‘Kkokkomu’ tells the shocking story of a patient with an amputation missing the golden time due to vehicles that did not yield to the road while transporting him, and reveals the ‘Moses Miracle Campaign’ that resulted from it and its current state, conveying a gentle emotion.

The 180th episode of ‘The Story of That Day That Goes On’ (directed by Lee Keun-byeol, Lee Dong-won, and Go Hye-rin, ‘Kkokkomu’) that aired on the 19th had the theme of ‘A Battle with Time - 6 Hours of Fate ‘and dancer Monica, former major league baseball player Choo Shin-soo’s wife Ha Won-mi, and actor Choi Young-woo appeared as listeners.

In addition, according to Nielsen Korea, a viewership rating research agency, the 2049 viewership ratings for ‘Kkokkomu’ on this day were 3.4% in the metropolitan area, 3.3% nationwide, and 1.8% for 2049 viewers, ranking first among all entertainment, educational, and drama shows in the same time slot on Thursdays, once again confirming its title as the strongest on Thursdays.

The broadcast that day began with actor Park Ki-woong appearing on SBS “Beat” in 2013 and telling the story of a lower extremity amputation accident he suffered while working at a Gangnam fire station.

A 10-car pileup occurred on a snowy highway over the holiday weekend.A woman who was trying to evacuate children standing on the road was hit by another vehicle and suffered a severed leg in the horrific accident.

The golden time for amputees is 6 hours.Operation 007 was launched to complete the reattachment surgery within this time.The accident site was Yeonggwang, but at the time, the hospital that could perform the reattachment surgery was in Seoul.They were even mobilized by helicopter and barely arrived in Seoul, but the last hurdle was to get through the Olympic Road, which was completely blocked on Saturday afternoon.

At that time, Park Ki-woong, who was on duty with the firefighters, received a call that an emergency patient was being transported and headed to Jamsil where the helicopter was landing.Park Ki-woong recalled the panic he felt when he first heard that a lower limb amputee was coming, saying, “I had never experienced this situation before, so I thought, ‘What should I do?’”

There was only one hour left until the golden time.It was only 10 km to the hospital.If you went fast, it would take about 10 minutes.However, the reality was different.Olympic-daero was completely blocked by cars, and the paramedics, including Park Ki-woong, earnestly asked for ‘evasion’ (give way to others), but it was not easy.There was even a car that cut in front of the ambulance.

Park Ki-woong recalled, “I didn’t expect it at all.I didn’t know it would be that blocked and that they wouldn’t move out of the way to this extent.” Park Ki-woong said, “I thought about jumping out of the ambulance and asking them to move out of the way,” and conveyed his desperate feelings, saying, “It felt like I was running underwater and not being able to move forward.” Monica, who saw the situation of the patient’s family at the time, said, “It must have been so painful.It’s like not being able to do anything for the person you love.”

The patient had clenched her mouth tightly in unbearable pain, so all of her teeth were broken.Monica ended up sobbing, saying, “It must have been such a hard time.” The time of arrival at the hospital was 6:33 p.m., 5 hours and 30 minutes after the accident, and the distance that could have been reached in 10 minutes by car took 40 minutes.In the end, the surgery was completed well after the golden time.

Patient Jong-soon had to undergo a second surgery due to post-operative infection symptoms, and eventually had to have her leg amputated.However, Choi Young-woo was moved to tears when he saw Jong-soon’s bright appearance after the surgery on ‘Heart Beats’.This was because if she had arrived at the hospital a little earlier, there was a chance that she would not have had to have her leg amputated.

The incident on that day brought about a great change.The ‘Moses Miracle’ project, which started with ‘The Heart Beats’, brought about a miracle of relief to the vehicles on the road.This incident was the starting point of the so-called ‘Moses Miracle’ on the road.

Park Ki-woong said, “I felt that the citizens ‘awareness has changed.” Jong-soon, who is currently serving as the director of a kindergarten 10 years after the accident, said about the’ Moses Miracle ‘project, “I cried a lot.I wonder what I would have done if I had been in that situation.” He added, “I am alive and have to live together, so I try to live well without losing my smile.”

Regarding this, listener Ha Won-mi said, “If each and every person has the same consciousness, a miracle can happen,” and Jang Hyun-seong, Jang Seong-gyu, and Jang Do-yeon left a deep impression when they said in one voice, “The golden time is not simply the effort of one person, but a golden relay that can only be completed if no one is left behind.”

‘ Kkokkomu ‘is a program in which three’ storytellers ‘share their thoughts and feelings about their studies with their’ story friends’ one-on-one in the most everyday spaces.It airs every Thursday at 10:20 PM on SBS.

Photo courtesy of SBS

Jo com -woon, reporter for Donga.com madduxly@donga

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