K-drama Ghost Doctor: Rain and Kim Beom star in easy-going medical comedy-drama with a supernatural twist
- Rain plays an arrogant surgeon and Kim Beom his cocksure young heir apparent with a fear of blood and guts. Before they can cross swords, fate intervenes
- As Rain’s character clings to life, his spirit takes control of his rival’s hands in the operating theatre; this would be funnier if they weren’t so alike
K-pop superstar Rain is back on screens after a three-year hiatus in the fantasy comedy-drama Ghost Doctor. The Korean Wave icon co-stars with Kim Beom (Law School) in this bright and easy-going drama that beefs up its familiar medical drama tropes with a playful supernatural twist.
Rain (also known as Jung Ji-hoon) plays arrogant thoracic surgeon Cha Young-min, who struts through the halls of Eunsang University Medical Centre in designer suits and gets to pick and choose his patients.
He can afford to be picky, since he is known for his “god hands” that have given him a 100 per cent success rate in the operating theatre.
Young-min rules the roost at Eunsang, but his dominance comes under threat with the arrival of the equally arrogant new resident doctor Go Seung-tak (Kim Beom), who is being groomed to take over Eunsang, which is run by his family.
Sensing the threat, Young-min tries to put Seung-tak through the wringer, but the perpetually smiling new resident turns out to have an intimidating medical knowledge, in addition to his silver spoon.
Young-min quickly cottons on to Seung-tak’s one major weakness, however – he is cartoonishly squeamish when it comes to blood and anatomy.