Daily Dose of Sunshine Ending Explained: Starring Park Bo-young as Jung Da-eun, Yeon Woo-jin as Dong Go-geun, Jang Dong-yoon as Song Yu-chan and Lee Jung-eun as Song Hyo-shin, director Lee Jae-kyoo’s new K-drama (정신병동에도 아침이 와요) has 12 episodes and is now streaming on Netflix. Based on Lee Ra-ha’s Naver webtoon Morning Comes to Psychiatric Wards, which in turn is based on her real-life experiences as a former nurse, the South Korean healing drama series is written by Lee Nam-kyu.
Releasing on November 3, 2023, the show also stars Chang Ryul, Lee E-dam, Park Ji-yeon, Jung Woon-seon, Jeon Bae-soo, Lee Sang-hee and Yoo In-soo in pivotal roles. In this uplifting and heartwarming Korean drama, we get an insight into the real trials and tribulations faced by the healthcare personnel of a psychiatric ward.
The story is initially narrated from Park Bo-young’s character Da-eun’s view, once the third year nurse is transferred from internal medicine ward to the psychiatric department. She struggles to deal with the overwhelming switch at first, but eventually lands on the same page as her co-workers who deal with cases of acute mental illness affectionately, but also with humour that eases you into the story dealing with this loaded topic of conversation often hushed away.
-Daily Dose of Sunshine Netflix Ending Explained Contains Spoilers-
Daily Dose of Sunshine Ending Explained
The last and 12th episode of the season warmly concludes the stories of these beloved characters. However, before doing that, the Daily Dose of Sunshine finale delves deep into Byeong-hui’s case. The nurses soon realise that her mother had been pushing for another IQ test so that she could get a lower result, which would legitimately allow for her to take admission into a school for kids with special needs. Even though her IQ is on the lower end, it’s not as low for her mother to go through with that plan.
Moreover, Byeong-hui herself doesn’t plan on letting go of her dreams of becoming a pilot. She confides in Da-eun at the hospital by telling her that the only time she felt the happiest was when she went on a plane with her mother.
Da-eun even helps her with another coping mechanism instead of hurting herself. She gives her a rubber band, and tells her to wear it on her wrist at all times, reminding her that every time she feels like hurting herself, she can simply pull on that rubber band. Byeong-hui goes through with the plan and it comes back into the picture later in the end as the same habit ends up saving her life when she’s discharged from the hospital and resumes attending her old school.
Her mother even apologises to Da-eun for riling up the other patients’ guardians against her as they all had initially started protesting against the hospital for her to be removed from the staff due to her own history with mental illness.
Lee E-dam’s Min Deul-re and Chang Ryul’s Hwang Yeo-hwan become a happy couple, but just in time as Deul-re cuts ties with her abusive mother, her old school friend visits town again. She started handling cruises, which also required her and her squad to perform for the passengers while bidding them farewell. On learning of her example and lifestyle, Deul-re decides to open up too and her previous talks with Da-eun help her realise that being a nurse was just something she had to do at the time to gain some security and financial stability in her life while her mother kept sabotaging everything for her.
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She finally figured out that being a nurse wasn’t what made her shine and to find her true calling, she decides to join forces with her friend. She even starts training with her squad and eventually gets the chance to hop on a cruise for a year. Del-re resigns from the psychiatric ward and even though she fears that her relationship with Yeo-hwan would be strained due to this drastic change, he reassures and encourages her to take flight for herself towards her dreams.
Before she leaves, all doctors and nurses come together for a farewell party one last time, which leaves everyone more emotional than ever. The news of both Da-eun and Dong Go-eun, and Deul-re and Yeo-hwan’s relationships is also out in the open as the others reveal that they’d known all along and tease them. Later, all nurses have a one-on-one heart-to-heart and even hug it out.
Yu-chan also gets hired and while at first it seems like his symptoms of panic disorder are about to get worse as his supervisors keep pushing him around for more work, he eventually takes a stand for his health and draws the line for his well-being. Things with him and Da-eun also work out on the happy note.
Though it doesn’t seem like he ever got the chance to express his feelings for her, they continue to be best friends as they’d ever been and promise to take care of their healths. Even though they both get busy with their lives and work, Yu-chan directly mentions that they can’t always just worry about each other’s healths as Da-eun now had Dong Go-eun, her boyfriend, to worry about, and he had to find someone for himself.
Da-eun later goes to the airport to see off Deul-re, and they again talk about how even if unintentionally, they both pushed each other to be better and ended up being a good influence on each other. While Deul-re’s mindset encouraged Da-eun to be a better nurse, Da-eun’s talks helped Deul-re discover that she needed to stand up for herself.
As Da-eun is leaving, she spots Beyong-hui on the way as she seems to be coming in. She later tells Da-eun that she’d come there for practical training and that she’d also started working at the airport for the information service department. She’d taken on the advice of her job class counsellor to be near the spot where she’d dreamed of getting hired. Byeong-hui also tells her about her school incident and how on feeling helpless among her classmates, she again had a close call and almost hurt herself, but instead, she decided to use the rubber band technique she’d taught her.
The show ends with the message that we’re all standing on a border, just like each of these characters had been dealing with something heavy in their lives, but we always have a choice and a means to find our way out of a fix as long as we have hope. To prove this message, the series also brings back Yoo In-soo’s character Seung-jae, who’d initially come in as a nurse in-training and Da-eun eventually figured out that he was struggling with panic disorders until she lend him a hand and encouraged him to seek help.
In the end, he joins the psychiatric department as a fellow nurse and she leaves him with the same message as she received on her first day through nurse Song Hyo-shin that their unit was the first to wake up in a way since they had no curtains. The air between the nursing staff and the doctors is also cleared, and they all seem to be on the best of terms with each other, except their usual fights over snacks of course.
Daily Dose of Sunshine Kdrama is now streaming on Netflix.
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Im at episode 11, i think its unfair that the whole hospital goes crasy because she earlier was in psychic hospital loong ago,
Half of the city outside witt boards and stuff,
An old hagis almost kilked a patient because she diden want her too help her..
Are the people in that country that crasy??
Well I’m erasing it from my bucket list,
And even the head board doctors is on her neck too???
Uhhh nope, ending it now on episode 11, cannot watch that, whole city against one person, they can show those complain boards up there asses…..