A Wife’s Credentials (2012)

In modern society, children’s school grades have become a qualification outstanding wives ought to have. This drama depicts a housewife’s struggle to help raise her child’s grades within the cut-throat education system in South Korea while accepting herself as a human who can fall in love. Seo Rae is an accepting housewife with a child, married to Sang Jin, a rich and highly educated man. However, she is shocked to find out that her niece is accepted to an International junior high school and decides to get Han Gyul, her son, admitted as well. As her son enrolls in prep classes, his grades begin to improve. But when she takes him to a dentist named Tae Oh, she falls in love with him. Now, she finds herself standing at a crossroads, with the possibility of either an affair that can ruin her life or a future with her true love.