Five doctors who have been friends since they entered medical school in 1999 share the corridors of one hospital in Hospital Playlist, a 2020 Korean series from director Shin Won-ho that sits halfway between comedy and drama.
What is Hospital Playlist about?
Friendship is the engine of the story. The five central characters met as medical students in 1999 and, years later, are still part of each other's daily routine, now as working doctors under the same roof. Around them the hospital keeps its own rhythm: babies arrive, patients are lost, families wait in hallways, and most days land somewhere between those two extremes. The series stays close to the five as they deal with the people in their care and with one another, and it lets the long history between them shape how they react when the work gets heavy.
About the cast
Cho Jung-seok, Kim Dae-myung, Jung Kyung-ho, Yoo Yeon-seok and Jeon Mi-do lead the credited cast, joined by Kim Hae-sook, Shin Hyun-bin and Jung Moon-sung. Shin Won-ho directs. Because the premise rests on a group of people who have known each other for half their lives, the series is built as an ensemble piece rather than a vehicle for a single star.
Context & significance
Medical dramas usually run on emergencies, with each episode racing toward an operating table. Hospital Playlist is catalogued as both Comedy and Drama, and that double label is a fair guide to its tone: the hospital is a workplace and a meeting point as much as a place of crisis. The listed running time is about 85 minutes, which is close to feature length and gives each instalment room to follow patients as well as the doctors treating them. The series comes from Korea and first appeared in 2020. Among viewers it has earned a very strong reputation and stands as one of the highest-rated titles in the K-Time catalogue.
Watching Hospital Playlist on Ktime
Hospital Playlist is available to stream on K-Time. This page is free to read; playing the episodes requires signing in to a K-Time account. K-Time is built for Persian-speaking viewers outside Iran, with a Farsi interface that works across phones, the web and television screens.