Divorce Attorney Shin

March 4, 2023

Shin Sung-han (Cho Seung-woo) wins every case by knowing more about human nature than his clients know about themselves. He does not get involved emotionally. Then he meets a woman trying to protect her child.

March 4, 2023

The case: a mother fighting to keep her child from a vindictive ex-husband. Shin takes it not for sentiment but because it is winnable.

March 11, 2023

The Family Court in Eunpyeong-gu — its waiting rooms, its corridors, its hearings — is rendered with unusual specificity. The drama respects the institution it critiques.

March 11, 2023

Shin Sung-han loses a case. It is the first time the drama shows a crack in his armour.

March 18, 2023

Shin's private life — his cello playing, his deliberate solitude — is revealed as a response to something that happened rather than a preference.

March 25, 2023

A formidable opposing attorney appears who matches Shin move for move. Their courtroom dynamic is the series' most electric relationship.

April 1, 2023

Why Shin became a divorce attorney — and why he is so good at it — is finally fully explained.

April 1, 2023

The drama's most important case. A woman whose husband has used every institutional mechanism to destroy her. Shin deploys everything he knows.

April 8, 2023

The court delivers its ruling. The drama's treatment of institutional justice — neither naive nor cynical — reaches its most nuanced point.

April 8, 2023

The finale. One of 2023's most-watched cable dramas, driven by Cho Seung-woo's restrained, devastating performance as a man who chose law because love had already failed him.