“Live Up to Your Name”: A time-slip medical romance where needles, scalpels, and second chances rewrite what healing means.
“Live Up to Your Name”: A time-slip medical romance where needles, scalpels, and second chances rewrite what healing means Introduction Have you ever met someone who made you question the rules you thought kept you safe? That’s the jolt of “Live Up to Your Name,” where a legendary Joseon acupuncturist is flung into modern Seoul and crashes into a cardiac surgeon who trusts only what a monitor can prove. I pressed play for the time travel hook and stayed because every needle and scalpel felt like a love letter to responsibility. The show blends slapstick fish-out-of-water laughs with night-shift tenderness, then stares straight at grief without blinking. You can almost smell the moxa smoke, the antiseptic, the rain on hospital sidewalks after a code blue. Most of all, it keeps asking whether healing is about technique, courage, or the stubborn decision to keep showing up for strangers and for yourself. Overview Title: Live Up to Your Name (명불허전) Year: 2017 Genre...