8/10 is my rating. This is a 2017 South Korean romantic fantasy comedy drama. It iis a historical medical drama with a time travel element. It has 16, approximately 70 minute episodes.

First I will provide a synopsis then review.

Synopsis
In Josean times,, Heo Im (Kim Nam-gil) is a well respected and sought out doctor of traditional medicine. He makes an error when treating the king and the soldiers hunt him down and shoot him. He falls in the water but instead of dying he wakes up in modern day South Korea. As he wanders around trying to figure out this strange pace, he bumps into Yeon-kyung (Kim Ah-joong), an up an coming superstar in the cardiothoracic field. Destiny has plans for them as two lives become intertwined and they travel back and forth from Josean. Falling in love brings new meaning to a long distance relationship. Can they figure out what strange destiny brought him forward in time and what he is supposed to do?

Review

The romance between the leads was well paced and believable. Kim Nam-Gil did a masterful job of playing the slightly bumbling yet brilliant Josean doctor. The main supporting characters and side characters were well developed with just enough information on then pm to be compelling. Overall it was a good medical drama and another gem in the time travel genre.

Spoilers*. Two things I did not like about it was to me there was a character inconsistency. Where in the end he goes back to Josean, even though he had fulfilled one of his main goals back in that timeframe, and he had said earlier in the series that he preferred modern times. Nothing has significantly changed back in Josean, other than the fact that they were at war with Japan, which would’ve made it an even more unpleasant place to be, I didn’t like that tge way he had to travel was to kill himself and found it disturbing when he had to put a needle through his heart multiple times. I also thought the end where it didn’t seem like he would be able to time travel again but then suddenly dad was not logical. He is in Joseon amped that seemed to be that but then he saved his friends in a completely unexpected accident which sent him back to modern times. Instead of being shocked by the unexpected eventt and getting his bearings and deciding if he was ready and happy to be back, he shows up around her and he’s like hey I’m back I’m staying and let’s get together, To me that was a weird way for him to return to her it wasn’t like he had been trying to find ways back he seemed to have accepted he was staying in Josean and was settled in. She said how can I trust you as you said you weren't leaving before. I completely agreed with her. I would not have trusted him either. Then it sort of abruptly ends with the, bantering about his sudden return. It felt very rushed.

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