If you want to die, jump in front of someone else's car!
Who will you fight against?
What the heck are you trying to do right now?
You know how we can fight, right?
You said you will fight, so who are you going to fight against?
Stop talking such crappy nonsense.
Us?
Or Chairman Cho Nam-hyeong?
Have you suddenly gone blind?
Have you forgotten who I am?
What do you mean, I know how you can fight?
What would you do if I did know? And what would you do if I didn't?
I'm asking you to tell me as a human being.
As the person Gu Seung-hyo, not the employee Gu Seung-hyo.
Does everything that's happening in there really not bother you?
Do you really have nothing on your conscience?
What's wrong with what's happening in there? Doctors like money, don't they?
As soon as they open their clinics, they scramble to make money.
So why not here?
Because it's bigger?
The reason you all are objecting to it now is because you're annoyed by it.
Because you can't be bothered to change.
Because you see everything in terms of money,
you don't see how scary what Chairman Cho is trying to do is!
What's so scary about what he's trying to do?
Have you ever been to an amusement park overseas?
This is so exhausting.
There's something called a VIP ticket at amusement parks in other countries.
No matter how long the line is, whether it's an hour or two hours or however long
everyone else has been waiting,
if you have a VIP ticket that you paid a fortune for,
you can get to the front of the line and be the first one on the ride.
Schools, hospitals, streets!
At least these things have to be shared.
No matter how differently people are born,
there has to be a place where they can mix and mingle together.
That's how we can live together!
A hospital is not a multi-million-won sports car,
nor is it a palace that the average person can only dream of.
Chairman Cho is saying that this hospital, this entrance,
will only be open to people with VIP tickets.
Is that really the world you want to live in?
Is that really the world
that you want your future children to live in?
Tell them to live together somewhere else.
You're even less free than my brother, CEO Gu!
Who owns your soul, sir?
Does the chairman of a conglomerate hold that in his hands as well?
Are you that worried?
I'm not worried about the hospital.
I'm saying this for the group and for you, sir.
Word is already spreading that the
withdrawal of additional businesses was a smokescreen
and that it's actually all about the money.
If we mess with the healthcare law too rashly, we'll be the ones who get the mace.
If tampering with the healthcare law is too rash,
we'll have to downgrade our hospital status.
Lately, all the time in the news, hospitals are being stripped of their status.
Well...
That's because that hospital committed a medical malpractice that was so serious
that it was eliminated from the third and final evaluation.
Oh! A medical malpractice?
That's right.
We can drop Sangkook University with that.
If it falls below the level of a general hospital,
I can change it to a profit-making corporation, right?
Um, Mr. Chairman.
We won't be able to drop that low.
- It's just not possible. - CEO Gu.
Yes, sir.
Who is this "we" you keep talking about?
You and me, or you and Sangkook University?
- Of course it's... - You've changed.
No, I haven't.
You're beating around the bush,
but you're telling me to back off, feigning concern.
I'm just saying there's no reason you should be cannon fodder.
All the companies with hospitals are going to use you as an excuse now,
and they're all going to copy you.
You're benefiting others.
Like how you're using me as an excuse right now, trying to get me to change my mind?
Forget it.
I'll make the decision, so wait.
Where are you going first thing in the morning?
Please make this a hospital-wide announcement.
Sir.
I guess it was decided from the beginning that
you would announce the statement and the chairman would nullify it.
- Did CEO Gu get fired? - Yeah!
When he was so desperate to get rid of everyone else.
A human heart is so funny.
When he strutted around, displaying dominance, saying he was the CEO,
he was the biggest pain in the butt.
Are you sad to see him go?
I'm just saying, since CEO Gu got cut off like a chicken getting its neck cut off.
I wonder what he did to get on the chairman's bad side.
The reason you all are objecting to it now is because you're annoyed by it.
Because you can't be bothered to change.
I don't think that's it...
Deputy Director, are you in?
Yes.
Come to the Director's Office.
Yes?
Let's do a full inspection on medical accidents.
These people are careful at first,
but medication accidents are slowly increasing now.
Prescribing and dispensing are all going to be targeted,
so before the person in charge is named and demoted,
the director and deputy director should take charge of them,
or you should thoroughly manage them and crack down on them yourself.
- All right, I got it, but... - What?
I saw the announcement.
It is what it is.
There was no reason?
With a private company, even the air in the company is the owner's air.
The owner wants to fire me, so what can I say?
Oh, and the full inspection is irrelevant to my dismissal, so be prepared.
I don't know if he's putting on a poker face
or if he's up to something with Chairman Cho.
Next will be us, right?
Next will be the entire hospital.
Yes, ma'am.
What's going on...?
Did something happen last night?
Why do you ask?
CEO Gu has been removed from his position.
Where will he go this time?
He's been fired. He's not changing posts.
Why?
Just pretend you don't know for now.
Did he immediately go home after work?
Well, actually, he was going home at first,
but then he went to the headquarters.
At that hour?
Did the chairman call him in?
No, I don't think he called him in.
But it seemed like the conversation didn't go well at the headquarters.
Why do you say that?
Because he came out pretty quickly.
Jeez...
I wish I could keep serving CEO Gu.
He probably likes it here too.
He does well wherever he goes…
But this place is where he has met a woman,
a female doctor, that he likes for the first time.
CEO Gu?!
Is it the roundish and pretty pediatrician, by any chance?
CEO Gu didn't tell me himself though.
Of course, he'd never say it with his own mouth.
But why?
Why did you think that?
Well, you know when things were really chaotic because of the autopsy and whatnot?
Yes.
He told me to make sure nothing happened to that female doctor,
so I followed her home after work…
CEO Gu made you do that?
He told you to protect Dr. Lee No-eul?
Yes, that's right. That was her name.
Oh!!
Ah!!!
What do I do?
Why are you in here when no one is here?
Why did you leave your spot?
But you've left your spot to be here too.
Oh, well, I'm...
Chairman Cho has given me a few instructions.
First, he wants you to take responsibility for this announcement and step down.
He says he can't trust you with the business anymore.
He said you should reject all personal interviews and a retirement speech.
He also said the sooner you clear out, the better.
When do you think you'll be able to clear out?
Then I'll report to the chairman that you'll be following his instructions.
Mr. Lee!
Why was the dismissal notice sent from the Restructure Team?
You think I wrote that?
I only did it because the HR Team at the headquarters told me to.
- And Kang. - Kang?
I feel really bad to see you go.
It's hard to find good employees like you.
Why would you be looking for good employees like me?
You never know what might happen.
What? How dare you...
Assistant Kang!
Restructure Team Leader Lee Hyeon-gyun.
Yes?
From the Secretary's Office to the General Business Team to the Restructure Team...
The course you've been on since joining the company is the same as mine.
Whether it will be the same in the future depends on your abilities.
But Mr. Lee,
if you act like you already have something that you haven't even gotten ahold of yet,
you're going to lose it even before you get it.
Come on, I told you, you can't smoke here.
You can. I changed it.
Hmph.
Take care of yourself.
If you get rolled in here after smoking that crap,
the doctors are going to have a field day.
They'll argue about who will get to cut open this belly of yours.
How long do you have?
Until I clear out.
Looks like you have a lot to clear out.
What will happen to this place after you're gone?
Sick people will come.
The doctors will treat them.
They won't be able to save everyone.
It'll be the same.
We won't be able to go back to how it was before CEO Gu Seung-hyo came here,
whether it be for the better or for the worse.
I don't know how the CEO leaving will impact us in the current situation.
I have no idea what nastier things we might come to see in the future.
I know if Chairman Cho officially starts to get involved in the hospital,
it'll be the worst.
Is there any way we can stop that?
We should have something like China and Hong Kong,
where they are one country with two systems.
So it'll be like, "Sangkook University is part of Hwajeong Group,”
"but we guarantee the independence of the hospital.”
There's no way they'd do that. They won't guarantee it.
The biggest problem is that they want to privatize the hospital.
What should we do about that?
It's not like they won't do it just because we tell them not to.
How about we use CEO Gu?
I heard CEO Gu isn't being transferred to a better place.
So let's protest his dismissal, huh?
He must feel wronged too.
Honestly, we all know that he worked hard.
If he comes out and says himself,
“When Chairman Cho came on TV and apologized, that was all a show,”
it will be extremely effective.
We're the ones who posted the proposal to dismiss the CEO.
It'll be ridiculous.
Of course it's ridiculous. And CEO Gu will never say that.
You don't have a clue about what he's like, do you?
Of course not. How could we?
We only fought and scowled at each other all the time.
Hmm, he's really leaving when that's all we ever did.
Should we hold a press conference as a group?
The public opinion will agree with us.
And maybe also civic groups?
Will that help us realistically?
We've always been whining about the hospital's deficit, publicly.
We weren't whining.
It's a fact.
Yes, so if Hwajeong Group decides to take over a deficit hospital
and receive a lot of foreign investment,
it will be packaged as a successful foreign investment by a large company,
and if it continues to attract foreign money,
it will be a matter of time before the policy committee deliberates
and turns the hospital into a profit-making institution.
It's not like we can stop them
from turning it into a special economic zone either, right?
Hmm... If they submit a new medical business plan to the Ministry of Trade,
Industry and Energy, and if the Songtan area is re-evaluated...
Is it that simple?
For local governments?
What local government wouldn't want that?
Since it'll make them special?
We have nothing to lose. Let's at least talk to CEO Gu.
When did our meetings become all about this?
We don't talk about the patients' health for even one second.
The Pediatrics Director hasn't come out either.
They're always in a meeting nowadays.
I wouldn't be complaining if they even had any good solutions.
Huh?
What is it?
Nurse Kim!
Wait up!
Eun-ha, did you bring your car?
No.
Want a ride home?
They're still at it! Seriously?
CEO Gu acted all high and mighty as the boss and made all that mess,
but he's the only one getting out of this.
If it was going to turn out like this, he shouldn't have come in the first place.
Yeah, he shouldn't have come in the first place...
That's why he's leaving, just as you wanted him to.
I'll go on ahead.
Assistant Kang?
See you tomorrow.
Are you okay?
You look pale...
I'm fine.
Assistant Kang, you're going to stay with us, right?
I don't know.
If you're not sure, then I guess the CEO really is being dismissed…
Do you really think it would've been better
if CEO Gu didn't come here in the first place?
What?
Oh...
Not for me.
For him. It didn't do him any good.
I'm sure we were a nightmare for him.
But you know what?
I'll be going now.
What is it?
That's what I'd like to ask.
What's your problem?
What?
It was a coincidence, wasn't it?
That time you and CEO Gu were on the rooftop, right?
I don't know when that was.
You don't know each other, right?
There's no way you'd know CEO Gu, right?
Why is there no way I could know him?
Because he's the CEO?
Dr. Seon-woo.
Yes! I know CEO Gu. I know him well.
We both got our diplomas thanks to the Hwajeong Group scholarship.
Is that wrong?
No way...
Did you tell CEO Gu about us... About the hospital?
What do you mean?
That the doctors are all jerks and stink, and the nurses burn each other at the stake?
He knew all about that quite well. He didn't need me to tell him.
What is up with you, seriously?
Is that all our fault?
You're the one who bullies them, but if you say that's not your fault,
then whose fault is it?
It's because it's so hard. Because the work is so darn hard!
There are dozens of patients per nurse, and we don't get reinforcements,
and the shifts keep coming back.
The problems have festered.
Who would harass another nurse if the job was easy and comfortable?
Why'd we do that?
Let's get this straight.
In the military, the harder the job is outside the barracks,
the easier it is inside the barracks.
The closer we are to the front, the less we harass each other
because we know everyone is in the same crappy situation.
So we develop camaraderie, not bullying!
So did you stick to CEO Gu because you hated us?
No.
Because my life is a crap hole.
Because it's an absolute mess.
I stuck to him because it was terrible for me to come work at a place that
I don't even want to look at every single day!
But this place is where he has met a woman,
a female doctor, that he likes for the first time.
I'm sure we were a nightmare for him.
He told me to make sure nothing happened to that female doctor…
He shouldn't have come in the first place.
He says he can't trust you with the business anymore.
He said you should reject all personal interviews and a retirement speech.
There are no records or materials.
It's not that Assistant Kang is withholding it from us.
She said that the headquarters took care of it,
so she doesn't physically have the data either.
But she said that it was true
the site was decided to be in Songtan because of Hwajeong Steel's environmental levy.
What can we do to damage Hwajeong based on circumstance alone?
Has anything that happened in history ever damaged
the chairmen of a conglomerate in Korea?
Never.
They don't get any damage.
We have to give it everything all in one blow.
Let's take this information to someone who can suppress Chairman Cho.
Who can suppress Chairman Cho?
Welcome, sir.
Call the Director. And the jerk Deputy Director.
- What's going on, sir? - I'm going to kill them.
I'm sorry, sir, but they're both out of the office...
I'll call them here.
Was it you?
- Did you do it? - No, sir.
What do you think I'm talking about?
Since it seems you understood what I said, you must've known what was going on.
I don't know what you're talking about, but I didn't do anything to cause you trouble, sir.
Kim Seok-hyeon called me, frothing at the mouth.
He said people from your hospital came to see him.
They threatened him, saying they'll expose the fact that he received more for the price
of the land instead of charging the environmental levy.
They knew the specific amount, method, date, everything.
You mean our Director and Deputy Director went to the Minister of Environment?
If they had come to me or if they had run their mouths off to reporters,
then it would've all been taken care of by now.
But that coward minister is flipping out right now,
scared that something might happen to him!
What did he say the purpose of their visit was?
If their purpose was to expose him, they wouldn't have gone to the Minister,
so the Director and Deputy Director must have requested something from him.
They want him to make me take my hands off the hospital administration.
They're asking for the impossible.
Is that all you have to say?
Who could have leaked the information?
How did those jerks know?
The person who knows all the details, even the exact amount of the money,
is only you and...
How do you think the Minister will react if you don't accept the request?
You really don't know?
He'll bring up the fine again.
It's a whopping 160 billion won!
What will you do?
Darn it.
I can't reveal that we bribed him first.
Why don't you grant the hospital's request, sir?
Asking the hospital owner to take his hands off of his hospital
is an impossible request.
Even if you say you'll do it for now, it won't change your status as the chairman.
I'm still not the real owner of this place,
and the doctors know that I only possess it by name and that I don't control it.
That's why they dare to come at me! Bring in everyone involved, now!
Sir, let me tidy up the issue between the Ministry of Environment and the hospital.
Please let me take care of this for the last time.
I beg of you.
Why? So you can disappoint me for the last time?
Isn't it enough that you've disappointed me so far?
All you have to do is announce that
Hwajeong Group has provided a place to live for people evicted from state-owned land.
Even if the land contract issue comes up, it won't be a scandal,
but a humanitarian contribution by the company.
This won't work.
You can stop the land issue, but you can't stop the minister.
His eyes are blood-shot red just with the fact that the Songtan issue has been leaked.
I guarantee you he'll try to grab us and shake us somehow.
The Minister of Environment would rather die than let people know why his parents
ended up living on state land.
As long as you hold this, the minister won't dare to behave rashly.
What are your terms?
The director's terms were that I keep my hands off the hospital.
In return for this, what do you want?
Sir.
Please don't break the hospital up into pieces.
Just please don't tear it apart, sir.
What difference does it make?
I've never seen anyone back down when they've had a taste of money.
I've never seen them not go down that road.
In the future, a hospital will be either one or the other:
a place for people who spend tons of money on healthcare
or a place for people who can't fit into that system.
Sangkook University Hospital?
Give it ten years, no, five.
Let's see which way it goes.
I heard that Chairman Cho was here.
We decided that it was better for you
to not know that we were going to the Ministry of Environment.
Still, I wanted to tell you in advance,
but there's no point in saying this to you now, I guess.
It was effective.
Chairman Cho will stop trying to change the corporation?
That pig of a minister feigned innocence in front of us,
but I guess he really did join hands and scheme with Chairman Cho.
Then Chairman Cho really did give more money for the land
instead of paying the environmental levy, right?
Director Oh Se-hwa.
Sangkook University and Hwajeong are holding each other's detonators right now.
The detonator that Sangkook University is holding
will only be valid while the minister is still in office.
Once he resigns from his post,
there's not a lot that a former politician can do to Hwajeong.
Tread carefully.
Why do you sound like you're making a request that you have no involvement in?
Is this not your business anymore?
- Are you really quitting? - You have your job to do.
I have mine.
Did you really decide to take the blame?
All by yourself?
Why would I?
Remember I told you there's a caretakers' lodging on the Songtan campus?
The one you promised to give to the Seosan Village Cooperative?
The parents of the person you met today will live there.
The Minister of Environment?
Wait, why will his parents live in a building belonging to our hospital?
Assistant Kang will give you a copy of the permanent lease.
The reason is written there, so check that.
Besides his parents, other villagers will go live there, too,
so please keep an eye on them and make sure they're well.
They have worked all their lives, doing physical labor,
so you can give them something to do,
like take care of the campus, so they won't get bored.
Is that why you called it the caretakers' lodging?
So they'll really do caretaking work?
If they want.
Okay, got it.
Anything else?
What other requests would you like to pass along?
Oh...
What is wrong with me? This is useless.
What is this?
It's my letter of resignation.
You think I don't know that?
Take a vacation. Get some rest and come back.
Thank you for everything.
I...
think it's a heart attack.
My chest is tight and I can't breathe.
How are you breathing now?
My mouth.
How long has it been like this?
ECG.
Yes, doctor.
Do you have rhinitis?
You took this medicine and applied a spray in your nose, right?
Allergies.
Eh.
Nurse Bang, forget that.
If you apply a spray in your nose after taking this rhinitis reliever,
your nose will clog up.
Prescribe him another kind of medication for rhinitis.
Yes, doctor.
It's okay to breathe through your mouth.
You just feel thirsty, that's all.
Let's try breathing through your mouth.
You can breathe, right?
Sir, they want you in the main conference room.
Are they finding it fun now? It's like they're calling us every two seconds.
Send someone from each department to take a picture
for the evaluation certification ceremony.
And…
Why don't you just put up a notice on the bulletin board for agendas like this?
It's one of the busiest times right now.
CEO Gu!
And the Saturday office hours will change to, uh...
What do you have to say...?
You're here.
I heard today was your last day.
Even though all we did was fight and scowl at each other, still,
you weren't going to leave without saying goodbye, right, sir?
Goodbye.
So this is where you hold meetings.
I'll leave you with what someone told me recently.
I was recently told to observe Sangkook Hospital in five years,
that I don't even need ten years' time.
He said that the healthcare organizations of the future
will be a place that will not treat the sick but will keep the wealthy healthy.
To be honest, I don't think he's too far off the mark.
How long will you last?
How long can we keep the fundamentals from deteriorating?
It's in your hands now.
Those who will fall.
Those who will hold on.
Those who will go against the tide and rise up.
Those who aren't perfect, who are unexpectedly not superior,
who even seem like they're floundering, but who will take action
and make it happen in the end...
Those kinds of people will be here too.
I'll be watching Sangkook University Hospital, which I was a part of for a while.
I'll be watching how you turn out in 10 to 20 years.
I hope you come out on top.
The meeting is over.
Go.
I'm sorry, little brother.
When was this turned on?
You told them, didn't you? That today was my last day, huh?
What? Me?
Today is the last day I'll be walking with you like this here.
Thank you for all your hard work.
I'm no longer a Hwajeong employee,
so I won't be taking the company car now.
Thank you for all your hard work.
Please let me drive you for the last time today.
It's where you always keep it, right?
Your car is on the first basement level, right?
I'll be right back!
Why did you try to fire me?
You're asking me that now?
I wanted to ask you that.
I wanted to ask why you did that to me.
But I couldn't ask you.
Why not?
I didn't know why I couldn't ask you that either.
But now I know.
Because you might say that you didn't like me,
that you were annoyed that I kept popping up in front of you.
I was scared that you might say that.
Goodbye, Dr. Lee No-eul.
It'll be a bit difficult if it's too crowded and complicated.
I don't know.
I didn't make the reservations, so I don't know what it's like either.
You look cool.
I know.
Let's go.
Jin-woo!
You only saw No-eul once, but you remember her in great detail!
She was pretty, and they seemed really close.
Oh, that's...
You have no idea how much they fight.
And despite how he looks, Jin-woo has quite a temper.
Hey, what's wrong with how I look?
Let's ask.
What do you think? About how my brother looks?
Hmm...
That's a bad reaction. You got turned out.
What a pity.
It's okay, Seo-hyeon has very low standards.
She said you were handsome so that speaks volumes.
It's all over.
Hey, look at you!
Why are you really acting shy?
You're overreacting.
It's true.
And you two look alike.
- What? - No way!
You do!
The more I see you two, the more I can tell you have similar vibes.
- You should feel honored. - I feel insulted.
I'll go to the bathroom real quick.
Don't talk about me!
What will we talk about if we don't talk about you?
The weather! The weather.
Isn't it great?
They seem to like each other.
What about me?
- Are you bored of me now? - I'm grateful to you.
Then keep being grateful.
You can do that, right?
Thank you.
I got through it thanks to you.
I relied on you a lot.
Even when I didn't say anything, you listened to me...
and cried for me.
For 25 years.
For 25 years, you were always by my side.
So?
I'm your brother too.
- No, you're not. - I'm Seon-woo too!
- I'm your brother! - No.
You're not Seon-woo.
You're me.
I created you.
Dad was dead and Seon-woo was disabled. I hated that.
I couldn't make Dad come back to life, so instead,
I made you whole again,
in my mind and my heart.
But now,
it doesn't bother me at all that Seon-woo can't walk.
I can carry him on my back for the rest of my life.
That's all okay.
I just want my brother...
to live a long life.
I don't want him to...
leave me too soon.
Isn't it great?
They seem to like each other.
Jin-woo did that? For real?
What did I do this time?
Aren't you talkative today?
I told her about the time you ran away from home.
Hey!!
What?
Reporter Kwon has been released,
but now we're told not to write about Hwajeong at all.
I knew it. I bet they made a deal.
I'm going to try to get a job at the TV station again.
You're going to quit Saegeul21 and go back to the TV network?
Yes.
I'll rejoin.
Good luck!
Huh?
Where's Seon-woo?
I can't believe there's a place like this outside.
I feel like I'm on a trip.
Here?
I haven't been to the beach this summer either.
Things just kept happening left and right.
Aren't you two going on a vacation?
I'll be such a nuisance if I go...
Darn...
I can't swim at all either.
Then I'll be a nuisance too.
- I guess I shouldn't go as well. - Go.
Why shouldn't you go?
Really?
I'm not a nuisance then?
If I want to go, then I should go, right?
Yes.
I now see it's okay to be out at this hour.
I saw you requested a leave of absence.
Is that why you requested that?
Requested what?
You two always said you weren't a thing,
but now that one of you has quit,
you're taking this as the opportunity to come out about it?
Who's quitting what?
You asked for a leave of absence so you can go
with that cute and tiny pediatrician, right?
Why would I go with...?
Lee No-eul quit?!
Come on, you're not supposed to run in the hospital, little kid!
What's with you?
You were hell-bent on staying when they fired you, but now you quit?
I fought to stay so I could leave of my own volition.
Being in Seoul isn't always the best thing, you know.
You're going to a rural area?
What has gotten into you all of a sudden?
I thought about it for a long time.
I'm still a little confused, so don't try to sway me.
Let's eat!
Don't cry when this big sister of yours is gone.
Dr. Lee No-eul!
Yes, ma'am.
Why is she telling me to come sit there? It'll be so uncomfortable.
They're all sitting together in a group. Hey!
Don't bail on me now.
Do you not feel well?
The pain in the butt CEO Gu is gone, so what's wrong?
It's only natural that you get a better appetite now.
You know that the chairman of Hwajeong has a baby brother, right?
His name is Cho Nam-jeong.
Oh, Chairman Cho's brother.
Wait...
Isn't he a doctor too?
He's an authority in the pancreatic cancer field in the U.S. even though he's young.
Oh, so that family had someone in the cancer field.
Of course at first, they sent a proper CEO, but since it's a clan system,
won't Chairman Cho send his brother as the new CEO this time?
If a cancer specialist comes, then it won't be that bad for you.
He'll develop the Cancer Center a lot.
What if he says he wants to do both administration and treatment?
What if he says he doesn't want to be stuck in an office at his age?
What if Cho Nam-jeong operates both the President's Office and the Cancer Center?
- Then what about me? - You'll be the odd man out...
But that's not what I think.
The brother of the chairman, huh?
Come sit here.
Ah...
Chairman Cho's brother is coming as the new CEO?
I hope it's not the case where the devil you know is
better than the devil you don't know.
But isn't he in the U.S.?
He was, but I looked him up a few days ago.
His profile on the website of the American hospital where he worked is gone.
What's with the timing?
Did he really quit that job to come here?
I heard you're going to a rural hospital.
Yes.
It's admirable that you're doing that, but be prepared to be eaten alive.
If you go, you'll be the only one in the pediatrics department
and they'll make you do all sorts of things.
It's because people who come from Seoul quit easily,
so the locals don't open up to us.
But they'll recognize Dr. Lee's sincerity soon enough, right?
That's why it's even more unfair!
She'll go through all the hardships and later be asked if she came for the money.
Okay...
We always get scolded.
Who scolded you?
So Chairman Cho's brother will come as the new CEO?
I don't know.
He'll be coming to his own hospital, so… How lucky!
His own hospital.
We can make our own hospital too.
Huh?
I thought about how we could get away from Chairman Cho.
The only way is an independent foundation.
An independent foundation is easier said than done.
We not only have a hospital but also a university.
We have to buy the foundation to go independent.
It'll cost billions of won.
Hwajeong wouldn't even sell it in the first place.
I think the process will be important.
We can raise money by appealing to our alumni one by one
and constantly telling them why we're doing this.
Because if it takes decades to raise money, it'll mean decades of resistance.
If that happens, we'd be advertising our own problems.
What about our hospital's status while we try to expose the weak points of Hwajeong?
What if we fall with them?
Poor performance will be a problem too.
The medical school won't be empty, but the competitive kids won't come.
They'll be like, "Sangkook University Hospital is having problems."
"The doctors there said it themselves." They'll say, "Don't go there."
We'll lose all the good kids who can pick and choose
which medical school they want to go to.
Where does the power to stop and hold on come from then?
Independent Foundation…
How did you come up with that?
You thought of buying the entire foundation.
You're really broad-minded.
So what?
The professors won't budge...
Professors will change someday.
The next people can do it.
The next person.
That's you.
I won't be there.
But hey.
You just be a professor, okay?
Who's going to let me be a professor anyway?
By the way, why can't I go higher up?
It's not that you can't. She just doesn't want you to.
In case you become like the late Director Lee.
What does becoming like him mean?
Striving all by yourself
to protect the hospital from people like CEO Gu.
I can't protect anything.
But hey, how can I sit still and do nothing when people are dying
every year while working for him?
I think that's how Director Lee felt too.
So he tried so hard all by himself and...
I heard he fired people beforehand so he could prevent it.
He fired the people on the list all together
so the situation wouldn't escalate to them committing suicide or getting into accidents.
So at least his employees wouldn't die.
You mean CEO Gu did that?
Did he say so with his own mouth?
Through another person's mouth.
No matter how good the late Director Lee was, he wasn't our father.
Are you drunk?
CEO Gu also isn't a man with a black heart.
You have a bad drinking habit.
When we were young, we also worried about that.
We worried that a man with a black heart would take our dad's place and that
when we opened our eyes in the morning, our mom would be gone.
I remember it all.
You couldn't enjoy your teenage years
because you wanted to protect Mom and me.
When you were older,
you couldn't enjoy life because you were busy earning money and studying.
Ye Jin-woo, you lived so hard.
Now, relax and take it easy.
How dare you just casually call me by my name?
Move.
Yes, ma'am.
We don't have that many days left to spend like this together.
Are you crying?
Jeez!
Why you little jerk...!
Hey, stop fighting with this, making the dust fly everywhere.
Use your fists.
Oomph!
What are you doing?
Wow!
It looks like that.
The cloth on which the face of Jesus was imprinted.
Hey, it's like a famous painting.
It's extraordinary.
Hmm...
Right? You think so too, huh?
It blesses my heart.
Seriously Jeez! Grow up! Seriously!
How is it that there is nothing I want to do?
- Come before the meeting starts. - Yes, sir.
What is that?
It's an email that former CEO Gu Seung-hyo sent just now.
Shall I put it on your desk?
Gu Seung-hyo?
Tell CEO Jin at Apparel to call me.
Yes, sir.
CEO Gu wanted us to put biochips in all the underwear we make,
and we were also working on an app that would analyze a person's heartbeat,
pulse, and sweat composition and send it to Sangkook University Hospital.
CEO Gu said that we need to compete with wearable devices that are much more
sophisticated than devices that just link with cell phones.
Okay.
Where is the meeting taking place?
We've been overwhelmed with applications for sabbaticals,
so we're going to have to go through them in the order in which we received them.
I'd like to ask you to double-check your applications and apply again.
He's really here!
You can't fire me.
Even if you do, the chairman will reappoint me here again.
Whatever.
I'll fire you again.
Hey.
Hey?
ID.
No matter how much I think about it, that's the only bankbook that links me
to the late director.
It was passed around in the hospital's mountaineering club more than 20 years ago.
We were the youngest members,
so the late director must have been the treasurer at first.
So the late director opened a bankbook in his name to collect club fees and
give cash gifts for birthdays, weddings, and funerals of the club members at that time.
Then even when the treasurer changed, I think we still used the same bankbook.
So the treasurer was handed the bankbook and managed it, right?
And Professor Kim Tae-sang was also once a treasurer?
Yes, he was.
I think he was the treasurer after the late director.
But the mountaineering club broke up soon.
You know what?
Hmph.
Even if Professor Kim did use that old bankbook to play a hoax,
I don't think he would've known that the late director would end up like that.
If not, then it would be going too far.
He might not have known that,
but he would have known that even if he did get caught, he wouldn't be penalized.
- He can't be penalized? - No.
In reality, I heard it's not a crime.
He didn't steal the money,
and even if it was Kim Tae-sang who received the money through that bank account,
there's no way to prove that.
Then what about the late director?
Is this it for him?
We can't reveal anything for him to clear his name?
It's a real shame.
Excuse me.
Yes?
Oh, yes.
You're the last person to have that bankbook.
You're the only one.
The only person who would get money through that bankbook in my name.
What the heck are you playing at, you jerk?
How dare you try to ruin my life?
What are you trying to pull by framing me?
You want to be the director?
You just go ahead and try to put the blame on me.
If you do, then you are so dead!
Okay.
What about the director?
She's going down right now?
Okay, I'll be down too.
Okay.
Wow, he really is coming.
The new CEO?
He's coming now?
Yes. Want to come...
Darn it, I'm so busy!
The late director would probably say that's enough.
You did the best you could.
I needed an answer.
What the late director knew only himself...
When he asked how I knew...
I wanted to know that it wasn't about money, but a misunderstanding.
It would've been okay if I became the jerk that misunderstood.
I just wanted to hear that I had it wrong.
He asked you how you knew?
I wonder why.
Hmm...
Is that when CEO Gu was making a fuss, trying to send us and the OB-GYN packing?
Was that what he meant?
Knowing the late director, he would've tried to take care of things all by himself,
even if he had to face CEO Gu head-on.
Even if it were me,
I would've also been flustered if I was running around trying to
solve the problem by myself, and you or Lee So-jeong kept coming to me,
accusing me and demanding to know why I hid it by myself.
This is why it's unfair to the dead.
You have to live no matter what,
even if you become senile and smear your poop on the wall.
We have to save lives no matter what.
Right.
No matter how much those people up there flip out and give us crap,
all we need to do is save lives.
Get some rest with a light heart on your trip.
Don't take it with you.
You can save more lives after you return.
I'll be back, Director Lee.
I'll save more lives after I return.
Dr. Ye, are you getting off work now?
Yes.
- See you next week! - See you when I get back!
See you again.
It's so bright.
- Jin-woo. - Hmm?
Sometimes joints get better if you leave them alone.
I can't even sit down because of the pain.
Then we should do surgery since you're in pain.
Come in on Monday at 9:30 in the morning.
Thank you.
It's not easy.
What's wrong?
My back suddenly hurts.
Hold on.
Does it hurt?
Should I get an operation?
What are you talking about? You know better.
- How about here? - There...
- When did this start? - Suddenly.
You need to get it X-rayed.
I can't borrow this hand as well.
It's a really good hand.
Oh, come on.
A good hand.
Take care of it well, Professor Kim Tae-sang.
We have to run for a long time.
Okay. Let's run for a long time.
Let's go.
- Sir, please go in. - Okay.
Next, for the CEO of Sangkook University,
Dr. Cho Nam-jeong of Boston University was appointed.
For the Overseas Plant Engineering CEO,
Gu Seung-hyo, former CEO of Sangkook University Hospital, was appointed.
For the Hwajeong Life Science Vice CEO, Park Jong-sang, the Executive Director of Hwajeong
- Life Science, was appointed. - Overseas Plant...
As mentioned, Hwajeong Group announced a total of four new appointments.
Hwajeong Group that resolutely replaced the CEOs of
major affiliates in the second half of the year…
Seon-woo!
Ye Jin-woo!
My mom brought a bunch of side dishes last week, so now the fridge is about to burst.
I guess your mom isn't angry anymore.
Does she now accept your decision in coming here alone?
“Sweetie, being angry is one thing, and side dishes are another.”
“I want you to know I'm still hurt.” That's what she said to me.
Your mother is so different from you.
She still seems like a young girl.
If being different from me is being like a young girl, then what does that make me?
Jeez...
I thought you were robbing the convenience store.
- What took you so long? - Oh.
I was just looking around.
This place is nice.
Aren't you going to ask if the work isn't hard?
Didn't he ask you?
Dr. Ye, I bet you're going to live a very long life.
You never change, do you?
Have you finished chatting?
We made reservations for a boat.
Oh.
Drop by again when you leave.
Okay.
Gain some weight on those bones. At this rate, you'll disappear.
We'll play only for a little while and come back quickly.
Play a lot.
Have a great time!
Zipping up, okay?
Okay.
Let me see your neck.
Want me to give you your flippers?
What's up with you? Acting like an amateur.
Here.
- I'm ready. - You okay?
- I'm okay. - Let's do this.
Slowly.
- You okay? - Yes.
Hold onto the buoy.
Grab in front of you.
Is the water cool?
We'll go a bit forward.
You can go under when you're ready.
I'm going under.
Sir! Okay.
Awesome, right?
It's freaking awesome.
Did you accidentally swallow some water?
Yeah. But it's great!
Let's take a picture.
Take off your masks.
Okay.
Ms. Lee No-eul?
How have you been?
You haven't left yet?
To where?
I'm curious about something.
How can you say that the moment you see me?
Okay, then. What is it?