Let's Get Divorced! (Korean: 진짜 진짜 이혼해, Really Truly Getting A Divorce) is a Romantic Comedy Korean Webtoon written by Seohu and drawn by Haein. It debuted on Naver in the original Korean in March 2022. An English translation
landed on Webtoon in 2023.
Go Baek-hui is an ordinary office worker whose life is ruined after she is caught on television "storm kick"-ing her now-ex boyfriend and the footage goes viral. Baek-hui wants to escape from it all. Her handsome school friend Seo Han-gyeol arrives in South Korea to work at her company and offers a solution: he holds permanent resident status in Australia. Baek-hui can marry him for two years in order to get PR status herself. She agrees, despite his motivations for the marriage initially being unclear. The two of them must now fake a relationship that's convincing not just to immigration authorities, but to their friends, family, and other potential love interests as well, even as the lines between them get increasingly blurred...
Tropes:
- Awkward Kiss: The first kiss of Baek-hui and Han-gyeol's contract marriage at the altar goes terribly — they smash their mouths against each other and make a "tak" sound, to the guests' embarrassment. Han-gyeol recovers quickly and gives her a Big Damn Kiss.
- Beautiful Dreamer: In chapter 29, Baek-hui falls asleep on Han-gyeol's shoulder. He carries her to his bed and can't help but kiss her forehead before leaving her there.
- Bridal Carry: Han-gyeol will occasionally carry his love interest Baek-hui in his arms:
- He does it to put her to bed in chapter 29.
- Invoked in chapter 31, when the photographer for their wedding shoot asks him to lift her up in his arms.
- Cat Up a Tree: To the consternation of Mi-yeon and Hyeon, Baek-hui climbs up a tree to rescue a cat. The branch breaks and she sprains her ankle.
- Citizenship Marriage: Baek-hui and Han-gyeol plan to marry long enough for her to obtain permanent residency in Australia.
- Exact Eavesdropping: In Chapter 28, Hyeon sits outside Mi-yeon's cafe just in time to overhear Baek-hui and Han-gyeol arrive to discuss their fake engagement with Mi-yeon, which confirms his earlier suspicions.
- Frustrated Overhead Scribble: Dark round scribbles appear to indicate a character is flustered, such as above Baek-hui's head to indicate her exhaustion and frustration in chapter 2, and above Han-gyeol's when he grudgingly admits that someone said they'd make a pretty couple in chapter 9.
- Held Back in School: A flashback in chapter 11 reveals that Han-gyeol was held back a year, which is part of why he's a surly outcast when he first transfers in.
- Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: Baek-hui attacks her ex outside a store. A video of it makes its way through social media and becomes so prevalent that Baek-hui is constantly recognized on the street as the "storm-kick girl" and gossiped about. She legitimately considers emigrating to Australia to escape the embarrassment.
- Instantly Proven Wrong: Han-gyeol and Baek-hui go to meet his grandfather in Chapter 19. He reassures her that his grandfather is too old to hear about her embarrassing viral video, only for him to instantly recognize her as "the stormy-kick girl".
- Last Wish Marriage: Han-gyeol offers to give Baek-hui a Citizenship Marriage because his unwell grandpa's last wish is to see him married.
- Mistaken for Suicidal: Chapter 12 features a flashback to Baek-hui and Han-gyeol's school years. After his grandmother's death, Baek-hui found him leaning over a tall bridge. She instantly assumed he was going to kill himself and ran to pull him from the edge, only for him to tell her that he was only trying to retrieve a family photograph. This event prompts her to realize she has a crush on him.
- Naturalized Name: The Korean-Australians in the comic have Korean and English names.
- Hyeon Ryu goes by David Ryu in English.
- Claire's Korean name is Hae-yeong.
- Past Experience Nightmare: Chapter 19 opens with Han-gyeol waking up from a nightmare about the car accident that killed his father.
- Right Behind Me: Ms. Bang comments that Han-gyeol is better than Baek-hui's ex Hyeon-ung in every way only for the coworker she's talking to to tell her that said ex is right behind her. Hyeon-ung then gets mad and disparages Baek-hui, only for Baek-hui to come up behind him.
- Shapes of Disappearance: The security guard at Baek-hui's apartment is replaced by a dotted outline when he does his Stealth Hi/Bye.
- This Is Reality:
- Baek-hui's colleague Ms. Bang catches Han-gyeol proposing to her in the stairwell at work. Her coworkers don't believe her, saying that she's been reading too many romance novels.
- Hae-yeong is scared of Han-gyeol when he first transfers in, saying he's a handsome guy with a bad personality. Baek-hui flippantly comments that guys like that only exist in webtoons.
- Those Two Guys: Bang and Ji-won, two minor coworkers of Baek-hui, who talk about her love life. Ms. Bang is also a romance author who takes inspiration from Baek-hui's love life, lampshading the various tropes along the way.
- Uncomfortable Elevator Moment: Han-gyeol gets on an apartment elevator with a nosy couple who not only complimented his looks, but are complaining that their daughter didn't tell them she was getting married. When they get off at the same floor, he realizes that these are his fiancee's parents...
- Wall Pin of Love: In an attempt to show up her ex Hyeon-ung, Baek-hui tries to pin her fake fiance Han-gyeol against the office wall. She's too anxious for it to come off as convincing, however.
- Woman Scorned: Baek-hui attacks her ex-boyfriend after he unceremoniously dumps her and then she realizes that the only valuable gift he gave her (a handbag) was fake.
- Zip Me Up: Chapter 33: Han-gyeol has to unzip his contract wife's wedding gown. They've already developed nebulous feelings for each other, so the moment is very tense.
