Rhee Min-jung brandishes a knife at Kim Ji-seok, saying “OK, Let’s Get Divorced”

Actors Rhee Min-jung and Kim Ji-seok reveal the cracks in a marriage that can no longer be hidden. The process of how two people, who were once closer than anyone else, eventually choose divorce after years of accumulated conflict and wounds will unfold in earnest from the very first episode.

Premiering at 11 PM on the 19th, the KBS Drama/GTV series 'OK, Let’s Get Divorced' is a realistic divorce experience drama that follows a couple running a wedding dress shop who, exhausted by a long marriage, decide to divorce and face the process directly. It is directed by Joo Sung-woo and written by Hwang Ji-eon.

In the still cuts released ahead of the premiere, the precarious relationship between Baek Mi-young (played by Rhee Min-jung) and Ji Won-ho (played by Kim Ji-seok) is captured vividly. The couple, who appeared to maintain a stable marriage on the surface, seems to have already crossed the emotional threshold in reality.

In particular, the conflict between the two explodes during a meeting ahead of a variety show filming for couples. Baek Mi-young tries to calm her agitated husband, but Ji Won-ho cannot easily settle his emotions. Ignoring even the gaze of those around them, he pours out sharp words toward Baek Mi-young, dragging their conflict into a public space.

It is a moment where the boundary between the private and public spheres for the couple collapses. Baek Mi-young's predicament, caught between the social image of a 'happy couple' that must be shown to the public and the actual cracks in their relationship, is expected to serve as a major axis of tension in the drama.

On the other hand, Ji Won-ho is unable to control his emotions, focusing only on his own anger and wounds. What made him explode like this, and what truth has Baek Mi-young been hiding all this time, are presented as the core mysteries of the first episode.

It is also noteworthy that the relationship between the two did not crumble simply because of recent conflicts. Since there were moments in the past when the two could not help but be attracted to each other, the process of tracing how that love turned into cracks is expected to be an important narrative of the work.

Above all, the most intense image is that of Baek Mi-young shedding tears while holding a knife in her hand.

The scene, implying Baek Mi-young's empty gaze and an extreme situation, foreshadows that a serious incident occurred beyond a simple marital spat. Why a woman who dreamed of an ordinary married life ended up holding a knife, and what emotions she faced at that moment, will stimulate the curiosity of viewers.

What is important in this scene is the catastrophe of the relationship that the knife symbolizes, rather than the knife itself. The knife is read as a device that visualizes the emotional disconnection that has become difficult to mend, as well as being a physical tool placed between the two.

Baek Mi-young and Ji Won-ho are a couple who once loved passionately and promised to spend their lives together. However, as conflicts, boredom, and unspoken emotions accumulate within the institution of marriage, the relationship gradually begins to crack.

In particular, the collapse of a marital relationship is often not an event that arrives suddenly one day, but the result of long-term accumulation of minor disappointments, misunderstandings, indifferent words, and silence. 'OK, Let’s Get Divorced' is also expected to put this point at the forefront, looking into the process of love's disappearance rather than its birth.

Ultimately, the two reach a choice to let go instead of holding onto each other. However, it remains unknown whether the decision to divorce is the end point of the relationship or rather a final rite of passage to properly look at each other.

It is also interesting that the work has chosen the format of a 'realistic divorce experience.' This is because, rather than consuming divorce as a simple catastrophe or a provocative event, there is a possibility that it will expand into a process where the couple looks at their relationship objectively and revisits the times they loved and the times they were hurt.

In the end, what is important in the first episode is not just the question of 'why are the two divorcing.' The more fundamental question lies in 'when did the two people who loved each other become the most unfamiliar people to one another?'

What events and emotions filled the space between these two people, who were once each other's future and are now in a relationship discussing divorce, and what the tears shed by Baek Mi-young in front of the knife tip mean, will be gradually revealed through the first broadcast.

'OK, Let’s Get Divorced' premieres on the 19th at 11 PM on KBS Drama and GTV, and can also be viewed through TVING and Wavve after the broadcast.