The story, without the spoilers.
Ji Sun-woo is a respected doctor, a devoted mother and a woman who believes her marriage is solid. Then she discovers her husband Tae-oh has been having an affair, and worse, that people around her already knew. What follows is not a quiet divorce but a fierce, messy war over love, betrayal, money, reputation and their son. The World of the Married is intense, adult and deliberately uncomfortable. Kim Hee-ae is magnificent as a woman who refuses to be a victim, and the drama became the highest-rated cable drama in Korean history at the time because it tapped into something real: how quickly a good life can unravel, and how hard it is to walk away with dignity. The characters make terrible choices, the tension rarely lets up, and some viewers will find the constant conflict exhausting. But as a portrait of a marriage collapsing in public, it is riveting from start to finish.
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