The man Ki-Jun is drunk in The Divorce Insurance Episode 1. He sees a moving mattress. There’s a pretty girl Han-Deul appearing from under the mattress. He tries to help her when she cannot stand. But she pulls him and they fall on the mattress.
Episode 1
There’s a sheet falling upstairs. It covers the two. The man and the woman don’t know each other. But they struggle under the sheet. They’re mistook that they’re having an affair. They’re taken to the police station. They’re wronged so that they explain it to the cop that they don’t know each other. They blame each other then.
But Han-Deul cries because of sadness when Ki-Jun talks with the cop about his pronunciation. She just got a divorce. Her husband took away the toilet seat and he left the house with a high loan. He even denied that he borrowed money from his mother-in-law. Their last communication was Han-Deul correcting her husband’s pronunciation. She got scolded by her husband instead. Although she didn’t have much left after she was robbed by her husband, she decided to throw away the mattress they slept for erasing all memories that are related to her husband.
Ki-Jun sees Han-Deul crying. He remembers he saw her at the supermarket yesterday. She was in tears when she stood in front of the shelves. She went to the supermarket to buy goods for her and her husband. She realized that she’s divorced when she checked out. She cannot spend money lavishly, according to her financial condition. She put the goods back to the shelves. She thought of her situation. She couldn’t help crying.
Ki-Jun saw the same woman crying two times. He cannot bear it so that he apologizes to Han-Deul and he makes up with her. They walk out of the police station. They wish not to see each other again. But they have a meeting the next day. He’s the interviewer and she’s the interviewee.
Ki-Jun is the actuary of an insurance company. One day, he sees the enlarged face of his team leader Dae-Bok at the window of his house when he has a dream. Dae-Bok yells at Ki-Jun that the team is going to be disbanded because of him. Dae-Bok is a conservative. He advocates only marketing the current products. But Ki-Jun is an innovator. He develops new products constantly. But every project he developed lost money. It caused they’re all that’s left in the whole new product development team. Ki-Jun doesn’t give in. He promises the team leader that he will work out the latest insurance products. But the team leader has lost hope in Ki-Jun. He strangles himself and he tries to kill himself.
Ki-Jun goes to rescue. But he finds out that he broke into a room full of papers. The papers collapse. He sees God of Insurance appearing on the billboard. He comes up with an idea after God of Insurance reminded him. It’s the new insurance product Divorce Insurance which can secure future happiness. He wants to guarantee every couple’s happiness after they get divorced.
He wakes up from his dream and he rushes to the company. He’s excited to tell the proposal to the team leader. He lets the guy to think about the looks of getting divorced. But the team leader is sad. He just got a call from her wife So-Jung who wanted to divorce him.
Dae-Bok gets into the mood. He has an illusion that he’s kicked out from home after he got divorced. He doesn’t have a home and he needs to pay the high alimony. He comes back from the fear. Ki-Jun tells Dae-Bok that divorce is the real disaster. They can estimate insurance rates of divorce, according to rational and irrational factors. Inclusion of divorce in insurance coverage.
Dae-Bok is bewitched by Ki-Jun. He asks Ki-Jun to look for the suitable people and set up a special team. The first person Ki-Jun thinks of is the risk assessor Jeon-Man. Jeon-Man goes against Ki-Jun most when Ki-Jun introduces divorce insurance.
But Ki-Jun doesn’t fear it at all. He tangles Jeon-Man after the meeting. He persuades him that he got divorced three times and Jeon-Man got divorced one time. He thinks they have four times divorce experience. But Jeon-Man wonders why Ki-Jun got divorced three times.
Jeon-Man and Ki-Jun have dinner together. Jeon-Man claims that he needs to examine Ki-Jun before he joins his team. Ki-Jun has to confess that he divorced his three ex-wives because of marriage view, world view and life view. He doesn’t understand why Jeon-Man got a divorce since he’s a responsible man.
Jeon-Man claims that his wife is an avid interior designer. One day, she thought something ruined the style of the house. Fortunately, the stuff was him. So he was forced to leave home without taking away anything. The two men with failed marriages confessed to each other. Jeon-Man agrees to join the divorce insurance team.
It’s obvious that the two members aren’t enough. Dae-Bok asks Ki-Jun to continue to recruit. They require the people who got divorced. They mistake the people who apply for the job will be very few. They don’t expect that it’s unprecedented popularity.
Ki-Jun keeps recruit. He hears all kinds of divorce stories. But there’s not many people meeting the requirements. He sees the next interviewee when he feels tired. The person is the mattress woman. He knows her name in the end. Han-Deul got a divorced and she has experience of insurance. Ki-Jun learns why she wanted to throw away the mattress that night.
He reaches out his hand to her. He announces that their resentment is gone. They’re partners who have same goal from now on. Han-Deul’s best friend Ah-Young is hired as well. Ah-Young was a claims specialist. She’s the only one who’s never been divorced. Because she’s a firm antimarrier.
Ki-Jun thought she doesn’t meet the requirements. But she claimed that she can divorce herself. He hired her because he couldn’t find nobody who has insurance experience. The divorce insurance team is set up since then. Dae-Bok takes the four to walk into the company with confidence. They swear to do something great.
But he remembers there will be a manager joining the divorce team. Everyone guesses the manager’s history. The elevator doors open. A woman Na-Rae with short hair appears in front of the people. Ki-Jun is fast to turn around after he heard her name. She greets him. She’s gloating for his look of shock. Dae-Bok asks the two if they know each other. We are told that they were in a marriage.
Ki-Jun takes the insurance to go to market. The place he chooses is a wedding exhibition. The couples are excited to choose the wedding supplies off the stage. Ki-Jun sells with passion on the stage. Everyone needs to be ready for divorce. He tells the people that their divorce insurance can help them accept reality and keep going. Because divorce is more complicated than marriage. It’s more painful than any disease.
The couples feel bag about it. They’re crazy to throw things at the divorce team. They drive the four off the stage. The four flee and they hide somewhere. They blame Ki-Jun for giving the bad idea. But the guy thinks the couples were interested in the divorce insurance. They were just too embarrassed to admit it.
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Jeon-Man refutes Ki-Jun’s point. They have a fight like childish kids. The girl asks Ki-Jun about the insurance. The people are shocked to find out that the girl refuted most in the meeting. She reveals she felt embarrassed to consult because there were too many people. She thinks marriage will make her miserable after she listened to Ki-Jun’s speech. She wants to by an insurance for her divorce. But Ki-Jun denies the point of view. He thinks divorce and marriage are for happiness.