[Discussion] Brain

Brain (2011)



Currently airing on KBS2 Monday and Tuesday evenings (http://www.mydramalist.com/korean-drama/3067/brain). The first episode aired on November 14, 2011.

Cast:
Shin Ha Kyun as Lee Kang Hoon
Choi Jung Won as Yoon Ji Hye
Jung Jin Young as Kim Sang Chul
Jo Dong Hyuk as Seo Joon Suk

Synopsis:
A drama that deals with the brain and neurosurgeons.
Lee Kang Hoon (Shin Ha Kyun), who graduated from the top medical school, works at the top hospital, and is the top neurosurgeon around. Basically, he?s Brain No. 1. (And he works on brains, too!) He has ambitions to become the director at his university hospital. He is obsessed with success, which is probably both his greatest flaw and strength, since it makes him steely and fierce.
However, once he meets his sunbae Kim Sang Chul (Jung Jin Young), the prickly genius doctor and world famous neurologist, he turns over a new leaf and becomes a sincere doctor. Seo Joon Suk (Jo Dong Hyuk) is a doctor and will become Lee Kang Hoon?s rival. Yoon Ji Hye (Choi Jung Won) is also a neurosurgeon who grew up in an ordinary family. She is extremely strict in matters of work and study, but has a warm bedside manner with her patients.


Is anyone else watching this?

I've only seen the first 8 episodes so far (it was first set for 16 episodes, but it seems to have been extended to 20 episodes), and with each episode I am blown away by Shin Ha Kyun's performance. He embodies the character of Dr. Lee Kang Hoon so magnificently that he had me hooked from the first episode. He is the heart and soul of this drama, and has recently received the Daesang (Grand Prize) award at the KBS Drama Awards, an award well deserved.