Hye-jung’s dad waits for her at school and warns her that he won’t be able to support her forever.
“You’re the devil,” her teacher responds. Her teacher predicts that Hye-jung will end up in jail, and Hye-jung warns the teacher to watch her back at night. That calls for another beating, but Hye-jung grabs her teacher’s arm and reminds her that she’s not her student anymore. Rolling her eyes, she wishes her teacher a healthy life until she paints her wall with poop. Hye-jung collects her things and kicks the chair as she walks out, but her teacher stops her, demanding a proper salutation. For the sake of her father, who pleaded for her to stay in school, they’re transferring instead of expelling her. The teacher smacks her for not doing as told and says that she’s getting off easy. Hye-jung sits in her school office, blasting music through her earphones. Are they going to let him die? The gang gives her approval to treat him, along with a threat if anything goes wrong, and she gets started. Then suddenly, the hyung-nim faints on the bench, and Hye-jung becomes more demanding. She apologizes for hurting them (and their egos, though she’s surely not sorry about that) and promises to treat their injuries. She flips and throws down the gangsters, single-handedly wiping out the whole gang - at one point tackling three guys at once - with her badass fighting skills. They refuse and try to escort her outside, so she handles things the harder way - with force. The injured hyung-nim (cameo by Lee Ki-woo) contends that he won’t accept treatment from a woman, but Hye-jung argues that he’s just a patient in her eyes and once again orders the gang members to go outside. She clarifies that this is a place for patients, so the irrelevant gang members should step outside for their hyung-nim to get treated. The person she’s destined to meet is not surprised by death.Ī gang causes a scene in the ER, and just as one of the gangsters lifts his fist to punch a trembling doctor, Hye-jung grabs his arm and effectively throws him aside.
The ER is packed with patients and full of action, and our narrator, YOO HYE-JUNG ( Park Shin-hye) tells us that death may be a surprising thing elsewhere, but not here. The person I’m destined to meet is here.” There, a woman ties her hair up in the locker room and narrates, “If you’re destined to meet a person, you will eventually. He’s ready to instill purpose and meaning into his students’ lives, even while he’s searching for purpose himself.Īn ambulance speeds through the night to the emergency trauma center of the hospital. Youth is a turbulent time for our heroine, and she’s about to test the limits of her teacher, who’s also no easy match for her. We start out with the backstory of our characters’ involvement in each other’s lives, looking back at the nature of their first impressions. Doctors may not be about doctors quite yet, but I can see a promising story to be told through the journey of becoming one, particularly with our hot-headed heroine.