Bo-young Lee, a doctor who helps you die...Death is the only way to reduce patient pain (Mary Kills People)

By Bit, Jung

Jul 23, 2025

Bo-young Lee, a doctor who helps you die...Death is the only way to reduce patient pain (Mary Kills People)
Photo provided by MBC 'Merry Kills People'



MBC's new Friday-Saturday drama 'Merry Kills People' Lee Bo-young gives a extreme shock with 'Murdle Moments' standing with a pillow raised in front of the patient.

MBC's new Friday-Saturday drama 'Mary Kills People', which will premiere on August 1st (Friday), is a suspense drama about a doctor who helps untreatable patients and a detective who tracks them.

Lee Bo-young takes on the role of Woo So-jung, an emergency medical doctor who helps assisted death at the border between life and death in 『Mary Kills People" and challenges an unconventional acting transformation that has never been shown before. Lee Bo-young says "If death is the only way to reduce the pain of a patient, what should I do as a doctor?It marks a new milestone in filmography through the role of Woo So-jung, who asks the shocking question ".




In this regard, Lee Bo-young steals the attention with the scene of 'Attraction Eyes', which makes unusual decisions at the close boundary between good and evil, life and death. In the play, Woo So-jung (Lee Bo-young) holds a pillow and stares at the patient. Woo So-jung's icy expression, cool eyes, and trembling fingertips reveal tension over her difficult decision. Soon, as Woo So-jung approached the patient slowly with a deep breath as if she had made up her mind, attention is being paid to Woo So-jung, a doctor who saves people.

Bo-young Lee, a doctor who helps you die...Death is the only way to reduce patient pain (Mary Kills People)
Photo provided by MBC 'Merry Kills People'
Lee Bo-young plays Woo So-jung in `Merry Kills People" and is drawing attention with her passionate performance of 'Totally Different Face'. Lee Bo-young held the scene breath with his concentrating inner acting, which required controlling complex emotions for a short time in the scene of 'mouthed moment'. In addition, Lee Bo-young further enhanced the completeness of Woo So-jeong's psychological change with an excellent expression that exquisitely reveals only her eyes and facial expressions without lines.

On the other hand, Lee Bo-young explained "While playing Woo So-jung, I focused on following emotions by reaching the sadness of people around me." Then "The biggest concern was that the assisted death would appear to be easily considered. What if it seemed like a death that anyone could easily choose? I was very worried that the weight would not feel light, so I wanted to show convincingly how deeply Sojung agonized and hurt before making such a choice when acting. I paid a lot of attention to each emotion so that I could truly sympathize with someone's pain and be seen as a person who helped to die after suffering."




Bo-young Lee, a doctor who helps you die...Death is the only way to reduce patient pain (Mary Kills People)
Photo provided by MBC 'Merry Kills People'
The production team said, "This scene symbolically shows how Woo So-jung, a character in the play, has an attitude between death and life, his conviction as a doctor, and human emotions. Lee Bo-young's overwhelming acting ability will act as a catalyst for viewers to ask questions and sympathize with them."

Director Park Joon-woo, who sublimated intense action into visual sensibility in MBC's new Friday-Saturday drama 'Merry Kills People', and 'Crash', writer Lee Soo-ah, who showed a chewy empathy narrative in the movies 'The Law of Perfection', 'My Special Brother' and the drama 'Unemployment Benefit Romance', and 'Acting Masters' are joining forces to foreshadow the birth of a luxury genre. It will premiere on August 1st (Friday) at 10 p.m.





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