In Channel A‘s real-life detective drama ‘Detectives’ Trade Secrets’, a shocking development unfolded as a used car fraud case involving the search for ‘17 cars’ turned into a drug case. In addition, guest ‘KBO pretty boy’ Yoo Hee-kwan was left sweating over the shocking true story of a real professional baseball player‘s ‘Case Notebook’.

On the March 31 episode of ‘Detectives’ Trade Secrets’, the ‘Seagull Detectives’ continued to focus on the case of a mother and daughter who ended up taking on 500 million won in debt after lending their names to a man they were acquaintances of. ‘Seagull Detectives’ first sought advice on the used car market from CEO Eom Man-ho, a used car dealer with 25 years of experience. After checking the list of 17 vehicles owned by the mother and daughter, CEO Eom Man-ho suspected that “any vehicle purchased at a price much lower than the market price is 100% likely to have a problem.” The client’s acquaintance borrowed an amount based on the market price, not the actual purchase price, through Capital. Therefore, it was suspected that the acquaintance also embezzled the difference between this loan amount and the actual purchase price.
With the help of CEO Eom Man-ho, the ‘Seagull Detectives’ located the used car dealer who sold the vehicle to the subject (an acquaintance of the client) and went to visit him. There, we were able to meet many people who knew the subject. The client‘s acquaintance was a person known to everyone in the industry for his ‘money problems’. In the end, with the help of used car dealers, the detectives located the location of the junkyard that the subject would use and went there. There were two of the client’s cars there, but one was barely a burnt body, and the other was so badly destroyed that the front was gone. Both cars had all their usable parts gone when they arrived at the junkyard. At another nearby junkyard, we confirmed that two more of the client‘s cars had been brought in in a severely damaged state and had been scrapped. All of these cars had been scrapped without any procedures in place, and the client’s remaining 13 cars could have disappeared in the same way.

Then, the subject‘s representative contacted the client. He told the ‘Seagull Detectives’, “If an accident happens, everyone will get hurt. Let’s discuss it without being emotional.” Then, the detective team was finally able to meet the subject in person. Here, the subject instead demanded an apology from the client and made a shocking statement, “He‘s trying to cover up his own wrongdoing. He was on drugs.” At this completely unexpected development, ‘author’ Kim Poong was astonished and said, “If it’s not a true story but a novel, the writer gets criticized for trying all sorts of genres.“ The ‘Seagull Detective Team’‘s case-solving story continues as they face a new phase while searching for the 17 missing cars.

The true story reconstruction corner ‘Case Notebook-Truth Game’ is filled with sports commentary and entertainment, ‘KBO’s 3 major ‘Ulzzang’ Yoo Hee-kwan appeared as a guest.

Regarding the fact that it was a story about an actual professional baseball player, Yoo Hee-kwan deduced, ”Baseball players often have spring camps and away games, so they are away from home a lot, so aren‘t they suspecting their wives of infidelity?“ When Defconn asked, ”Is there really such a case?“ Yoo Hee-kwan shockingly told him, ”Baseball players are away from home, so their wives sometimes cheat, but baseball players also have ’girlfriends‘ when they go on away games.“ However, Yoo Hee-kwan anticipated the controversy his remark would cause, slyly adding, ”Overseas people are open-minded... I was talking about overseas baseball.“

In ‘Case Note’, a baseball player client who has consistently maintained a spot in the professional baseball league visits a detective agency, saying, “My wife, who only focused on supporting me after marriage, has changed.”. When the detective follows the client’s wife, he catches her meeting a man and looks embarrassed. The man even threatens her, saying, “How can a professional baseball player not have 50 million won? If things get worse, you‘ll be the one who loses.”. Yoo Hee-kwan is curious about the man’s identity, saying, “Isn‘t he a bad reporter who demands money under the pretext of exposing things?”.

The client’s wife explains to the client, “That man is a distant cousin of mine,”, but the detective begins to investigate the real relationship between the two. In fact, the man who demanded money had a common-law relationship with a woman, and that woman was a ‘victim of school violence’, who had been bullied by the client‘s wife in high school. The victim of school violence, who had tried to forget everything, was receiving psychiatric treatment after seeing the client’s wife on TV, who was living as a pretty and kind ‘Queen of Support’, and recalling nightmares from her childhood. The client‘s wife claimed that she had never committed school violence and that it was unfair, but asked her past classmates to “speak nicely” to give false testimony. However, evidence of the school violence poured out through the two’s past classmates.

When the client‘s wife met the victim of school violence in person, she got angry at the victim, saying, “Are you doing this because of a joke from when you were young?”. However, when her husband found out everything, she changed her attitude, saying, “I will apologize”. After finding out the truth about his wife, the client lived as a ‘show window couple’ for a while, but in the end, he could not endure his wife’s past and chose divorce. Yoo Hee-kwan was speechless for a while after hearing the shocking true story that the wife of a professional baseball player, who was known as the “Queen of Support” with the appearance of an angel, was actually a terrible school bully.

The true story detective drama, “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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