Kim Ji-won takes on her first medical role in SBS’s new Friday-Saturday drama “Doctor X: Age of the White Mafia,” premiering October 9 at 9:50 p.m. The first stills released ahead of the premiere show her character picking a fight with the hospital director on her very first day of work.
She plays Gye Su-jeong, a mercenary surgeon nicknamed “the crazy Gye of the operating room,” a genius whose only obsession is the scalpel. Armed with near-divine surgical skill, she acts as a “medical dark hero” who upends the corruption at Guseo University Hospital. Produced by Studio S, Studio Dragon, and Hijieum Studio, the series is billed as a “cider medical noir.”
The stills capture her defiant posture among a conference room packed with doctors, her sudden climb onto the podium before hundreds of colleagues, and her eyes fixed only on a patient’s chart. Then she starts picking apart the hospital director’s briefing point by point, her calm rebuttals set against his erupting fury — a contrast the report describes as both tense and cathartic.
According to the Herald Muse report carried by Naver’s entertainment wire, the drama poses one central question: can the mercenary doctor who “grabbed the hospital director by the collar on her first day” survive her new workplace?
“Doctor X: Age of the White Mafia” airs its first episode tonight at 9:50 p.m. on SBS. No further official comment beyond the released materials was available.
