cannot get over. Even after all these years. He tried to keep his distance after he got married. But now that he is single again he is goes back to her. 

 

And song hwa too tried to keep her distance from him before his divorce. Remember when joon wan asked her to check on him saying there was some problem with his wife she did not want to get involved.. why?? She is usually a considerate person who does care for others. But she refused to go to him. My guess is she too had unrequited feelings for him then and did not want to get sucked into any relationship problems with him. Remember how the director said the group dinner scene in 2and episode is important. Ij tries to talk to soek kyung about something but is instantly upset and irritated when song hwa and joon wan discuss her cheating boyfriend. But he doesnt comment. That's not like him, but he did not want to bring up those feelings when he was married to someone else.

Their story reeks of the classic one that got away for both of them. They may get together finally(hopefully) but to say IJ is suddenly developing romantic inkling towards GU when he is clearly not over song hwa is a bit far fetched.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[maggiee]

3 hours ago, Kathy345 said:

I understand that she is Auntie in Changvon who look after Uju while Ikjun is away?

I don't think so, because they call her Aunty Wang. 

 

1 hour ago, ktcjdrama said:

She is Iksun. Terminator is used because of reference that she is in the military ~ fierce, guns, sunglasses 

Yes, I think she is Iksun too. Then Ikjun is Darth Vader and Iksun is Terminator hahhaa. But it will be interesting if it is SongHwa, we don't really know yet. 

[stella_512]

2 hours ago, nrllee said:

He was talking about how great GU was to JWon who had this bemused face as if to say, “if you think she has these stellar qualities, why don’t you chase her yourself?”  That’s how I interpreted that scene.  IJ projects romantic notions onto people.  He still thinks Capt Ahn is after IS.  Even though Capt Ahn told him twice that he didn’t think of IS that way and he liked SHwa.  

I don't remember Jeong Won's bemused expression when Ik Jun told him how amazing Gyeoul was. As far as I know he was looking down and said, I know that too ( isn't it like I know that too, but I don't know what to do with myself) 

Ik Jun doesn't think Captain Ahn likes Ik sun, it's far more complicated than people trying to project Ik Jun being dense. My interpretation is either he knows Jun Wan likes Ik Sun and trying to do things like his signature self or he is just trying to divert Chi Hong's affection away from Song hwa and shift the attention she is giving to Captain Ahn.

For me Ik Jun and Jun Wan are the two most honest and transparent people when it comes to their feelings. I would not like to read anything beyond what they say because that translates as injustice to the character itself. What matters is the heart, and as far as Ik Jun is concerned, his heart and intentions are always in the right place. His friends know that so there will never be a misunderstanding. Sometimes it's more helpful when you have someone who says things clearly to your face rather than choosing to ignore the very apparent hardship his friend is going through.

Edited May 19, 2020 by stella_512

[ChunSungIm]

 

Shin hyun bin is 168 cm tall but she is very small beside yoo yeon sook.

 

[ryanallright]

I can see large differences in view for the past 2-3 pages for the ships.

 

I shall not take part as I am afraid that I will be nasty, to avoid being banned, I will be a silent reader till thursday unless necessary.

 

[kokodus]

If Jeong won is not interested in GU, all he have to do is clearly state how he feels to IkJun so that he will stop pestering him. Like how Captain Ahn did. He told ikjun multiple times already that he and Iksun are just friends. He wants to clear that misunderstanding with him and he also clearly told ikjun that he likes Songhwa. See that's how a guy will behave if he doesn't want to get paired with someone he doesn't love. What is holding back Jeong won from doing the same thing? 

[ednamode101]

On 5/16/2020 at 12:31 AM, Dramageek said:

https://yeoniverse.wordpress.com/2020/03/17/hospital-playlists-ahn-jeong-won-yoo-yeon-seok-full-characters-description/

 

Rereading Andrea character description again. It was said that Andrea wanted to be priest long before his brothers did. Poor thing, brothers and sisters beat him to it.

 

There were two mistery/flashback that the writer haven't reveal to us yet.

1. His 20s budding romance. Flowergardener ship pretty sure it was Songhwa. The probability that it was Songhwa is high in my opinion. But we did not know if it was one sided like Seok Hyung or mutual. Did he confess like Seok Hyung or never confess like Ikjun?

2. Traumatic incident with kids (patient?) who made him give up photography and question his profession as pediatric doctor (wanna go back to priesthood).

 

If it was not Song Hwa, the woman he loves in his 20s probably related to case number 2. The reason why he left photography. Maybe his patient mum? Dunno.

 

I really hope that this two events will be revealed in the next episode.

 

Wow. I totally missed that reference about Andrea's former love. Which episode was that?

[ChunSungIm]

16 hours ago, Uaenaforever said:

Yeah, I can see your point. Her character is not easy to like/ understand at first sight, like Shwa e.g.  At first , it was annoying to watch her behaving like this. As a health worker myself, when I saw her talking to the child’s mom I was shocked too. But I have to recognize the work of the Director/ writer in developing  her character so we can see now why of her odd behavior and her true self and even start loving her 

Although, I hope a too  more drastic development in her character like Jang NaRa in Fated to love you. I was upset at first when they separated but when I saw her grow like that, I understood

Anyways I can say almost safely now that we’re almost at the end of season 1, this is not over yet and we’ll have to wait probably to the next seasons to see more

cheers!

 

i dunno if everyone have discuss this but Why Jang Gye Eul is best character from her stand point as a resident from Real-life doctors 

 

 

1. She have Stable Mentality,never get shaken when seeing patients. well kinda lack of communication but gets better.

2. Always ready at anything what doctor says.

3. She knows that she is GS Princess,the only one resident at GS. she can choose to be sly,choosing jeong won maybe because theres likeness theres,but she isnt. she will help another 13 profesor and she never complaining about being only resident in GS.

4. She learn from mistakes and getting better every eps,kinda glad her character build is getting stronger each eps.

 

[nrllee]

16 minutes ago, kokodus said:

If Jeong won is not interested in GU, all he have to do is clearly state how he feels to IkJun so that he will stop pestering him.

I agree. Let’s see what writer tells us (or not) in the next 2 episodes.  I will wait for him to say something (or not) about his feelings towards GU. 

[sakura22]

23 minutes ago, kokodus said:

If Jeong won is not interested in GU, all he have to do is clearly state how he feels to IkJun so that he will stop pestering him. Like how Captain Ahn did. He told ikjun multiple times already that he and Iksun are just friends. He wants to clear that misunderstanding with him and he also clearly told ikjun that he likes Songhwa. See that's how a guy will behave if he doesn't want to get paired with someone he doesn't love. What is holding back Jeong won from doing the same thing? 

 

This makes perfect sense! Jeong Won had multiple chances to give a straight blatant answer if he is not conflicted inside. When he was asked what he thought of Gyeo Ul, when Ik Jun lied to him pretending Gyeo Ul is approaching and at the smoking area. 

Answering honestly to Ik Jun's question would not offend Gyeo Ul so there is no need to feel conflicted about rejecting or hurting anyone unless he is hiding something and not willing to admit or deny because he can lie to Gyeo Ul but not to his friends. In fact it would make everything easy for him.

He didn't tell his friends who his father was because they didn't ask him. Means that he would tell them honestly if they had asked. Guess he could not lie to his friends, hence his preference to keep a tight lipped and let the questions left unanswered. 

 

[dairymilks]

Get your pockets ready.... Hospital Playlist OST album is coming. Alsooo, Jeon Mi Do OST?!!?!! She has a signed polaroid!!!! Prayer circle for With All My Tears drama version since there was a BTS clip of her rehearsing the song

 

Not to mention the heartbeat(? lol what's the correct trans for this) cards are Iksong and Pigeon couple. I feel like it says a lot about the end game. LOL.

 

 

[kokodus]

@nrllee @sakura22 It is not uncommon for this writer to not reveal what's inside the lead character's mind until the very end for the suspense factor. But it feels weird to have an open confrontation scene like that only for Jeong won to evade the question unanswered. I'm guessing that he did the same thing during ep 3 when Ikjun asked what he thinks about Gyeo ul. And that's why Ikjun hasn't given up on him yet. LOL. Everyone is blaming Ikjun for staging that proposal scene, but no one is blaming Jeong won for being so wishy washy about his responses. It's because we know he is conflicted inside. That is why if he really doesn't have anything for Gyeo ul, then his half-assed responses can't be justified anymore. If it's not love, he better has a good reason for all of his actions towards Gyeo ul up until now.

 

[40somethingahjumma]

1 hour ago, kokodus said:

If Jeong won is not interested in GU, all he have to do is clearly state how he feels to IkJun so that he will stop pestering him. Like how Captain Ahn did. He told ikjun multiple times already that he and Iksun are just friends. He wants to clear that misunderstanding with him and he also clearly told ikjun that he likes Songhwa. See that's how a guy will behave if he doesn't want to get paired with someone he doesn't love. What is holding back Jeong won from doing the same thing? 

 

He sure didn't have problems telling his mother in no uncertain terms... "It's not Songhwa!"

[heroonthebeach]

Episode 9 has my favourite OST so far! So much fun in this episode  here’s my review of the episode here:

https://kdramaanalysis.com/2020/05/19/hospital-playlist-episode-9/

 

[ktcjdrama]

3 hours ago, maggiee said:

es, I think she is Iksun too. Then Ikjun is Darth Vader and Iksun is Terminator hahhaa. But it will be interesting if it is SongHwa, we don't really know yet. 

It is definitely IkSun. The term Uju used is “ku-mu” which is the specific term to call the sister of one’s father. Any other female friends of father will be generally called “yi-mu” (also the term to call the sister of one’s mother)

[kokodus]

22 minutes ago, 40somethingahjumma said:

 

He sure didn't have problems telling his mother in no uncertain terms... "It's not Songhwa!"

Exactly!!! I know some people have different interpretation of that line, but for me, it is what it is. The phrasing of that sentence is also important. If he really doesn't have anyone else in his mind, as @ktcjdrama mentioned before, he would've said, "There is nothing between me and Songhwa". When he said "It's not Songhwa" it's natural for anyone to think that there is someone else, I don't blame his mom. LOL. It's slip of the tongue, he says, I wonder why he is having so many "slip of the tongue" moments lately (the Annyeong too) LOL. The guy who never talks in banmal to anyone besides his close friends talked to his resident in banmal. Why is that? It's not even like Gyeo ul and him have gone out and socialized over drinks and meals for him to get that comfortable around her. He only ever sees her at work. The only other explanation I have besides the obvious fact is that he thinks of her as his little sister. LOLOL. 

[KDramaFan0828]

Wow the rate of this thread is steadily accelerating  Glad to see new chingus joining the discussion as I was also once a newbie (and still quite fresh in this field) who got consumed by this wonderful drama HAHA. And with the restrictions we have on socialization due to the global pandemic, I believe getting to throw around ideas with other people helps us get by in a way. Plus it's a good brain exercise HEHE

 

For me I just go towards the direction where the arrows I've seen point me. And so far most arrows I've seen reinforce the 4 apparent pairings: 99z, Wintergarden, Gom-gom, Bidulgi. When it comes to investing, I'm not really the risk-taker type haha  so kudos to those of you bold enough to hold onto the arrows you have regardless if other people have seen them or not.

 

Narrative-wise, I'm ok with any ending as long as it's convincing enough and so far with the Duo's past projects, they've laid out enough foundation for the dramas' conclusion. Of course, I still had my preferences  but the endings were believable. So I have high hopes that regardless of the ending, they'll provide necessary build-up. And hey, it's totally normal and ok to change our views when presented with new information. So let's just all enjoy this ride.

 

[nrllee]

O look Andrea’s shoes. Sunflower, rainbow with flowers and a turtle - I’ll “Taek” that .  

 

 

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[40somethingahjumma]

1 hour ago, kokodus said:

Exactly!!! I know some people have different interpretation of that line, but for me, it is what it is. The phrasing of that sentence is also important. If he really doesn't have anyone else in his mind, as @ktcjdrama mentioned before, he would've said, "There is nothing between me and Songhwa". When he said "It's not Songhwa" it's natural for anyone to think that there is someone else, I don't blame his mom. 

 

My point was that Jeong-won is seldom backwards in coming forwards.  If he's not happy with something or some kind of injustice, he will speak up. He always does. If Ik-jun was crossing the line with him, he would have said so.

 

In Episode 2 I think it was, when the Flawed Five were having hot pot of some description, he gave the table an almighty wack and told Songhwa and Jun-wan off for being greedy and eating all noodles.

When Ik-jun observed that he had used banmal with Gyeo-ul, he protested and denied it vehemently. 

When he thought Ik-jun was having an affair with Gyeo-ul, he went straight up to him and confronted him head on.

 

Jeong-won isn't some weakling or pushover who can't stand up for himself or others. He pushes back when it's right to do so.

 

If we watch the show with an eye to what the writer is doing, everything we need to understand is given to us in context.

[ktcjdrama]

39 minutes ago, nrllee said:

O look Andrea’s shoes. Sunflower, rainbow with flowers and a turtle - I’ll “Taek” that 

 

Well, there’s an interpretation that the sunflower represent his single-minded devotion to God. But in ep.10, the sunflower is not there anymore and there is another flower, presumably Camellia, which blooming time is around end of Winter (Jan-Apr). Ref.video below at 3:46 mark.