Although there are a lot of K-Drame Remakes of American shows And the films, there are also South Korean properties that have since been redone by American studios and networks. An excellent example of this on television is the K-Drama “Good Doctor” 2013, which was redone four years later on ABC under the slightly modified title “The Good Doctor” (with Freddie Highmore as Dr Shaun Murphy). However, although the basic premise between the two emissions is generally similar, they are very different series overall. In addition, the American remake is not the only international adaptation of the original Korean medical drama.

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The K-Drame “Good Doctor” follows Park Si-One (Joo Won), an autistic scientist with remarkable memory and space skills. If we are affected as a pediatric surgeon of a local hospital, where he faces a constant ridiculous of his peers who do not recognize his humanity, only his prodigious medical capacities. Sit six months to prove your colleagues, putting your professional ability in the highly competitive environment wisely. Along the way, if we fall in love with one of his colleagues doctors in the hospital, Cha Yoon-Seo (Moon Chae-Won).

However, although the basic premise is similar to “The Good Doctor”, the main differences from K-Drama help to distinguish it from its longtime American counterpart.

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“The Good Doctor” is surprisingly faithful to his K-Drama source equipment, at least for his opening episode, to the childhood trauma to be motivating him to become a doctor. However, “Good Doctor” works for a standard Korean 20 episodes, while “The Good Doctor” covers 126 episodes through seven seasons. The Korean series also tells a very concise story, working at a clear end, while keeping it in pediatrics and its relatively chaste romance. The American adaptation, on the other hand, takes the time to develop its support distribution, moves its protagonist towards general care and makes it better accepted by its peers more quickly.

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Despite these differences, the two programs are strong to their own merits, even if “the good doctor” becomes to become a series with only similarities which only made similarities with its Korean predecessor. Beyond the United States, “Good Doctor” received remakes in Japan, Turkey and Thailand, while inspiring the addition of a character similar to Si-We in the Hong Kong series “Life After Death”. These international stories were presented during the American remake race, simultaneously giving important parties in the world of their own version of “good doctor”.

“Good Doctor” worldwide has been discreetly revolutionary in its positive representation of people diagnosed with autism (something he shared with the last “Extraordinary Attorney Woo” series. And with its large range through many different versions, this positive messaging has become intercultural as part of its expansive.

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