Sorry Not Sorry

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Sorry Not Sorry

오늘도 지송합니다 (Oneuldo Jisonghammida) · 2024 · South Korea

WriterJo Yoo-Jin, Choi Ryong, Min Ji-Young

DirectorMin Ji-Young

Episodes12 eps · ~60 min each

Where to Watch✅ Netflix, Kocowa (Prime Video), OnDemandKorea, Apple TV+, Prime Video

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Binge Time12h 0m

AiredDec 5, 2024 – Feb 27, 2025

GenreComedy · Romance · Drama

Content Rating15+

KBS JoyNetflixKocowa (Prime Video)OnDemandKoreaAmasian TVApple TV+Prime Video

DivorceFake MarriageSingle ParenthoodFemale FriendshipNew Town Life

The whole picture, condensed into one box.

A fake happy marriage, a real messy divorce, and the friendships that get her through both.

Jeon So-min

Ji Song-yi

Lead

Gong Min-jeung

Choi Ha-na

Lead

Jang He-ryung

Ahn Chan-yang

Supporting

Choi Daniel

Cha Hyeon-woo

Supporting

Kim Moo-joon

Kim Yee-an

Supporting

Joo Ah-reum

Ji Eun-gyoo

Supporting

Yoon Ye-hee

Park Mi-ran

Supporting

Kim Soy

Shannon’s Mom

Supporting

Lee Geon-moon

Ji Pal-wook

Supporting

Woo Kang-min

Bae Seong-tae

Supporting

Yeom Ji-young

Ethan’s Mom

Supporting

Chu Ha-yeon

Louis’s Mom

Supporting

Just enough per episode to remember where things stood.

EP 01

58 Days and a Mortgage

A 58-day marriage that ends in divorce leaves Ji Song-yi holding the debt on a “newlywed home” she barely got to live in. To dodge the judgmental kindergarten moms at nephew Jay’s school — dumped on her by her sister without warning — she starts pretending to be a happily married mother. A decade-later reunion with childhood best friend Ha-na and the discovery that her ex-boyfriend now lives one floor up round out a premiere built entirely on things Song-yi never asked for.

EP 02

The Gym Encounter

Song-yi’s new normal gets its first real gut-punch: an accidental run-in with her ex Jin-ho and his very attractive wife at the building gym. Ha-na’s kids land in Song-yi’s care too, tightening a friendship that’s only just been rebuilt, while the kindergarten mothers turn Song-yi into a favorite subject of gossip she can’t correct without blowing her cover. Ha-na, meanwhile, is quietly drowning in her own crisis — a work emergency and a surprise third pregnancy she hasn’t fully processed.

EP 03

A Fortune, a Favor, a Feud

Jin-ho corners Song-yi for relationship advice about his sexless marriage — his wife Chan-yang would rather stare at her iPad — which is exactly the kind of favor an ex has no right to ask. Lonely and stuck, Song-yi weighs her dating options, including her much-younger boss, before Ha-na talks her into a fortune-telling session instead. The real development is quieter: her running bickering with neighbor Cha Hyun-woo, the divorce lawyer who almost handled her case, starts curdling into something that looks a lot like chemistry.

EP 04

The Handcuff Key Incident

An innocent errand — delivering handcuff keys to Jin-ho at a motel — spirals into public chaos when a furious stranger mistakes Song-yi for the other woman, and the police get involved before Jin-ho can mortifyingly explain himself. Back at the kindergarten, Song-yi’s sister finally lets Kim Yi-an stand in as Jay’s father for sports day, and Ha-na and Yi-an improvise an elaborate cover story — Song-yi’s husband is apparently a wealthy New York businessman now — that leaves Song-yi speechless at her own fictional life.

EP 05

Wrong Guy, Right Club

Song-yi joins a running club hoping for something real, and finds Cha Hyun-woo there instead. On the walk home, the two of them mistake Ha-na’s husband for an escaped convict and end up accidentally helping catch the actual fugitive — the kind of chaos this show treats as a normal Tuesday. Chan-yang, having learned about Song-yi’s history with Jin-ho, invites her and Ha-na out anyway and admits, plainly, how lonely she’s been. It’s the episode where the show’s real engine — three women slowly becoming real friends — clicks into place.

EP 06

What Her Husband Didn’t Say

Ha-na’s crisis stops being abstract: her husband lost everything — mortgage funds, business savings, all of it — in a secret cryptocurrency bet, and she finds out only after the money’s gone. Pregnant, betrayed, and unable to face her own family with it, she runs, and it’s Song-yi who finds her and refuses to let her sit with it alone. Cha Hyun-woo, brought in as her divorce lawyer, doesn’t try to talk Ha-na out of leaving — he validates her instead, and mentions his own divorce in passing, which lands harder on Song-yi than either of them expects.

EP 07

The After-Kiss Phase

Yi-an plays dumb about the kiss he and Song-yi shared, which leaves her more flustered than the kiss itself did, and he actively steers her away from Ha-na and Chan-yang’s attempt at forensic “kiss analysis” at the cafe. Elsewhere, the neighborhood’s mom group fractures over a viral influencer scandal, small-town drama with real stakes for Song-yi’s social standing. The bigger shift is professional: Hyun-woo offers Song-yi a job at his law office, and the closer proximity turns their bickering into something closer to actual intimacy, drinks and old divorces included.

EP 08

The Truth at the Birthday Party

Hyun-woo gets folded into Song-yi’s family at a 60th birthday celebration that goes sideways the moment her ex-husband shows up begging her parents for a reconciliation they don’t understand the real reason for. Song-yi finally tells them about the affair, and Hyun-woo backs her up on the record — the court upheld it, he confirms, no ambiguity left — while threatening a restraining order to get the ex out of the picture for good. Her sister Eun-gyu adds her own confession, and the episode ends on Song-yi and Hyun-woo noticeably, tenderly closer.

EP 09

The Rumor Mill

A new rumor rips through the kindergarten circuit: Song-yi and her sister are apparently a couple, and Song-yi has to decide whether correcting it is worth exposing the actual, more complicated truth. Chan-yang drops her own bombshell to Song-yi and Ha-na — she’s seriously considering getting pregnant — reshuffling the emotional balance among the three women right as each of them is quietly renegotiating what they actually want. It’s a smaller episode, but it’s doing real work on what honesty costs each of them.

EP 10

Sabotaging the Viewing

Song-yi starts house-hunting, ready to leave Cheonpo and the messy, hard-won life she’s built there — and Hyun-woo, realizing exactly how much he doesn’t want her to go, quietly sabotages her apartment viewings rather than say so out loud. Jin-ho clocks what he’s doing and tells him to just confess already. Ha-na, in a smaller but pointed subplot, helps another mother recognize how much of herself she’s lost inside her marriage. It builds to Hyun-woo blocking Song-yi’s door and finally saying the thing he’s been avoiding all season: stay.

EP 11

What the Timing Meant

Song-yi’s decision to move sets off a chain reaction nobody saw coming — Chan-yang realizes her sudden urge to get pregnant was really about not wanting Song-yi to leave, and Song-yi, recognizing that same feeling of being stuck, doesn’t judge her for it. Yi-an finally confesses his feelings the moment Song-yi hands in her resignation, and she has to tell him, gently, that she’s already fallen for someone else. Ha-na leaves too, heading to her mother’s after giving birth, a reminder that this friendship was never going to need proximity to survive.

EP 12

The Barbecue

Song-yi spends the finale’s first half avoiding Hyun-woo entirely, and he reads her silence as anything but what it actually is — panic about her own feelings, not indifference. A misunderstanding involving another woman nearly wrecks the timing for good, until Song-yi stops hiding and lets herself be genuinely, if awkwardly, honest with him. She calls off the house sale, chooses the life she accidentally built instead of the one she planned, and the season closes on a backyard barbecue with her friends around her — Ha-na included, by phone — while Chan-yang starts writing the steamy novel Jin-ho’s been quietly helping with.

Full spoilers from this point — what happened, and why.

How Sorry Not Sorry actually ends Song-yi calls off the sale of her house and chooses to stay in Cheonpo — not because her original plan failed, but because the life she accidentally built there turned out to matter more than the one she’d been planning to run to. She and Cha Hyun-woo get past a last-minute misunderstanding (him seen with another woman, her assuming the worst) by finally being honest instead of avoidant, and the finale closes on a backyard barbecue with her real support system around her: Ha-na on speakerphone, Chan-yang, her family, Hyun-woo.

Why the ending keeps her in the neighborhood she was trying to escape The house sale was never really about the mortgage — it was Song-yi’s last attempt to outrun the version of her life that started with a 58-day marriage and a pile of debt. The show spends its finale making the case that the version of Cheonpo she was trying to leave doesn’t exist anymore; it’s been replaced, episode by episode, by an actual community she built through the lie rather than despite it. Staying isn’t settling. It’s the first choice she’s made all season that isn’t a reaction to something done to her.

Song-yi and Hyun-woo, finally without the bickering as cover Their relationship spends most of the season hiding behind bickering, professional proximity, and Hyun-woo’s inability to just say what he wants — the apartment-viewing sabotage in episode 10 is the show’s clearest tell that his feelings outpaced his willingness to admit them. The finale’s misunderstanding over another woman almost repeats that same pattern, except this time Song-yi doesn’t let the assumption stand. She confronts it directly, and that directness — not a grand romantic gesture — is what actually closes the gap between them.

What happens to Ha-na and Chan-yang Neither friend gets a tidy bow. Ha-na leaves for her mother’s after giving birth, having divorced the husband who gambled away their savings, and the show treats her rebuilding as ongoing rather than finished by the finale — a deliberate choice, not an oversight. Chan-yang, having realized her own baby urgency was really about not wanting to lose Song-yi, redirects that energy into writing, with Jin-ho — Song-yi’s ex, now firmly repositioned as a minor, harmless presence — helping edit her steamy novel. Both women end the season more honest with themselves than they started it.

The KDW verdict Sorry Not Sorry spends twelve episodes on a lie — happily married, financially fine, totally in control — and ends by arguing that the truth Song-yi eventually tells is worth more than any version of “having it together” she could have faked. The final barbecue isn’t a fairy-tale reward for enduring hardship; it’s just what an honest life around honest people actually looks like, messier and louder than the fiction she started the show hiding behind.