Meet the new resident doctors in Hospital Playlist spinoff
by Jenzy
Go Yoon-jung
Expectations have been high ever since the team behind Hospital Playlist announced the spin-off for their beloved show. So it’s exciting to see that things are moving full steam ahead in the production of The Not Yet Wise Resident Life with the news of their main cast Go Yoon-jung (Moving), Shin Shi-ah (The Witch: Part 2), Kang Yoo-seok (Black Knight), Jung Joon-won (A Model Family), and rookie Han Ye-ji.
The premise is similar to the original, but instead of following an airtight group of amazing professional doctor friends, we’ll follow the lives of our cast playing four green OBGYN residents as they navigate the late nights, urgent demands, and social pressures that come with the start of their medical careers at Yulje Medical Center’s Jongno branch (not the main branch where the original characters work). They may have a long way to go before they’re as thoughtful as Yang Seok-hyung or as cool-under-pressure as Chae Song-hwa, but what they do have is passion in spades.
Everything about this drama feels like a changing of the guard, even down to the production. While the original writer-director duo behind the Reply and Hospital Playlist series Lee Woo-jung and Shin Won-ho are attached to this project, they’ve taken more of a creative supervisory role while the actual job of writing and directing the drama is being handled by Kim Song-hee (who was an assistant writer for Reply 1988 and Hospital Playlist) and PD Lee Min-soo (Heartbeat). My hopes are high that even with a new team, this show doesn’t lose sight of the empathetic humanism that made the original series so great.
Furthermore, besides the uber-popular mega-talented Go Yoon-jung, while I can’t say I’m too familiar with the rest of the cast, with the Reply series’ storied history of launching the careers of its rookie actors, I’m excited to see how these fresh faces will turn into some of dramaland’s must-watch favs.
The Not Yet Wise Resident Life is slated to premiere in 2024 on tvN.
Shin Shi-ah, Han Ye-ji, Kang Yoo-seok, Jung Joon-won
Tags: Go Yoon-jung, Kang Yoo-seok
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1 Soyesterday
October 1, 2023 at 11:14 AM
Go Yoon-jung clearly does not know the meaning of the world unemployment, i am happy for her, she's got what it takes to become a top leading lady in dramaland.
I do feel like this could have easily been a standalone drama though, tying it to a beloved smash hit like Hospital Playlist will create high expectations and comparisons from audience members.
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2 Kurama
October 1, 2023 at 11:26 AM
I'm kinda disapointed. It looks more like they're surfing on Hospital Playlist's success than doing a real spin-of.
I don't see why Go Yoon-Jung is so successful but good for her, I remember Kang Yoo-seok in Black Knight and I don't really know the other actors.
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cjoyce17
October 3, 2023 at 9:56 PM
same
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3 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
October 1, 2023 at 11:30 AM
I am looking forward to this as being like each of the Reply series or Prison Playbook the setting etc. changes but there will certain elements that will remain consistent, characters we want to get to know strong friendships and interesting patient stories. I like hospital dramas so I am looking forward to this one.
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4 kiara
October 1, 2023 at 11:30 AM
"Hospital Playlist" ends for me with the veteran cast, my dream cast in any genre.
Good luck to this young cast.
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5 Kafiyah Bello
October 1, 2023 at 12:30 PM
I love these writers, so anything they do it gold to me. It will be fun looking at it from an intern perspective
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6 missvictrix
October 1, 2023 at 1:54 PM
Kang Yoo-seok was great in Payback, but most people don't know they know him already from Start Up, where he was half of the bad hacker duo at Sandbox.
(He also looks ridiculously alike to Jjangyou but that's another thing entirely: https://youtu.be/s7WMwhpNIfQ?si=lxr-aB5UF26SpDB-)
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7 jerrykuvira
October 1, 2023 at 3:00 PM
Truthfully, I'm not excited for this one at all. I'll watch it most likely cause I have a bias for medical drama, but the young cast ain't doing it for me at all. I look forward to who they cast as Attendings/Professors before deciding whether or not to jump ship.
However, they are OB-GYN residents so I'm guessing Kim Dae-myung and Ahn Eun-jin will be back...? Like that's the focus of this spinoff so that should be a given. Should this two be casted I'll most likely be watching this.
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kiara
October 1, 2023 at 4:08 PM
Ahn Eun-jin has proven to be a leading talent in dramaland, regardless of her leading man.
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jerrykuvira
October 2, 2023 at 6:55 AM
I need more of them so...
And, they didn't properly wrap up her story with Seok-hyung's mother - those two haven't met officially. They should meet again cause thier first interaction definitely was a scene from What's Wrong With My Unknown Potential Mother-in-law. Jung Rosa knows what I'm talking about.
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
October 2, 2023 at 6:43 AM
It’s another hospital site so I wonder if any of the major or minor cast members from the original will have a guest appearance.
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jerrykuvira
October 2, 2023 at 6:58 AM
You can imagine my disappointment when I saw that on Asianwiki. Dr. Seok-hyung better transfer there.
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8 blissfulennaira
October 1, 2023 at 3:12 PM
I like how they have mostly rookie actors like the Reply series. I wonder if they'll tackle some abortion or women's right in here like how Grey's Anatomy episode in the last season.
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9 Thelma P Satin
October 2, 2023 at 3:26 AM
Will the original casts be there too in The Not Yet Wise Residents?
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10 bunnylita
October 2, 2023 at 11:09 AM
So there's no singing? I'm so confused by this spinoff.
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11 faithwithme
October 2, 2023 at 8:28 PM
im happy for another project from this Director-Writer duo, even though i despise their "who's the husband" plot and imbalance distribution love plot among the ensemble casts. they have a knack choosing great rookies that will grasp our heart like Ryu Jun Yeol did in R1988. i mean, i was having doubt and thinking he was cast as the clown of the group like Lee Si Eon character in R1997, instead he stole my heart and my mind when his character was much heavier than that. Shin PD, Writer Lee really discover gems.
im glad they will go back to their roots and cast newbies in their series.
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12 Kasey
October 3, 2023 at 3:47 AM
Will there be a new season for Hospital Playlist?!? OMO! I’ve been waiting for so long for the return of the group of super cool Professors! 😭
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