60 minSeason 1 • Episode 20
LatestJang Hee Tae met his future wife, Kim Il Ri when he worked as a temporary biology teacher at an all girls high school. Il Ri was a student there. Now, Hee Tae works as a fishery researcher and spends his days in a typical marriage. One day, he learns that his wife is having an affair with a carpenter, Kim Joon. He becomes angry for the first time, but decides to keep his family and wife.
Acting
Uhm Tae-woong's bottled rage as the cuckolded fish researcher.
Writing
Refuses easy villains; everyone sucks a little, everyone hurts.
Direction
Han Ji-seung frames coastal isolation like a character itself.
Creator
Han Ji-seung
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 'Valid Love' critiques Korean society's rigid definitions of acceptable relationships— scandalous for 2014 K-drama.
Lee Soo-hyuk's Kim Joon was so sympathetically written that viewers split hard on 'team husband vs team carpenter,' which was exactly the point.
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