Good Partner

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Good Partner

굿파트너 (Gut Pateuneo) · 2024 · South Korea

WriterChoi Yu-na

DirectorKim Ga-ram

Episodes16 eps · ~70 min each

⏱️ Binge Time18h 40m

AiredJul 12 – Sep 20, 2024

GenreLegal Drama · Comedy · Workplace

Content Rating15+

Netflix
Viki

Divorce
Female Leads
Workplace
Mentor-Mentee
Infidelity
Family

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Twelve performances across a story about marriage, justice, and what it means to truly show up for someone.

Jang Na-ra

Cha Eun-gyeong

Lead

Pyo Ji-hoon

Jeon Eun-ho

Lead

Nam Ji-hyun

Han Yu-ri

Lead

Kim Jun-han

Jeong Woo-jin

Supporting

Ji Seung-hyun

Kim Ji-sang

Antagonist

Han Jae-yi

Choi Sa-ra

Antagonist

Ahn Soo-eun

Ahn Soo-eun

Supporting

Lee Duk-hee

Yoo Ji-young’s Mom

Supporting

Kim Hye-yoon

Special Appearance

Supporting

Park Hae-jin

Special Appearance

Supporting

Bae Yu-ram

Park Chan-sung

Supporting

Youn Sang-hyun

Park Seo-jin

Supporting

Spoiler-light recaps — enough to remember where you left off, nothing that ruins the ride.

EP 01

The Divorce Specialist

July 12, 2024 · SBS

Cha Eun-gyeong is introduced as the attorney everyone at Daejung Law Firm fears and no one wants to be assigned to — a precise, cold-running machine who has driven away every junior lawyer she has ever trained. Han Yu-ri arrives full of idealism and immediately ends up in exactly the wrong place. The episode ends on a revelation that makes both women’s positions far more complicated than they appeared.

EP 02

The First Case

July 12, 2024 · SBS

Yu-ri is thrown into her first real case — an infidelity dispute that quickly grows murkier than expected. Her idealism runs headfirst into Eun-gyeong’s methodology, and the gap between legal victory and moral satisfaction becomes the episode’s central question. Yu-ri wins the case her way — and immediately isn’t sure it was the right outcome.

EP 03

Mirror Image

July 19, 2024 · SBS

The firm takes on a new case that maps uncomfortably closely onto Eun-gyeong’s own domestic situation — a husband’s emotional distance and suspicious behaviour she has been expertly not-looking-at. Jang Na-ra plays this double-layer of awareness and denial beautifully. Yu-ri pushes with moral conviction while Eun-gyeong retreats further into professional detachment.

EP 04

The Blame Game

July 19, 2024 · SBS

The new client — a cheating husband attempting to frame his loyal wife as the reason the marriage collapsed — is the kind of case that forces Yu-ri to contain herself physically. The drama is at its sharpest when the courtroom cases reflect Eun-gyeong’s home life at an angle. Back at the firm, suspicion about Ji-sang and Sa-ra begins hardening into something Eun-gyeong can no longer file away.

EP 05

Framed

July 26, 2024 · SBS

A client is actively being set up by her cheating spouse, who has coordinated with his affair partner to make her look unstable and unreliable in court. The evidentiary puzzle gives both lawyers something to work together on — and the first genuine team dynamic between Eun-gyeong and Yu-ri starts to emerge, tentative and competitive but real.

EP 06

Checkmate

July 26, 2024 · SBS

Eun-gyeong lands her most satisfying legal manoeuvre yet — giving the opposing side exactly what they asked for before pulling the rug from under them entirely. Separately, she confronts Ji-sang directly about the affair. The custody question over their daughter becomes real. This episode is the show’s first major turning point, and Jang Na-ra carries the confrontation scene with complete authority.

EP 07

Decisions

August 2, 2024 · SBS

Rather than filing immediately, Eun-gyeong chooses to observe and collect information — the same strategic patience she applies to cases, now turned inward. Ji-sang begins to feel the consequences of Sa-ra’s true motivations becoming visible. The episode peels back the professional composure Eun-gyeong has maintained for years and shows just how much it has cost her.

EP 08

Rising Stakes

August 2, 2024 · SBS

The firm’s cases grow more high-profile, and both professional and personal pressure converge on Eun-gyeong simultaneously. This episode pulled the drama’s highest nationwide ratings up to that point — 14.6% — and the reason is clear: the storytelling finds a rhythm where the courtroom tension and the domestic pain are no longer separate narratives but one continuous pressure. The show found its full gear here.

EP 09

Double-Edged

August 9, 2024 · SBS

The romantic subplot between Yu-ri and Eun-ho gets room to breathe — and it’s warmer and less dramatised than K-drama convention usually demands. A new custody battle case forces both lawyers to weigh legal strategy against a child’s emotional reality. Eun-gyeong watching how custody disputes play out from the outside, while living through one herself, is handled with real subtlety.

EP 10

Accountability

August 9, 2024 · SBS

Ji-sang’s reckoning arrives — not in a courtroom but in a devastatingly quiet conversation with his young daughter. The emotional punch here is one of the series’ best moments and it doesn’t rely on raised voices or dramatic music. Eun-gyeong and Ji-sang reach a preliminary understanding on shared custody centred entirely on their daughter. Sa-ra’s spiral intensifies.

EP 11

Unlikely Sympathy

August 16, 2024 · SBS

Sa-ra, who has functioned as the story’s clearest antagonist, becomes unexpectedly legible here. The episode gives her circumstances and vulnerabilities that don’t excuse her behaviour but explain it — and Han Jae-yi plays the shift without over-sentimentalising. Eun-gyeong begins to let her emotional guard down in small, visible ways. The tonal warmth the drama has always promised is starting to arrive.

EP 12

Shadows of Power

August 16, 2024 · SBS

The firm takes on its darkest case: a wealthy, well-connected man who has been systematically abusing his wife, protected entirely by status and institutional silence. The victim enters the episode predicting, matter-of-factly, that her husband will eventually kill her. Good Partner’s most pointed social commentary arrives here — the episode is a direct, angry examination of how wealth protects abusers and silences the people they hurt.

EP 13

No Escape

August 23, 2024 · SBS

The domestic violence case reaches its most harrowing point. The legal team works urgently to keep the victim safe while systematically dismantling the abuser’s wall of protection — and the episode refuses to make any of it easy or clean. Both Yu-ri and Eun-gyeong are visibly affected in ways that carry into the episodes that follow. The two-episode arc is the best sustained stretch of storytelling the drama produces.

EP 14

New Beginnings

August 23, 2024 · SBS

The aftermath of the domestic violence case changes how both lawyers approach their work. Eun-gyeong takes concrete steps toward rebuilding her life on her own terms — and there is a lightness in Jang Na-ra’s performance here that has been earned, not manufactured. Yu-ri’s growth as a lawyer is now visible in every scene. She’s stopped being the rookie trying to keep up and started being someone worth watching.

EP 15

Letting Go

September 13, 2024 · SBS

A final case about a couple who simply want different things from life — and the most graceful resolution the firm has handled all series. The episode makes its argument quietly: that the most dignified ending to a partnership can be a mutual, respectful release. Eun-ho and Yu-ri’s feelings become clear to everyone around them. The show’s warmth is now its dominant register.

EP 16

Good Partners

September 20, 2024 · SBS

Eun-gyeong finalises her divorce with Ji-sang — a process that is dignified, adult, and entirely centred on their daughter’s wellbeing. Freed from the weight she has been carrying for years, she is a sharper and warmer version of herself simultaneously. Yu-ri stands beside her — not in her shadow — as a genuine partner. Eun-ho and Yu-ri acknowledge their feelings without melodrama. Jung U-jin chooses integrity. The finale is breezy and optimistic by design — and it earns every bit of it.

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

The Divorce That Was Never a Failure. Good Partner’s finale centres on the formalisation of something the drama has been quietly arguing all along: that ending a marriage with clarity and mutual respect is not a defeat. Cha Eun-gyeong and Kim Ji-sang sign their divorce papers in a scene that is almost conspicuously undramatic — no screaming, no doorstep confrontation, no final attempt to salvage something that was already gone. Their agreement is built entirely around their daughter Kim Jae-hee, and the shared custody arrangement they reach is mature in a way K-drama resolutions almost never are. Ji-sang gets to be a present father. Eun-gyeong gets to stop performing a version of her life that was never quite real.

Sa-ra’s Exit — Complicated. Choi Sa-ra leaves the series not as a villain who is punished but as a person who ran out of road. The drama resists making her a simple home-wrecker from the start — the episodes that humanise her in the second half earn that resistance — and the finale extends the same complexity to her departure. She is isolated, unstable, and genuinely difficult to watch. But Good Partner refuses to grant her an easy redemption arc either. She simply leaves, carrying the weight of what she did and what was done to her, and the show lets that ambiguity sit without resolving it into a lesson.

Yu-ri and Eun-gyeong — The Relationship That Actually Matters. What begins as an antagonistic mentor-mentee pairing ends as something the drama calls out directly in its title: partnership. Han Yu-ri in the finale is not a junior version of Cha Eun-gyeong — she is a different kind of lawyer entirely, and the show has been careful to preserve that distinction. She hasn’t become Eun-gyeong. She has become herself, with Eun-gyeong’s hard edges as one of the shaping forces. The two share a scene near the end that doesn’t require much dialogue to communicate everything the series has been building toward. Jung U-jin, meanwhile, makes the choice the drama has been quietly setting up for him: he walks away from ambition toward something harder to name but clearly more important.

What the Drama Was Actually About. Eun-ho and Yu-ri acknowledge their feelings for each other without any of the manufactured crisis K-drama convention usually demands — it happens in the kind of low-key, slightly awkward way that real emotional moments usually do. The final image the show leaves us with is Cha Eun-gyeong arriving at work — the same firm, the same role, but carrying herself differently. Lighter. More present. The camera holds on her for a moment before cutting. There is no triumphant music cue, no dramatic conclusion. Just a woman who has decided to stop managing her own life at arm’s length and start actually living it. The best legal drama of 2024, and one of the year’s quietest achievements.