Dr. Brain Cast (LEE Sun-kyun, LEE You-young, PARK Hee-soon, SEO Ji-hye & LEE Jae-won)

**Kyle McMahon** (0:00)
In episode 85 of Pop Culture Weekly, I talk with the cast of Dr. brain from Apple TV+.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:06)
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**Kyle McMahon** (0:24)
Hello and welcome to Pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon. I, of course, am Kyle McMahon. On our rotating panel of guest hosts, we have nobody because we still haven't gone back to our normal format yet because people still can't come into the studio with the COVID pandemic. We will get back to it, I promise you. But in the meantime, I'm trying to bring you all of the great stuff going on in the pop culture world. On Apple TV+, which you know is one of my favorite streaming services. Everything is top-notch on Apple TV+. Servant, one of my favorite shows ever, is on there. Koda, Cherry, just such top-notch, top-quality, best of the best content, honestly. Dr. brain is no different. Dr. brain, if you've heard of Squid Game, Dr. brain also comes from South Korea, and South Korea is really... The South Korean people are just so... The content that comes from them is just absolutely incredible. I love South Korean horror movies especially. train to Busan is so good. One of my favorite horror movies of all time, but it's also like a drama, like a legitimate drama. It's just next level over there. And so when I heard that Dr. brain was coming on Apple TV, plus I knew I wanted to check it out, and of course I did, and of course it's amazing. So basically it is about a brain scientist who's trying to solve kind of a mysterious death in his family by hacking into the brains of people who have passed. It sounds, you know, crazy. It is very well done, very top notch. And what's cool is it is the first Korean based, Korean language based show to come from Apple TV+. So I love that too. It is really gripping. I really do love the show and I think you will too. The first episode is out now, and then every episode after it will come out each Friday. So make sure you check those out and you're going to love it. I'm telling you, hit me up and let me know what you think once you've watched the first episode at Pop Culture Pod CA on Twitter or at KMAC Music or whatever. You know how to get a hold of me. All right, so let me preface this with these are South Korean actors, so there is a interpreter. So all right, so first up is my interview with SEO Ji-hye and LEE Jae-won.
I wanted to thank both of you for speaking with me, and I love Dr. brain. I wanted to see what you thought of this potential intersection of, well, I guess a very real intersection of medical and ethical dilemmas with art, as in Dr. brain.

**SEO Ji-hye** (5:37)
So I think that's a very deep question and a hard one to answer. So first off, as the world is changing very rapidly, and there are so many developments being made on a daily basis, we can see that we have to adapt to these changes. And actually, the brain sync technology that's being dealt with in the drama is a technology that's being developed and researched on in real life. And I do think that in the distant future, it will have made significant progress in its advancement. But overall, as science and technology and the field of medicine evolves and develops, we do have to think more and place more emphasis on the dignity of mankind. Because with these new and better technologies, they have to become a plus in our lives. And if it's used wrongly, then they can become a minus. And I think that kind of dilemma is dealt with in a very delicate way in our drama. And it gives us a chance to think about the core of human principles and values.

**Kyle McMahon** (6:51)
Thank you so much. And how about for you?

**SEO Ji-hye** (7:55)
I think this series has been an opportunity for us to think about the primitive curiosities of mankind in the context of medical and scientific developments. And I think that's portrayed very well through our main characters, Hae-won, who keeps kind of going in the way of making ethically wrong decisions. But he can't help himself because he really wants to unravel this tragedy that's happened to his entire family. And the audience kind of empathizes with that and his dilemma as well. And I think that serves as a very scary and chilling preview into what could happen in real life when those ethically wrong decisions, so-called ethically wrong decisions, are made.