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Sadly, this will likely happen since they wrote in a reason for her to return to SK early. Couples do get back together after after a breakup in the real world, too, but we see that so often in K-dramas. Hospital Playlist has so many other (potentially) successful couples, that I'd like to see them give us a bittersweet true-to-life ending for one of them.

Hahaha. Maybe it isn't. I've just seen a lot of posts being sad that they broke up, so I guess I just assumed those people would want them to get back together.

They initially planned for this show to be three seasons long, so I'm hoping they are able to do a third season and a new romance plot for Jun Wan happens, but...I agree that it seems more plausible that the two will get back together. If the break-up was going to be final, they would not have written in a way for her to return to South Korea.

Unpopular opinion, but I don't want Jun-wan and Ik-sun to get back together. I liked them as a couple when they were together in South Korea, but now that they have broken up, I would prefer that the story follows through to maintain a sense of realism. Breakups happen, and while there were a few breakups/divorces on the show, there weren't any that we were emotionally invested in. I think it would be refreshing if the show actually gave us a couple we liked and then took away, so to speak, just like in real life. I would then like to see Jun-wan learn from the mistakes he made in his relationship with Ik-sun ( failure to communicate his needs for fear he'd make his SO unhappy) and then apply what he learned to have a successful relationship with someone new.

Yeah, Song-hwa is back at Yulje. She was only supposed to be gone a year, and she left sometime shortly before Christmas in 2019. Given Ik-jun was talking about a new academic semester starting, it's likely late February or early March 2021 because that's typically when the South Korean spring semester starts.

Not much to spoil because this episode wasn't focused on him. Professionally, he had a conversation with the mother from the previous episodes. Romantically, he doesn't know about Ik-sun's condition or that she is back in Korea. She saw Jun-wan from a distance when she went to a doctor's appointment at Yulje with her brother, but he didn't see her. She started cry when she saw him, so she clearly still cares about him.

Partly because she needed some tough love, and partly out of anger because he was upset at seeing his best friend get treated that way by his own sister.

Given that Ik-jun gave her a light reprimand at the beginning of this week's episode for not being able to sympathize with a patient and pick up on nonverbal cues, it seems like a likely scenario that they could be building up to. But I also like what the person above said about maybe her being a part of Ik-jun's sister's surgical team and can't tell Jong-won because he's Jun-wan's roommate.

Right there with you! I get everyone has their own ship that they prefer over the others, but it makes sense that they would get some screen time, just like Jun-wan and Ik-sun, now that they are a couple.

My guess would be that she screws up somehow--like with the whole "Are you addicted to drugs?" situation in season one--and she hides it from him because she doesn't want to look bad in his eyes, especially since his interpersonal skills are so far superior to hers. Jong-won is probably asking Ik-jun to let him know if it looks like she's struggling to relate to people so he can help and advise her like he did in episode one of this season.

Yes, Suk Min changed jobs. I don't think they have specified what career he is pursing now, but they have mentioned that he is studying for exams, so my guess would be that he is studying to pass the Korean civil service exam, which doesn't exactly narrow down his future career since "civil servant" covers a wide range of jobs.

I think Ik-Jun has known about them dating. That earlier phone call was too pointed for him to not have known, so I think the look at the end was more him looking at Jun-wan, his best friend, and wondering how/if he was going to keep this a secret from him. In that moment he may have also realized that they broke up.

I'm still pretty sure he has known about them dating for a long time. His phone call with his sister earlier was too pointed and targeted. I think the look at the end was more him staring at his friend, wondering if/how he was going to keep the secret from his friend.

Well, I called it: https://kisskh.at/57173-hospital-playlist-2#comment-6622393

Pretty sure Ik-sun is lying about having fallen for her friend as a way to give Jun-wan a clean break so he wouldn't try to convince her to remain in a relationship. It's unclear is she knew about her diagnosis at that point, but I think she would have lied about having someone else either way.

My prediction is that Ik-sun is going to break up with Jun-wan.

In season one, Ik-sun make Jun-wan promise that he would break up with her if he ever got bored or tired of being with her. She was also hesitant to date him long distance because she knew it would put his desires to get married and start a family on hold for at least three years.

So they are likely going to have a fight because he is upset that she didn't tell him she was in an accident, and his anger will be fueled by his sense of helplessness at being on the other side of the world when it happened. Ik-sun will then be the one to break up with him because she sees that long distance is taking its toll on him, and despite Jun-wan's past history of dating around a lot, he is too emotionally invested in this relationship to be the one to pull the plug. He will not want the break-up, but in the end, it will be what's better for him.

Even though I do love these characters and I like seeing them in a relationship together, I hope that this is the path the drama takes because it is realistic that two busy people in their 40s would have a hard time maintaining a long-stance relationship, especially when at least one of them craves having a partner he can be emotionally and physically intimate with.

I can believe it, but only because he said it was something he heard from his aunt, which means she likely had to comfort him at some point because he was upset about his dad not being around all the time because of his job. It's not that he's truly fine with his dad being gone all the time. Instead, another adult has explained it to him in a way that allows him understand that his dad's absence does not mean he isn't loved.

I don't think there will be a misunderstanding (not with this writer and director), but I think the last two episodes have shown that the long distance is definitely taking it's toll on Jun Wan. I think the fact that she intentionally didn't tell him about the accident, coupled with the helplessness he felt that he could not be there for her, will cause an argument, and I wouldn't be surprised if she decides to end the relationship because she knows he isn't happy.

I definitely think there is hope for Ik-jun and Song-hwa.

Same patient. The fussy mom became more humbled after she realized that she judged Song-hwa (and her residents) before knowing anything about them and their qualifications.

The only scene that I recall them being in together was when Gyeo-ul chased down the abusive father. Song-hwa hit the father with and empty water bottle, which finally stopped him.

However, we can infer that they met/already knew each other in episode one. When Ik-jun performed the surgery in the Darth Vader helmet, he was not a doctor at Yulje Medical Center yet, but Song-hwa got special permission from the director and the patient's next-of-kin for him to perform the surgery. Gyeo-ul , who was the assisting resident, relayed all this information to Ik-jun, and it sounds like she heard it first-hand from Song-hwa. Not mention, Gyeo-ul is a third year resident (the only in GS), so it would make sense that Song-hwa knew her prior to then, even by only Gyeo-ul's reputation.

It's a actually a fairly common for people to keep potential good news to themselves until it comes to fruition (e.g. expectant mothers waiting until after the first trimester, when it's most common to have miscarriages, to share that they're having a baby) because it's easier, psychologically, for them to handle their individual disappointment without also navigating the disappointment and questions from the people around them.

The last thing Jun-wan wants is to happily share with his friends that he's dating Ik-sun, only to have to tell them a month later that they broke up due to the distance. And given that one of his best friends is his girlfriend's brother, it makes things a lot messier and complex if they were to break-up.

It's entirely possible that they could keep the whole relationship hidden from everyone if they did eventually break up. I, personally, don't think it will come to that, though. I think Jun-wan will tell everyone (maybe in the same conversation when Jung-won shares he's dating Geyol-wool) that they're dating. He just hesitated for a bit after he found out she was studying abroad for three years, but he's feeling more confident again, even if there is some nagging insecurities.

I think it was pretty clear that he was planning on telling Ik-jun that he was dating his sister, but then he found out in that same conversation that Ik-sun was studying abroad, which made him feel insecure in the relationship because, not only was he not the first to find out, it meant they would have to either break up or date long distance.

Ik-sun has been dictating the pace of their relationship, leaving Jun-wan compromising a lot of what he wants in order to be with her. While she has made concessions, too, along the way (e.g. the couple rings), I think the main reason that Jun-wan hasn't told Ik-jun yet is because he's still insecure and isn't confident that they will make it as a couple. In the first episode of season two, he turns the returned ring box upside down on his desk. Even though he knows it was returned by mistake, there is a nagging part of him that sees it as a bad omen.

So I think Jun-wan is still hesitating to tell his friends because there's a large part of him that is worried that they may break up.