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하이드 (Haideu) · 2024 · South Korea

WriterYoo Bo Ra

DirectorKim Dong Hwi

Episodes12 eps · ~60 min each

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Binge Time12h 0m

AiredMar 23 – Apr 28, 2024

GenreThriller · Mystery · Drama

Content Rating15+

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DisappearanceBetrayalLegal ThrillerCorporate CorruptionRevenge

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A former prosecutor, a vanishing husband, and the neighbor who knows more than she’s letting on.

Lee Bo-young

Na Moon-young

Lead

Lee Mu-saeng

Cha Seong-jae

Lead

Lee Chung-ah

Ha Yeon-joo

Supporting

Lee Min-jae

Do Jin-woo

Supporting

Kim Sang-ho

Baek Min-yub

Supporting

Jo Eun-sol

Cha Bom

Supporting

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

EP 01

The Body That Wasn’t His

Mar 23, 2024

Na Moon-young’s life reads as fully in control — a legal career, a stable marriage, a daughter she adores — until her husband Cha Seong-jae disappears and leaves behind a mountain of unexplained debt. A body surfaces that everyone but Moon-young seems eager to identify as his, and her push for an autopsy gets blocked by a mother-in-law suddenly desperate for cremation. The premiere spends less time on the disappearance itself than on how quickly the people closest to Seong-jae start protecting a secret instead of grieving him.

EP 02

Not Him

Mar 24, 2024

The DNA results confirm what Moon-young suspected: the cremated body wasn’t her husband, and Seong-jae faked his own death. She meets Do Jin-woo, a figure from Seong-jae’s past who clearly knows more than he’s saying, and the financial trail she’s been ignoring turns out to connect to a corporation with its own reasons for wanting Seong-jae gone quietly. The case stops being about grief and starts being about who benefits from a dead man staying dead.

EP 03

Chief Ma’s Ledger

Mar 30, 2024

Confirmation that Seong-jae is alive forces Moon-young into her hardest conversation yet — with the mother-in-law who helped hide it. Her investigation turns up Seong-jae’s partnership with Chief Ma in a money-laundering operation, and the scale of it makes clear this was never a marriage with one small secret. It was a marriage built next to a crime.

EP 04

Two Names, One Man

Mar 31, 2024

Moon-young uses a USB drive of incriminating evidence to take Chief Ma down in court — a real win, if a short-lived one. The bigger discovery is Seong-jae’s identity theft: he’s been living as Hwang Tae-soo, a man from his own past, and her seemingly harmless neighbor Ha Yeon-joo turns out to be threaded through the conspiracy far more deeply than a friendly face should be.

EP 05

What Yeon-joo Wants

Apr 6, 2024

Yeon-joo kidnaps Seong-jae, and the fallout drags Moon-young into tasks she’d never have agreed to under any other circumstances. What she learns along the way is worse than the kidnapping itself: Seong-jae manipulated Jin-woo for months with a false promise to help find his missing daughter, using someone else’s grief as a tool the same way he’s used everyone else’s.

EP 06

The Video

Apr 7, 2024

Moon-young confronts Seong-jae and his parents with video proof of his role in Hwang Tae-soo’s murder — evidence that finally kills any hope of reconciliation. Learning of his affair with Yeon-joo pushes her past investigation and into confrontation, and the scene between the two women is the ugliest, most honest the show has been yet.

EP 07

The Burned Passport

Apr 13, 2024

Seong-jae tries to run, using Hwang Tae-soo’s identity to leave the country, but Jin-woo catches up to him before he can board. The passport burns in the struggle, and with it, Seong-jae’s last clean exit. Moon-young, meanwhile, starts to suspect Yeon-joo’s scheme was never really about Seong-jae at all — that the real target has been her the whole time.

EP 08

Hired by the Enemy

Apr 14, 2024

Yeon-joo maneuvers Moon-young into becoming her legal representative, a move too calculated to be coincidence and too personal to be business. The betrayal of Chairman Choi that follows exposes a network of alliances built to survive exactly this kind of unraveling, and Moon-young realizes she’s been playing a much smaller game than the one actually in motion.

EP 09

Her Father’s Name

Apr 20, 2024

Moon-young and Jin-woo turn their attention to Chairman Choi’s corruption and its ties to Yeon-joo, and the digging finally surfaces a motive with real weight behind it. Yeon-joo’s grudge isn’t random cruelty — it’s rooted in her father’s past and a debt she believes Moon-young’s family owes her, whether Moon-young remembers incurring it or not.

EP 10

The Walls Close In

Apr 21, 2024

Seong-jae’s empire starts collapsing under its own weight, and desperation makes him reckless in ways that finally give Moon-young an opening. She spends the episode building her case methodically against both him and Yeon-joo — not chasing a confrontation, just making sure that when it comes, she wins it.

EP 11

The Safe

Apr 27, 2024

Moon-young partners with Chairman Choi’s own son to crack open Yeon-joo’s hidden safe, turning up evidence that implicates both Choi and Yeon-joo at once. Securing Hwang Tae-soo’s real DNA from Seong-jae’s father closes the last gap in the case — proof that the family’s corruption runs at least one generation deeper than anyone outside it knew.

EP 12

What It Cost

Apr 28, 2024

The finale pushes everyone to the water — literally, aboard the ship where Seong-jae makes his last, most violent move against Yeon-joo. Moon-young intervenes, Jin-woo arrives in time, and the year of prison Moon-young serves for her own evidence tampering reads less like punishment than payment for a truth she chose to chase anyway. She gets her daughter back. It’s not a clean ending, but it’s hers.

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

The confrontation on the ship Cha Seong-jae’s endgame is violence: he corners Ha Yeon-joo aboard a ship intending to eliminate the one person who can still connect him to everything he’s buried. Na Moon-young gets there first, pulling Yeon-joo back from the edge, and Do Jin-woo arrives in time to stop Seong-jae from finishing what he started. It’s the only moment in the finale where the show lets its three central figures — victim, rival, and investigator — occupy the same frame without a lie between them.

The fallout is handed out unevenly, and that’s the point. Moon-young serves a year in prison for manipulating evidence earlier in her own investigation — a debt she pays willingly, having decided the truth was worth the cost. Yeon-joo is incarcerated for her role in the scheme she spent years assembling. Seong-jae escapes prosecution but not consequence: he’s left paralyzed and bedridden in a hospital overseas, alive but stripped of every advantage he built his second identity to protect.

Do Jin-woo’s redemption Jin-woo spends the series being used — first by Seong-jae’s false promise to reunite him with his daughter, then as a pawn in Yeon-joo’s longer game. Joining the police force in the finale isn’t a tidy bow; it’s the show’s argument that the people most thoroughly manipulated by Hide’s central conspiracy are the ones who come out of it clear-eyed about what justice actually requires.

Yeon-joo’s grudge traces back to her father and a wound tied to Moon-young’s own family — the reveal that reframes her as more than a scheming neighbor. She isn’t a villain built from nowhere; she’s a woman who watched Moon-young’s family benefit from something hers lost, and spent years finding the exact leverage point to make that even.

The KDW verdict Moon-young’s reunion with her daughter closes the show on a note of hard-won peace rather than triumph — she gets her family back, but only after burning down the life she thought she had to save it. Hide ends less concerned with punishing its villains than with showing what it costs the people who refuse to look away from an inconvenient truth.