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Hospital Playlist is a South Korean medical drama television series written by Lee Woo-jung and directed by Shin Won-ho as the second installment of their Wise Life series. Starring Jo Jung-suk, Yoo Yeon-seok, Jung Kyung-ho, Kim Dae-myung, and Jeon Mi-do, the series focuses on the lives of five lifelong friends and doctors working at the same hospital. Shin and Lee developed Hospital Playlist over the course of four years.

The first season aired on tvN from March 12 to May 28, 2020. Shin decided to air one episode a week for twelve weeks instead of following the standard broadcast programming employed for other South Korean television productions. Episodes became available for streaming on Netflix in the Asia-Pacific region, Latin America, and English-speaking countries immediately after their television broadcast. By the end of the first season, the series became the ninth highest-rated Korean drama in cable television history at the time. The second season premiered on tvN on June 17, 2021, and followed the same format and ended on. The season's first episode recorded a rating of 10.007%, becoming the highest-rated premiere in the network's history.

Hospital Playlist garnered positive reviews from critics, often praising its, performances among others. The series raised awareness about the importance of organ donation; the number of registered donors increased significantly during the series. Music related to the series was also successful.

Premise
In the 1990s, five aspiring doctors, Lee Ik-jun, Ahn Jeong-won, Kim Jun-wan, Yang Seok-hyeong and Chae Song-hwa, attended medical school at Seoul National University, where they became friends and formed a band throughout freshman year. After they separated to further their careers, the group reunites at Yulje Medical Centre, a hospital founded by Jeong-won's father. The series follows their daily lives at the hospital as they deal with patients, colleagues, and their own families.

Cast and characters

 * Jo Jung-suk as Lee Ik-jun, an assistant professor of general surgery specializing in liver transplants and a single father to his only son U-ju after getting divorced from his absent wife. His cheerful charisma allows him to connect with both patients and doctors, making him a popular figure in the hospital.
 * Yoo Yeon-seok as Ahn Jeong-won/Andrea, an assistant professor of pediatric surgery and the youngest son of Yulje's founder. A devout Catholic, Jeong-won has a caring and sensible personality. However, seeing his patients suffer causes him distress, so he is secretly planning to become a priest against the wishes of his mother.
 * Jung Kyung-ho as Kim Jun-wan, an associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery and later chief of the cardiothoracic surgery department at Yulje. Jun-wan is admired and feared by his subordinates for his exceptional surgical skills and cold demeanor.
 * Kim Dae-myung as Yang Seok-hyeong, an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology. Seok-hyeong is perceived as aloof and sometimes detached due to his introverted personality, but he is in reality attentive and understanding toward his patients. He is divorced and has a complicated family history, but deeply cares about his mother.
 * Jeon Mi-do as Chae Song-hwa, an associate professor of neurosurgery. The only woman in the group of friends, Song-hwa is regarded as the perfect doctor by her colleagues and patients due to to her brilliant career, accommodating disposition and bright personality. She is the lead vocalist and bassist of the band and enjoys camping.

Development
Screenwriter Lee Woo-jung and directors Lee Myung-han and Shin Won-ho first met while working at KBS, where they formed a collaborative television production team along with director Na Yeong-seok. All of them soon rose to popularity for individually and collaboratively producing many successful variety shows. After moving to CJ ENM in 2011, Lee, Shin, and Lee developed their first anthology television series, Reply, which aired from 2012 to 2016. The series became popular launched the careers of several young actors, including Yoo Yeon-seok. Following Reply conclusion, the team started developing both Hospital Playlist and Prison Playbook. They continued researching for Hospital Playlist while filming Prison Playbook.

The team consulted several advisory doctors for each department represented in the series. Shin said that surgery scenes were the most difficult, since they wanted to accurately represent every gesture. In January 2019, it was reported that Shin Won-ho would direct a medical television series and that the production team was in the early stages of casting actors. Shin focused on the In order to comply to the 52-hour week system and to avoid overnight filming with regard to the cast and crew's health, the production team decided to air one episode a week for a total of twelve weeks instead of broadcasting two episodes a week for eight weeks as it is usually the case for South Korean television series.

Casting
Jo Jung-seok was the first actor to be cast, followed by Kim Dae-myung and Yoo Yeon-seok. Jeon Mi-do auditioned for the role of Chae Song-hwa, but Shin was worried about casting a rookie actress in a main role. in the role of Lee Ik-jun. Unaware that Jeon had already auditioned, Jo recommeded Jeon to Shin Actors Jung Kyung-ho and Yoo Yeon-seok also previously worked with the duo.

Filming
Principal photography for the first season started in early October 2019. Some scenes taking place in Gangwoon University Hospital and Yulje Medical Center were respectively filmed in Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital (in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi) and Ewha Womans University Medical Center (in Gangseo District, Seoul), though the latter scenes of the season were filmed on set due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming for the first season was completed in late April 2020.

Originally scheduled to begin in early December 2020, filming for the second season was postponed to late January 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming ended on September 6, 2021.

Future
Shin initially developed Hospital Playlist with three seasons in mind, which should've been released across three years, but at the end of season two he expressed uncertainty toward the future of the series, citing exhaustion and other problems as reasons. Both the cast members and the production team stated they would be willing to work on a future season. Jeon Mi-do said that she often talks about an eventual third season with her four other co-stars and they take "turns to nag the director" about it.

Broadcast
For Japan and rest of the world, all episodes (season 1) were launched at once on April 6, 2020

Home media

 * Director's cut

Critical response
Hospital Playlist received positive critical feedback. Comparing the series to Grey's Anatomy and Friends, Ariana Yaptangco of Elle featured it on the list of "The 10 Best K-Dramas To Binge-Watch On Netflix".

During an interview with The Korea Herald, film critic Yun Suk-jin praised Hospital Playlist for emphasizing the human aspect of the profession rather than the life-and-death situations, noting that the series "did away with the cliched power conflict, and focused on the doctors' sincerity in their work and their relationship with the patients." Pierce Conran of South China Morning Post named Hospital Playlist one of the best South Korean series of 2020, mentioning that "emotional tales of illness and grief play out against the gentle camaraderie of a group that finds solace from the hardships of their job in each other, and their delightfully lousy five-piece garage band." Jessicha Valentina of The Jakarta Post named Jeon Mi-do's character Chae Song-hwa "one of the series' highlights," praising Hospital Playlist for its portrayal of strong female characters.

Joel Keller of Decider gave a mixed review, saying that the series "is a bit of a strange amalgamation of different genres, but the cast makes it work. Just be ready for a slightly confusing first episode."

Impact
Hospital Playlist contributed to raising awareness about the importance of organ donation. The number of hopeful registrants for organ donation, which decreased significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic (pandemic) in 2020, increased significantly last year due to the effect of the 2021 drama, which warmly depicts various donation cases with various stories. According to the National Long-Term Tissue Haematological Management Centre on September 14, 2022, the number of registered applicants who wanted to donate organs, human tissues, and haematopoietic stem cells, which was 147,761 in 2019, decreased by 17,417 (11.8%) to a large number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Korea in 2020, but increase 35.7% to 178,871 in 2022.

Viewership
Hospital Playlist aired on tvN, which normally has a relatively smaller audience compared to free-to-air TV/public broadcasters (KBS, SBS, MBC and EBS). Its first season ended within the top 10 of the highest-rated Korean dramas in cable television history.
 * Season 1

A 10.0% viewership rating was recorded nationwide for the first episode of the second season, making it the highest premiere rating of the network. The last episode, aired on September 16, recorded an average national viewership of 14.080%, which is the highest ratings of the season. Due to tvN broadcast of the Asian qualifier for the 2022 Qatar World Cup between Korea and Iraq on September 2, the episode 11 will be aired on September 9.
 * Season 2

Hospital Playlist Goes Camping
After the end of the first season, Shin created the reality web series Hospital Playlist Goes Camping. The series follows the main cast going on a two-day camping trip on the set of Hospital Playlist in Pocheon. Shin collaborated with Na Young-seok on some episodes served for The Game Caterers. Filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, Hospital Playlist Goes Camping. Seven episodes split in several parts were released on YouTube from March 4 to April 1, 2021, to commemorate the forthcoming release of the second season of Hospital Playlist. Two episodes

Someday, Wise Resident's Life
On September 20, 2023, it was announced that Shin and Lee would create a spin-off television series titled Someday, Wise Resident's Life, set to be broadcast on tvN in the first half of 2024. Starring Go Youn-jung as a first-year obstetrics and gynecology resident, the series will be directed by Lee Min-soo and written by Kim Song-hee, who had worked as an assistant writer on both Reply 1988 and Hospital Playlist. The cast also includes South Korean actress Cynthia.