On Channel A‘s real-life detective drama ‘The Detectives’ Trade Secrets’, the ‘Goblin Detectives’ embark on a request to find the missing biological mother in order to obtain a parental rights waiver for two children. Also, vocalist Ko Young-bae of Soran, who joined as a guest, felt sorry for the ‘Golden Girl’ who found love in her own way and cut ties with her family.

On the 10th episode of ‘The Detectives‘ Trade Secrets’, the ‘Goblin Detectives’ receive a new request to “Find my missing younger sister and obtain a parental rights waiver for two children”. The young female client who came to the detectives told the pitiful story of her younger sister who had been addicted to alcohol and cigarettes and even ran away from home since middle school due to her parents’ divorce and death at a young age. The wandering younger sister became pregnant at the age of 17, but she and her brother-in-law decided to take responsibility for the child and started a family. After that, they had a second child and managed to raise a family with the help of the adults around them, but when their brother-in-law suddenly passed away at the age of 25, their younger sister was left with her two children.

According to the client, after that, their younger sister went out drinking every night and would sometimes leave the children at home alone. While their younger sister was out partying, their first child, who was in the first grade of elementary school, would go to school every day wearing clothes that were not suitable for the season in order to eat school lunches. Their second child, who was 6 years old, could not go to kindergarten because she had no mother to care for her, and even went to the school where her older sister was alone because she was hungry. The client, who went undercover to meet her younger sister at the time, finally entered her younger sister‘s house, which was covered in trash and dog feces, and was a miserable sight.

The client reported her younger sister for child abuse for her nephews. However, the degree of abuse was judged to be serious, and she was in the embarrassing situation of her nephews being sent to a daycare center. Fortunately, the grandmother stepped forward to take responsibility for the children, and the two nephews grew up well in their grandparents’ love until the second nephew, who was 6 years old, was about to enter middle school. However, although a legal representative is always necessary for legal acts of minors, the grandparents were neither custodians nor legal representatives, so there were limits to their care. In particular, the grandmother, who had raised the children for 7 years, expressed her anxiety, saying, “The biological mother has never come to see the children even once during all this time,” and “I‘m worried that one day she will suddenly come and say, ’They‘re my children, so I’m going to take them away.‘” The children also said, “We are happy when we spend time together as a family,” and that they have become indispensable to each other. The ’Goblin Detectives‘ received various documents from the client and the grandmother, including the younger sister’s ID and recent SNS photos. Indeed, curiosity is rising as to whether he will be able to find the mother of the children, with whom he has lost contact for about a year, and make her give up custody.

Meanwhile, the true story reconstruction corner ‘Case Notes - My Precious Child’ featured ‘Radio World‘s Yoo Jae-suk’ Ko Young-bae. The client’s eldest daughter in the story was an elite with the best qualifications, a graduate of an Ivy League prestigious university, working at a Big 4 accounting firm, and earning hundreds of millions of won a year. However, she always had a hard time in love due to her appearance complex. Then, a man she met through a matchmaking company understood her shortcomings and loved her, and the two eventually got married and seemed to be on a smooth road. However, the man was having an affair with a talking bar worker, and when the affair was discovered, he left a harsh comment, “I closed my eyes and got married because I liked her family, but every time I see her ugly face, I don‘t want to do it anymore.” In the end, the eldest daughter’s first marriage ended in divorce, but three years later, she successfully remarried to a man who was the CEO of an IT startup and was four years younger than her.

The client with this story asked a detective agency to investigate her second son-in-law due to trauma from her first son-in-law. After tracking her, the detective witnessed a strange scene where the eldest daughter and her second son-in-law were leaving a host bar. After some questioning, the detective brought the eldest daughter, son-in-law, and the client together. When the client asked what was going on, the eldest daughter said, “I did that because I wanted to be loved too,” and that her mother had been comparing her to her pretty younger sister and ignoring her based on her appearance, which had hurt her greatly. After the divorce, the eldest daughter met her current husband, who works as an “athlete” at a host bar she happened to visit, and confessed that she had made him fake her academic background, job, and even family background. She also revealed that she had personally proposed marriage, saying, “Even if it was a love that could be bought with money, it was good.” The eldest daughter sold the building she received as a gift and invested the money in a host bar to make her husband the owner of the host bar, but when the truth was discovered, she chose her own love and cut ties with her family. Defconn said, “It‘s a story that I understand, but at the same time, it’s a story that I‘m really worried about. You’re the master of your own life, so you should take responsibility for the choices you make...” and expressed his concern.

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

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

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