On ‘The Detectives‘ Trade Secret’, the ‘Goblin Detectives’ obtained a ‘Consent to Give Up Parental Rights’ from the biological mother who went into hiding leaving behind two children. Also, ‘April Bride’ Ailee, who appeared as a guest, could not hide her shocking true story of a mother who ‘does business with her unborn child’.

On the ‘The Detectives’ Trade Secret’ broadcast on the 17th, the ‘Goblin Detectives’ set out to search for the biological mother who was separated from her two children after being reported for child abuse and had lost contact for several years. The biological mother‘s older sister appeared as a client and asked them to “find her missing younger sister and obtain a consent form to give up parental rights for the two children”. Based on information provided by the biological grandmother who was looking after the children, the Detectives investigated the factory complex presumed to be the biological mother’s workplace. As a result, the ‘Goblin Detectives’ went to the apartment complex where the biological mother was presumed to have recently moved.

The detectives who had been undercover in the snowy weather eventually found the biological mother and tried to talk to the flustered mother, saying, “Your mother-in-law and older sister are worried.” The biological mother, who responded to the conversation, expressed her apologies to the children, saying, “My husband suddenly passed away, so it was the most difficult time in my life, and it was hard to handle.” The biological mother also said, “I really want to try to live with my second child before he enters high school.” She is now trying to come to her senses and be with her children.



Then, the ‘Goblin Detectives’ brought up the original purpose of the request, the ‘Consent to Give Up Parental Rights’.” The detective team emphasized to the biological mother, “As children grow, there are situations that require legal decisions,” and explained that the biological mother‘s “consent to renounce parental rights” would be of great help in allowing the grandparents who are actually raising the children to exercise parental rights. The biological mother also agreed to give up parental rights for the children, and also expressed her regret towards her mother-in-law and older sister. The mother-in-law, who received the “consent to renounce parental rights,” expressed her affectionate concern, saying, “I will take responsibility for the children until the end, so I hope my daughter-in-law meets a good person, gets married, and lives well.” Although the situation is difficult, the “Goblin Detective Team” case request was concluded as they confirmed the family’s affection for each other.

Meanwhile, the true story reconstruction corner “Case Notebook - Suddenly One Day” featured “bride-to-be” Ailee, who is scheduled to get married in April, as a guest. The client, a high school teacher, visited a detective agency suspecting her husband, a college professor, of having an affair. The client and her husband dated for 10 years since college, and were happily married for 10 years. However, she said that she became suspicious when her husband lied and acted suspiciously while they were living together on the weekends due to work-related issues.

The detective followed the client‘s husband. She found that he had borrowed a significant amount of money from acquaintances, and that he seemed to be struggling financially, even driving for a designated driver after class. She also found that he was giving money to a high school girl. Eventually, the client asked her husband directly what was going on. The husband confessed, “17 years ago, I had a one-night stand with a PC room worker.” The husband forgot about it after that, and the woman who was working there at the time thought that the child in her womb was her boyfriend’s child and got married premarital. However, she got divorced because the child in her womb was not her biological child. The part-timer woman, who happened to meet the client‘s husband again, demanded that he pay her the 100 million won in child support and 1 million won per month, as he was the child’s biological father.

The wife, who understood her husband‘s situation of trying to deal with the sudden appearance of an illegitimate child on her own, eventually forgave her husband on the condition that he pay the overdue child support all at once and never meet the illegitimate child again. However, soon after, the client visited the detective agency again, saying, “I will find evidence of the affair and divorce you.” She said, “I witnessed the biological mother (the part-timer woman) of my husband’s illegitimate child being full-term pregnant.”

However, it turned out that the husband was only taking care of the illegitimate child who was having a hard time with the mother‘s pregnancy. The ‘part-timer woman’, who had given birth to her husband’s child in the past and was also the biological mother of the illegitimate child, was using the pregnancy as an excuse to receive money from several men and was doing an unheard of ‘paternity business’. In addition, the mother of the illegitimate child had two other children in addition to her husband‘s illegitimate child. Seeing these children being neglected, the client reported the illegitimate child’s mother for child abuse and separated them from the children. The client and her husband made the difficult decision to become guardians for the illegitimate child and his siblings, and to help them grow up healthily away from their biological mother. Ailee was moved by the appearance of the ‘great person’ client, saying, “I saw the image of a great wife. I also want to be a wife like that in the future... I feel a new emotion I‘ve never felt before.“

The real-life detective drama ‘Detectives’ Trade Secret’ airs every Monday at 9:30 p.m. on Channel A.

Choi Yoon-na, Donga.com reporter yyynnn@donga.com

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