Mine

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Mine

마인 (Mine) · 2021 · South Korea

WriterBaek Mi-Kyeong

DirectorLee Na-Jeong

Episodes16 eps · ~70 min each

Where to Watch✅ Netflix

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Binge Time18h 40m

AiredMay 8 – Jun 27, 2021

GenreThriller · Mystery · Drama

Content Rating15+

tvNNetflix

ChaebolPsychologicalWomen’s SolidarityFamily SecretsPower Struggle

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Two chaebol wives, a tutor with a devastating secret, and the husband whose lies finally catch up to him.

Lee Bo-young

Seo Hi-soo

Lead

Kim Seo-hyung

Jung Seo-hyun

Lead

Lee Hyun-wook

Han Ji-yong

Supporting

Ok Ja-yeon

Kang Ja-kyeong

Supporting

Cha Hak-yeon

Han Soo-hyuk

Supporting

Jung Yi-seo

Kim Yu-yeon

Supporting

Park Hyuk-kwon

Han Jin-ho

Supporting

Park Won-sook

Yang Soon-hye

Supporting

Jeong Dong-hwan

President Han

Supporting

Ye Su-jeong

Emma

Supporting

Park Seong-yeon

Joo Min-su

Supporting

Lee Jung-ok

Kim Seong-tae

Supporting

Catch up fast — spoiler-light, episode by episode.

EP 01

The Tutor Arrives

May 08, 2021

Mine opens with a flash-forward to a murder investigation inside the Hyowon mansion, then rewinds to show a household built on obedience and appearances. Seo Hi-soo, a former top actress, is still learning the mansion’s unwritten rules; Jung Seo-hyun runs the family with a control that reads more like armor than power. Kang Ja-kyung arrives as tutor to Hi-soo’s stepson Ha-joon, and something about her is wrong in ways nobody can quite name yet.

EP 02

What Seo-hyun Is Hiding

May 09, 2021

Jung Seo-hyun’s composed exterior gets its first crack: a past relationship with the artist Suzy Choi surfaces, along with everything Seo-hyun sacrificed to bury it for the sake of her place in the family. Ja-kyung, meanwhile, starts wearing Hi-soo’s clothes — a small, deliberate provocation that reads as a declaration of war. Han Ji-yong stays charming on the surface, the kind of charm that’s starting to look load-bearing rather than genuine.

EP 03

Too Close to Ha-joon

May 15, 2021

Ja-kyung’s grip on Ha-joon tightens in ways that make Hi-soo increasingly uneasy, protective instinct kicking in before she has words for what’s actually wrong. Seo-hyun keeps digging into Ja-kyung’s background, convinced the connection to this family runs deeper than a hiring mistake. The mansion itself becomes a character here — every hallway watched, every conversation performed for an audience that’s always somewhere nearby.

EP 04

Strait is the Gate

May 16, 2021

The truth lands: Kang Ja-kyung is Lee Hye-jin, Ha-joon’s biological mother, presumed dead and very much not. It’s Han Ji-yong who orchestrated the lie, which reframes Hi-soo’s entire marriage as a stage set she didn’t know she was standing on. Seo-hyun, who already knew, has spent this whole time managing the fallout in advance — which tells you everything about how she survives in this family.

EP 05

The Betrayal

May 22, 2021

Hi-soo confronts Ji-yong directly, and the fight tears open every other lie his charm has been covering for years. Ja-kyung, done hiding, pushes her claim on Ha-joon into the open, and the house stops being livable for Hi-soo in any ordinary sense. The show is very good at making deception feel less like a plot twist and more like a slow-motion collapse.

EP 06

The Uncomfortable Truth and False Peace

May 23, 2021

An unexpected pregnancy complicates everything for Hi-soo, and Seo-hyun faces a genuinely hard call about how much more truth she can afford to hand her while she’s this fragile. Ji-yong tries to quietly remove Ja-kyung from the mansion to protect his own image, which backfires by making his controlling instincts impossible to miss. Peace in this house was always going to be temporary; this episode just makes the expiration date explicit.

EP 07

Love is Just a Dream

May 29, 2021

Hi-soo finally gets the whole picture — the fake death, Yang Soon-hye’s complicity, the years of manufactured normalcy — and the weight of it triggers a miscarriage that the show doesn’t rush past. It’s a genuinely devastating hour, and Seo-hyun’s response, holding a shattered Hi-soo instead of managing the situation, marks the real start of their alliance. Grief becomes the thing that finally unites two women Ji-yong spent years keeping separate.

EP 08

How an Elephant Gets Through a Door

May 30, 2021

Hi-soo recovers out of view and comes back changed — steadier, done with illusions, focused on getting out of the Hyowon family on her own terms. Seo-hyun watches Ji-yong’s cruelty land on someone she actually cares about and starts building a real strategy against him instead of just containing the damage. Two women stop reacting to this house and start working it instead.

EP 09

A Toast to the Devil

Jun 05, 2021

Chairman Han Suk-chul’s will gets read, and its terms reshuffle who actually holds power inside Hyowon Group — which means Ji-yong’s grip is suddenly less secure than his ego assumes. Ja-kyung and Hi-soo square off over custody of Ha-joon, though Hi-soo now understands exactly what she’s dealing with. Seo-hyun reconnects with Suzy Choi, and the show lets that reunion breathe as its own quiet plotline, not just a subplot.

EP 10

The Real Mother

Jun 06, 2021

A conversation with Suzy Choi pushes Seo-hyun toward something she hasn’t allowed herself before: prioritizing her nephew’s happiness over the family’s expectations, tradition be damned. Hi-soo takes Ji-yong on directly in the custody hearing, turning his own manipulative playbook back on him in open court. It’s the most satisfying kind of reversal — earned, specific, and delivered by someone he underestimated.

EP 11

The Long Con

Jun 12, 2021

A run of flashbacks reveals the custody battle was never really about custody — Hi-soo, Ja-kyung, and Seo-hyun staged the whole thing, laying legal groundwork for Hi-soo’s divorce while building a case against Ji-yong in plain sight. It’s a genuinely well-constructed reveal, recontextualizing a dozen earlier scenes without cheating. Three women who spent the first half of the show isolated from each other turn out to have been allies the whole time.

EP 12

Closing In

Jun 13, 2021

With the alliance out in the open, Hi-soo and Seo-hyun start systematically exposing Ji-yong’s unethical business dealings and the uglier parts of his personal history. It’s slower, quieter work than a courtroom showdown, and the show trusts that patience over spectacle. Ji-yong’s authority erodes a little more with every scene, which is its own kind of tension.

EP 13

The Murder Investigation Begins

Jun 19, 2021

The timeline jumps to the aftermath: Ji-yong is dead, Mother Emma has called the police, and Hi-soo claims she can’t remember what happened. Flashbacks fill in his escalating violence and the desperation building around him in the days before. Seo-hyun, in the same episode, tells her husband Jin-ho the truth about her sexuality — and instead of the fallout she’s spent years fearing, they agree to team up against Ji-yong together.

EP 14

Everyone’s a Suspect

Jun 20, 2021

The police investigation widens, and nearly everyone in the Hyowon household turns out to have a plausible reason to want Ji-yong gone. Hi-soo’s amnesia claim draws scrutiny she doesn’t seem eager to resolve. Seo-hyun, meanwhile, manages the family’s public image with the same precision she’s applied to everything else — grief and damage control running in parallel.

EP 15

Two Days Before

Jun 26, 2021

Two days before his death, Ji-yong learns his big appointment has been postponed and refuses to step back, doubling down instead of reading the room. The episode replays the final stretch leading to that night, tightening around exactly how many people he’d pushed past their limit. The question by now is less about motive than about which of them finally acted on it.

EP 16

Glorious Women!

Jun 27, 2021

On the night of Soo-hyuk and Yu-yeon’s engagement, Butler Kim Seong-tae lures Ji-yong to a bunker to poison him and loses his nerve at the last second — but Ji-yong doesn’t need help finding trouble much longer than that. He tries to strangle Hi-soo; housekeeper Joo Min-su intervenes with a fire extinguisher, and in the struggle both Ji-yong and Hi-soo go over a bannister. He doesn’t survive the fall. Seo-hyun arrives, hides the extinguisher, and gets Hi-soo out — the cover-up that opened the whole series finally makes sense from the inside. Six months later, Hi-soo returns to acting in a drama pointedly titled Mine, Seo-hyun takes over as chairperson of Hyowon Group and reconnects openly with Suzy Choi, and Yu-yeon marries into the family on her own terms instead of anyone else’s. The women who spent sixteen episodes being managed, doubted, and underestimated end up owning the story completely.

Everything the finale means, spoilers and all.

What actually happened to Han Ji-yong The bunker poisoning attempt fails — Butler Kim Seong-tae can’t go through with it — but Ji-yong doesn’t leave the mansion peacefully that night regardless. He attacks Hi-soo, housekeeper Joo Min-su intervenes with a fire extinguisher, and both Ji-yong and Hi-soo go over a bannister in the struggle that follows. He dies from the fall; Hi-soo survives, injured. The ‘murder’ the show opened on turns out to be neither premeditated nor entirely anyone’s fault alone — closer to a household finally reaching its breaking point all at once.

Why Seo-hyun covers it up Seo-hyun arrives after the fall, hides the extinguisher, and helps Hi-soo escape before the police can piece together what actually happened. It isn’t really about protecting a crime — it’s about protecting Hi-soo and Ha-joon from a system that’s shown, for sixteen episodes, exactly how it treats women who threaten the family’s image. The cover-up is Seo-hyun’s last and biggest act on Hi-soo’s behalf, closing out the alliance the show built so carefully.

What the murder-mystery framing was actually for Mine spends its back half structured like a whodunit, but the answer was never really the point — the point was watching how many people Ji-yong had pushed hard enough to want him gone. Amnesia, suspicion, and a house full of plausible motives all serve the same idea: a man who spent the whole series controlling everyone around him finally lost that control completely, in every sense.

Where everyone ends up Six months later, Hi-soo makes her acting comeback in a drama pointedly titled Mine, playing a version of getting her life back that the real one only just handed her. Seo-hyun becomes chairperson of Hyowon Group and reconnects openly with Suzy Choi, no longer managing her identity around what the family can tolerate. Soo-hyuk and Yu-yeon marry, with Yu-yeon claiming a place in the family on terms she set herself.

What “Mine” means by the end The title stops being ironic in the finale — every woman in this story ends up owning something Ji-yong spent the whole show trying to take from her: an identity, a company, a marriage, a life. It’s a rare chaebol revenge plot that ends on solidarity instead of a single winner, and that choice is what makes the ending land.