Part of SBS' so-called Wife Trilogy, Two Wives was released a year after Temptation of Wife due to the series' success, airing Mondays to Fridays in 2009. She uncovers the affair and even more secrets that surround her colleagues in the team. Her fine and normal life crashes down as she receives a text message about her husband's infidelity from an anonymous source, hinting to be an affair with someone within the VIP Management Team. Na Jeong Seon (Jang Na Ra) is the Deputy Head of the team alongside her husband and Team Leader Park Seong Joon (Lee Sang Yoon), working with Lee Hyeon Ah (Lee Chung Ah), Song Mi Na ( Kwak Sun Young), On Yoo Ri (Pyo Ye Jin), and Ma Sang Woo ( Shin Jae Ha). The drama revolves around the story of the Sung Un Department Store's team, which works for the VIP clients who constitute the top 1% of their customers and bring in massive profits.
The show was broadcasted on SBS in 2019, bagging many awards during the SBS Drama Awards of the same year, such as the Best Supporting Actress Award for Lee Chung Ah, Best Character Award (Actress) for Pyo Ye Jin, Excellence Award in Miniseries (Actor) for Lee Sang Yoon, and Producer Award for Jang Na Ra. VIP is a drama set on the premise of extramarital affairs, which functions as a catalyst that will eventually lead to many complex situations and showcases the repercussions of infidelity. Hye Won and Sun Jae share a passionate love for each other and eventually begin a forbidden affair behind closed doors. She coincidentally meets Lee Sun Jae (Yoo Ah In), an impoverished yet musically gifted pianist in his 20s, who she eventually supports as a scholar under her husband's teaching. The plot revolves around Oh Hye Won (Kim Hee Ae), a woman in her 40s who lives a successful and elegant life as the Directress for Planning for the Seohan Arts Foundation. The award-winning main leads, Yoo Ah In and Kim Hee Ae, were both recognized for their performance, Yoo Ah In gained a nomination as Best Actor during the 2014 Baeksang Arts Awards, and Kim Hee Ae won the Best Actress during the 9th Seoul International Drama Awards. The drama was well-received, even receiving nominations from the prestigious Baeksang Arts Awards for Best Drama category and winning Best Director and Best Screenplay from the same award-giving body. Secret Love Affair, a drama revolving not only around the concept of extramarital affairs but also the so-called "noona romance," aired on JTBC in 2014. She then gets found incidentally by Min Gun Woo ( Lee Jae Hwang), and from then, she rebuilds herself as she takes on a new identity with the name Min So Hee and takes revenge against Gyo Bin and Ae Ri. She eventually discovers that her childhood best friend, Shin Ae Ri ( Kim Seo Hyung), is cheating on her with her husband, eventually forcing her to divorce him and with Ae Ri attempting to drown then-pregnant Eun Jae and disguising it as suicide. The story revolves around Goo Eun Jae (Jang Seo Hee), a loyal and faithful wife to Jung Gyo Bin ( Byun Woo Min) who forced her to stay in a loveless marriage and experienced hardships with mistreatments from her mother-in-law. The show also won numerous accolades, including the coveted Grand Award (Daesang) during the SBS Drama Awards for Jang Seo Hee, who took on the role of the avenging wife. It was aired back in 2008 on SBS, highly-anticipated, bagging high ratings with an average viewership of 30% despite being controversial due to the nature of the plot and almost ridiculous scenes such as Eun Jae's disguise with a mere mole. It is not a list on K-Dramas about cheating if we do not include the legendary drama, Temptation of Wife. Here are some K-Dramas that tackle infidelity, cheating, and extramarital affairs as their main plot or a considerable part of their storylines. And sometimes, these sensational deviations from the norm bring huge audience curiosity and higher ratings!
Most of these K-Dramas are classified as makjang, with its literal meaning “to take things too far,” as these K-Dramas truly steer away from the usual and utilize plot devices that we can safely say wouldn't usually happen in real life. While a lot claim that it is stressful to watch K-Dramas of the said genre, a lot of people find themselves hooked with its plot and attachment to the characters given life by superb actors and actresses. These dramas are indeed hot for different reasons- may it be due to warm audience reception, hot trending topics, steamy scenes, and blood-boiling storylines. We are slowly transitioning to summer, and the heat reaches K-Drama land with various dramas that tackle a usually taboo issue- cheating and infidelity.
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