On July 26, Osen reported that actor Kim Woo Seok will participate in the upcoming 6th - 7th SBS drama Doctor X: Age of the White Mafia, starring Kim Ji Won as the female lead.
"Doctor X" is introduced as a dark, thrilling medical work, where the main character, Doctor Gye Soo Jung (Kim Ji Won), has to face the unreasonableness and darkness of the medical industry with the skills of technology surgery.
The film is written by Pyeon Seong Geun, directed by Lee Jung Rim and co-produced by Studio Dragon and Studio S.
Kim Woo Seok will play trainee Park Tae Kyung, who has a fateful connection with the character Gye Soo Jung.
This is a work that marks Kim Woo Seok's return after 3 years since the movie "The Forbidden Marriage" (2022). This is also the first time Kim Woo Seok and Kim Ji Won have collaborated.
Meanwhile, Doctor X: Age of the White Mafia is especially noticed because this film is Kim Ji Wons first comeback after the success of the TV series Queen of Tears aired in 2024.
Queen of Tears starring Kim Ji Won and Kim Soo Hyun broke the record of Crash Landing on You (played by Son Ye Jin, Hyun Bin) to become the highest rated drama in tvN history (rating 24.85%), and the 3rd highest in the history of Korean cable TV.
The character Gye Soo Jung in Doctor X: Age of the White Mafia is a genius surgeon with a dark past, who was banished by his own talent. Kim Ji Won will try her hand at a complex character, promising to be a anticipated transformation from the romance genre to the psychological genre - heavy crime.
Doctor X: Age of the White Mafia is expected to start filming in the second half of this year and air in 2026.
