Doctor Cha Episode 9 Recap and Review: JTBC’s new Korean drama series, also known as 닥터 차정숙, stars Uhm Jung-Hwa, Kim Byung-Chul, Min Wook-hyuk, Myung Se-bin, Song Ji-ho, Jo A-ram, Baek Joo-hee, Park Jun-Keum, Kim Mi-Kyung, Lee Seo-yoon, So A-rin, Park Chul-min, Kimg Byung-Choon, Lim Hyoung-soo and Kim Yea-eun, alongside other cast members.
This Korean Drama series is directed by Kim Dae-Jin and written by Jung Yeo-Rang. Doctor Cha Episode 9 runs for 60 minutes. This series shows the protagonist making a drastic lifestyle change. After pausing her medical resident career to become a homemaker, Cha Jeong-suk decides to start her training all over again when her husband, a chief surgeon and professor at the university hospital, cheats on her. In this episode, we see In-ho try his level best to crawl back to Jeong-suk desperately.
Doctor Cha Episode 9 Recap
In this episode of the series, we see Jeong-suk making her way to her birthday dinner, where her whole family has gathered. From the last episode, we know she found out that In-ho has been cheating on her. Channelling her best Diana in the revenge dress, we see her walk graciously towards her birthday squad. Sitting solemnly at the table, the family tries to get her to open her presents, but she doesn’t seem interested in the moment. When the family pushes her to do it, she relents and opens them.
Later, we see that even though she is thankful for all these presents, they don’t mean much, considering the kind of gifts she has been receiving from In-ho generally involves ignoring and a general lack of interest. Even this time, she realises that everyone probably did this so she wouldn’t find out about the affair. When the family asks for the cake to be cut, In-ho gets up to remove all the extra chocolate to give it to Jeong-suk. She is also asked to get up, and that’s when she dunks his head in the cake.
Meanwhile, Seung-hi is dealing with her own problems imagining if In-ho would even give her the time of day if they were married like this. She was supposed to be there. Now, she is dealing with her own health emergency, but he is not even there and is not even picking up his phone so he can do something about it. Instead, he has volunteered at a medical camp because a bombshell was dropped on him.
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After the birthday dinner, Jeong-suk asks to get out of the car mid-way because she goes back to think about her wedding and realises how much of a hot mess it was. Her friend Mi-hee sings terribly, and her mother-in-law is unhappy about everything. Walking back home, she realises that she cannot live here anymore and tells her family that she will be going to the residential dorms in the hospital, giving the excuse that commute is difficult from so far.
They are all shaken and don’t say no to anything. She goes back to the hospital and signs up to medically volunteer at a camp that supports poor communities. It is a way to get her mind off all of these things that she has been dealing with, especially when it comes to the family. In this process, she expedites her move to the residential dorms. This is the place where she finds the senior resident Doctor Jeon coming out of her room and heading for the cafe, where she finds Jung-min too. He runs away after he sees Doctor Jeon and Jeong-suk walk in together.
We are building up to the fact there may be truths revealed through this episode. Including the fact that Seo In-ho and Cha Jeong-suk are married because of a hilarious event that takes place at the camp. After realising that Jeong-suk is going to this camp, In-ho also signs up for the same. He gets all his things ready and goes to the hospital bus. Everyone piles in and grabs a seat in an attempt to have Jeong-suk sit next to him. She walks right past him and chooses a seat far away from him.
Roy Kim was late at the time and barely made it. He storms past the earlier seats, and even though there are many people moving to make space for him, he settles right beside Doctor Cha. At the camp, everything has been going pretty well since everyone has their specific jobs. In-ho tries his best to get assignments close to Jeong-suk so he can be with her and express his spousal love for her. However, Roy Kim is an addition he isn’t enjoying too much.
Once In-ho realises that he cannot stay close to Jeong-suk all the time, he tries to invade all of the post-work activities. Like running in between Roy Kim and Jeong-suk to get a taste of the broth or making sure she has someone to take care of her when she accidentally burns her hand. Eventually, Roy Kim and In-ho get so competitive that they start the dumbest pissing contest to see who can drink the most Makgeolli while keeping their wits.
Since everyone is doing karaoke, the two of them forget rivalry and perform the drunkest duet anyone has ever seen, and the humour is out of the world. At the same time, Jeong-suk walks in after finishing the work. In-ho turns towards her and yells, ‘Honey!’ in the loudest voice on the microphone alerting everyone. Roy Kim is incredibly taken aback and doesn’t know how to salvage the situation. Amidst all this, Jung-min gives his phone to his girlfriend, Doctor Jeon, and she discovers the video that shows Jeong-suk is his mother. Tension raises to the next level.
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Doctor Cha Episode 9 Review
The beginning of this episode was a little bit slow, and it is a great way to show that the beat of the show only replicates the feeling Jeong-suk is feeling. If she is sad, the pace will be slower, but if she has started feeling better, the pace picks up as we see the latter of the episode go. The humour is back in this episode, with the cheating guy getting the most miserable things ever. The Karmic intuition here has been given the go-ahead.
Meanwhile, some of the reveals that have been happening in the last episode have been really good because they are natural and realistic and come just at the right time when we see the characters get together or build a dynamic that suggests that they may be getting closer. Once again, the cliffhangers in this episode make it just as entertaining to wait for the next episodes.
Doctor Cha Episode 9 is currently streaming on Netflix. Will everyone let go of In-ho yelling, ‘Honey!’ quickly? Let us know in the comments below.
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