Kathryn_51

1.Da-hye (Lee Boo Bin) was fake from the beginning. In reality, she was an orphan at the same orphanage as Eun Seong - at a minimum, she is a very good friend (she calls him by his casual name Eun Seung). However, when she married Soo-cheol (Kwak Don Yeon), the family thought her Korean father was a professor at an Ivy League school. She was brought into the family by Grace and Eun Seong as part of the plan to oust the Queens family - she was promised a lot of money to play her part.
2. The drama has hinted that the baby might not be his.
3. We don't know the story behind her son's DNA, but the Hong family doesn't rely upon "nature" to become pregnant - they ordered Hae-in and Hyun Woo to go through a "procedure", so probably the same for Da hye and Soo-cheol.

Locating her will be a key part of Hyun Woo's counter-attack.

Honestly, I still think she is Eun Seong's sister (perhaps half sister).

Not an expert in Koren law, but I don't believe the divorce (final or not) makes a difference in the investigation.

The family is under investigation because Grandfather "embezzled" money from the corporation and transferred it to a personal slush fund. It's not clear who in the family was aware of that or perhaps had their own slush funds, but as his heirs, they presumably all benefited - taxes weren't paid, etc.

However, Hyun Woo was not an heir and he never owned any stock. Thanks to Hae-in, he was recently audited and he was the squeakiest of all squeaky cleans. Finally, he will be expected to cooperate and he's the one who discovered how the outside audit firm was part of the scheme - which will put a spotlight on the outside audit firm.

heaven knows where this is headed, but my hunch is that Hyun Woo's goal is to stall for time (and I don't think the family will be in Youngdu-ri until the last episodes) for 2 reasons: invalidate the POA and get Hae-in back to Germany for treatment - and she can't leave the country right now.

This drama is about to climb the second steep slope of the roller coaster ride. 😊

Divorce in Korea

Earlier, some were wondering about the divorce process in South Korea and the "30 day" element. I've checked several sites and this seems to be how it goes:

Divorce by agreement (the type we are talking about here) is something that both parties sign and file with the court.
The magistrate will schedule an appearance. They must appear before a magistrate in person - if children are not involved, this usually happens w/in 30 days.
They must confirm to the magistrate that they both still want the divorce and then it will be approved/final.

Korean viewers who are watching the calendar know that 30 days have not passed and will understand that it's not final/final. Will we get a scene in front of a magistrate? Or reconciliation before that? Or, they fail to show up? They return to Germany at some point (the "miracle poster).

They are clearly separated; Hyun Woo clearly assumes it will be finalized soon. The ball is now in Hae-in's court to get the marriage back on track but has she learned that manipulating Hyun Woo with false promises is not the best strategy?("I only promised to never make you cry so that you would marry me"). I hope so. 😊

I finally completed as well and tend to agree. If they wanted to highlight the reality of depression and PTSD, then it should have extended throughout the end. Instead, they seemed to wrap it up for the most part (yeah, I know, her appt. with her psychiatrist was late in the series) along about Ep. 10 or 11.

Very enjoyable, no unnecessary violence or death, very sweet couple. 8⭐.

Compared to many of the other romantic comedies in the last year (My Demon, Destined, Wedding Impossible, Good/Bad Mom, King the Land, Lovely Liar, etc. etc) I finished this one w/out FF finger.

If you look at the poster, both of them are "fading" - the foreshadowing couldn't be any clearer about the end. I may put this on hold until the last episode so that I can FF through the "ghost of the day" scenes (except for Seo Ji Hoon - I must toughen up for Ep. 6).

She won't die. She'll be pregnant.

With twins (lol, I'm a twin Mom so I always predict twins).

They haven't lost everything - but between Eun Seong's stock ownership (31%) and Mistress Bitch's legal control over Grandfather's shares, ( my back-of-the-envelope calculation is about 20%), they now control >50% of the shares. They got other shareholders to agree to throw the family out of "Queens Group", but they still own their personal stock, personal bank accounts, etc.

The danger is if and when they are prosecuted for fraud they will be personally liable and at that point could lose their personal fortunes - that's why Hyun Woo (presumably) advised them to disappear while he plans the counter-offensive.

I think they will - they have photos of him in uniform.

My assumption is that he will be rescuing Hae-in from a deranged Eun Seong at that point. Or, call it wishful thinking. 😊

That's when Hyun Woo will kill him with a sniper shot to the eye. 😊

Unfortunately, Gramps knew that she was fake and still gave her the POA.

They need to prove that she's been poisoning him all along. - if they can do that, they can challenge the POA. Best way to do that is to get his hair analysis. Maybe that's why they are in a hospital - that would be fun. 🤣🤣🤣

We still don't know how she weasled her way into the Grandfather's orbit; what happened to the original Moh Seul Hee (assuming she was a real person at one time); is there anything more than greed (and obsessive ambition for her son) that has driven her to go after the Queens family.

Lots of people around her and Eun Seong have died "mysteriously" - that's the proof they need to bring her to her knees.

I have a very different view - There is no indication whatsoever that om wanted her son to marry into the family. In fact, in Episode 8, it was very clear that she doesn't want her son near Hae-in - she didn't want him sitting next to her at the 80th birthday party. I bet she doesn't know about the necklace he wears.

However, we shall see how it all unfolds.

Do you mean Eun Seong's mother? Eun seong wasn't in Korea for the last several years and certainly nowhere near Hae-in. I wouldn't be surprised if Mistress Bitch has been systematically ensuring that no further heirs are born to the Queens Group.

Uncle falsely accused of embezzlement and expelled from the family
Soo-cheol - somehow, Grace - who introduced Da Hye into the family - thinks that the baby is not Soo-cheol's
Hae-in - miscarriage.
And for extra noir value - the presumptive heir Hong Su Wan died in a "mysterious boat accident"

What are the odds, lol

Pretty sure we will, especially after Ep. 8 when Hyun Woo reminded Soo-cheol that he wasn't just "in the Marines" but that he was part of the Special Guard Team.

Yes, that's how I finally resolved the situation in my own mind - this was HIS best way of protecting her.

You are 100% correct - but now we will see her transformatio.

For eight episodes, the viewer heard all about Hyun Woo wanting to stay by her side and protect her (the two promises he made before they married) and Hae-in relied upon those promises and took him for granted.

And then viewers learned that the promises SHE made to him (Trust me and I'll never make you cry) were simply done because she wanted to marry him.

That's why the Ep. 8 Epilogue is so profound - Hae-in recognizes for the first time in their relationship that she wants to be by HIS side.

Everybody is "that way" for a reason. Mistress Bitch is evil and conniving because the hard life she had. Eun seong is evil because he feels abandoned. Soo-cheol is like a foolish child because his mother still treats him like a foolish child.

Her entire identity was fake and she was part of the plot to help Yoon take over Queens Group. They paid her a lot of money but she had to disappear.

I think the baby is his but if the pregnancy was planned via the Queens Family Method (artificial insemination), it's possible that the plan all along was to ensure no more heirs.

Which, of course, puts Hae-in's miscarriage in the suspect category as well.

This drama is pretty good about accurately describing the legal niceties - when they want to. I've been wondering about the 30 days as well - as in, did the 30 days pass already and that's why the divorce is considered final by everyone? My understanding (when I researched months before) is that when divorce is filed, it's part of the public records but then w/in 30 days the couple appears before a magistrate to confirm that both parties want the divorce and that neither party was coerced.

But they are on a tightly wound schedule - various documents and video dates show a time progression from late June to early July to late July - I'm not sure where the calendar is now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I'm convinced that Hyun Woo never placed his seal on the document - which means it was fraudulent and not legally binding - if he can prove it. 😊