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Healer (Korean: 힐러) is a 2014–2015 South Korean television series starring Ji Chang-wook, Park Min-young, and Yoo Ji-tae. It aired on KBS2 from December 8, 2014 to February 10, 2015 on Mondays and Tuesdays at 22:00 (KST) for 20 episodes.

Though the drama received modest ratings in its home country, it gained a fanbase overseas and made Ji Chang-wook known outside Korea.

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A decades-old incident involving a group of five friends who ran an illegal pro-democracy broadcasting station during the Fifth Republic in South Korea brings together three different people—an illegal "night courier" with the codename "Healer" (Ji Chang-wook) who possesses top-notch fighting skills, a reporter from a second-rate tabloid news website (Park Min-young), and a famous journalist at a major broadcast station (Yoo Ji-tae). While trying to uncover the truth from that 1992 incident and a series of present day murders, they grow into honest reporters who try to blur the lines of conflict between truth and reality, even if that means fighting media honchos.

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Ji Chang-wook as Seo Jung-hoo / Park Bong-soo / Healer

Also known as Hilleo

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“Song brings us health, and blossoms will heal wounds. Therefore, I say, happy are those who understand sound and color.”
— Agni Yoga, Leaves of Morya’s Garden: Book Two: Illumination, 108. (1925)
“Healthy does not mean "healthful." Healthy is a condition, healthful is a property. Vegetables aren't healthy, they're dead. No food is healthy. Unless you have an eggplant that's doing push-ups. Push-ups are healthful.”
— George Carlin, Brain Droppings (1998), p. 120
“You take care of your personal health because you want to live a long time, and you want to be happy. You want to be healthy. But we can't be happy or healthy if we don't take care of our life support system, the planet.”
— Sylvia Earle Interview with NPR (25 June 2021)
“There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centres of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), XI
“Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other.”
— Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 387.
“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
— World Health Organization, Constitution of World Health Organization

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