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A cardiothoracic surgeon, Choi Yeon-kyung, from modern day Seoul meets the infamous acupuncturist, Heo Im, from 400 years ago, Joseon, when he travels through time……
Themes
1) oriental and western medicine:
At first, Choi was very against oriental medicine despite the fact that her own grandfather was a practitioner of 50 years. She blamed her grandfather for not able to cure her terminally ill mother with his knowledge…..She was only a child, who had also lost her father previous from a motorcycle accident. But, she lost memories of this till the appearance of Heo Im.
Despite being extremely skilled in acupuncture at a young age, being born of low status commoner, he was looked down and ridiculed his whole life. He was burdened by the fact that he had to postpone a little girl’s treatment as he was summoned by the king. When he finally…
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