The Goddess of Revenge

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The Goddess of Revenge

복수해라 (Boksuhaera) · 2020 · South Korea

WriterKim Hyo-jin

DirectorKang Min-koo

Episodes16 eps · ~65 min each

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Binge Time17h 20m

AiredNov 21, 2020 – Jan 17, 2021

GenreDrama · Mystery · Revenge

Content Rating15+

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The avengers, the heirs, and the family caught between them.

Kim Sa-rang

Kang Hae-ra

Lead

Yoon Hyun-min

Cha Min-joon

Lead

Yu Seon

Kim Tae-on

Supporting

Jeong Man-sik

Kim Sang-goo

Supporting

Jang Yoo-sang

Choi Do-yoon

Supporting

Park Eun-hye

Cha Yi-hyun

Supporting

Jung Hyeon-jun

Lee Ga-on

Supporting

Jung Eui-jae

Kim Hyun-sung

Supporting

Baek Seoung-hee

Song Sun-mi

Supporting

Yang Jung-yeon

Young Kang Hae-ra

Supporting

Kim Kwang-shik

Mr. Choi

Supporting

Quick recaps per episode — just enough to stay caught up.

EP 01

A Husband’s Perfect Setup

Nov 21, 2020

Kang Hae-ra has twelve good years as the wife of a famous MC, and a show of her own is about to make her more than his shadow. Then a friendly drink with a fan after an autograph event turns into a next-morning ambush by reporters, all asking about her “affair.” She walks into a detective agency expecting a mistake and walks out knowing the trap was built by her own husband.

EP 02

Please Continue

Nov 22, 2020

Hoon-seok’s affair is exposed on Hae-ra’s own channel, and he answers by suing her. Lawyer Cha Min-joon steps in with an offer: keep the revenge channel running. Television will not have her back and her son’s tuition still has to be paid, so the woman who was supposed to be a host becomes a one-person avenger on a livestream.

EP 03

Ga-on Is Not My Son

Nov 28, 2020

Min-joon takes on the sexual assault case against CEO Song and his secretary Seung-joo. Hae-ra, hit by a car, ends up in the same hospital where Seung-joo has just survived a suicide attempt. Meanwhile Hoon-seok stages a press conference to announce that Ga-on is not his son, which he uses as a ladder toward the top job at FBC. Hae-ra works out who introduced Seung-joo to the CEO, and that she is now begging for help.

EP 04

The Secret Room

Nov 29, 2020

To get evidence against CEO Song, Hae-ra takes a job as his secretary. It works: she finds a hidden room in his office and footage of the assaults. It also ends badly, because the CEO catches her in the middle of it. The episode is all about how close she gets, and how little cover she has once she is inside.

EP 05

Debts Unpaid

Dec 5, 2020

Hae-ra exposes CEO Song on her channel, yet neither he nor Tae-on ends up punished the way she wanted. Then she and Min-joon meet Jeong-woo, a high schooler who works around the clock. A misunderstanding makes Hae-ra refuse to help him while Eun-hye offers support, and the disagreement leaves a crack between the two women.

EP 06

The Revenge Team

Dec 6, 2020

Hae-ra learns her own debt has been taken over by Happy Credit, which changes how she sees Jeong-woo’s situation, and she decides to help him after all. Eun-hye and Hyun-sung join her livestream operation, and a loose arrangement becomes a proper revenge team.

EP 07

After the Broadcast

Dec 12, 2020

Hae-ra goes undercover in an illegal collection agency, finds an organ auction, and brings Inspector Jang and her team in so that the kidnapping and the sales go out live. The case closes with a win. Min-joon, who has seen how little she thinks about her own injuries when a client is at stake, starts to worry about the trauma she is carrying and pretending not to.

EP 08

Clearing the Obstacles

Dec 13, 2020

President Kim will not leave his post and Hae-ra keeps getting in Tae-on’s way. Tae-on’s answer is to have Mr. Kang remove both obstacles, the president and Hae-ra, and the episode makes clear that the Kim family has stopped caring how it keeps control.

EP 09

The Truck Driver

Dec 19, 2020

News of an accident sends Min-joon straight to one suspect: FB Group. Eun-hye and Hyun-sung go looking for the person behind the wheel and learn that the truck driver belongs to Happy Credit, the same lender that has been circling Hae-ra since the start.

EP 10

A Boy’s Real Parents

Dec 26, 2020

Min-joon finds out that Ga-on, the boy Hae-ra raised for eleven years, is the biological son of his sister Cha Yi-hyun and Kim Sang-goo. He brings Ga-on home from Canada and puts him in front of Sang-goo, who tries to buy Hae-ra out of her custody. She holds on to the years she put in, and the revenge plan she was ready to shelve picks up again.

EP 11

The Heir Nobody Planned For

Jan 2, 2021

Tae-on learns that Ga-on is her father’s child, and a missing sibling suddenly threatens her claim on FB Group. She is furious that her fixer never dealt with Yi-hyun and the baby cleanly. The episode is a succession story at heart: the one person Tae-on cannot afford is a boy who just wants a family.

EP 12

The Warehouse Fire

Jan 3, 2021

Sang-goo shows up at Gusan Planning to find Ga-on, and Hae-ra mentions a warehouse fire from eleven years ago. His reaction tells her he has doubts about that night, too. As she and Eun-hye start digging, Tae-on’s side snatches Mr. Gu to put pressure on Eun-hye.

EP 13

Misread

Jan 9, 2021

Through Mr. Gu, Min-joon starts to understand what passed between Hae-ra and his sister, and it throws him. Hyun-sung slips into Min-joon’s office and learns that Min-joon came to Hae-ra for his own revenge. The alliance that runs the whole drama is suddenly resting on a secret.

EP 14

Brake Failure

Jan 10, 2021

On the way to a memorial service for Sang-goo’s mother, the car carrying Sang-goo and Ga-on loses control. Hae-ra and Min-joon suspect FB is behind it. Hae-ra races to the hospital and fights Tae-on over moving them to an FB-run facility, declaring that she is Ga-on’s mother.

EP 15

Going Live

Jan 16, 2021

The Gusan team plans to expose Tae-on’s crimes through broadcast and live-stream while getting Ga-on out of the care facility at the same time. The two jobs depend on each other, and neither one can slip. It is the quiet build before the finale, with the plan laid out and every piece waiting for a signal.

EP 16

The Final Revenge

Jan 17, 2021

Tae-on corners Hae-ra and believes she is winning, but Hae-ra started streaming the moment she got into the ambulance. Between Mr. Choi’s confession and Min-joon’s move on the board, FB’s heir loses the company she tried to take by force. Hae-ra signs off the story the way she started it, with the channel still open.

Full spoilers ahead — everything that happens in the finale and what it all means.

What actually happened Tae-on finally corners Hae-ra, convinced she has seen through the plan and can be finished. But Hae-ra saw that coming and started a live broadcast the moment she got into the ambulance. Viewers watch Tae-on try to wriggle out of an emergency arrest tied to the attempts on Kim Sang-goo and Ga-on, and the lie plays out in front of the audience Hae-ra spent the whole drama building.

Who falls with her Mr. Choi’s confession ties Tae-on to the murder of Cha Yi-hyun and stops her from walking into the CEO’s chair she was about to take. Sang-goo is left in a coma after a betrayal by his own daughter, and Mr. Choi gives up his freedom in exchange for the chance to put her behind bars. The court of public opinion and the court of evidence finally agree on the same person.

Min-joon’s move Min-joon, as Ga-on’s only family and legal guardian, uses the stock Sang-goo gave the boy to call an emergency board meeting and move to remove Tae-on as representative director. He also puts dismantling FB Group on the table as the ultimate punishment. After a whole drama as a lawyer who wins by being cold, his final act is an inheritance fight fought on behalf of a child.

What it means The ending answers a question that the drama keeps circling: is revenge a private act or a public one? Hae-ra’s channel has been a way to give the wronged a witness, and the finale is the version where the target is the one with everything to lose from being watched. Min-joon’s arc is the counterweight. He first treated Hae-ra as a tool for his sister’s case and ends as the partner who protects her.

The last image Hae-ra does not retire. She decides to keep running the channel until nobody has to swear revenge again, and Min-joon promises to stay at her side. It is a tidy and warm close rather than a bleak one, and some viewers found it a little too neat for such a harsh story. The Kim family is broken, the survivors have each other, and the channel stays on.