# Resident Playbook (2025)

> First-year OBGYN residents at Yulje Medical Center juggle brutal hospital shifts and messy personal lives while chasing the dream of becoming exceptional doctors.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/152564

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 12
- Episode runtime: 82 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: drama
- Created by: Shin Won-ho, Lee Woo-jung
- Network: tvN
- Cast: Go Youn-jung, Shin Sia, Kang You-seok, Han Ye-ji, Jung Jun-won, Lee Bong-ryeon, Lee Do-hye, Hong Na-hyeon
- TMDB rating: 8.0/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31171500/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: mild
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: none
- Tone: warm, bustling, wry, earnest, tense

## What critics say

Audiences broadly rate the series positively for its realistic portrayal of residency life and its warm ensemble of young obstetrics residents.

## Synopsis

Resident Playbook (2025) is a South Korean medical drama created by Shin Won-ho and Lee Woo-jung for tvN, told in a single season of twelve episodes. Shin Sia plays Pyo Nam-kyung and Go Youn-jung plays Oh Yi-young, first-year obstetrics and gynecology residents at Yulje Medical Center, with Kang You-seok and Han Ye-ji rounding out the core group. The engine is simple and relatable: these young doctors want to become exceptional physicians, yet every shift brings overnight deliveries, brutal hierarchies, and exhausting schedules that threaten their private lives, friendships, and romances. Each episode is built from concrete hospital moments, from delivery room emergencies to late night cafeteria talks, as the group learns to lean on one another. The tone is warm, bustling, and sometimes wry, balancing humor with real tension and heart. Its setting is a contemporary South Korean teaching hospital, where ambition and exhaustion share the same corridors. Fans of Grey's Anatomy and Hospital Playlist will find resonance in its ensemble warmth and clinical stakes.

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