Lee Min-jung Confronts a Broken Marriage in New Drama 'OK! Let's Get Divorced'

Actress Lee Min-jung is back on television after six years, and she's making a bold comeback. Her return vehicle is the new KBS Drama and GTV series "OK! Let's Get Divorced," where she plays a wife who has decided her marriage is over.

The show premiered on the 19th and follows a couple whose long-running conflict has hardened into a fight over whether to split up. Lee plays Baek Mi-young, the head of a wedding dress shop called G&White. Her co-CEO is her husband, Ji Won-ho, played by Kim Ji-seok. The two have been at odds for years, and Lee carries the character's mix of lingering affection and resentment through much of the early story.

Episode one sets the trap. Baek is offered a spot on a variety show built around real-life couples, and she works to talk her husband into it. She cooks a birthday meal for her mother-in-law, Ryu Mi-soon, played by Moon Hee-kyung, and does what she can to soften him up. She books the shoot.

Then it falls apart. Ji learns the appearance was set without his input and refuses to film. Baek apologizes. He turns the blame back on her. She snaps, throws her wedding ring, and tells him she wants a divorce.

The episode also fills in how the couple got here. Baek suffered a miscarriage from overwork while pregnant, during a stretch when Ji had stepped away to help someone else. When he later moved to pack up the baby's things, she cut him off. "You don't get to be sentimental about this," she told him. The wound never closed, and it is now driving the split.

Episode two brings in Baek's ex-boyfriend, Calvin, played by Lee Hyun-jin. Baek runs into him again at a party thrown by a G&White client, Cheon Man-ju, played by Lee Su-ji. The two had broken up years earlier after Calvin got another woman pregnant from a one-night stand. When he tells Baek he has missed her, she brushes it off. "You saw my husband, right? I'm doing just fine," she says. Even with her marriage collapsing, she is not ready to let an ex see it.

The hour ends with Ji showing up after receiving the divorce papers. He wants an explanation. Baek gives him one line: "You're worse than a murderer." The divorce is now in motion, and the show is signaling that the real fight is only starting.

Episodes one and two drew ratings of 0.4 percent and 0.3 percent. Episode three airs on the 26th at 11 p.m. KST, with streaming to follow on TVING and Wavve.