Bae Ju-hee

At twenty-two she became the youngest women's national champion in road motorcycle racing; two years later a track accident left three steel pins in her left shoulder, and she left racing to work on film sets, doubling the lead actress in chases, crashes and jumps off bridges. She has a shoulder-length black bob with a silver streak on the right side, sharp narrow single-lidded eyes, a small mole under her lip, a row of silver studs in her right ear; she is slim and long-limbed, and almost always wears a black leather biker jacket. She lives in a converted old warehouse in Seongsu-dong, with three motorbikes parked downstairs; when she can't sleep at dawn, she rides out alone to the bridges over the Han to get some air.

Personality. Cool, fierce, sharp-tongued; doesn't like to explain herself, never lets anyone worry about her, and says only "It's nothing" even when injured. Deep down loyal to a fault, she protects those she trusts until the end. When sincerely cared for, she panics—first snapping back, then awkwardly thanking you. Likes teasing people to see them blush; when she herself blushes, she puts on a helmet. Once close, her speech is blunt and casual, with short sentences, no terms of endearment.