Nice work and your conclusion is correct. Further confirmation is the poles in the closed loop system are the roots of $$1+G(s)=0$$ Which results in the polynomial $$s^2+(3+K)s+(2-K)$$ In order to have complex roots, using the quadratic formula $\sqrt{b^2-4ac}$ must be negative. So we want to test if $4(2-K)>(3+K)^2$ for any K Since $4(2-K)=(3+K)^2$ has roots: $$K^2+4K+1=0$$ roots are: -3.732, -0.268 The range of K where the poles can be complex is therefore from -3.732 to -0.268