Doctor Stranger
닥터 이방인
“A surgeon raised in North Korea risks everything to find his lost love”
As a child, Park Hoon and his dad were kidnapped and taken to North Korea. He grew up there, learning to be a doctor just like his father. When Park Hoon escapes back to South Korea and begins work at a prestigious hospital, he makes it his goal to earn enough money to go back to North Korea to rescue his true love. He'll do anything to find her, but then he meets and falls for a mysterious woman who looks exactly like her.
Lee Jong-suk
as Park Hoon · LEAD
Lee Jong-suk
Park Hoon
Park Hae-jin
as Han Jae-joon · LEAD
Park Hae-jin
Han Jae-joon
Jin Se-yeon
as Song Jae-hee / Han Seung-hee · SUPPORTING
Jin Se-yeon
Song Jae-hee / Han Seung-hee
Kang So-ra
as Oh Soo-hyun · SUPPORTING
Kang So-ra
Oh Soo-hyun
Jeon Kuk-hwan
as Oh Joon-gyu · SUPPORTING
Jeon Kuk-hwan
Oh Joon-gyu
Lee Il-hwa
as Park Hoon's Mother · SUPPORTING
Lee Il-hwa
Park Hoon's Mother
Choi Jung-woo
as Moon Hyung-wook · SUPPORTING
Choi Jung-woo
Moon Hyung-wook
Kim Ji-young
as Jeong-min · SUPPORTING
Kim Ji-young
Jeong-min
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Should you watch?
A pacey, melodramatic medical thriller.
✓Fans of medical melodrama, North-South intrigue, and Lee Jong-suk
✗You want plausibility over high melodrama
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What is it really about
A gifted doctor smuggled into North Korea as a child defects to the South, where he searches for the woman he loved and navigates a cutthroat hospital. A melodramatic medical thriller.
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