Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist (Season 2)

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Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist (Season 2)

조선 정신과 의사 유세풍 2 (Joseon Jungshingwa Uisa Yoosepoong 2) · 2023 · South Korea

WriterPark Seul-Ki

DirectorPark Won-Gook

Episodes10 eps · ~75 min each

Where to Watch✅ Viki, HBO Max, Apple TV+, Prime Video

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Binge Time12h 30m

AiredJan 11 – Feb 9, 2023

GenreHistorical · Medical · Romance

Content RatingTV-14

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Joseon DynastyTraditional MedicineFound FamilyMental IllnessInvestigation

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The Gyesu Clinic family, back together and facing Hanyang’s palace politics head-on.

Kim Min-jae

Yoo Se-poong

Lead

Kim Hyang-gi

Seo Eun-woo

Lead

Kim Sang-kyung

Gye Ji-han

Supporting

Kang Young-suk

Jeon Kang-il

Supporting

Woo Da-vi

Lee Seo-yi

Supporting

Spoiler-light recaps — enough to remember where you left off, nothing that ruins the ride.

EP 01

Yoo Se-poong and Gyesoo Clinic in Hanyang

Jan 11, 2023

The Gyesu Clinic family relocates to Hanyang and immediately walks into a rumor spreading through the palace — hallucinations of a dead official’s ghost, showing up in maids and even the king. Se-poong and Ji-han get pulled into royal medical politics almost instantly, while Eun-woo, back in the capital for the first time this season, ends up doing the actual detective work that cracks the poisoning behind the haunting. Season 2 opens exactly where the mystery format works best: a supernatural scare with a very human, very political cause.

EP 02

The Living Ghost

Jan 12, 2023

The ‘ghost’ epidemic keeps spreading, and the royal medical office keeps getting in the way of Poong and Eun-woo’s investigation, feeding rumors about the king’s sanity along the way. The actual culprit turns out to be smaller and sadder than the palace intrigue suggests — a eunuch trying to prove loyalty to a dead patron. Resolving the case lets the clinic head home to Sorak, with Eun-woo finally getting her father’s blessing to stay. It doesn’t last.

EP 03

Momentary Peacefulness at Gyesoo Clinic

Jan 18, 2023

Peace at the clinic gets interrupted almost immediately by Princess Seo-yi’s arrival and a formal inspection from royal physician Jeon Kang-il, whose jealousy of Se-poong is barely dressed up as professional scrutiny. Kang-il pokes at Se-poong’s old acupuncture trauma specifically, which tells you exactly what kind of antagonist this season is building — not a mastermind, just someone who knows where it hurts. The clash between rigid palace medicine and the clinic’s patient-first approach finally gets a face.

EP 04

The Story of So Cheon

Jan 19, 2023

Kang-il escalates from professional sabotage to blaming Se-poong for a patient’s death, while Princess Seo-yi keeps pressuring him toward a marriage he’s clearly not interested in. Her alliance with Kang-il is less a scheme than wounded pride looking for a partner, and together they put real pressure on the clinic’s survival. Se-poong takes the hits without losing his composure, which starts to feel like its own kind of character flaw.

EP 05

The Princess’s Secret

Jan 25, 2023

Seo-yi’s pursuit of Se-poong finally collides with Eun-woo’s feelings for him, and the awkwardness plays out in front of the one person who least wants to see it. The princess’s anger traces back to a broken engagement and a lifetime of feeling like an afterthought in her own family, and Se-poong spends the episode helping her work through both. She reconciles with her former fiancé by the end, and the show clears its most obvious romantic obstacle in one episode instead of dragging it out for five.

EP 06

The Truth Behind Ib-bun’s Birth

Jan 26, 2023

Kang-il returns to the clinic looking humbled, though nobody buys it for long. The local governor uses a fabricated story about Ib-bun’s birth — falsely pinning her mother’s death on Ji-han — to trap her into a politically convenient marriage. The rescue that follows is the season’s clearest statement of what the Gyesu Clinic actually is: not a workplace, a family that shows up.

EP 07

The Governor’s Scheme

Feb 1, 2023

Governor Ahn goes after Se-poong directly this time, fabricating claims about royal favoritism and an abduction to strip him of his medical license. The entire medical establishment lines up against him, which says less about Se-poong’s guilt and more about how easily institutions turn on people who embarrass them. Eun-woo takes the fallout personally, and their relationship strains under weight neither of them created.

EP 08

Eun-woo’s Sacrifice

Feb 2, 2023

Eun-woo decides her presence is putting Se-poong in danger and leaves for her parents’ home on Heuksan Island — with Kang-il, of all people, as her escort. Se-poong follows anyway, and the resulting standoff with Kang-il says everything about how far he’s willing to go for her without ever having to say it out loud. It’s the most openly romantic episode of the season, and it earns the shift.

EP 09

Se Poong’s Return to Gyesoo Clinic

Feb 8, 2023

Governor Ahn’s scheme turns lethal when he blackmails a widow into seducing Se-poong and kills her when she refuses. Kang-il witnesses the murder and goes after Ahn, dragging Eun-woo into real danger and forcing Se-poong to finally use the acupuncture skills his trauma has kept locked away for two seasons. Watching him pick the needles back up lands as the payoff for everything the show has spent twenty episodes building toward.

EP 10

The Prescription for Happiness

Feb 9, 2023

Se-poong fully overcomes his trauma in time to save Eun-woo and expose Governor Ahn, which triggers both an execution and a reform of the medical office in one tidy stroke. Eun-woo gets named Head Female Physician, her old marriage gets annulled, and Kang-il — genuinely redeemed by this point — opens his own small clinic instead of returning to the palace. The finale hands almost everyone exactly the ending they earned, which is rarer than it should be.

Full spoilers ahead — everything that happens in the finale and what it all means.

Does Se-poong finally overcome his acupuncture trauma? Yes — faced with Eun-woo in mortal danger, Se-poong picks up his needles for the first time since his season-one breakdown and successfully treats her, closing the arc the entire series has been building since episode one. The show spent two seasons promising this moment, and it delivers exactly what it promised.

What happens to Governor Ahn? Governor Ahn’s crimes — blackmail, murder, and framing Se-poong for offenses he never committed — finally catch up with him. Kang-il’s testimony as an eyewitness is what breaks the case open, and Ahn is executed for it. The show doesn’t spend much time on his downfall once it arrives; it’s treated as inevitable, which fits a season more interested in what corruption costs than in punishing it dramatically.

Do Se-poong and Eun-woo end up together? Yes. With her old, unwanted marriage formally annulled and Governor Ahn’s scheme exposed, Eun-woo is free to be with Se-poong for the first time without a political obstacle standing between them. She’s also named Head Female Physician in the palace — a professional ending that matters just as much to her arc as the romantic one.

What happens to Jeon Kang-il? Kang-il gets the season’s quietest but most earned turn. After spending most of the run as Se-poong’s professional rival, his eyewitness testimony against Governor Ahn becomes the act that redeems him, and he leaves the palace system entirely to open a small clinic of his own. It’s a modest ending for a character who spent most of the season being genuinely unpleasant, and that restraint is what makes it work.

The KDW verdict Poong, the Joseon Psychiatrist has always used its historical-mystery format as a delivery system for something gentler: a found family caring for people the rest of Joseon society has already given up on. Season 2’s finale doesn’t need a twist because the goal was never suspense — it’s watching every character who showed real compassion get to keep it. That’s a small ambition, and the show meets it completely.