Remarriage & Desires

This is a good thing in some ways and a bad one in others. There’s altogether too much sappy romance in Korean drama, so it’s fair enough that this doesn’t shove more down our throats, but when Remarriage & Desires really leans into its shenanigans it does run the risk of becoming a bit too arch for its own good. Both its character drama and its rather fanciful depiction of high-class matchmaking — including human chess boards and masquerade balls — can border on silly. But the notes of how marriage, especially of social or political convenience, is so integral to Korean society work as a backdrop to a revenge story.Remarriage & Desires Season 1 Download.

Most of the particulars are handled in the opening episode. Seo Hye-seung believes she’s in a relatively stable marriage with her husband, Kang Nam-Sik, at least until he ups and leaves her and their daughter Min-ji for a sultry colleague named Jin Yoo-hui. Yoo-hui, though, is a con woman, and when Nam-sik gets a bit too serious for her liking, she ruins his professional reputation and accuses him of sexual assault. Knowing that Yoo-hui has covered her bases to enough of an extent that he can’t fight the accusations, Nam-sik commits suicide, but not before revealing all to Hye-seung.Remarriage and Desires Season 1 Download.

Hye-seung and Yoo-hui are both inadvertently reunited by a high-class matchmaking service called Rex, and begin a game of spiteful oneupmanship. This is only one of several interwoven subplots that Rex and its CEO Choi Yoo-sun are involved in, with tactical marriages connecting the worlds of business and politics as everyone competes not only for a husband or wife but for massive self-advancement and, in some cases, revenge.See? Soapy. But that isn’t necessarily to say bad, just sometimes funny when it doesn’t mean to be.