Dr. Romantic Season 2 (2020) poster
8.7
Your Rating: 0/10
Ratings: 8.7/10 from 28,168 users
# of Watchers: 53,980
Reviews: 90 users
Ranked #211
Popularity #172
Watchers 28,168

A “real doctor” story set in a small, humble hospital called Doldam Hospital. It is a story about people who meet Kim Sa Bu, a genius doctor, and discover “real romance.” Kim Sa Bu once gained fame as a top surgeon at a huge hospital. One day, he disappeared from the eyes of the public, quietly becoming the chief surgeon at Doldam Hospital in the countryside. After he conducted a successful operation on Chairman Shin, he gets to improve the hospital under reliable support. But then Chairman Shin passes away, and an old foe returns. New people appear and his students had to leave the hospital. Furthermore, his wrist, which was injured three years ago, starts to act weird. Kim Sa Bu decides to go to a huge hospital himself to solve the manpower shortage at Doldam, where he finds two people who resemble his former students but who seem much more lacking. Seo Woo Jin would do anything for money, and Cha Eun Jae gets nauseous every time she tries to perform surgery. Will Kim Sa Bu be able to run Doldam Hospital with these two? (Source: Soompi, KOCOWA) Edit Translation

  • English
  • 中文(简体)
  • ภาษาไทย
  • Русский
  • Country: South Korea
  • Type: Drama
  • Episodes: 16
  • Aired: Jan 6, 2020 - Feb 25, 2020
  • Aired On: Monday, Tuesday
  • Original Network: SBS
  • Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.
  • Score: 8.7 (scored by 28,168 users)
  • Ranked: #211
  • Popularity: #172
  • Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Where to Watch Dr. Romantic Season 2

WeTV
Free (sub)
Netflix
Subscription (sub)
Apple TV
Free (sub)
iQIYI
Subscription (sub)
Viki
Free (sub)
Kocowa
Subscription (sub)

Cast & Credits

Reviews

Completed
badboyside
60 people found this review helpful
Feb 26, 2020
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 10
Story 10
Acting/Cast 10
Music 10
Rewatch Value 10

Season 2 is as good as Season 1

I've read some of the reviews and I was quite shocked that some of them gave this drama a terrible review/rate when in fact it was a great drama. First, I was a fan of Romantic Doctor that I've watch that first season a lot, and I think watching it again before starting this second season was not a bad move since the charm of medical drama is still there, as well as,the tension, and the romance. I was still amazed on the cases that they've brought every week and how Dr. Kim (along with Dr. Woo Jin and Dr. Eun Jae with the help of Doldam staff) overcome them. It was also good that they still mention the characters of Dr. Kang Dong Joo and Dr. Yoon Seo Jung in some scenes and even have Dr. Do In Bum a cameo that really hype up those last episodes.

Second, I also want to praise the new characters for giving a new spice in the drama as they introduce their stories and backgrounds to the viewers. Lastly, I also want to compliment the OST as it gives life to the scenes that makes it more interesting and exciting to watch.

Overall, it is true that it is somehow different to the first season that some of us said that it already lost it charm when they started a new season with different leads. But for me, I think this drama has a different charisma that it captivates the viewers to watch it weekly which is obviously true as it passes a 20 percent viewership rating on its first airing and it breaks it record as a new episode comes. Still, I can say that when it comes to medical-romance drama, "Romantic Doctor" series will be on the number one of my list.

Read More

Was this review helpful to you?
Completed
Jorsias
32 people found this review helpful
Feb 25, 2020
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed 6
Overall 6.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 2.5
Even though I am a huge fan of the first season and didn't want it to continue, I was looking forward to the episodes as soon as the episodes started airing. We had a new villain, cool new characters and their traumas. We also had the always charismatic Dr. Kim, the always entertaining staff, and the busy Doldam Hospital, and to my surprise, I was really enjoying the first couple of episodes and looking forward to Mondays as the story developed. And then everything went downhill. And there are three main things that made me give Dr. Kim a 6.

1 - The Villains - The writer simply didn't know what to do with them. Old characters come back and they don't seem to have learned anything (good or bad) from their experiences from 3 years ago. They're evil just for the sake of being evil. The best villains are the ones that even though you don't agree with them, you understand why they take on such actions, and that doesn't happen here. You spent all the time wondering "Why is this person still doing this? And why is this new person doing this?". Do you know the rule of film, "don't tell me, show me"? Yeah, in this season they neither show you or tell you. The actual medical practice also suffered a lot from this. I didn't count but it was clear that they had a lot more scenes in the OR in the first season than in the second. Sometimes it looked like I was watching a political drama and not a medical one.

2 - Editing - While I agree that both new leads had little to do in terms of development, I blame it mostly on editing. Some characters had huge problems and traumas from childhood shown in the first episodes, and then nothing really happened for the most part just so at the end solutions were brought like they were ready to go all the time. Really huge decisions had little to no impact on the next scene, sometimes even with the same characters (!!!!). The romance also was affected by this. The use of flashback didn't work for most of the scenes between the main leads, and for the most part, the best scenes between them were done when (surprise, surprise) the medical drama was actually being a medical drama. Season 1 was about growth in both professional and personal lives, this one lacks a lot of both, mainly because how OP the male lead is and how the editing treated the female lead as a weak character when that was not the case at all.

3 - Drama, Drama, Drama - I was skeptical when the first case of the Hospital was that big of a deal at the start of the series because you know, " since this is season 2, you need to make everything bigger, am I right?" (/s). Whenever the writer didn't know what to do with a certain character, they would just throw some more drama into the story, which was funny because people in the discussions thread were always so tense about what was going to happen next when nothing really was happening. It was just lazy drama so actors could yell at each other and make us feel like the tension was through the roof.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people who didn't watch this first one are going to find my score strange, that I might be a hater or something, but hear me out.

I highly recommend those of you who didn't watch the first season to do so and then compare it to this one, especially the story. Try to notice how well the story develops while characters grow and learn from their mistakes. After that go back to this review and try to remember how much the leads of this season developed. I just hope they don't make a third season because it would be a shame to hear that they're going to keep doing drama for the sake of drama in this amazing series.

The OST is cool though.

Read More

Was this review helpful to you?

Recommendations

Dr. Romantic
Hospital Playlist
Forest
Surgeons
Record of Youth
Koi wa Tsuzuku yo Doko Made mo

Recent Discussions

Title Replies Views Latest Post
Part3 please by JhuneConrad DelaCruz 1 0
7777251
Apr 11, 2021
Episode #8, Anyone? by Tsulaa 2 0
fortunekuki
Jan 29, 2020

Details

  • Drama: Dr. Romantic Season 2
  • Country: South Korea
  • Episodes: 16
  • Aired: Jan 6, 2020 - Feb 25, 2020
  • Aired On: Monday, Tuesday
  • Original Network: SBS
  • Duration: 1 hr. 10 min.
  • Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

Statistics

  • Score: 8.7 (scored by 28,168 users)
  • Ranked: #211
  • Popularity: #172
  • Watchers: 53,980

Top Contributors

356 edits
133 edits
52 edits
40 edits

News & Articles

Popular Lists

Related lists from users
All Time Favorite Dramas
671 titles 1643 loves 35
Walking Green Flags in Kdramas (Male leads only)
128 titles 1087 voters 60 loves 11
Onde assistir?
6453 titles 73 loves 2

Recently Watched By