Channel A‘s real-life detective drama ‘Detectives’ Trade Secrets’ guest Chef Jeong Ho-young watched with extreme immersion the story of an adulterous couple who committed ‘joint extortion’ on each other‘s spouses for money. Also, the ‘Baekho Detectives’ continued the unfortunate request of ‘Finding a Son Who Was Separated 25 Years Later’.

On the 10th, the ‘Baekho Detectives’ continued their pursuit of a client who was looking for her son who was separated from her right after birth due to pressure from her in-laws to divorce. The Baekho Detectives knew that her ex-husband had remarried after breaking up with her but had divorced again and had two sons. The ex-husband’s eldest son is estimated to be around the same age as the son the client had lost, so there was a possibility that he could be the client‘s son.

Before going to Jeju Island to find the ex-husband who was working, Baekho Detectives met the mother of the woman who had remarried her ex-husband. She helped the detectives by confirming, “My ex-husband’s eldest son is the child born from my daughter (his remarried wife).” In the end, with the whereabouts of the son the client was looking for unknown, Baekho Detectives headed to Jeju Island to meet the ex-husband in person. After arriving at the site and going around several ports to investigate, Baekho Detectives finally met the ex-husband. However, when the ex-husband heard the client’s name, he said, “I don’t know. Why are you tripping me up? I get irritated whenever I hear that woman’s words,” and left the place.

After continued persuasion, the ex-husband claimed, “Even while we were married, my ex-wife (the client) had an affair by visiting a teahouse where she worked as a kitchen worker.” And when the client asked about the whereabouts of her son whom she gave birth to 25 years ago, her ex-husband reacted violently, saying, “That child is not mine. I told him to ’break up with me‘ and gave him 1 million won and told him to take care of himself, but I don’t know whether he gave birth to the child or not.” He also opposed the client‘s claim that she was taken away by her ex-mother-in-law to give birth but woke up to find that the child was gone, saying, “I’m writing a whole novel.”

The Baekho Detective Team returned with regretful hearts without finding any clues about the child, but they did not give up and ended up going to see the client‘s ex-mother-in-law, with whom they had a big conflict. The former mother-in-law may know about the client’s lost son, and the Baekho Detectives‘ ’Finding the Son Lost 25 Years Ago‘ case will continue.

Meanwhile, Chef Jeong Ho-yeong, a ’Japanese food expert‘, joined the ’Case Note - Good Partner‘ corner of the true story reconstruction. In the story, the client suspected that ’my wife and her business partner seem to be having an affair‘ and asked for evidence of the affair. The wife was with the male business partner day and night to develop a product, and when the business succeeded, the wife became even busier. On the other hand, the client was in charge of childcare and housework due to the failure of the business at the same time. Therefore, he thought that his suspicion of his wife’s affair was a sense of inferiority, and he could not tell his wife. As his suspicion grew, the client suffered even more when his wife called the name of her business partner instead of her husband in her sleep. Kim Poong said, “I heard there are a lot of affairs in the workplace. I see them more often than my spouse, so I naturally get close to them... ” and sighed.

However, the detective who had been investigating followed the client‘s wife and business partner’s every move and found no evidence of an affair. The detective reported to the client, “It‘s not an affair,”, but the client was not happy about this and left with a somewhat displeased expression. After a while, the detective agency was visited by a male business partner who had been suspected of being the client’s wife‘s affair partner. He asked for help, saying that he was being threatened, saying, “If you don’t give me money, I will expose the affair.”. The detective confirmed that the threatening mail the business partner received contained photos taken by the detective himself and photos taken by another detective who had followed the business partner around the same time.

After tracking it down, the detective found the senders of these threatening messages. Surprisingly, they were the first client who had suspected his wife of an affair and the business partner‘s wife. The two began their affair the moment they met at a couples’ gathering. The audacity of these people who committed adultery in the same house while their husbands and wives were asleep shocked Yoo In-na, saying, ”You‘re having an affair with your spouse in the next room?“ In addition, the two needed money to gamble, so they borrowed money from private loans. So they tried to fabricate evidence to accuse each other’s spouses, who were business partners, of adultery.

The wife of the first client and the business partner, who found out all the facts, filed a divorce petition, a blackmail complaint, and a complaint of adultery against the spouses who actually committed adultery, and finalized the divorce. Attorney Nam Seong-tae said, ”Divorce is natural. In an adultery lawsuit, since you are the at-fault spouse, you have to pay alimony to each spouse. This situation is blackmail, so the sentence is much higher than blackmail. They did something very serious,“ shaking his head at the shocking true story.

‘Detectives‘ Trade Secrets’ airs every Monday at 9:30 PM on Channel A.

Jeon Hyo-jin, Donga.com reporter jhj@donga.com

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