Kim Ji-seok and Lee Min-jung's Divorce Drama Ends With a Surprise Courtroom Reversal

The finale of Okay, Let's Divorce landed on the 24th with a scene that inverted everything the divorce proceedings had seemed to be building toward. In the family court mediation room, attorney Bae Soo-ji (Ahn Nae-sang) declared on behalf of Ji Won-ho (Kim Ji-seok) that a property settlement of 790 million won was "too little" and that he would only accept it on condition that Baek Mi-young (Lee Min-jung) take control of the company. Baek Mi-young's response was to refuse the management stake outright. Both sides, in other words, were trying to give the company away.

That standoff is the clearest expression of what the series, directed by Joo Sung-woo and written by Hwang Ji-eon, had been building toward across its run: two people whose marriage collapsed under the weight of guilt and misunderstanding, each trying to secure the other's future at the cost of their own.

How the guilt accumulated

The story leading into the finale rested on a long-buried secret. Ji Won-ho had spent years carrying the knowledge that Kang Kyung-tae (Jeong Eui-je), a man who claimed to love him, had switched out Baek Mi-young's herbal medicine, causing her to lose their child. Convinced that she would never be able to forgive him if she knew the truth, Ji Won-ho had tried to engineer a clean exit for her: he handed the company over to Calvin so that Baek Mi-young would have a reason to stay and rebuild her life without him.

The plan worked, in the narrow sense. Baek Mi-young accepted the CEO position at Calvin Wedding and threw herself into the work. Ji Won-ho disappeared. But Calvin, watching her grow quieter and more withdrawn, eventually tracked Ji Won-ho down and told her where he was. A brief reunion followed, and then Ji Won-ho vanished again, deepening rather than resolving the impasse.

The letter and the courtroom

By the finale, Ji Won-ho had retreated into a kind of voluntary exile, volunteering to teach drawing to children. Baek Mi-young tracked him down once more, but the following morning he was gone again, leaving a letter. In it, he explained what Kang Kyung-tae had done and offered a direct apology: he wanted her remaining years to be a happy ending, even if it meant she spent them without him.

She chased him, found him, and told him through tears that what happened was not his fault. He told her he would feel like a guilty man toward her for the rest of his life. Then he asked for the divorce.

Back in the courtroom, the argument between the two sides over the management stake carried an almost absurdist logic. The opposing counsel, Jeon Chi-hyeon (Oh Yeon-ah), accused Bae Soo-ji of using the management stake as a pretext to stall the settlement entirely. Ji Won-ho, for his part, cornered Baek Mi-young outside the mediation room and tried to explain his reasoning plainly: she had carried the company through every crisis, and walking away with nothing after years of that felt unjust to him. Baek Mi-young's counter was equally plain. The company was Ji Won-ho's fingerprint on everything she knew. She could not manage it alone, and she did not want to.

What broke the deadlock was a small piece of chaos: Bae Soo-ji posted news of the divorce to a neighborhood parenting forum, sending the client base into an uproar. When the dust settled and one aggrieved client recognized Baek Mi-young as someone who had helped her, Ji Won-ho looked at the scene and told her, again, that she was the one who saved the company every time it mattered. He took her hand and asked whether she thought she could raise their child well on her own. She said yes. The divorce was finalized.

The closing scene

The series ended with a time jump of unspecified length. Baek Mi-young, struggling to find a designer, was at the office when a familiar voice came from the doorway. She turned and smiled. The production team described Ji Won-ho's final condition in the proceedings as something that would leave viewers with a lasting impression, a last request made entirely for her benefit. The show did not spell out whether the two were reconciling, leaving the final image to carry whatever meaning a viewer was inclined to give it.

For a drama whose title is also its premise, the finale took care not to deliver a tidy reversal. The divorce happened. What followed was left, deliberately, as an open question.