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In Doctor Slump, a new romantic dramedy that will stream through March on Netflix, two people who were once top of their class high school hot shots meet again as adult professionals. Back then, everyone believed Ha-Neul (Park Shin-hye) and Jeong-woo (Park Hyung-sik) would be the best. And though they’ve proven their mettle as adults, a series of unexpected setbacks derail Ha-Neul’s and Jeong-woo’s respective career paths. Even more unexpected? That these unlikely circumstances would lead to their meeting again, and maybe becoming the person each of them needed at exactly the right time.

All it took for my everyday life to fall apart was three minutes,” Dr. Nam Ha-neul (Park Shin-hye) tells us in a voiceover as she collapses in the middle of a busy street. Meanwhile, cosmetic surgeon Yeo Jeong-woo (Park Hyung-sik) has problems of his own.

We’re introduced to Ha-neul and Jeong-woo in the present, when the professional lives to which they’ve dedicated every resource are suddenly plunged into uncertainty. But Doctor Slump quickly flashes back, too, to 2009 and the journeys of two brilliant students whose lives and ambitions find their way to an intersection. In Busan, Ha-neul is recognized as the top student in the country, to the pride of her mother (Jang Hye-jin) and good-natured uncle (Hyun Bong-sik). Ha-naul has built efficiencies into her daily schedule – running or hula-hooping while studying, meticulously sorting the clothes in her closet, and consuming coffee beans dry so she won’t waste time peeing. And in Seoul, Jeong-woo’s academy recognizes him as their top student. Which is why it’s a jolt when Ha-neul suddenly arrives as a transfer, bringing her superhuman study habits with her.

Back then, the two brainiacs were instant rivals – “Thus, the war began,” Jeong-woo says in his voiceover – but in the present, their hard work has paid off in different ways. Jeong-woo has become a successful, media-savvy cosmetic surgeon with millions of followers on social media, a chain of clinics, and a jealous fellow surgeon in former university classmate Dr. Bin Dae-yeong (Yoon Park). But Ha-neul, though she’s recognized by her peers as a brilliant anaesthesiologist and is always willing to lead surgeries and studies, no matter how exhausted she becomes, is still scolded mercilessly by her department chief.

Then the death of a patient in Jeong-woo’s care and irregularities in her treatment that he can’t explain sends his personal and professional life into a tailspin. Malpractice. Courtroom dramas. Massive debt. And Ha-naeul’s collapse in the street was due to an inflamed gallbladder, an incident which only compounds the diagnosis that she is clinically depressed. Two people facing the biggest crises of their lives, whose historic rivalry is suddenly relevant again, because Jeong-woo unexpectedly becomes Ha-neul’s new neighbor.