Doctor Slump is a TV-Series from South Korea. It is a series about hitting rock bottom and healing. Actually this is right now my favourite TV show. It made me fall in love with it and makes my smile and cry and sometimes at the same time. So why is it so special.

Hit rock bottom

The story is about two young people. Ha Neul and Yeo Jeong Woo both has very different backgrounds but are very similar in certain aspects. Both were the number one student in their schools and when Ha Neul moved and got in the same school they fought about the place at the top.
After graduation both studied medicine. Yeo Jeong Woo became a very popular plastic surgeon. Ha Neul works at the hospital as an anaesthesiologist. Both of them hit rock bottom around the same time. When a patient of Yeo Jeong Woo dies and he finds himself in a trail about he causing her death.
She on the other hand is used by other colleges for her work and when she has a near death experience she finds out that she has depression and leaves the hospital.
Both are in the worst place and than they meet again and find a helping hand in each other.

Yeo Jeong Woo

The characters are actually the best in this series. Yeo Jeong Woo is a sweet guy. He is very popular without the need of doing something. A talented man, who seemed like things came easy to him. But how often it is not like it seemed. He had to work too. He worked hard for his parents. Parents who don’t really care about him. Actually even when he has a lot of people around him he is actually really lonely and the saddest thing is that he doesn’t have any real friends.
He can be childish but is actually really caring. Sometimes he seems like an arrogant prick but he actually always things first about others.

Ha neul

She is a character that I would dislike in a lot of series. She is a really sweet person, who worked her whole life really really hard. Instead of having fun she learns. She seems like a very lonely girl. But she has a mom, an uncle and a brother who are proud and loving her. Also she has a very good friend. She got used by people and she never stands up for herself. The thing with her is she that she can’t stand up for herself or accept help from other but she stands up for others and tries to help them. She is ready to do everything to help and make others feel better. But she is not ready to accept the same. This is why in every other series I would be so annoyed by her and her choices. But not here. I love her so much.

What we see inside

Every episode starts with one character talking about his feelings. One episode it is Ha neul, the other is Yeo Jeong Woo, the other it is her brother. It is always someone most of the time it is Ha neul or Yeo Jeong Woo or both of them. What we got is a voice over with their thoughts. I know some people don’t like voice overs (like Alan form Cinema Therapy). But I think it is actually the reason this series works so well. The actors show us how they feel for each other, you can see their pain or fear or love. But since this is about the feelings that you hide deep in yourself and they don’t want to show them to others. The voices tell us what it is that they are not showing. It explains to us why they feel guilty, why they feel sad. Because of this we don’t see the story from one perspective. We see it from both of them. It is never just one side we see and understand.

Make me smile

Another reason the series works so good are obviously the actors. They have an amazing chemistry. They are so sweet and open to each other. The way they start open up to each other. Becoming each others support. Seeing them having fun together and healing is so good to see. I could watch a whole episode just these two having fun together. They don’t do anything special. They go to the arcades, karaoke or shopping. But they have so much fun with it and love for each other. When I see them being sweet together I just have to smile. It makes me feel so much better.

Find our people

This series never disappointed me. I loved everything. They message that the important thing is to trying and wanting to get better. Life will never be perfect or always happy. There will be good times and bad times. I think we appreciate the good times more because of the bad times. Just find the people who will stand with you no matter what.
Let people that don’t want to stay go. Some relationships can’t be repaired others are worth forgiving. We all do mistakes and I thing the important part is how we deal with them.
I never experienced something so bad like these two. My journey would be the closed to Ba-da. It was hard to find a job. Something to do. I often felt like a failure that nobody is proud of me and sometimes I still feel this way. Because people tend to want the best for us and for many people that means always getting better jobs, making more money. They don’t mean harm. But there is pressure to always get better, pressure that what you are doing now is not enough. It is so important to know that it is enough. We are enough in our own terms and that people might make things worse because they don’t know better, because we don’t tell them or they just don’t know how to help.
This series is all that for me. It tells me that I am enough that no matter what I find for myself i am enough. It is okay to don’t succeed at everything, it is okay when we lose one chance we will get the next one. Everyone has there one thoughts and problems. We all are just trying our best.