Resident Playbook TV Series Review

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Resident Playbook – TV Series Review



These 12 episodes of South Korean drama opened with chaotic scenes in an emergency room at Jongno Yulje Medical Centre. Oh Joo-young (played by Jung Woon-sun), a young doctor at the hospital, couldn’t perform a surgery on that day and was told to quit as a doctor. Then Joo-young suddenly woke up from her scary dream and was at a beauty salon, and dozed off while receiving her facial treatment. But when the staff tried to confirm her payment for her expensive VIP facial treatment, Joo-young couldn’t pay it, because she had a big debt and didn’t have a job. She ended up lying on a surgery table to trade all her debt for her kidney. Again, it was just Joo-young’s scary dream.

But the fact that Joo-young has a 50 million won debt with the bank, and she has no job, is real. Because of that situation, Joo-young is forced to go back to Jongno Yulje Medical Centre and work as a first-year resident at this hospital. She left the hospital 2 years ago because of an incident, and is very reluctant to go back to work as a doctor. But she has no other way to pay her big debt.

Jongno Yulje Medical Centre has 3 first-year resident in their OB-GYN department. Resident Playbook story will be around these 4 new interns. They all have their own flaw and their own reason to be at Jongno Yulje Medical Centre as first-year residents.

Dr Um Jae-il is an ex-Kpop idol who decided to become a doctor after his Kpop group disbanded. He had a habit to keep calling his supervisor to check on something with his work, as he wasn’t confident enough. He is a hardworking person, but for some reason, he never gets things right. Dr Kim Sa-bi is a very straightforward person. She is also very clever, but her work is solely based on textbooks with no empathy for her patients. She grew up with both parents as doctors, as well as her brother also became a doctor. Dr Pyo Nam-kyung is a beautiful princess, at least according to her mum, who has had a 7-year on-and-off relationship with her boyfriend.

Beside portraying busy life as first year resident in a hospital, complete with long working hours, even have to stay at hospital for days without have chance to wash their hair, Resident Playbook also portraying the joy to deliver a healthy baby, the happiness of hospital staffs and doctors when their risky surgery success, as well as the lost of life that sometimes happen on the operating table. If you are squeamish, just a heads-up that there will be a lot of scenes in the operating room, including C-section.

Of course, there will be a love story in this very popular South Korean TV series that will keep the viewer on their toes. Oh Joo-young fell for Koo Do-won, a fourth-year doctor at the same hospital who is also her brother-in-law, as Joo-young’s sister marries Do-won big brother. What makes their love story even twisted is that Joo-young and Do-won live under the same roof as their married siblings.

Resident Playbook allows you to witness growing of these 4 first year resident at OB-GYN department, not only their skills as a doctor but also their personality, through interaction with patient and their co-workers, and they started to enjoy their new job and embrace all the hustle of become doctor in fast pace environment.

Resident Playbook is a spin-off of another popular hospital theme South Korean TV series, Hospital Playlist (2020–2021). Some characters in Hospital Playlist also made cameo appearances in Resident Playbook, such as Yoo Yeon-seok as Ahn Jeong-won. Resident Playbook can be watched through online streaming services.

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