Park Na-rae's drinking habits are pretty famous, right?

I heard it snowed a lot in Korea yesterday. Hope everyone is safe.

It's weird, I can't sleep well since coming back to Korea. I've been throwing up for 3 days straight, sometimes only sleeping for an hour and then crashing after dinner when I get off work, and then not sleeping the next day, repeating this cycle… I wonder if it's just my body adjusting, I'm not sure.

I've traveled for leisure and business countless times and I've even lived abroad, so I don't understand why my condition isn't recovering this much. Maybe I'm just getting old.

I have a business trip to northern Canada next week. I heard it's already snowing a lot and the highest temperature is around -15 degrees Celsius. I'll make sure to travel safely.

I'll post the next update on Wednesday, December 10th, in Korean time, in the morning.

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I opened the wife's written statement sent by the lawyer. What lies would be filled with this time? My chest felt tight even in the short moment it took for the file to open.

First off, her stance on property division hasn't changed. She insists that a minimum of 70% for her and a maximum of 30% for me is appropriate.

Regarding the breakdown of our marriage, it detailed how terrible a husband I was. It said I neglected housework and childcare due to my hobbies like collecting cigars and drinking whiskey, and spent a lot of our marital expenses on them. The photos she submitted showed cigars and whiskey. So she came home just to take pictures of these, huh.

Furthermore, she attached a marriage counseling certificate, claiming I didn't actively participate in the marital counseling sessions we had in early 2023 and unilaterally stopped the process.

At the time, there were a total of 5 marital counseling sessions. Initially, we had 2 sessions together, then 1 session each, and finally 1 session together. Of course, I participated in all of them.

And she's submitting this as evidence? The counseling certificate she submitted only showed 4 sessions.

I immediately called the counseling center and asked. They said they only issue certificates for the sessions one personally attended. Therefore, since there was one session for each of us, it made sense that only 4 were issued. However, based on the statement she submitted, it felt like the judge might think I missed something. So I immediately requested a certificate and submitted it in the next statement.

This time, my wife also attached our child's medical records. There were records of the child's colds, eczema, itching, and regular check-ups. The court ruling did not consider that these were caused by leather crafting.

As before, she also claimed I had a jealous streak, controlled her, and falsely accused me of infidelity to file for divorce.

How can she continue to lie when I have a recording of her own confession and photos of us entering a lodging facility arm-in-arm as evidence? I wonder.

The statement included: 'Even if we concede, in a hundred ways, that the relationship between the defendants could be legally considered infidelity, ① the fact that the defendants did not have sexual relations or continue a relationship for a long period, ② the defendants are currently not interacting with each other at all, except through their respective legal representatives in this matter, ③ the breakdown of the plaintiff and defendant's marriage was caused by the plaintiff's jealousy, and the plaintiff's neglect of household duties due to their obsession with hobbies, etc. Considering these factors, the plaintiff's claim in this regard is excessive and should be dismissed or reduced.'

Regarding child custody, she argued that the child is still young and needs a mother's touch, that they have a deep bond, and attached photos of me with the child and my wife's family, as I had submitted in the previous statement.

She wrote that I spent living expenses on things like plastic surgery, disregarding the household economy. While it's true I had surgery, it was due to illness, a complication from a surgery I had at twenty, and I received reimbursement for it.

It seems my wife submitted everything she could, regardless of whether it made sense.

And at the very bottom, she attached a few photos of the overseas entry stamps on my passport. This must have been why she came back home. The photos she submitted showed entry records for Japan twice, the Philippines once, and Mongolia once... all with the child. How can she argue that I wasn't raising the child like this?

Finally, there was a table regarding property division. Since these are numerical figures, the division of joint assets wasn't too different from my own.

I closed the file and let out a deep sigh. What was my wife thinking when she submitted all this?

There's such a huge gap between my memory of our married life and what my wife claims our married life was like. Regardless, my wife made her claims again, and I have to refute them.

The marriage counseling certificates are being sent early next week, so that's taken care of. For the travel, since my wife has the child's passport, I printed out the flight details with my name and the child's name and sent them to my lawyer. I also attached the doctor's diagnosis and surgery confirmation for the medical procedure, along with proof of reimbursement.

Since the court will calculate and divide the assets anyway, I sent my bank statements for living expenses and the monthly living expense transfer files I always shared with my wife, arguing that her claims were unreasonable.

This is a file where I recorded and shared monthly records of remaining amounts after deducting salary, bonuses, income from leather craft sales, loan repayments, and personal allowances. I've been organizing it since the month we got married, so I just had to send it as is.

While sending this, I noted that the claim that my personal allowance was 400,000 won and that I engaged in lavish spending on cigars and whiskey for living expenses was false.

In any case, child custody was the most important thing to me.

My lawyer added a sentence emphasizing that my wife suddenly took the child and left the marital home with joint assets in December. They also stated that this unilateral separation, without consideration for the child, should be a significant factor in determining the guardian.

To submit these pieces of evidence, I had to go back in time a few times. I opened my photo album and scrolled up, and there were continuous photos of my happy child. Why should the child suffer when it's the adults who did wrong?

The date of the 4th trial was January NN.

It was highly likely to be the final trial, so I really wanted to attend, but I had an overseas exhibition trip scheduled for January. My company was setting up a booth, and it was the most important region I was in charge of. A total of 5 people, including myself, were participating with company support.

The problem was that the departure date was two days before the trial, so I had to ask the company for understanding again. Fortunately, my superiors were understanding, and I changed my flight to depart on the morning of the day after the trial.

On the day of the trial.

As before, I met my lawyer in the court lobby. Hoping this would finally be the last trial, we moved to the floor where the trial was to be held. The opposing counsel was the same person.

Unlike last time, the trial was delayed, and we had to wait for a long time. It was already an hour past the scheduled start time.

I'm anxious. I really hope I don't have to come here again.

"Case number 2023-da-XXXXXX, please enter."

After a long wait, the courtroom door finally opened.