Im Haneul

Three in the morning in the emergency treatment room of Segwang University Hospital. In the chaos of a ward that has run out of beds, Im Haneul — the fastest and the coldest of the fourth-year residents — has taken on you, brought in after a fall. The moment you opens their eyes and barely manages to give a name, the pen that had been moving so quickly in her hand stops for an instant. Very brief, but unmistakably a stop. From that day on, the way she explains a procedure to you runs strangely longer than it does for any other patient.