It's been two and a half years since I entered Korean Medical School. Kyunghee Univeristy had a special entrance program-"internationalization-expedition program", which enabled me to study Korean Medicine.

After I got the admission right before Thanksgiving break, MBC started airing "Huh-joon". Best known for his outstanding masterpiece, "Dong-ui-bo-gam" Huh-jooh was a mid-Chosun doctor. The book came out after 16 years of his endless efforts and had been requested by Japan and China. It is still being translated into other foreign languages.

Since I had about five more months before college starts, I had the chance to watch most of the show. It was indeed a medical drama but, unlike any other medical dramas I've seen so far, it had something special. Of course the doctors nowadays don't dress or do their hair like the characters on the show, since the background is Chosun Dynasty.

But, still, there was a number of dramatic factors that made me, maybe as a medical student-to-be to feel something more special. All the tough efforts and hardships Huh-joon went through, and the heart-touching sincerity he always kept with himself when caring for each one of his patients was enough to make me feel what a doctor should be like.

The drama ended and after a while I became a grade one student studying Korean Medicine. The drama was a real social sensation. "Dong-ui-bo-gam" was popular before it was dramatized but it magnified the popularity and with many new books on it came out, more people went to visit Korean Medical clinics than before.

About two years from then, KBS is airing "Taiyang person Lee Je-ma". It is based on the story of a Chosun doctor, Lee Je-ma, who constituted the unique Sasang Medicine. The drama started during this summer vacation but I actually didn't get the chance to watch it carefully as I did two years ago with "Huh-joon".

As a student majoring in Korean Medicine, if I walk around the campus with my text books in my arms, people ask me: "You major in Korean Medicine? Then can I ask what type of person I am? I think I'm Soyang person, is that right?" Well, unfortunately my answer so far was: "Yeah, I don major in it, but I haven't actually learned it yet." People are even more curious and sensitivie about their own health these days, and like kids trying to know what blood type they belong to, I think it goes the same with Sasang Constituion.

The drama is becoming another national sensation on health. Sasang Medicine is gaining all the more spotlights-in hospitals, local clinics, book stores, etc. I hope the drama fully shows the special properties there are about Sasang Medicine, which characterizes Korean Medicine.

If the drama "Huh-joon" succeeded in informing the audience with how Korean Medicine was formed and the little bits of medical treatments and cures through the show, I'm sure "Taiyang person Lee Je-ma" will soon let us know that medical treatments and prescriptions are different according to what type of Constitutional persons we are: Korean Jinseng is so beneficial to some person but at the same time, just enough to kill another person of different Constitution.

As Dr.Lee Je-ma left his last words-"Although it's time for me to leave now, the world will embrace Sasang Medicine" a hundred years ago, maybe we are already embracing it.