The appearing couples promised a new future in their own way. The first couple and the oldest among the performers, Lee Young-ha and Sunwoo Eun-suk, hinted at the possibility of a reunion only. Lee Young-ha borrowed from acquaintances’ reactions to inquire about his intention to remarry, and Seon Woo Eun-suk left a positive answer.
Seon Woo Eun-suk said, “At the first reunion, I clearly recognized that you and I were different and thought that people couldn’t change easily. But now I’m comfortable and put everything down. In the future, if we can live a happy life away from the children, I will probably also misunderstand you. “I think everything will disappear,” he smiled and said, “Because I heard this story today, I’ll open my mind a little deeper and think.” The two returned to Cheongpyeong, the place of their first reunion, and said goodbye by giving and receiving warm hugs in an atmosphere that was closer than four months ago.
Another first-year member, Choi Choi and Yoo Catnip, met Choi Choi’s father and had a time to reconcile. During the couple’s days, the conflict with the mother-in-law became an important cause of the discord, and the scenes of Choi Choi’s father accusing Yu Catnip and the appearance of Yu Catnip having a trauma against her former father-in-law became a major controversy. .
However, Choi Choi’s father, who reunited through the broadcast, conveyed the courage to his former daughter-in-law, “I will apologize if there was any misunderstandings”. . Choi Ki-gi and Yu Cat-nip had a happy time taking family photos with their daughter, Pine Nippon. Although the two are not reunited, they ended the broadcast warmly, leaving a pledge to do their best as the child’s parent and friend in their respective seats.
Park Jae-hoon and Park Hye-young also showed a much more comfortable appearance compared to the beginning of the broadcast. Park Hye-young expressed satisfaction in the relationship with her ex-husband through conversations with acquaintances who came to his store, saying, “If we were only talking to each other and being formal (after broadcast), we are now in conversation.”
Park Jae-hoon and Park Hye-young have aroused a sense of wonder, not like a couple with two children, because they don’t match at all, and they don’t know much about each other. However, the two showed their understanding of each other little by little and narrowing the sense of distance through a sincere conversation through a meeting in’right divorce’. Park Hye-young also revealed a feeling of satisfaction that the children’s happiness index has increased as the time spent with their father has increased recently.
Lee Haneul and Park Yoo-sun couple showed unchanging affection for each other, but drew a line about reunion. The two said that they heard a lot of invitations for reunion around them. Lee Haneul confessed, “It’s so easy to talk about. I think it’s a must (reunion)?” Park Yoo-seon also summarized the relationship between the two now, saying, “Is it illegal to see if I have a divorce? If I don’t want to, I’m not going to see it, but at first I thought I would not see it. Somewhere between’affection’ as a man and woman and old’familiarity’, the current conclusion the two made was that’it is good as it is now’.
The youngest couple, Park Se-hyuk and Kim Yoo-min, had a touching time with their son Min-hyuk-gun and their three families after a long time. In a meeting with his father for the first time in about two years, Minhyuk seemed to hide his face, such as calling him’Uncle’, but as time passed, he became closer and created a friendly atmosphere. The two people, who had a short marriage life and the conflict between the two, were piled up with emotions, and like a young couple, they quickly resolved the misunderstanding through an honest conversation and showed a 180 degree different atmosphere. Although he did not directly mention the future, Park Se-hyuk and Kim Yu-mi’s closer atmosphere and sweet dialogue made them look forward to positive changes in the future.
‘Right Divorce’ was the first broadcaster to claim a real-time drama about divorced couples and attracted high popularity and topics from the first airing. Unlike general love entertainment and couple entertainment, the secret of popularity was’sincerity’, which honestly expresses the sorrows of real love and marital relationships through divorced couples who experienced the catastrophe and the end of love.
Divorce was considered a social scarlet letter in the past, but is now recognized as a process and a choice that individuals can go through in their lives. ‘Right Divorce’ captures the process of divorced couples understanding each other little by little and looking back on themselves through honest thoughts and conversations about each other that were not revealed during their marriage, and the appearance of each other through objective distance.
The heartbreaking circumstances of each couple, encompassing various generations and inclinations from their 20s to 60s, and each time the stories of the male and female are revealed one by one, many people will be able to sympathize more deeply as it is actually a’realistic story’ that can happen enough in our romance and marriage. I had to. Thanks to the courage of the couples who appeared with an open mind while taking the risk of disclosing personal and family history, which could be burdensome, it was possible to reimagine the definition of divorce that has changed in line with the times that were the purpose of the program.
The audience rating and topic were also hot. Although there was a temporary decline in recent years, the final 13 episodes broadcast on the 15th, the Nielsen Korea standard of the metropolitan area, soared to 8.3% and the highest rating per minute to 10.0%, gaining the beauty of a high grade. Even after the airing, the names of the appearing couples received public attention enough to emerge as popular online search terms.
The regrettable part is that as the program continued, the original purpose of seeking a future-oriented relationship between divorced couples faded, and the direction changed to an atmosphere that encouraged reunion. There are couples who have gained consensus by mentioning the possibility of reunion like Lee Young-ha and Sunwoo Eun-suk, but it was a matter of natural choice, but that was not the original purpose of the program.
Especially, the more the couple had children between them, the stronger this atmosphere. However, in reality, there are many performers who drew a firm line in the possibility of reunion, such as Lee Haneul, Yoo Catnip, and Park Hyeyoung. Lee Haneul’s remarks, “There is 0.5 between 0 and 1, rather than the dichotomy (in the relationship between men and women),” thus suggests a lot.
Since it is a broadcast that has to disclose any secret family history, some of the performers have side effects of being exposed to excessive malicious comments over only a few of the appearances in the broadcast. Yoo Catnip, who rejected Choi’s reunion proposal, and Choi Choi’s father, who criticized her former daughter-in-law, Yu Catnip in the first episode, suffered a great deal of bad baptism and had to suffer. After Seon Woo Eun-suk revealed that the conflict with Lee Young-ha deepened because of a female colleague in the past, speculative rumors have emerged among viewers about who the person is.
The controversy over the qualifications of some of the performers is also a disappointment. Former short track player Kim Dong-sung, who had a lot of talks about his personal history, stood at the center of controversy by appearing with a new lover who is about to remarry, not the only divorced wife. Due to the nature of the program, the story of divorce was inevitable, and Kim Dong-sung’s story had no choice but to be the stage for unilateral arguments and clarifications of one side, excluding the position of the former wife. Kim Dong-sung’s appearance ended with one episode of a special episode, but the reaction of public opinion was very negative.
It is also unfortunate that the story has been ended somewhat hurriedly in different situations where each couple has a different story. There are couples who showed their emotional changes in detail through various episodes for four months, such as Lee Young-ha-Sunwoo Eun-suk, Choi Choi-gi-Yoo Catnip, but the late-joined Park Jae-hoon-Park Hye-young, Park Se-hyuk-Kim Yoo-min, etc. seem to be talking about something in the middle. It is also true that it became.
‘Right Divorce’ is scheduled to return to Season 2 by the fall after finishing season 1 and reorganizing. It is interesting to note which couples the’right divorce’, which is evaluated as showing the new possibilities and problems of romance observation arts, will come back with a new story.