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2013 South Korean TV series or program

Hur Jun, The Original Story (Korean: 구암 허준; RR: Guam Heo Jun) is a 2013 South Korean television series about the life of Heo Jun, a commoner who rose up the ranks to become a royal physician in Joseon (he used the pen name "Guam").^[1][2] It aired on MBC from March 18 to September 23, 2013 on Mondays to Fridays at 20:50 for 135 episodes.^[3]

Heo Jun was the author of the famed oriental medicine textbook Dongui Bogam (lit.

"Mirror of Eastern Medicine"), considered the defining text of traditional Korean medicine.^[4] This was the fifth dramatization of his life.^[5] Lead actor Kim Joo-hyuk is the son of Kim Mu-saeng, who also played the same character in the 1975 series Tenacity.^[6][7]

Plot

Heo Jun is the son of a concubine and the governor of Yeongcheon.

When he witnesses brilliant doctor Yoo Ui-tae save a dying