The Trauma Code Heroes on Call K-Drama: Cast, Trailer, Plot - Netflix Tudum

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    What to Know About the Cast and Plot of The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call

    The K-drama follows a savvy doctor and his dedicated trauma unit as they save lives and fight the system.

    By Ingrid Ostby
    May 5, 2025

He’s a snappy dresser and rides a motorcycle through war zones on his way to save lives. But he’s no action star — he’s a surgeon. When he returns to his hometown in Seoul after years of combat medicine, this hotshot doctor realizes the city’s in desperate need of improved trauma response care. Now he’s on a mission to establish a top-tier trauma center. From director Lee Do-yun (Confession) and writer Choi Tae-gang, the South Korean medical drama The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call stars Ju Ji-hoon, Choo Young-woo, and Ha Young. For his role as Baek Kang-hyuk, Ju won Best Actor at the 61st Baeksang Arts Awards. 

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When will The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call be released?

Stream it now.

Where can I find the trailer for The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call?

Check it out at the top of this page. 

Ju Ji-hoon as Baek Kang-hyuk, Choo Young-woo as Yang Jae-won
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Who’s in the cast of The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call?

  • Ju Ji-hoon (Kingdom) as Baek Kang-hyuk, a trauma surgeon at Hankuk National University Hospital
  • Choo Young-woo (Once Upon a Small Town) as Yang Jae-won, a fellow in the colorectal surgery department
  • Yoon Kyung-ho (My Name) as Han Yu-rim, the general surgery department chair
  • Ha Young (Doona!) as Cheon Jang-mi, a trauma nurse
  • Jeong Jae-kwang (It’s Okay to Not Be Okay) as Park Gyeong-won, an anesthesiology resident
  • Kim Eui-sung (Train to Busan) as Choi Jo-eun, the hospital director
  • Kim Won-hae (Strong Girl Nam-soon) as Hong Jae-hun, an infectious disease specialist and the hospital’s executive director
  • Kim Sun-young (Crash Landing on You) as Kang Myeong-hui, the head of South Korea’s Ministry of Health and Welfare
Ha Young as Cheon Jang-mi
Han Se-jun/Netflix

What happens in The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call?

After too many avoidable deaths across the nation, South Korea’s Minister of Health and Welfare, Kang Myeong-hui (Kim Sun-young) demands that the country’s trauma response care be revitalized. But her pleas since being sworn in have gone unanswered. The head of Seoul’s Hankuk National University Hospital, Choi Jo-eun (Kim Eui-sung) — who’s more concerned with his business interests than his patients’ best interests — has failed to give any of the center’s funding to its trauma unit. But all that’s about to change, or at least that’s the plan of Dr. Baek Kang-hyuk (Ju Ji-hoon), who’s been a combat surgeon in war zones all over the world and now has the chance to lead Hankuk’s trauma team. Despite his renown and genius methods in the OR, Kang-hyuk is up against the hospital’s top brass. Will he be able to band together with his stellar medical team, like trauma nurse Cheon Jang-mi (Ha Young) and surgery fellow Yang Jae-won (Choo), to save lives and beat the system? 

Is The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call based on a book?

Yes, it’s based on the webtoon Trauma Center: Golden Hour by Hansanleega and Hongbichira. 

Yoon Kyung-ho as Han Yu-rim, Ju Ji-hoon as Baek Kang-hyuk
Han Se-jun/Netflix

Where does The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call take place?

The K-drama takes place primarily in Seoul. 

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