Go Yoon-jung, Cynthia, Kang Yoo-seok, and Han Ye-ji have begun to accept life in the obstetrics and gynecology department.

In the second episode of tvN weekend drama ‘Someday, I Will Be a Wise Resident’ (creator Shin Won-ho, Lee Woo-jung, director Lee Min-soo, scriptwriter Kim Song-hee, abbreviated as ‘Unsuljeon’), which aired on the 13th, the residents who are finally adapting to the profession of an obstetrician and gynecologist after denial, anger, compromise, and depression were depicted.

First-year residents Oh Yi-young(played by Go Yoon-jung), Pyo Nam-kyung(played by Cynthia), Eom Jae-il(played by Kang Yoo-seok), and Kim Sa-bi(played by Han Ye-ji)have been busy with various tasks such as chats, rounds, studies, and dressings, leaving them with no time to rest.To make matters worse, fellow resident Myung Eun-won(played by Kim Hye-in)’s turn notice has left the first-year residents mentally and physically exhausted.

Among them, Oh Yi-young’s work life became even more complicated as she started to misunderstand with the residents in other departments due to what Myeong-won did.Oh Yi-young’s desire to escape, filled with anger, grew like a time bomb that could explode at any moment as she was hit by Myeong-won’s skill of turning the tables on others with a smile.

However, the emergency signal from the obstetrics and gynecology department echoing throughout the hospital continued to hold back Oh Yi-young’s steps.Senior resident Gu Do-won(played by Jung Joon-won), who noticed Oh Yi-young’s internal conflict, and fellow Choo Min-ha(played by Ahn Eun-jin)at Songdo Yulje Hospital, comforted Oh Yi-young’s heart, which was filled with anger, with warm advice.Oh Yi-young’s eyes filled with excitement and emotion at the sight of Gu Do-won, who took her side for the first time, foreshadowed a change in Oh Yi-young’s heart.

Meanwhile, Pyo Nam-kyung and Kim Sa-bi, who had been struggling with communication with people, also succeeded in forming a rapport with a patient for the first time.Pyo Nam-kyung was tired of the patient who had become sensitive due to her long-term illness.Pyo Nam-kyung’s growth caught attention as she cried at the patient’s words of apology and encouragement.

Here, Kim Sa-bi, who was depressed by the patient’s words, “I don’t think I should be a doctor,” compromised in her own way by taking care of the patient with accurate test results instead of emotional empathy.The changes in the residents who had found it difficult to see patients attracted attention.


As the first-year residents gradually seeped into the obstetrics and gynecology department through stages of denial, anger, compromise, and depression, the hidden efforts of the senior residents to hold on to their juniors also shone.The love of the senior residents for their juniors, who provided them with every meal, provided them with rest time, and even prevented them from getting turn-noted, attracted attention.Whether it was real love for their juniors or a future prevention of work that would be taken on because of the resident who ran away, was up to the interpretation.

The first-year residents, who were filled with satisfaction from their first paychecks, greeted each other as if nothing had happened and promised to meet again tomorrow.

It’s a fantasy.It’s common to see all first-year residents leaving work at the same time.First-year residents are also assigned to on-call schedules while they are training, so it’s not common for all first-year residents to leave work at the same time.Also, unless you’re at a hospital where you did your internship, you’ll skip learning the different chart entry machines for each hospital.Even first-year residents don’t have any experience in the operating room.They experience some operating rooms during their internship.In particular, some of the behaviors of Oh Yi-young, who is a resident repeater, are somewhat puzzling.

Furthermore, the scene where the anesthesiology department forces a first-year resident to run away is a farce in itself.Even if there was a misunderstanding in the process of opening an operating room, a rookie first-year resident who didn’t even receive a month’s salary, and the scene where they force a resident on the spot without warning the person in charge of the department is beyond common sense in reality, not to say that it is a dramatic scene.This is clearly an abuse of authority.They must be unaware of the department’s position of having to catch even the residents who run away because there is not enough support for residents, but the scene where they are practically ‘group lynching’ a first-year resident is outrageous.

However, the popularity of the series has given a green light to tvN weekend dramas that had been continuously flopping.The second episode of ‘Unsuljeon’ recorded an average of 4.5% and a high of 5.1% in the metropolitan area, and an average of 4% and a high of 4.4% nationwide.(Paid platform that integrates cable, IPTV, and satellite, Nielsen Korea)This is a good figure compared to the previous series that had a viewership rating in the 1% range.

Hong Se-young, reporter for Donga.com projecthong@donga.com

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