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Emergency Couple: Episode 6

It’s “out with the old, in with the new” in this episode, as our heroine shifts into action and makes major leaps towards personal revelations and self-affirmation. Luckily, she has a wise mentor to guide her on her journey. Find out how our heroine discovers her true self through rash acts of selflessness…

EPISODE 6 RECAP

Jin-hee needs to give Chang-min’s mom a shot, but Mom is having none of it. She’s spooked enough to think that Jin-hee has plans to kill her, and if that’s not the kind of thought that should make a person self-reflect on past behavior, I don’t know what would be. Not one for self-reflection, Chang-min’s mom threatens to have Jin-hee fired and her tantrum escalates until she slaps Jin-hee in the face.

Chun-soo and Chang-min run into the room just in time to see Jin-hee get slapped, and both men are shocked. Chang-min sends a look of mortified apology Jin-hee’s way. Chun-soo calmly asks Chang-min’s mom to explain herself. She demands that Chun-soo send Jin-hee away and assign her a different intern. “How dare you hire an unqualified girl as an intern and get my blood pressure up?” she asks. The interns leave the room at Chun-soo’s request.

Chang-min’s mom demands again that instead of the clumsy, ignorant Jin-hee, she wants Ah-reum to be assigned to her for the duration of her hospital stay. Chun-soo explains that Ah-reum’s schedule is already determined, and that such requests from patients cannot be accommodated. Chang-min’s mom calls her brother and asks him to pull the needed strings.

Jin-hee is back in the kitty cat stairwell, standing in a corner, eyes closed. Chang-min offers her a cold drink and tells her to use it to cool her face. She cracks open her eyes and brushes past Chang-min. The can crashes to the floor. Chang-min apologizes, as Jin-hee walks away. She stops, and says, “I see nothing’s changed even though I’m now a doctor. At least before, I didn’t get slapped. Life sucks.”

Ah-reum joins Chun-soo in Chang-min’s mother’s room. An irritated Chun-soo can do nothing, since the hospital director himself told Ah-reum to see to the VIP patient. Chang-min’s mom fawns over Ah-reum, and she asks Chun-soo to leave so that she can clear up a misunderstanding. Chun-soo sticks around long enough to hear Chang-min’s mom apologize to Ah-reum for not recognizing her back in Chang-min’s apartment. Chun-soo leaves, and she fawns over Ah-reum some more.

Chun-soo meets with his boss, the head of ER, to discuss Jin-hee’s dismissal notice and pending budget cut. Chun-soo asks the head of ER to buy him some time. He thinks one reprimand should suffice, and that if Jin-hee quits, the ER should be spared the budget cut. The head of ER expresses surprise that Chun-soo seems so willing to let Jin-hee go. Heck, I’m surprised too. He asks, “Why have you changed so much?” Chun-soo replies, “If I don’t change, I wouldn’t last a day here. What, you want me to quit again and spend my time fishing?” Must be that in this dramaverse, doctors who aren’t doctoring are all out fishing.

Chun-soo eats dinner by himself at a restaurant, where Jin-hee comes in and orders a bottle of soju. As Jin-hee steadily gets plastered, she drunk-dials friend after friend. (These drama people seriously need phones fitted with a breathalyzer lock.) Her bragging about having become a doctor starts off with claims that she could model—because that’s just how good she looks in a doctor’s gown. She’s three sheets to the wind when she reminds another friend about how she was the best at dissecting frogs. It’s hilarious and poignant at the same time, because we (and Chun-soo) see how much being a doctor means to Jin-hee.

Jin-hee passes out at her table, and Chun-soo’s “What do I do?” face is priceless. Someone must have called for a driver to take Jin-hee home, because here’s a cameo from rapper Gary (one-half of Running Man’s Monday Couple with Song Ji-hyo, which explains his line, “I think I might be seeing you on Monday…”). He helps Jin-hee out to the car and she calls him “Gary ahjusshi!” He says, “Who’s Gary? I’m dae-ri! [driver]” Haha. She hits on him from the back seat, babbling, “You’re really my style.”

A hungover Jin-hee sits down for breakfast with Mom. She reports that she got a call from younger sister Jin-ae and confirms that Jin-ae did indeed take and sell her wedding ring. Irate, Mom demands that Jin-hee bring her sister home. Jin-hee thinks that Jin-ae left home because Mom was too hard on her. “Jin-ae acts that way because you’re always favoring me. What’s so great about me?” she asks.

Mom sharply reminds Jin-hee that completing her residency and becoming a specialist will change her life. Jin-hee muses, “I thought my life had changed already. But it doesn’t seem like it. Even if I were to die and wake up, I think I’m just Oh Jin-hee.”

Ah-reum reminds Chang-min that tonight is the night of the indie band concert. He agrees to meet up with her after he helps get his mom discharged.

Jin-hee sits in the park and contemplates her resignation letter. When she gets to the hospital, Chun-soo barks that she is 37 seconds late, adding, “If you can’t come to work on time, maybe you shouldn’t drink so much.” Ha. Jin-hee wonders how he knows.

Resignation letter in hand, Jin-hee solemnly walks into Chun-soo’s office. She hands over the letter and glances down, only to catch sight of Chun-soo’s toes wriggling madly in a pair of very holey socks. She starts to laugh, and Chun-soo is astonished. “Are you laughing? What’s so funny about handing in a resignation letter?” He has no idea why she’s laughing but she just can’t help herself, looking down again to confirm that yep, those are some mighty squirmy toes playing peek-a-boo.

Chang-min walks into the office to discuss a case with Chun-soo while Jin-hee tries heroically to stifle her giggles. Chun-soo leaves the office with one last “Don’t you laugh. We’ll talk later.” Jin-hee finally breaks down laughing. Incredulous, Chang-min says, “Every time you’re in here, you’re in his arms and now, you’re even selling your smiles.” Jin-hee somehow refrains from punching him.

Ah-reum explains to Chang-min’s mom that her family keeps setting up blind dates against her wishes. Chang-min’s mom asks Ah-reum whether she finds Chang-min attractive as a man. It’s just way too…direct to be appropriate. Ah-reum hedges by saying she’d need to see more of Chang-min to know, and Chang-min’s mom encourages them to date. She’s thrilled when Ah-reum informs her that they already have plans to attend a concert that evening.

In the ER, Ji-hye and staff treat a woman’s arm wound. The woman’s husband is concerned about payment, but a nurse reassures him that worker’s compensation should cover the hospital bill since the woman, Emma, was injured at a work site. As the husband helps Emma down the hall, however, she suddenly collapses in abdominal pain. Jin-hee runs over and advises Emma to get examined, but her husband explains that while the arm injury is covered by workers’ insurance, they have no money to pay for another examination.

Jin-hee escorts the couple into an empty room. She realizes she’s going to need an ultrasound and explains to the couple that an ultrasound isn’t expensive but that a surgery would be, should it be necessary.

Chang-min asks Chun-soo whether Jin-hee has tendered her resignation. Chun-soo confirms it. Chang-min also wants to know why she was laughing back in the office, and Chun-soo gruffly replies, “How would I know? And why are you so curious?” When Chun-soo brings up the tracheotomy, Chang-min gets fired up, saying the patient’s death was not his or Jin-hee’s fault. He can’t believe that’s sufficient reason for Jin-hee to quit. When Chun-soo mentions the dismissal notice he received from the higher-ups, Chang-min blows up, “You call yourself a chief?” I’m with Chang-min on this one.

Chang-min can’t understand why only Jin-hee is facing dismissal when he was also involved in the tracheotomy. An exasperated Chun-soo says pointedly, “You should know better than anyone else why.” Chang-min eventually realizes that his family connections have kept him immune from dismissal, unlike Jin-hee.

Meanwhile, Jin-hee’s busy going rogue. Wearing a surgical mask, she sneaks through the halls with an ultrasound machine, insofar as you can sneak around with a big piece of machinery. When she sees that Emma has gallstones, she immediately runs to Chun-soo for help.

Chun-soo looks at the ultrasound and it’s even worse than Jin-hee realized. He tells her to book an operating room right away. When she hesitates, Emma’s husband explains to Chun-soo that they have no money. Chun-soo grasps the full implications of the situation, and he barks at Jin-hee, “What the hell are you doing?”

But Chun-soo can’t help but be awesome. He stands, somewhat sheepishly, as Ji-hye scrubs up in preparation for surgery. Ji-hye points out how similar he is to Jin-hee in that they both think only of the patients, paying no regard to extenuating circumstances.

Chun-soo says, “I’m not like that anymore. I’ve changed a lot.” Yeah, keep trying to convince yourself of that, dude. Sure enough, when Ji-hye asks him whether he’s footing the surgery bill, Chun-soo smirks in guilty silence. Awww. Ji-hye sighs, “And this is why you still can’t get married.” Ahaha.

Yong-gyu places a can of soda in front of a perfectly back-lit, sleeping Ah-reum. He’s about to sneak in to steal a kiss when Chang-min interrupts. Yong-gyu leaves in embarrassment, and Chang-min likewise walks off. Ah-reum wakes up to see Chang-min leaving and smiles, thinking that it was Chang-min who left her the soda.

Jin-hee finds herself once more standing in front of Chun-soo’s desk. Chun-soo says, “And I’m to believe you want to quit being a doctor? You steal an ultrasound machine, get slapped by a VIP patient, get roaring drunk, call your friends to brag you’re a doctor who can deliver an instant diagnosis as soon as you put on a stethoscope?” Ahaha, he’s quoting her drunken phone call conversations word for word. Jin-hee is thoroughly rattled.

Chun-soo continues, “Why? Are you embarrassed? So why do you do embarrassing things? Now that you’re about to quit, have you decided to just do anything you want?” Chun-soo rips up Jin-hee’s resignation letter, to her shock, and she starts to cry. She explains that she didn’t become a doctor out of a sense of duty or some noble respect for life: “Because of the people who stepped on me and looked down on me, I wanted to see what was so great about being a doctor.” She continues, “It was wrong to begin with that mindset. My motive was ill-intentioned and bad. Just as you said my first day, I don’t have the qualifications, skills or attitude to be a doctor.”

Chun-soo replies, “So you started with bad intentions. Does everyone become a doctor to cure sick people and save the world like Jesus? Are you saying that only people with pure intentions can become doctors? And are you saying that those pure intentions are never, not once, ever swayed in a course of a lifetime? That kind of perfect idealism doesn’t exist. That kind of doctor? It’s a fantasy that exists only in dramas.”

Chang-min’s mom refuses to leave the hospital until her husband shows up, while Chang-min tells her that’s not likely to happen. Mom doesn’t want Chang-min to be late for his date with Ah-reum and goes so far as to encourage him to spend the night together in a hotel. At his shock, she counters, “What? I hear everyone starts off by sleeping together these days.” Um. Ick. Mom thinks she’s got the 4-1-1 on modern dating. In fact, she’s so hip and down with the young folks, she thinks Chang-min and Ah-reum are going to a classical music concert.

In Chun-soo’s office, Jin-hee spots her employee dismissal notice on a desk. The phone rings and the news is bad: Chang-min’s mom has lost consciousness. Jin-hee calls Chang-min, who runs into Yong-gyu long enough to hand off the concert tickets, telling him to take his place on his date with Ah-reum.

The electrocardiogram indicates that Chang-min’s mom has a serious heart condition. They connect her to a pacemaker but her pulse still drops, and Chun-soo resorts to CPR and defibrillation. They finally get her pulse back, to everyone’s relief, and Dr. Ahn points out that Chang-min’s mom would be dead had she not been hooked up to an ECG. He asks who thought to do so when she was about to be discharged, and when he sees that it was Jin-hee, he gives her grudging props.

Chun-soo asks Jin-hee why she thought to hook up the ECG too, and she says that she suspected Chang-min’s mom may have heart issues. Chun-soo makes it clear to Chang-min that Jin-hee has effectively saved his mother’s life, and wonders how she could have suspected a thing when there was no mention of heart problems on the patient’s chart.

Chang-min tries to impress on his mom that Jin-hee saved her life because she remembered her previous bout of heart failure years ago. Mom is unswayed. By her logic, Jin-hee was the reason that she suffered from heart problems in the first place. Sigh.

Chun-soo tells Chang-min’s mom that she could at least thank Jin-hee for saving her life. Like Chang-min, Chun-soo fails to evoke even the smallest shred of gratitude from Chang-min’s mom.

Jin-hee admits to Chun-soo that she saw her dismissal notice and asks why he ripped up her resignation letter if she’s to be fired anyway. Chun-soo counters, “You suffered all sorts of humiliation but you tried your utmost to save that VIP patient to the very end. Why?” Jin-hee replies that she doesn’t know.

Chun-soo tells her that it was her doctor’s instinct: “Do away with the weak mindset that wrote the resignation letter. And the tracheotomy patient’s death was not your fault, so don’t blame yourself. No doubt there will be events in the future for which to blame yourself. It won’t be too late to blame yourself then.”

Ah-reum waits at the bar for Chang-min, only to have Yong-gyu arrive instead. He’s obviously more thrilled with her company than she is with his, and Yong-gyu good-naturedly says that something must have come up with Chang-min, and that he can join them next time.

Chang-min waits in his dad’s office and spots Jin-hee’s gift on the desk. It’s a stethoscope, but before he can open the enclosed card, his dad walks in. Chang-min tries to convince him to come to the hospital but Dad knows Mom too well, suspecting that she’s exaggerating her ailments as usual. Chang-min leaves in disgust and starts to head back to the hospital, but his mom urges him to meet Ah-reum instead.

Chun-soo offers to treat Ji-hye to dinner, to her pleasant surprise, and they end up at the same bar as the other two, where Ji-hye says the scene reminds her of “the old days” together. I don’t get the vibe that these two were involved romantically in the past, for they’re just far too comfortable with each other… but I’m beginning to suspect that Ji-hye might want to start something now.

Jin-hee calls up one of Jin-ae’s friends to get information about Jin-ae’s whereabouts, and by the time she arrives at the bar, the band is in full swing. Chang-min arrives and searches for Ah-reum, just as Jin-hee spots a familiar mane of platinum blonde hair on stage, which belongs to the lead singer of the band… who is Jin-ae!

Jin-hee beelines right onto the stage and grabs her sister mid-performance, stopping the show. Yong-gyu, Ah-reum, Chun-soo, Ji-hye, and Chang-min all recognize Jin-hee and gape in astonishment.

Intent on dragging her sister home, Jin-hee gets into a physical altercation with the other band members. Jin-ae makes a break for it and sprints for the exit. Jin-hee tries to shake off the band members, but as she twists away, she sails off the stage and the episode ends with Jin-hee frozen in mid-air, about to take a nasty spill.

COMMENTS

This episode had a sprinkling of everything: some nice comic moments, major character development for Jin-hee, and a set-up for a new secondary storyline in Jin-ae.

After getting slapped by Chang-min’s mom and facing dismissal at work, it’s easy to see why Jin-hee thinks that nothing in her life has changed. She thinks that she is the same old Jin-hee. What I find most satisfying about this episode is that she spends the entire hour showing us that she is wrong. If we are to believe Chang-min, the Jin-hee of old would have wallowed in her self-pity and depression. The old Jin-hee may have been so paralyzed by her negative emotions that she was unable to take action to save her failing marriage. The Jin-hee 2.0 who we see today puts aside her own emotions as if they were yesterday’s news and springs into action to save Emma’s life. For the new Jin-hee, her genuine desire to help people trumps any thoughts of self-doubt or really, any thoughts of self at all.

Her motive for becoming a doctor was born of ill intentions, she confesses. So what? Her motive for BEING a doctor has morphed into a selfless, noble desire to help others. It is Chun-soo who points out to her the changeability of a person’s intentions and motivations over time. When Jin-hee cannot voice why she worked so hard to save Chang-min’s mom despite suffering such humiliation, it is Chun-soo again who tells her that it is her “doctor’s instinct.” What he doesn’t spell out explicitly is that a doctor’s “instinct” is to place the well-being of a patient above all else. With Chang-min’s mom, Jin-hee never wavered from delivering the best care, despite her past personal issues and despite Chang-min’s mom’s ongoing spitefulness. Same with Emma: Jin-hee prioritized saving the patient, with little regard to what financial, legal, or disciplinary issues might result.

However, Chun-soo also notes that such selfless, noble idealism doesn’t exist. I wonder if the truth is more that such idealism CANNOT exist over the long run. In this episode, Chun-soo is accused by the head of ER of having “changed so much” when he casually mentions letting Jin-hee go, yet later accused by Ji-hye of having changed not at all. His response to the head of ER indicates that he knows he needs to change if he plans to have a viable career.

Chun-soo half-heartedly tries to convince Ji-hye that he’s “changed a lot,” then promptly negates his words by paying for Emma’s surgery out of his own pocket. I suspect that a younger Chun-soo sported a brand of passionate idealism similar to Jin-hee’s which led him to leave or to get driven out of the hospital. With Chun-soo, we’ve already seen him place a patient’s well-being over hospital politics, for instance—he does not defer to senior doctors when he thinks they are wrong, incurring enmity from Dr. Ahn and others. His decision to rejoin the hospital was clearly accompanied by the awareness that he had to compromise some of his ideals. Hey, I can respect someone who chooses to conform to a flawed system in order to effect change from within. Certainly, that would be a more accurate reflection of reality. But will he, and can he, make those compromises? And do I want Chun-soo to become an accurate reflection of reality, or do I want him to remain the fantasy that only exists in dramas?

I’d feel remiss if I neglected to mention Chang-min in my comments. Frankly, there has still been so little movement towards the potential reuniting of our two leads that I’ve given up twiddling my thumbs on that front only to spend my time cooing over Chun-soo. Let’s see. Chang-min lobbies (unsuccessfully) to eke out of his mom one lousy “thank you” for Jin-hee, while Chun-soo shows Jin-hee that she has found her true calling in life. Chang-min, you’ve got 14 episodes left to bring your A-game, and you’d better bring it soon.

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Jin Hee's march through the bar, straight as an arrow, right past all the other characters, was absolutely priceless!

. . . Even if the set-up on stage was an exact copy of a scene from 'The King 2 Hearts'!

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I know right! And I thought that I was the only one laughing at Jin Hee's point-and-march-passing-by-my-colleagues! I was laughing so much at that part as well as her expression!

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See part of the reason I'm so hesitant with this series is because in the first episode I already liked the interactions between Chun-Soo and Jin-Hee so much better. But I figured in time I'd be proven wrong. That I'd see how great the other two are together. I like that it's not an easy fix and that it takes time to get there with these characters, but if it doesn't happen soon than it might be too late for me. I've always been proud of the fact that I have successfully avoided having second lead syndrome for the most part, but recent dramas have been changing that. Still there've been some good moments this episode :) Hope it picks up soon.

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I think that things with CM and JH are already beginning to pick up, hinted in ep 7 (sorry if i spoiled it for anyone!!), but i also predict lots of second lead syndrome for CS :(

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Chang-min, you’ve got 14 episodes left to bring your A-game, and you’d better bring it soon.

Dear writer, he already takes some steps on episode 7 *spoiler*

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Yeeees. Episode 7!! I can see the liiigggghhht!! Haha

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Hey to you too Slappyunni!! Welcome and thanks for the recap :)

Everyone can see and I think agrees, why it's easier to see Jin-Hee and Chun-Soo together. They're the same. And I think Chun Soo reminds him of himself with Jin Hee. And they have chemistry which is very much missing between Chang-Min and Jin-Hee. Or maybe because of how crappy Chang Min treated her?

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It's not just that Changmin was crappy to Jinhee, but that they really had no chemistry. Even when they were running to the church in episode 1, it seemed more about him being macho than it did about them being in love.

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but that's it isn't it. that might be the way PD nim wants, he wants second lead syndrome so we all are in misery woaaaaahh.

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Anyone know the piano instrumental song that was playing when Chun-Soo was Anyone know the piano instrumental song that was playing when Chun-Soo was talking to Jin Hee and Chang-Min?talking to Jin Hee and Chang-Min?

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Anyone know the piano instrumental song that was playing when Chun-Soo was talking to Jin Hee and Chang-Min?

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Chun-soo makes me want to be doctor.

I love this show. It's really grown on me, and frankly, Song Jihyo is just so beautiful, it's a delight to watch her.

And squee, Dr. Gook (Chunsoo!).

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I think I'm going to re-watch this episode. It was wonderful.

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Sometimes I'm embarrassed for the leading lady.But I think she is nice.
PS Great recap.Waiting for more.

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that smile up there is juz so beautifull~ i'm fangirling rite now..how can you be so pretty song ji hyo??
anyway, the mother-in-law is starting to pissed me off and its gradually not becoming cute anymore...
unless chang min stop becomin a douche to jin hee~
i pick chief gook and jin hee FTW!!!

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The actress playing the ex MIL ALWAYS seems to play these detestable, hateful, unlikeable women that totally get you pissed. I cannot stand her character(s) and she's the main reason I am hesitating to watch this show.

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yeah..i noticed that..but here she just really ANNOYS THE CRAP out of me~ LOL
but, i guess i have to give prop to her acting though...maybe from all the previous character she plays now she knows how to be the worst MIL ever~
nonetheless, you should watch EC..i greatly recommend it~ :)

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oh gosh, now i think i've been missing out by not watching this. I might have to do some catching up. Thanks for the recap.

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Yes, Carole, come join us! This drama keeps getting better and better. Not at all like the usual medical dramas (Golden Time, Good Doctor, Top Med). And yes, I am suffering from second lead shipping.

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thanks much for the recaps... love this couple!!! looking forward for more! ^_^

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Is nobody going to talk about how Song Jihyo was for sure singing "Shower Later"(Gary's "new" single) as Gary helped her to the car? I almost cried laughing.

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Ah, I have to listen to that song now!

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i was actually waiting for the recap on this episode precisely for the MC couple. :D its really beautiful to see the "friendship" between these two develop through the years and all RM members supporting each other now on their individual pursuits. love that family. And welcome slappyunni, thanks for subbing!!!

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thanks for the recap! i am loving the pace at which things are moving. just give us more,more and MORE!

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This is a fantastic recap for an excellent episode. Emergency Couple is really stepping up its game. I love that Chun Soo primarily builds Jin Hee up, that when push comes to shove he nurtures her idealism and encourages her to embrace her instincts. He sees greatness in her and in spite of himself has to support her. I just don't see at this point how it's even a contest between him and Chang Min, who (while slightly less pathetic this episode) is essentially a cowardly momma's boy with little-to-no capacity for self-reflection. He's a realistic character for sure, but has a long way to go before he develops into a normal, healthy adult--let alone a normal, healthy adult worthy of challenging Chun Soo and supporting Jin Hee. I do like that the show isn't shying away from how little Chang Min has grown since the divorce, and how dysfunctional his relationship with his mom is.

Another thing that I enjoy about the show is that aren't too many medical emergency theatrics. One of the reasons I dropped Good Doctor is that I felt they relied too much on the hospital shenanigans to manufacture angst and conflict. In this, the politics and medical emergencies of the hospital are used pretty sparingly, and always to incite character growth and build relationships.

EC definitely took a few episodes to get rolling, but now I'm totally hooked.

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I never at any point got vibes from Jin-Hee and Chun-Soo that weren't Sunbae-Hoobae. Ever since their first interaction I was super excited to see that relationship unfold and I knew he'd be a great mentor for her. And it's panning out how I expected it to.
I do agree that Chang Min needs to step up but it's not because I see Chun-Soo as having a stronger romantic bond with her or anything. It's because at this point all I'm getting from his is respect for her skills, and both of them respecting each other in the workplace now not any romantic attraction at all. At their best moments I see the ever elusive comfortable post-breakup relationship but nothing else.
I still haven't seen episode 7 though so who knows what I'll think after that.

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Gurl, you may be good as a medical intern but you sure as hell suck at timing. You'd have gotten your sister for sure if you'd just followed her and then snuck up when she was alone. Trying to create havoc in the middle of a performance is never a good idea.

Because of her pigtails, I cannot take ChangMin-mommy seriously. She looks like an overgrown kid and is obviously acting like one. If the hairstylists did that on purpose, props to them.

I love that JinHee's getting healed together again and becoming stronger. Take no shit, woman. Stop belittling yourself and GO!

ChangMin needs to stand up to his big baby of a mother. Although I do are why he isn't. She's like,a fiery spiting bull.

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*change 'are' to 'understand'

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Thanks for the recap!

I really look forward to this show every Fri/Sat and your recaps later.

I am rooting so much for Dr. Jin-hee to overcome her past, her MIL and her self-confidence issues. CM may be a good guy, somewhere in there, but he has to let go of his pride and forgive.

As much as I love Chun-soo, he is so classically the second lead, I don't see how he has a chance...

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I want to watch it but until Chang-Min really steps up as the lead I'll read the recaps.

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I don't want Chang Min to bring on any game. He can stay where he is and leave my girl alone with her new life and possible new love interest. Who is smoking by the way. I mean where has Lee Pil Mo been and why wasn't I aware until now.

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And to think that I waited this drama for Choi Jin-hyuk and Song Ji-hyo T_T
Chun-soo is like a perfect match for Jin-hee, he brings the best out of Jin-hee.
I still want to see Chang-min and Jin-hee together but boy he needs a looooong way to catch up to Chun-soo

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Honestly I wish we could step away more from this second lead trope. I prefer Jin Hee's relationship with Chun Soo to be menor/mentee-ish.

Like I knew it was going to be problematic watching a med-kdrama as a med student because it just makes me cringe every time but I could honestly have ignored it if the story was engaging enough to hook me. But so far it's just a tired attempt at all of the often used clichés we've seen.

I'm not saying it's completely without hope or I wouldn't be tuning in time to time but to be honest it just seems so lost.

Are we supposed to be rooting for Jin Hee as an underdog? Because she's petty and small minded herself. She has yet to try to reach out to her colleagues. I get they don't like her but she made a terrible first impression and never tried to warm up to them. And her attitude with Ah-reum seems way exaggerated. Girl might be a little rude but so is Jin Hee. I can't sympathize with someone when I don't know why you're so ugly with people.

I feel like this drama has literally tried to stuff every plot bunny they can find related to hospital dramas into this show to distract us from the gaping holes in character and continuity but it isn't working because it's so badly executed.

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Well, that's one non-fan on the list . . . :|

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Really? Because I feel like that's one thing that this medical drama has done differently. The reason why I really love Jin Hee the character is because it's like she's a real person. She doesn't have the perfect heart, she has selfish motivations, just like any other human being. And the reason why she hasn't tried fitting in is because she has been insulted and disrespected by them, not just because of her bad first impression but because of their continued misunderstandings and treatment of her as too old to be an intern.

Plus, it seems as though in the divorce (although we haven't really learned that much about it) Jin Hee was the one with the short end of the string. Remember how she said that Chang-min didn't understand why they even divorced in the first place, and that he had never tried to understand? I think that has a lot to do with her social confidence, which is probably undermined by the fact that he's liked so well by everyone else, and remember, he was yelling at her to quit in the first few episodes.

Ah-reum is one of the less bitchy second-female-lead characters I've seen in kdramaland, which I think contributes to the fact that I like this show, but it still feels like her thoughts are mostly centered on herself. And the way that she acts to Jin Hee is passive aggressive, while I think Jin Hee is at least more open about what she likes or dislikes.

And I'm not sure what you mean about the plot bunnies. I think this drama is good because it keeps you guessing what happened in the past, and keeps you guessing what characters think about one another. Is Chang-min regaining his old feelings for Jin Hee? Is Jin Hee doing the same thing? Is Jin Hee growing as a person as she learns more and more about the profession of medicine? Is the relationship between Chun Soo and Jin Hee that of mentorship or is she helping a lonely, work-obsessed man learn to care about other people? Etc.

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I found the conversation between Chang Min and his dad to be really interesting. If you look back to the first episode when Jin-hee complains about her heart, Chang-min dismisses her very much like his dad dismisses his mom's health problem. While Chang-min is disgusted with his dad's dismissive attitude, he doesn't even realize that he used to be like that.

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I never really thought about that. His dad might've influenced his behavior during the marriage more than he realizes. Maybe he'll reflect on that later.

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that Gary cameo though omg. Did anyone notice that not so subtle moment where he held her hands when she was calling them "God hands"? Omg I was fangirling the entire scene.

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Chun Soo, I really hope you get the girl. Oh my wishful thinking.

Chang-min should end up with Clara's character. They're perfect together.

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ooooh tankyou slappyunni for the recap (suneedelight too)

I agree with magnus about how the interaction between jin hee and chun soo are merely hoobae-sunbae. ofcourse i love that part and i think its really nice for her to have him as a mentor/guidance being someone who once experience that phase before. and i love how chang min kind of jealous seeing their interactions. LOL.
and oh how much I love the scene where Gary being the cameo. I cannot stop laughing (MC fans)
i think, barging in and stop jin ae in the middle of performance is just awesome. its a drama after all. waaay to make a scene. bravo! *clap clap clap

ps: "doctor who aren't doctoring are all out fishing" b(^_^)d LOL. Guess I'll do that too when I quit my job.

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"...major character development for Jin-hee."--Slappyunni

Pretty much since Episode 1, the story and plot has focused/centered around on Oh Jin-Hee's actions and reactions to others. Each episode tends to shine a spotlight on the subtle changes to and continued growth of her character. In comparison, the writer seems to have made Choi Jin-Hyuk's character Oh Chang-Min seem stagnant, underdeveloped, and destined to bear the brunt of the burden/reason for the divorce.

Of course, often as viewers we come across writers spending more time on making the male lead a more well-rounded character than the female lead. The male lead has quirks, mannerisms, and one-liners. The female lead tends to be the average Candy trope.

Is Emergency Couple trying to break the mold and have Oh Jin-Hee simply be the better written character from beginning to end. Or is the writer doing this on purpose?

If you watched the recent 10 episode Kdrama Unemployed Romance, then you know that the writer Lee Soo-Ah split the storytelling point of view into a hers vs. his version of events. For the first 3 - 4 1/2 episodes, the audience was introduced to Im Seung-Hee character and aspects of her current life, job, family, and support system. Then it switched gears for the next 4 1/2 episodes, and the audience was introduced to Kim Jong-Dae. Likewise, his account of events were shown along with aspects of his current life, job, family, and support system.

As mentioned by others, it was nice to see the meta reference to the "Monday Couple" from Running Man.

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can i just say..THANK YOU for recapping this drama.

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thanks for the recap. love this drama!

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Jin-Hee and Chun-soo in an attraction to each other would be fun and open a lot of the other characters eyes to their own true feelings. What do you think?

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Am I the only one who wants a screencap of Chun soo's wiggling toes? Haha... I haven't watched this show, and planning to, thanks to DB. Currently marathoning Good Doctor, but judging by recaps only, seems like EC is much more interesting, wrong?

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no your not wrong~ i have seen good doctor, and personally i think EC is better :D

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I believe you! I found myself ff-ing GD a lot, esp the icky-yucky-knife-cuts-flesh stuff...- love Joo Won, though...well, thanks ha-neul, time to start EC, stat

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monday couple!!!!!!!!

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