‘Doctor X’ Kim Ji-won Reaches Out to 46 Years of Suffering… Rides a Wave of Success with a Peak Rating of 21.3% [Comprehensive]

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Kim Ji-won in ‘Doctor X: The Age of the White Mafia’ volunteered to perform a high-risk surgery that everyone else shied away from, reaching out to the pain of a patient who has lived with the trauma of tragedy for a full 46 years, delivering a deeply moving emotional impact.

Episode 6 of SBS’s Friday-Saturday drama ‘Doctor X,’ which aired on the 24th, began by recalling the first meeting between Kye Su-jung (played by Kim Ji-won) and Baraka (played by Jeon Ji-on), a boy who has since passed away, heightening viewer immersion.

‘Doctor X’ Episode 6 recorded a peak viewership rating of 21.3%, once again setting a new record for its highest-ever rating. It also ranked first overall among programs in the same time slot, Saturday mini-series, and weekly mini-series, with ratings of 19.5% nationwide and 19.2% in the metropolitan area. The 2049 demographic rating also reached a peak of 7.67% and an average of 6.9%.

Kye Su-jung, who was conducting medical volunteer work in the civil war-torn country of Lagota, faced a threat to her life from a soldier but saved her own life thanks to Baraka’s help. Baraka asked Kye Su-jung, “Are you really Doctor X, known as God’s hand?” and pleaded for help, saying his younger sister Nima (played by Jeon Ai-sha) had been shot. The scene depicted Kye Su-jung and Baraka rushing together into the battlefield amid a hail of bullets to save Nima, leaving viewers with a heavy heart.

The timeline then returned to Guseoda Hospital, where Kye Su-jung is based. The patient Kye Su-jung was set to treat this time was Oh Sang-beom (played by Ha Seong-gwang), who had been living with the trauma of an injury for a long period of 46 years. Oh Sang-beom was a victim who sustained a penetrating head wound more than 40 years ago; medical technology at the time could not remove the bullet fragments lodged in his brain, so he had lived with them in place, but he continued to suffer from convulsions, seizures, headaches, hallucinations, and auditory illusions. While doctors at Guseoda Hospital expressed reluctance, citing that the success rate of the surgery was extremely low and it would attract significant public attention, Kye Su-jung was the only one who stepped forward.

However, in addition to the symptoms, the patient’s tightly closed heart presented a major challenge. With all records lost, Oh Sang-beom refused even examinations, let alone surgery. Kye Su-jung, Jang Hee-sook (played by Lee Jeong-eun), Park Tae-kyung (played by Kim Woo-seok), and Jo Won-jin (played by Lee Jin-hee)—collectively known as “Team Kye Su-jung”—went directly to Oh Sang-beom to persuade him, showing great sincerity.

Oh Sang-beom’s story was heartbreaking. At the time of the incident, Oh Sang-beom had been a young boy who simply adored his older brother. For more than 40 years, he had deeply missed his brother, whose body was never found. He ended with the words, “It is all my fault. Since dying seems like relief, I want to pay for it by living in this much pain,” and has kept silent for a long time since then. Surrounding acquaintances, who felt sorry for Oh Sang-beom’s life dependent on painkillers, sincerely hoped he would regain hope in life. Su-jung turned Oh Sang-beom’s heart around with the words, “If you do nothing, there is no possibility of anything.”

For a brief moment, however, the surgery hit another obstacle. Looking at Oh Sang-beom’s brain CT scan, Kye Su-jung expressed doubt, asking, “What on earth happened that day?” implying that this surgery was by no means a simple case. Additionally, while closely observing Oh Sang-beom’s behavior, Kye Su-jung realized that he was seeing the ghost of his deceased brother and explained that if the surgery were performed, he would no longer be able to see his brother’s apparition, noting that “it seems important to you.” Upon confirming that the phantom of his brother who had been with him was merely a symptom, Oh Sang-beom declared he did not want the surgery. Seeing Oh Sang-beom miss his brother, Kye Su-jung recalled Baraka and understood his feelings, deciding to wait until Oh Sang-beom could steady his mind.

However, that night, Oh Sang-beom disappeared from his hospital room, causing an uproar at the hospital. Park Tae-kyung and Jo Won-jin, who realized through CCTV that he had gone up to the hospital rooftop, urgently chased after him, but Oh Sang-beom was standing precariously on the edge of the railing, struggling as the trauma of the incident manifested. Simultaneously, the episode ended with Kye Su-jung running toward the hospital with a desperate heart, evoking explosive tension and a lingering emotional weight. Attention is now focused on whether Kye Su-jung will be able to save the life and soul of a patient suffering in an endless tragedy in future developments.

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