

She asks if he was promoted in exchange for becoming their little spy. Nurse Oh accuses Ki-tae of leaking Teacher Kim’s plans for a Doldam trauma center to Dr. That’s all there is to it.” With that, he forlornly hangs up the phone. We return to the present moment, as Reporter Oh repeats his question, and this time he adds a few more, asking to know why Hyun-joo died, and subsequently why Teacher Kim left Geodae.Ĭryptically, Teacher Kim replies, “There is no ‘truth.’ Fourteen years ago, Bu Yong-joo was a coward and fell silent. He can’t help seeing the similarities, and the idea appears to trouble him deeply. The scenes go back and forth, creating a beautiful parallel between eras and students. Seo-jung uses a similar reason in another memory, and tells Teacher Kim that she respects him and dreams of doing a joint surgery together. She had replied cheerily that he is someone she respects, and that her dream is to become a doctor just like him. Comparing the memory of the day Dong-joo confronted him for being Bu Yong-joo with another in the past, where Teacher Kim had asked Hyun-joo why she was so keen on meeting Bu Yong-joo (since she was seemingly unaware that she was talking to that very man). He then begins to see the parallel moments between his past and present students. And they started to pave a path, at one point.” Teacher Kim continues to narrate over the scene and says: “The countless moments that I’d deemed insignificant all start to become significant, one by one. After a beat or two, she asks Teacher Kim what department he works in, and if he knows a doctor named Bu Yong-joo. Teacher Kim looks confident and smartly dressed as he enters an elevator in Geodae, where Hyun-joo-dressed in a patient’s gown with an arm attached to an IV pole-eyes him curiously from behind. We flash back to the fateful moment Teacher Kim first met his now deceased student JANG HYUN-JOO. Why I’d taken a detour like that.”Īs he speaks, the memories of his old student’s fatal surgery, his first encounter with a young Dong-joo, and finally, the night he found Seo-jung on the side of the mountain, all cross through his mind. Such as the reasons why those things happened to me. In voiceover, he says: “Sometimes in life, there are things you can only see after time has passed. Teacher Kim sighs heavily, his mind whirling with thoughts and memories. We pick up with Reporter Oh asking Teacher Kim to tell him what exactly happened fourteen years ago. We focus mainly on our beloved Teacher Kim, but this episode is really all about Doldam itself and the relationships between its people, the ones who have made us laugh, cry, swoon, and hope for a brighter and better future. With just three episodes left, Romantic Doctor Teacher Kim begins to explore some of the show’s biggest mysteries in earnest. 63 JanuJanuRomantic Doctor Teacher Kim: Episode 18 by murasakimi
