Kim Hye-jun Joins Kang Ha-neul in MBC Drama 'Mind Doctor'

Actress Kim Hye-jun is heading straight into another on-screen pairing. After a romantic comedy with Kang Hoon that ended in September, she will star opposite Kang Ha-neul as a psychiatry resident in her next drama.

Her agency, Management mmm, announced on Nov. 9 that Kim has been cast in "Mind Doctor" (Maindeu Dakteo), a new Friday-Saturday drama from the broadcaster MBC.

The series follows a genius surgeon who feels no emotions. After his older brother dies, he gives everything up and starts working in psychiatry. There, he slowly connects with patients and begins to change.

Kim plays Go Jeong-hyeon, a second-year psychiatry resident. Go feels deeply for other people and treats her patients with real care. She is so proud of her job, and loves it so much, that she always calls psychiatry "great and brilliant."

Kim will show Go's passion and grit as she works to understand the different wounds each patient carries.

Her relationship with Lee Si-chan, played by Kang Ha-neul, is one of the show's main storylines. Lee suddenly shows up one day as a first-year resident in the psychiatry department, making him Go's junior. The two clash over almost everything. Through those fights, they come to rely on each other, and a romance starts to grow.

Kim most recently appeared in Season 2 of the Disney+ original series "A Shop for Killers." She also starred with Kang Hoon in "My Favorite Employee" (Choeae-ui Sawon), which ended in September. It was her first romantic comedy, and it showed viewers a different side of her from her earlier work.

Kim has worked across genres, from action to romance. "Mind Doctor" marks the first time she will play a doctor. The role asks her to carry two sides at once: a resident who feels her patients' pain, and a woman slowly falling for the colleague who drives her up the wall.

"Mind Doctor" is set to air in the first half of 2027.