tvN weekend drama ‘Someday, I Will Be a Wise Resident’ (creator Shin Won-ho, director Lee Min-soo, scriptwriter Kim Song-hee), which is called a medical fantasy or medical historical drama because it fails to properly deal with political conflicts, revealed that it is doing well overseas, unlike its domestic response.

tvN reported on the 16th through data,“ ‘Hospital Intern Life’ (abbreviated as ‘Unsuljeon’) is rising not only on the Netflix global rankings but also in the topic rankings and video views, “and” It entered the non-English TV category TOP 10 chart for the 2nd week of April(counted from April 7 to 13)announced by the Netflix Global TOP 10 site.”

He continued, “According to FlixPatrol, a global OTT content ranking service, ‘Someday, I Will Be a Hospital Resident’ ranked first in Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and other Asian countries after its first broadcast, and entered TOP 10 rankings in a total of 44 countries(as of April 16, 2025).”

Also, it boasted that “it ranked high in TV - OTT integrated topicality ranking surveyed by FUNdex, a K -content competitiveness analysis agency of Good Data Corporation(as of April 15, 2025)” and “it also ranked high in the daily trend ranking of Kinolights, an OTT content integrated search platform(as of April 14, 2025).”

In addition, he said, “The video related to ‘Someday, the Life of a Wise Resident’ has also been ranked as a rapidly rising trending video on YouTube, and has surpassed 65 million cumulative views on YouTube and SNS(as of April 16, 2025).”

‘Someday, I Will Be a Wise Resident’ depicts the process of residents growing up with dreams of becoming a wise doctor someday.It is the first spin-off of the ‘Wise Doctor Life’ series.It tells the story of residents in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Jongno Yulje Hospital.Go Yoon-jung, Cynthia, Kang Yoo-seok, Han Ye-ji, and Jung Joon-won each play residents.

The lack of specialists in hospitals is still a problem in the medical field, but the story of specialists is put at the forefront in the drama.This has led to criticism that it is a fantasy work that does not reflect reality at all.Since the production team has already emphasized that the drama is fiction, they are saying that you can just ignore the grandiose empathy of ‘empathizing with reality’.Since the production team did the production, it is up to the viewers anyway.

Fortunately or unfortunately, in the season of tvN dark history of viewership ratings that is at the level of ‘crash’, the viewership ratings are good.’Someday, Wise Resident Life’, which started at 3.7%, recorded 4.0% for the second episode.(Nielsen Korea, paid platform, nationwide)Compared to the previous series that had many negative views even before airing and stayed in the 1% range, it is doing well.

The problem is the romance and plausibility.Whether it is because of the research or not, the story development that is only focused on directing dramatic scenes creates a sense of disconnect with the medical field, and attention is focused on how the ‘build-up’ for romance will be an attractive growth narrative to viewers.’Someday, Wise Resident Life’, which lacks explanation as to why viewers should watch the process of a character who has no will to live as a doctor growing up in the hospital, airs every Saturday and Sunday at 9:10 PM.

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

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