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The Great Doctor

★ 7.8 4K votes 2012–2012 1 season · 24 episodes Ended SBS
K-dramaKorean drama storytelling: emotional arcs, romance beats and format traditions.This show: 9/10Time travelTime manipulation as a core mechanic.This show: 8/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 8/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Lee Min-hoKim Hee-sunRyu Deok-hwanPark Se-youngKim Mi-kyungSung Hoon
Starring
Lee Min-hoKim Hee-sunRyu Deok-hwanPark Se-youngKim Mi-kyungSung Hoon
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
020406080

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About

"Time-travel romance where swordplay outshines the medicine"

A modern-day plastic surgeon is yanked through a mysterious time portal into medieval Korea, where she's forced to treat a mortally wounded royal bodyguard and gets pulled into a kingdom's political turmoil. What follows mixes fish-out-of-water fantasy with historical intrigue and a slow-burn romance between the doctor and her stoic protector. The pacing sags in the middle stretch of court scheming, but the leads' chemistry and the novelty of the premise keep things moving. This is swords-and-melodrama fantasy dressed as history, not a medical procedural, and it leans hard into romance over realism.

Watch it for

the slow-burn chemistry between the time-displaced doctor and her devoted warrior guard.

Maybe skip if

you want medical accuracy or tight pacing rather than melodrama and court politics.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12012
7.88582425h 21m
Admiral Choi Young, a fierce warrior from Korea's Goryeo Dynasty, abducts Dr. Eun Soo 700 years into the future and soon falls for her.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Episode #1.18.4
6563 min
▶2Episode #1.28.2
4763 min
▶3Episode #1.37.6
4263 min
▶4Episode #1.47.9
3963 min
▶5Episode #1.57.7
3864 min
▶6Episode #1.68.1
3764 min
▶7Episode #1.77.8
3764 min
▶8Episode #1.87.7
3665 min
▶9Episode #1.97.8
3462 min
▶10Episode #1.107.8
3463 min
▶11Episode #1.117.8
3463 min
▶12Episode #1.127.7
3463 min
▶13Episode #1.137.8
3463 min
▶14Episode #1.147.5
3363 min
▶15Episode #1.157.6
3067 min
▶16Episode #1.167.5
3064 min
▶17Episode #1.177.7
3165 min
▶18Episode #1.187.8
3162 min
▶19Episode #1.197.6
3064 min
▶20Episode #1.207.6
3063 min
▶21Episode #1.217.6
3263 min
▶22Episode #1.227.8
3163 min
▶23Episode #1.238.0
3262 min
▶24Episode #1.248.2
3762 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Lee Min-ho Choi Yeong
Kim Hee-sun Yoo Eun-soo
Ryu Deok-hwan King Gongmin
Park Se-young Princess No-gook
Kim Mi-kyung Court lady Choi
Sung Hoon Cheon Eum-ja
Yoon Kyun-sang Deok-Man
Yu Oh-seong Gi-cheol
Shin Eun-jung Hwa Soo-in
Phillip Lee Dr. Jang Bin

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