'Chaebol X Detective 2' Yoo Sung-won poisons Jo Pil-gu and kills Jung Min-jae... Viewership rises by 7.2%

The SBS Friday-Saturday drama ’Chaebol X Detective 2’ aired on the 12th, featuring Jin Isu (played by Ahn Bo-hyun) and Joo Hyera (played by Jung Eun-chae) expressing anger over the death of a colleague, and the revelation of Yuseongwon’s (played by Yoo Seung-ho) serial crimes. In this episode, after Jin Isu and Joo Hyera arrested Jo Pilgu (played by Park Do-wook), Yuseongwon poisoned Jo Pilgu and even killed Jeong Minjae (played by Lim Jin-seop), escaping the police’s encirclement. The nationwide Nielsen Korea ratings rose by 0.8 percentage points from the previous episode to 7.2%, with a peak minute rating of 8.6%. At the beginning of the broadcast, Jin Isu subdued Jo Pilgu, who was holding hostages, with a taser gun. Jo Pilgu, once arrested, remained silent and requested a lawyer while attempting to contact Yuseongwon. Later, Yuseongwon visited his mother, Jeong Taeseon (played by Kim Hye-eun), chairwoman of UBS Media Group, and revealed how he had trapped Jin Isu, explaining that he used Kim Younghwan (played by Choi Dong-gu) to implicate Jin Isu in drug and murder cases. Jin Isu and Joo Hyera confirmed that Jo Pilgu had searched for Yuseongwon and that Kim Younghwan had visited Yuseongwon’s studio. Jin Isu concluded that Yuseongwon had tried to make him the same kind of person. Before the investigation intensified, Jeong Taeseon’s secretary Han Jonghyun (played by Moon Jin-seung), disguised as a lawyer, poisoned Jo Pilgu by slipping drugs into his soup in the police station’s visitation room. Then, a large box containing Jeong Minjae’s corpse was delivered to the Ganghaseo Violent Crimes Unit 1 office. Joo Hyera broke down in tears from the shock, and Jin Isu pursued suspects through delivery drivers but found no decisive clues. Enraged, Joo Hyera headed to Yuseongwon’s studio, where Yuseongwon displayed a sculpture replicating Jeong Minjae’s body scars. Upon seeing this, Joo Hyera struck Yuseongwon’s face, and Jin Isu arrived to calm the situation. Afterwards, the two took Yuseongwon to Ganghaseo for voluntary questioning. Yuseongwon provoked Jin Isu, but Jin Isu pointed out Yuseongwon’s inner emptiness, saying, ″I had a mother who cared for me. You didn’t have that kind of mother. That’s why you completely fell apart. To the point where you can’t be fixed.″ Joo Hyera also pressured him, saying, ″You’ll be caught eventually. Don’t come crawling in disgrace later; just confess.″ However, Yuseongwon remained calm. When Jeong Taeseon arrived at the police station with a large legal team, Yuseongwon was released. Chief Kwon Taegyun (played by Ryu Tae-ho) excluded Joo Hyera from the investigation because Jeong Minjae was her direct junior and reassigned the case to Team 2. After leaving the police station, Yuseongwon told Jeong Taeseon, ″I’m this broken because of you, Mom. So you have to take responsibility.″ When Jeong Taeseon told him to go abroad, he laughed and said, ″It might be fun to see you handcuffed and dragged around. Maybe I’ll just confess.″ At the end of the broadcast, it was revealed that Yuseongwon had been leaving sculptures of his victims after killing them.