Channel A ‘The Detectives’ Trade Secrets’
On ‘The Detectives’ Trade Secrets’, a shocking tip surfaced about a mystery surrounding a pet dog’s death: “The barking disappeared, and the stench got worse.” In another case, when the stunning claim emerged that “the older sister encouraged her married younger sister’s affair,” cast member Kim Pung shot back, “Is this for real?”
In the ‘Detectives 24 Hours’ segment of Channel A’s ‘The Detectives’ Trade Secrets’, which aired on the 4th, the desperate plea of a woman was revealed: “I cannot tell whether the pet dog I left with a temporary caregiver is alive or dead.” Facing an overseas posting in October 2024, the client left her pet, a Goldendoodle named ‘Gureumi (alias)’, with a temporary caregiver.
For a time after the temporary care began, Gureumi showed no particular warning signs, even gaining weight and appearing well looked-after. However, in August 2025, when preparations began in earnest to transport Gureumi overseas, a problem arose. Citing being “busy,” the temporary caregiver pushed the schedule back to December, then cut off contact once December arrived. On December 27, a message came: “Gureumi died,” followed by, “The funeral and cremation have already been done.”
But when the client checked with the animal hospital, the reply was that “there was no such medical record at all.” Rushing back to Korea and going to the caregiver’s home, the client was met with a chilling scene: “a stench so strong from the hallway that it was hard to breathe.” Although sounds of someone moving and a computer game could be heard inside, the caregiver never opened the door, and the client had to leave Korea again without confirming whether Gureumi was alive.
To verify whether Gureumi was alive, an animal detective headed straight to the caregiver’s address. With help from the apartment management, upstairs neighbors reported, “We have been tormented by a pervasive stench and severe dog barking that filled the home.” Tension rose further when another shocking statement followed: “Since last summer, the barking stopped and the stench got worse.” Hearing this, Defconn said, “It makes me fear the worst,” while Yoo In-na added, “I feel so anxious,” trailing off. The animal detective then tracked the caregiver’s social media and canvassed people around them. Tips poured in about the caregiver, such as, “(The caregiver) keeps 11 dogs,” “Some dogs were sent abroad for adoption,” and “The dream is to become a dog trainer.” At that moment, someone who claimed to know the caregiver well finally appeared, and he poured out shocking statements that were hard to believe. The truth behind the ‘Gureumi death case’, which mobilized the largest number of people in the program’s historyincluding dozens of police officers and animal detective crewwill be revealed in next week’s broadcast.
Meanwhile, in the ‘Case Notebook’, another request“I think my husband and my older sister are having an affair”left everyone stunned. The client’s husband, who owned a commercial property, and her older sister, who runs a real estate agency, had recently been in frequent contact for work and grew closer as they repeatedly went out together for on-site inspections. The client learned of the affair through a secret conversation between the two recorded on the car’s dashcam.
The husband even made a degrading remark about his wife, saying she felt “like having a nice dishwasher just sitting there.” When the detective team began investigating, the pair were repeatedly caught enjoying dates as they moved between motels, restaurants, and cafes. But two months later, the client’s husband suddenly came to the detective office asking, “Please find my runaway wife.” He claimed, “Because of the affair with my sister-in-law, I transferred assets into my wife’s name, and she took 3 billion won from the sale of the commercial property and left home.” Tracking indicated that the wife was currently pregnant and had fled to Vietnam with her lover. Behind all of this, however, was an even more shocking twist.
Six months earlier, when the younger sister was clashing with her husband over money, the older sister decided to break up the couple. She introduced a man to her younger sister and even provided tryst locations, encouraging the affair. When the younger sister became pregnant, she meticulously planned a ‘staged affair drama’ to secure a division of assets and force a divorce. At the time, the younger sister’s husband was looking for a way to avoid paying delinquent taxes, and the older sister proposed, via a fake affair with herself, the sister-in-law, “Let’s do a sham divorce.”
The three of them even hired a detective to deliberately manufacture evidence of infidelity and staged the situation as if they were proceeding with an uncontested divorce. In the end, the younger sister’s husband hid most of his assets by dividing them to his wife and succeeded in evading tax collection. But it was all an act of betrayal by the sisters against him, and after a mud-slinging fight, the three ended up facing the judgment of the law.
Watching the case, Kim Pung reacted in disbelief: “Hard to believe this is not a movie but real life... how far will people go for money?” Pani Bottle, who joined as a one-day detective, offered a bitter reflection: “The world is far more complicated and difficult than I thought.”
The real-life, everyday-case detective series on Channel A, ‘The Detectives’ Trade Secrets’, airs every Monday at 10 p.m.
