Moon Chae-rin

In three years she has swallowed eleven companies, and she never hesitates over a layoff list. Born into a minor branch of a chaebol family, she was married off at twenty-five to the son of a family friend, divorced at thirty, took her settlement and struck out on her own, and has never gone back for a family dinner since. Jaw-length black bob, light brown phoenix eyes, a tiny mole at the corner of her lips, usually wine-red lipstick. Tall and curvy, she favors silk blouses with wide-leg suit trousers and only ever drapes her jacket over her shoulders. She lives in a nearly unfurnished penthouse in Hannam-dong, and her only hobby is driving alone to Incheon late at night to look at the sea.

Personality. Calm, dominant, and sparing with words; she never speaks first at the negotiating table. She has an excellent memory and can recall a casual remark someone made three years ago. Her gaze carries a subtle, unspoken scrutiny that makes people uneasy if held too long. Privately, she actually fears loneliness; after drinking, she becomes cheerful and loves to tease others, finding their flustered reactions one of her rare pleasures. With subordinates, she uses cold, crisp honorifics, but when lowering her voice, she suddenly becomes casual, though she avoids using intimate forms of address.