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'Model Taxi 2', viewer rating 17.7%, Lee Je-hoon's funeral 'shock'
Accordingly, 'Model Taxi 2' surpassed the highest viewership rating of season 1 and recorded the highest viewership rating of the previous season. With the highest viewer rating of 20.9%, 18.1% in the metropolitan area, and 17.7% nationwide, it ranked first in its time slot and overall among all programs broadcast on Saturdays. In addition, the 2049 viewership rating was 6.8%, ranking first among all channel programs broadcast during the week.
In the 10th episode of 'Model Taxi 2', which aired on the 25th, the 'Rainbow Model Taxi Team' was shown engaging in diverse team play to truly educate a devil-like doctor who only thinks of patients' lives as an excuse to make money.
At the moment when Do-gi (Lee Je-hoon) is in danger of being operated on by a mysterious man called Dr. Gong (Kim Jae-min) rather than Director Ahn (Lee Hang-na), a phone call is received in the operating room saying “the patient has changed” and the surgery is stopped. done. In fact, Do-gi was a patient with no pain whatsoever, and the duo of Joo-im Choi (played by Hyuk-jin Jang) and Joo-im Park (played by Yoo-ram Bae), disguised as paramedics, swapped Do-gi with a patient scheduled for surgery and made it possible for him to enter the operating room. As a result, Do-gi avoided having to undergo surgery and succeeded in finding out the secret space in the operating room and the existence of Dr. Gong.
Director Ahn, who felt uncomfortable with Do-gi's presence, tried to persuade Do-gi, who was a chronic patient, to be sent to another hospital, but there was no way Do-gi would listen to him. Do-gi took responsibility for the hospital's mistake and lay down in the hospital bed, and Director Ahn could not put any more pressure on him as he was responsible for the obvious mistake of switching patients. In the end, Dogi became a famous patient among the hospital staff and was able to freely roam around the hospital.
While following in Mr. Gong's footsteps, Do-gi learned the shocking truth that he was not a real doctor, but rather a sales representative for a medical equipment supplies company called 'Chief Gong'. Moreover, he secretly sneaked into the company's office and checked the surgery schedule written in Manager Gong's calendar. Circumstances of surrogate surgery are suspicious. Go-eun (played by Pyo Ye-jin) found out that Director Ahn had been caught in the past for proxy surgery, but his license was only suspended for six months, and that he shamelessly washed up his past after changing his name and established the current hospital.
Director Ahn was even committing abuse of power, such as forcing Director Gong to follow an unreasonable surgery schedule and accepting alcohol treatment using Director Gong's corporate card. Furthermore, Director Ahn completely abandoned the ethics of medical professionals to the extent that it was not uncommon for him to enter the operating room after drinking. He was literally the devil wearing only a white coat. This time, when Director Ahn and Director Gong attempted to perform the surgery while drunk, the Rainbow Team moved in to stop it. They intercepted Manager Gong, who was about to go to the hospital for surgery.
Do-gi showed Director Gong a video of the surrogate surgery and interrogated him about the case of patient Han Soo-ryun, and Director Gong confessed the whole story out of fear. The patient became critically ill due to a mistake made by Director Gong during the surrogate surgery, but when Director Ahn was unable to resolve the issue, he covered it up as an unfortunate accident due to anesthetic side effects. To Director Gong, who complained that he was only doing as he was told due to Director Ahn's abuse of power, Do-gi said, "You are an accomplice after all," and blocked him from going to the operating room.
Although evidence of surrogate surgery was confirmed, Dogi still felt uncomfortable. It felt like Director Ahn had another, undisclosed intention. At that moment, Do-gi noticed that there was not a single guardian in the surgery waiting room, and Director Ahn tricked elderly people who are eligible for basic medical care and who live alone and can avoid the supervision of their guardians into having surgeries that should not be necessary, and the huge surgical expenses covered by the government. I realized that he had brought .
The medical volunteer work that gave Director Ahn the nickname ‘Schweitzer in the Moonlight’ was actually a hunting site for game. Director Ahn kicked out the manager who punctured the surgery and found a new salesperson. When the patient's condition became critical, he took advantage of the administrative vacuum to work out procedures for handling the death with his confidant, the head of the hospital affairs department (Kim Yong-jin), raising his anger level. It brought it to the extreme.
Dogi began full-scale true education. After putting the head of the administrative department to death, he summoned the team members. Accordingly, the Rainbow Five who infiltrated every corner of the hospital displayed perfect team play. He secretly transported a critically ill patient, forged documents and made Director Ahn donate all his assets, planted evidence of medical law violations throughout the hospital and filed a complaint, and made Director Gong surrender. Director Ahn cleverly exploited a blind spot in the medical law and made sure that he was severely punished by the medical law. However, rather than showing signs of reflection, Director Ahn dreamed of opening a clinic after changing his name again. Dogi, who confirmed Director Ahn's greed, which seemed to be an incurable disease, subdued him by force and administered an anesthetic, saying, "I will take care of that incurable disease and perform an operation." And like the patients whom Director Ahn had betrayed, he laid them down on the cold operating table and made them experience the same fear, completing the true education of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
On his way back after finishing his model taxi service, Do-gi was caught in a terrible trap by Ha-jun On (played by Jae-ha Shin). Not long after Go-eun detected an abnormal signal and communication with Do-gi was lost, the model taxi in which Do-gi was riding exploded. Moreover, the preview video for Episode 11 also showed Rainbow members sobbing at Dogi's funeral, adding to the shock. However, at the end of the preview video, Do-gi appeared with the rainbow members who seemed to have recognized On Ha-jun's identity, raising curiosity about future developments.
'Model Taxi 2' is a private revenge drama in which a mysterious taxi company, Rainbow Transportation, and taxi driver Kim Do-gi complete revenge on behalf of wronged victims. It airs every Friday and Saturday at 10 PM.
Taeyuna, Ten Asia Reporter youyou@tenasia.co.kr
