He’s a snappy dresser and rides a motorcycle through war zones on his way to save lives. But he’s no action star — he’s a surgeon. When he returns to his hometown in Seoul after years of combat medicine, this hotshot doctor realizes the city’s in desperate need of improved trauma response care. Now he’s on a mission to establish a top-tier trauma center. From director Lee Do-yun (Confession) and writer Choi Tae-gang, the South Korean medical drama The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call stars Ju Ji-hoon, Choo Young-woo, and Ha Young. For his role as Baek Kang-hyuk, Ju won Best Actor at the 61st Baeksang Arts Awards.
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After too many avoidable deaths across the nation, South Korea’s Minister of Health and Welfare, Kang Myeong-hui (Kim Sun-young) demands that the country’s trauma response care be revitalized. But her pleas since being sworn in have gone unanswered. The head of Seoul’s Hankuk National University Hospital, Choi Jo-eun (Kim Eui-sung) — who’s more concerned with his business interests than his patients’ best interests — has failed to give any of the center’s funding to its trauma unit. But all that’s about to change, or at least that’s the plan of Dr. Baek Kang-hyuk (Ju Ji-hoon), who’s been a combat surgeon in war zones all over the world and now has the chance to lead Hankuk’s trauma team. Despite his renown and genius methods in the OR, Kang-hyuk is up against the hospital’s top brass. Will he be able to band together with his stellar medical team, like trauma nurse Cheon Jang-mi (Ha Young) and surgery fellow Yang Jae-won (Choo), to save lives and beat the system?
Yes, it’s based on the webtoon Trauma Center: Golden Hour by Hansanleega and Hongbichira.
The K-drama takes place primarily in Seoul.
