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Hospital Playlist
The slightly special everyday of us ordinary people
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Cho Jung-seok
Lee Ik-jun
24 eps
Yoo Yeon-seok
Ahn Jeong-won
24 eps
Jung Kyung-ho
Kim Jun-wan
24 eps
Kim Dae-myung
Yang Seok-hyeong
24 eps
Jeon Mi-do
Chae Song-hwa
24 eps
Shin Hyun-been
Jang Gyeo-ul
24 eps
Ahn Eun-jin
Chu Min-ha
24 eps
Kwak Sun-young
Lee Ik-sun
24 eps
Kim Joon
Lee U-ju
24 eps
Kim Hae-sook
Jeong Rosa
24 eps
Jung Moon-sung
Do Jae-hak
24 eps
Kim Hye-in
Myeong Eun-won
24 eps
Ha Yoon-kyung
Heo Sun-bin
24 eps
Lee Chan-hyeong
Choi Seong-yeong
24 eps
Kim Jun-han
Ahn Chi-hong
13 eps
Moon Tae-yu
Yong Seok-min
24 eps
Choi Young-jun
Bong Kwang-hyeon
24 eps
Kim Soo-jin
Song Su-bin
24 eps
Bae Hyeon-seong
Jang Hong-do
24 eps
Kim Kang-min
Im Chang-min
24 eps
Cho Yi-hyun
Jang Yun-bok
24 eps
Moon Hee-kyung
Jo Young-hye
24 eps
Lee Su-mi
Auntie Wang
12 eps
Cho Seung-yeon
Ju Jeon
24 eps
Kim Kap-soo
Ju Jong-su
24 eps
Park Han-sol
Sunwoo Hui-su
24 eps
Yang Jo-a
Hwang Jae-shin
24 eps
Shin Do-hyun
Bae Jun-hee
12 eps
Park Ji-yeon
Yoon Shin-hye
12 eps
Seo Jin-won
Min Ki-jun
24 eps
Jeon Kwang-jin
Jong Se-hyeok
24 eps
Seol Yu-jin
Eun Seon-jin
24 eps
Kim Ji-seong
Han Seung-ju
24 eps
Yoon Hye-ree
So Yi-hyun
24 eps
Lee Ji-won
Han Hyun-hee
24 eps
Kim Bi-bi
Ham Deok-ju
24 eps
Lee Dal
Kim Jae-hwan
24 eps
Lee Noah
Lee Young-ha
24 eps
Hwang Bae-jin
Hwang Bae-jin
12 eps
Lee Se-hee
Kang So-ye
12 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Hospital Playlist actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Hospital Playlist reads strongest on Character Depth, Bingeability and Humour.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
The story
What it's about
Every day is extraordinary for five doctors and their patients inside a hospital, where birth, death and everything in between coexist.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 24 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20204 episodes
The special extra episode of Hospital Playlist featured interviews with the cast, behind-the-scenes footage from the set, song performances and hilarious bloopers from season 1. It also shows the very first time the whole cast met each other as well as the first script reading.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
202012 episodes
8.8IMDbBest episode · S01E01 Episode 1
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
202112 episodes
9.7IMDb
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E01
Episode 1
Five friends whose friendship goes back to their days in med school are brought back together when a phone call interrupts each of their busy lives.
- Directed by Shin Won-ho
- Written by Lee Woo-jung
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Lee Myung-hanExecutive Producer
Writing
- Lee Woo-jungWriter
Direction
- Shin Won-hoDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
Availability verified against regional listings.
- NetflixStreaming
- Netflix Standard with AdsStreaming
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