“A professor I know is in Daegu, and there are zero residents for GS^[1] this year as well.”

“Weren’t there zero people last year as well?”

“There weren’t. I don’t think there were any the year before that either. I heard that the professors are taking turns doing night watches. At this rate, it looks like they’re going to have to get people from other cities.”

“Cardiothoracic surgery is pretty hard after all. But there are quite a few people applying for specialists in this hospital, right?”

“Senior Park, senior Choi, senior Kim, doctor Sooran, doctor Woongjin. That’s five people off the top of my head. That’s quite a lot.”

“I guess if you’re going to be sick, you'll have to be sick in Seoul too, huh.”

“The land here isn’t expensive for nothing. Right, I heard you were moving? Did you find a good place to rent?”

“I did. I could barely get that with my intern salary. I told the landlord I’d only be staying for a year, and he ended up ripping another 50,000 won for rent.”

“It’s not like you’re going to be going home from the break room anyway, so why did you even bother? Not only that, don’t you have to go to Boryeong^[2] in two months?”

“Still, there’s nothing better than going home and having a good sleep once a week or even once every four...