rmtaylor77

I don't think there will be big surprises at this point. There must have been 40 episodes while we were waiting for MR to discover about JH's escort/girlfriend. I would think we would have something similar if Big Dong or CR were behind the wife's reappearance. Her motivation is probably something more mundane like fleeing fraud charges in the U.S. or returning to play the rich, successful woman among her relatives back in Korea.

She was willing to give a $3 million dollar commercial property to go away at one point, so maybe this is plan 2. There haven't been any clues I've noticed that CR or GC is behind this. Yes, CR said she'd do anything to split them up. Yes, GC wants the company and likes to investigate people, but right now he seems preoccupied by the baker and his sister. We'll see.

Interesting, but I still haven't seen any clues that someone like GC or CR is behind her. In a cafe meeting with CR?

I think it's more likely in front of MR's house, although I haven't seen this episode to know it that's already happened.

I really enjoyed it, but it's slow. You have to wait until the last episode for the payoff of the whole silly subplot with the SIL and MIL. It's cringey, but worth it for the payoff. You have to watch it as a dark comedy, emphasis on comedy, and that it's an open ending for almost all the characters in the end.

I'm sure that's not necessary, but you do need to be a U.S. citizen to be issued a U.S. passport. And to become a U.S. citizenship you need a green card and 5 years of continuous legal residency. So in SJ's ten year absence she would need to have obtained a green card within the first 4 or 5 years and the only easy was to obtain that is through marriage.

If the basis is marriage, it would have be a fraudulent marriage, since she appears to have already been married. That would be a reason for revoking her citizenship. Others have mentioned that Korea doesn't recognize dual citizenship, so she could theoretically be stateless at the end of this.

Maybe she found a way of getting a divorce without consent or knowledge of KS, but then she can't be claiming to be married to him now.

I think there something which hasn't been revealed yet, which will make her behavior more plausible.

Also, there's something we don't know yet about SJ. The way her expression changed after hugging and leaving her mother after her visit home. That wasn't a particularly filial look. She doesn't care crap about her mother and everything is for show right now to work the family's emotions and to get them on her side in influencing JD and KS.. There is something she needs yet, but we just don't know.

After watching the episode, I'm thinking maybe she was caretaker to an old rich man and he put her in his will. So maybe she isn't a bigamist. At any rate, every character in the drama is acting like KS and SJ are still married.

I've always thought the most obvious scenario is that she was married in the U.S. and through divorce or her second husband's death she got money and the reason to return to Korea. And believe me she never bothered to get a divorce from KS before doing any of this. I would guess, however, that JD is her only child. I would imagine legally that her second marriage is the one which would be considered null in a court of law. That might be an issue with inheritance.

I would love that it's the legal document declaring a divorce, because I would love to see YJ fall flat on her face. That would take away all the pressure points she would have over KS and possibly any custody claims over JD, but it's more likely he's asking her to sign the application for an uncontested divorce. Otherwise the drama is over: YJ goes back to the states and KS and MR marry with full custody of JD.

None of the characters are the brightest, most are dim-wits. Even SS is the dumbest lawyer I've ever seen portrayed in a KDrama. I actually think MR is the brightest of the lot. That being said, KS is one of the smarter ones and he really should have been responsible enough to find out whether he could legally marry MR. Maybe he did but it isn't looking like it right now and she's going to be hurt because of it.

After watching the episode with subs, I'm guessing KS is asking her for a divorce, not showing that they are already divorced. The episode was good and back to what I would expect. She'a a manipulative bitch. We're not sure yet why she is back. SD, SS, HR, HS, and YJ seem to all be on KS's side, largely because they know YJ.

This is plausible. I'll go with it and I'll think much more highly of KS. If he went through with the divorce (there must be an some form of uncontested divorce for abandonment) then he might also have sole custody of JD. I'll take back my complaint that the character is not stepping up to protect MR and JD.

Agree 100%. They really did a masterful job of setting up the situation in the first 10 episodes and have shown zero interest since then in exploring choices/problems/resolutions that the characters would encounter once in that complex situation. Instead we have personality transplants from week to week.

Forgot that last bit, but SD had to do a lot of nagging to get him to draw up the divorce petition. So your right. SD must have made sure SS took care of the paperwork for a death certificate, because he wants to marry KS off to the wealthy widow.

You think SS had enough time to take away from golfing and kissing up to his superiors to do this? Pure speculation.

I don't think I am. I'm just pointing out we don't have enough information to assign blame. It's looking like SJ is pretty awful, but we don't know how awful yet. From her point of view, KS may be the person who ruined her life and he owes her. The point is we don't know her motivation yet or whether the writers will give her a plausible motivation. At any rate, KS is not stepping up yet to protect the ones he loves (JD and MR).

The first thing KS should have done is make sure he's not legally married before he proposes to someone else. That's bothered me more than anything else in the plot of the last few weeks, maybe longer. Everyone has been ignoring the elephant in the room: Big Dong, CR, the chairman, HD, MR. CR's biggest objection to MR and KS being together should have been that he's a married man. Yes, every character seemed to believe SJ committed suicide, but no one seemed to feel the need to start whatever legal process Korea has for declaring a missing person dead.

The other thing that's really bothered me was not having enough back story to really judge SJ's actions. Everyone has assumed that SJ is the villain for abandoning her husband and child. Let's say SJ's first desire was to terminate the pregnancy and get on with the life, pursuing the Ballet career. She didn't love KS and she didn't want the child. With that assumption how much blame does KS bear for persuading her to marry a man she does not love and bear the child of the man who either died or was not in a position to marry her. If she loved the father of the JD and wanted to bear her child and KS gave her a societally acceptable way of doing that, let's put the blame for running away completely on her. If instead KS, because of his one sided affection, manipulated SJ into keeping the child and marrying him, then he's the manipulative villain and he deserves the mother-in-law and life he got.

I've seen nowhere so far in the drama where she's been legally declared dead. I've always assumed they're still married.

I don't think the writer's will worry too much about what's legally possible anyways. There's a lot of open legal questions. Is she actually a U.S. citizen? Was she legally declared dead? If she is no longer a Korean citizen, can the Korea government even declare death in absentia. Wouldn't a renunciation of citizenship have shown up when applying for a death certificate based on the person being absent for X number of years. Are she and KS still legally married? Was she officially declared dead? What passport did she leave Korea under and why did an exit visa never show up when they filed a missing person report. A lot of the plot has been BS so far anyways.

Correct. And it's my memory that 14 years of legal residence is required for naturalization although 5 years when legal residence is based on marriage. It's been a while so I may be wrong. But it's not come to the U.S. on a tourist visa and leave with a U.S. passport. And as for dual citizenship lot's of people do it. It's just that when they visit home (Japan or Korea) from the U.S. they travel with their Korea or Japanese passport.