Queen of Divorce

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Queen of Divorce

끝내주는 해결사 (Kkeutnaejuneun Haegyeolsa) · 2024 · South Korea

WriterJung Hee-sun

DirectorPark Jin-suk

Episodes12 eps · ~70 min each

Where to Watch✅ Viki, Kocowa, Netflix, Apple TV+

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Binge Time14h 0m

AiredJan 31 – Mar 7, 2024

GenreLegal · Romance · Comedy

Content Rating15+

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RevengeDivorceJusticeInvestigationBetrayal

The short version — everything that matters, boxed up.

The divorce fixer, her ex-turned-partner, and the family that framed her.

Lee Ji-ah

Kim Sa-ra

Lead

Oh Min-suk

Noh Yul-sung

Lead

Kang Ki-young

Dong Gi-jun

Supporting

Kim Sun-young

Son Jang-mi

Supporting

Lee Tae-gu

Kwon Dae-gi

Supporting

Lee Doo-seok

Park Jin-woo

Supporting

Seo Hye-won

Kang Beom

Supporting

Park Sun-im

Jang Hee-jin

Supporting

Na Young-hee

Cha Hee-won

Supporting

Kang Ae-sim

Park Jeong-sook

Supporting

Jeong Min-jun

No Seo-yoon

Supporting

Lee Seo-an

Han Ji-in

Supporting

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

EP 01

The Conscience That Cost Her Everything

Jan 31, 2024

Kim Sa-ra spends this episode trying to earn her mother-in-law’s approval — right up until she wins a case for a domestic abuse victim her own firm was supposed to be defending the abuser in. That’s the real offense, as far as Chairwoman Cha and Sa-ra’s husband Yul-sung are concerned: a daughter-in-law with a conscience. They frame her for fraud, strip her of her son, and send her to prison before the episode is over.

EP 02

The Fixer

Feb 1, 2024

Prison becomes the origin story: Sa-ra comes out as a divorce troubleshooter at a firm called Solution, and her very first case puts her directly against her old law firm and her ex-husband. Prosecutor Dong Gi-jun, the man she left for Yul-sung years ago, is investigating a separate death that keeps circling back to the same family. By the end of the episode he’s walked away from the prosecutor’s office to join her firm instead — professionally, for now.

EP 03

The Pregnancy She Never Mentioned

Feb 7, 2024

Solution’s first real case together involves a novelist divorcing a news anchor who’s faking his own injuries — Sa-ra beats him with drone footage and a hospital ambush, and it lands exactly as satisfying as it sounds. Yul-sung starts using their son to pressure her into backing off. The episode drops its biggest reveal almost in passing — Sa-ra chose him over Gi-jun because she was pregnant, not love — right before his current wife walks into Solution asking for help.

EP 04

A Mirror of Her Own Marriage

Feb 8, 2024

Han Ji-in’s divorce case is a mirror of Sa-ra’s own marriage, right down to a husband hiding a secret and threatening to use it. Sa-ra takes the case partly out of principle and partly because Ji-in is dangling information about her son. Working the case forces Sa-ra and Gi-jun to remember, professionally, what they used to like about each other. Yul-sung, meanwhile, just wants his second divorce handled quietly enough not to derail his political ambitions.

EP 05

The Kiss That Wasn’t About Him

Feb 14, 2024

Yul-sung finds leverage on Ji-in and turns it into a campaign; Sa-ra refuses to let her lose, treating it like a referendum on her own case. The show explains Kwon Dae-gi’s loyalty at last — he’s the leukemia patient Sa-ra unknowingly saved with a prison stem-cell donation. Gi-jun gets jealous over a misread hug, then learns the real reason he joined Solution. Sa-ra kisses him mid-argument, purely because Yul-sung is watching.

EP 06

Flipping the Case

Feb 15, 2024

An influencer walks into Solution asking for a divorce and turns out to actually want her old flame Gi-jun back, which Sa-ra clocks immediately. Instead of helping the client divorce her husband, Solution flips the case and helps the husband divorce her — a first for the firm, and a good demonstration of what makes this show fun instead of grim. The public exposé of her affair is dramatic on purpose. It’s the lightest hour of the season, and it earns the break.

EP 07

Two Cases, One Man

Feb 21, 2024

Yul-sung’s law school ambitions send Sa-ra to a political rival for help, and the rival turns out to have her own divorce problem — a husband entangled in a cult. Solution goes undercover to take the cult down while Gi-jun keeps pulling on the thread of the earlier death investigation, eventually getting hold of a phone that links Yul-sung directly to a professor’s attempted suicide. Two separate cases start converging on the same man, from two different directions.

EP 08

The Cruelest Kind of Retaliation

Feb 22, 2024

The cult exposé succeeds publicly, even if one husband stays devoted to his fraud of a pastor — a small, realistic note in an otherwise triumphant episode. Sa-ra’s campaign against Yul-sung’s image escalates, so he retaliates the only way that actually hurts her: convincing her son she abandoned him. Gi-jun and Ji-in both step in to help her reach him, and Yul-sung ends the episode with a proposal that changes the shape of the show.

EP 09

Her Mother’s Name

Feb 28, 2024

Grief opens onto the season’s real mystery: on her mother’s death anniversary, Gi-jun discovers Sa-ra’s mother was the missing informant in his case — and that the mistress’s death ruled a suicide was very likely murder. A former coworker becomes the key to unraveling it. The revenge plot against one man turns personal: proof her mother knew what this family was capable of years before she did.

EP 10

Remarried for Evidence

Feb 29, 2024

Sa-ra remarries Yul-sung and moves back into his house, against everyone at Solution’s objections, because it’s the only way back inside to find evidence. It’s the biggest risk the show has let her take, staged as pure procedure rather than romance. A distinctive pair of sneakers becomes her first real lead connecting both deaths. Gi-jun storms out over the plan, then comes back anyway, because leaving was never actually an option for him.

EP 11

Turning Mother Against Son

Mar 6, 2024

The truth lands hard: Yul-sung pushed Sa-ra’s mother off a roof during an argument over evidence, and Sa-ra uses that knowledge to turn him against his own mother instead of confronting him directly. It works — he’s arrested for orchestrating his mistress’s murder and immediately tries to pin it on Chairwoman Cha, taking her down with him. A former spy exposes his manipulation of the dead woman in front of the investors he cares about most.

EP 12

An Actual Life Afterward

Mar 7, 2024

The finale is mostly cleanup: a hidden ledger exposes Yul-sung’s financial crimes, he kidnaps Sa-ra’s son to get it back, and she outsmarts him with a fake copy while the real one reaches investigators anyway. He escalates to kidnapping Sa-ra herself to force a false confession, and Gi-jun’s team arrives just in time. Yul-sung goes to prison for all of it — the fraud, the murders — and Sa-ra gets the ending revenge dramas rarely bother earning: an actual life afterward.

Spoilers ahead — the finale, broken down in full.

What Actually Happened Yul-sung is arrested for the murders of both his mistress Na Yu-mi and Sa-ra’s mother, plus a mountain of financial crimes exposed through a ledger Sa-ra smuggles out under his nose. Chairwoman Cha goes down with him, betrayed by her own son’s attempt to shift the blame onto her. Sa-ra survives a final kidnapping attempt with Gi-jun’s team arriving in time, and the finale closes on her and Gi-jun finally together, with her son back and her name cleared.

Why the Ledger Matters More Than the Arrest Queen of Divorce spends its first half as an episodic divorce-of-the-week show and its second half as a straight revenge thriller, and the ledger is where those two shows actually meet. It’s not just evidence of Yul-sung’s crimes — it’s the same kind of paperwork-as-weapon that Sa-ra has been using on cheating spouses all season, just pointed at a bigger target. The finale rewards the legal-procedural version of the show for training its heroine correctly.

The Mother Reveal Recontextualizes the Whole Season Finding out Sa-ra’s mother died protecting the same evidence her daughter spends the whole show chasing turns Solution’s cases-of-the-week into something less coincidental than they first appeared. Sa-ra was always going to end up here — the show just waited eleven episodes to say so out loud. It’s a gamble that mostly pays off, less because the reveal itself is shocking and more because it makes her earlier refusal to give up on other people’s divorces feel like inherited instinct rather than a job.

What Happens to Everyone Else Han Ji-in gets the cleanest ending of any secondary character — free of Yul-sung, credited for helping take him down instead of just surviving him. Kwon Dae-gi’s stem-cell backstory pays off as more than a one-episode curiosity; his loyalty to Sa-ra reads as earned rather than convenient by the time the finale rolls around. Chairwoman Cha gets no redemption arc at all, which is the correct call for a character who spent the entire series choosing her son’s ambition over her daughter-in-law’s life.

The KDW Verdict Queen of Divorce works best read as two shows stitched together — a satisfying case-of-the-week legal comedy for the first half, a tighter revenge thriller for the second — and the seam between them mostly holds. It doesn’t reinvent the wronged-wife revenge genre, but it treats its heroine’s competence as the whole point rather than a stepping stone to rescue, and Lee Ji-ah sells every version of Sa-ra the script asks her to play.