Kim Ji-won Takes on Her Darkest Look Yet as ‘Doctor X’
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New plan
- Actress Kim Ji-won will star as genius surgeon Gye Su-jeong in SBS’s upcoming medical noir drama “Doctor X.”
- The character refuses failure and compromise while confronting entrenched wrongdoing in the operating room.
- The series is scheduled to premiere on Oct. 9.
Kim Ji-won is set to make her darkest transformation yet as a “medical dark hero” in SBS’s upcoming Friday-Saturday drama “Doctor X: The Era of the White Mafia.”
The series follows Gye Su-jeong, a brilliant surgeon known as the “mad dog of the operating room.” She refuses both failure and compromise as she takes on deep-rooted wrongdoing in the medical world.
SBS plans to premiere the medical noir drama on Oct. 9.
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Originally published by Chosun Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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