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Post by Avalon on Oct 21, 2003 19:53:37 GMT -5
It was very interesting that MJ, a fictional character, called Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC looking for a Dr. Ahn. For all you avid followers of YH, here is the challenge:Find out whether there is a Dr. Ahn at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
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Post by TheBo on Oct 22, 2003 12:33:42 GMT -5
I found this in a website story about Dr. Jeung Ahn in Paris, Ohio:
<<...Dr. Ahn and his wife, Keum, have two daughters – Jane, who is a senior in medical school at Mt. Sinai in New York, and Helen, a junior at Harvard, majoring in bio-anthropology.>>
Maybe this is a common name in Korea? I got a lot of hits for "Dr Ahn" on Google, but none of them actually seemed to be doctors at Mt Sinai.
Bo
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Post by JadeEyes on Oct 22, 2003 14:35:43 GMT -5
I would bet any amount of money that there is certainly no Dr. Ahn at Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC. I'm sure when they concocted the name for the character, they had someone on their research team check this out carefully to make sure there was no one of that name on staff there.
Why not challenge people to check international directory assistance for a real Jo Min Joo in Seoul, or Lee Sang Min?
There's a reason they're called "fictitional characters" for goodness sakes.
I will say I really loved the fact they used the name of a real hospital in the US, and one that's thought of as quite prestitgous, and I also enjoyed the line or two we got in English from Dr. Ahn's answering machine, as well as his "Hi, Min Joo!" greeting on the phone.
I also liked the business of Min-joo having to thumb quickly through her business card album to find Dr. Ahn's phone number, and that it wasn't the first page she turned to. A nice touch of realism there. Another example of outstanding direction we see so much of on YH.
The best part of the scene, however, is how desperate Min-joo is to find help for SM. It's only natural that she, as a wealthy business women w/ influential connections in the West, would seek out what she perceived as the best hope in modern medicine to save the life of someone she cares about....not to mention the importance of seeing how invested she is emotionally in SM's life and death struggle. All of this is in total keeping w/ her character...frantic to find control in a scary situation, relying on her wealth and power to find that control, and her inability to suppress her real feelings at the idea of her losing SM forever -- a fact she hasn't been honest w/ herself about since the whole divorce business began. A truly excellent scene for so many reasons.
Jade
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