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* HappilyMarried: The only happy, functional marriage in Hera Palace. [[spoiler: It even overcomes his's lengthy prison sentence, as Mari visits him the whole time.]] The only time their marriage comes under strain is when [[spoiler: Dantae catches him unburying the hidden bodies; [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies threatening to frame him for Yoonhee's murder and kill their family, when Mari asks him to stop associating with Dantae he has no choice but to defy her.]]]]


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* HappilyMarried: The only happy, functional marriage in Hera Palace. [[spoiler: It even overcomes his's lengthy prison sentence, as Mari visits him the whole time.]] The only time their marriage comes under strain is when [[spoiler: Dantae catches him unburying the hidden bodies; [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies threatening to frame him for Yoonhee's murder and kill their family, when Mari asks him to stop associating with Dantae he has no choice but to defy her.]]]]
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* HappilyMarried: The only happy, functional marriage in Hera Palace. [[spoiler: It even overcomes Dongpil's lengthy prison sentence, as she visits him the whole time.]] The only time their marriage comes under strain is when [[spoiler: Dantae catches Dongpil unburying the hidden bodies; [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies threatening to frame him for Yoonhee's murder and kill their family, when she asks Dongpil to stop associating with Dantae he has no choice but to defy her.]]]]


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* HappilyMarried: The only happy, functional marriage in Hera Palace. [[spoiler: It even overcomes his's lengthy prison sentence, as Mari visits him the whole time.]] The only time their marriage comes under strain is when [[spoiler: Dantae catches him unburying the hidden bodies; [[ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies threatening to frame him for Yoonhee's murder and kill their family, when Mari asks him to stop associating with Dantae he has no choice but to defy her.]]]]

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Jenny's mother.

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Jenny's mother.mother and Dongpil's wife.



* DisappearedDad: For a while anyway. As far as Jenny knows, her dad is in Dubai. [[spoiler: However, she later finds out through Seokgyeong that he's actually serving time in prison for murder.]]



[[folder:Dongpil Yoo]]
->'''Played by:''' Park Hosan

Jenny's father and Mari's husband.
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* BruiserWithASoftCenter: He was a tough guy in Incheon, is one of Dantae's most trusted confidantes and is even a convicted murderer, but he clearly adores his family. [[spoiler: It also turns out that he took the fall for Dantae due to their friendship; while Dantae was the real killer, Dongpil helped hide the body and took the blame instead.]]
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[[folder:Secretary Do]]
->'''Played by:''' Kim Do Hyun

Cheon Seojin's hardworking secretary throughout the series.

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[[folder:Secretary Do]]
[[folder:Myungsoo Cheon]]
->'''Played by:''' Kim Do Hyun

Cheon
Sungmo Jung

Seojin's hardworking secretary throughout the series.father



* YesMan: It's basically in his job description. There isn't anything that Seojin asks that he is [[BlindObedience unable or unwilling to do.]]

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* YesMan: It's basically in
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his job description. There isn't anything that eldest child, he puts enormous pressure on Seojin asks that he is [[BlindObedience unable or unwilling to do.]]live up to his expectations and continue his legacy, [[HistoryRepeats and she clearly takes a lot of parenting cues from him in how she raises Eunbyeol.]]


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[[folder:Secretary Do]]
->'''Played by:''' Do-hyun Kim

Seojin's hardworking secretary throughout the series.
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* YesMan: It's basically in his job description. There isn't anything that Seojin asks that he is [[BlindObedience unable or unwilling to do.]]
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Teacher at Cheongah Arts School
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* CallingTheOldManOut: Both of his parents, actually. Although he starts off as a shallow bully, his frustrations with his parents' conduct becomes more obvious as season 3 progresses. [[spoiler: When they divorce, he chooses to live with neither and instead signs up for his military service.]]

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* CallingTheOldManOut: Both of his parents, actually. Although he starts off as a shallow bully, his frustrations with his parents' conduct becomes more obvious as season 3 progresses. [[spoiler: When they divorce, he chooses to live with neither and instead signs up for his military service.]]
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* CallingTheOldManOut: Both of his parents, actually. Although he starts off as a shallow bully, his frustrations with his parents' conduct becomes more obvious as season 3 progress and his personality develops. [[spoiler: When they divorce, he chooses to live with neither and instead signs up for his military service.]]

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* CallingTheOldManOut: Both of his parents, actually. Although he starts off as a shallow bully, his frustrations with his parents' conduct becomes more obvious as season 3 progress and his personality develops.progresses. [[spoiler: When they divorce, he chooses to live with neither and instead signs up for his military service.]]
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* CallingTheOldManOut: Both of his parents, actually. Although he starts off as a shallow bully, his frustrations with his parents' conduct becomes more obvious as season 3 progress and his personality develops. [[spoiler: When they divorce, he chooses to live with neither and instead signs up for his military service.]]
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* FamilyHonor: As the eldest child, she's been groomed from a young age to eventually inherit Cheongah from her father, and this means no scandals that could embarrass the family. [[spoiler: She fails spectacularly on the whole family embarrassment thing, and when Yoonhee exposes her extramarital affair to her father, he disinherits her. However, before he's had a chance to announce anything he suffers from a fall during an argument with Seojin; instead of helping, she watches him die and destroys the newly signed will, retaining leadership of Cheongah for herself.]]

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->'''Played by:''' Hye-rin Seo

Kyujin's mother and Sangah's mother-in-law.
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* MyBelovedSmother: The other piece to Kyujin's mama's boy puzzle.
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* PrivateTutor: She poses as a graduate who studied in the United States, and ends up tutoring the Hera Palace kids. All hell breaks loose when they learn she's really a kid their own age who's about to attend the same high school as them.
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* LuxuryPrisonSuite: [[spoiler: During her first prison stint, she briefly enjoys the luxury life in a separate cell and with access to all her usual helpers. However, this eventually proves too conspicuous and so she's forced to slum it with the rest of the general population.]]

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* LuxuryPrisonSuite: [[spoiler: During her first prison stint, stint at the beginning of season 3, she briefly enjoys the luxury life in a separate cell and with access to all her usual helpers. However, this eventually proves too conspicuous and so she's forced to slum it with the rest of the general population.]]
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* LuxuryPrisonSuite: [[spoiler: During her first prison stint, she briefly enjoys the luxury life in a separate cell and with access to all her usual helpers. However, this eventually proves too conspicuous and so she's forced to slum it with the rest of the general population.]]
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* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Played with. Despite Dantae raising him in his image, especially [[spoiler:given that he is his only biological child]], and despite initially being an insufferable and violent bully like the rest of his friends, Seokhoon [[IAmNotMyFather grows up to be kind and compassionate]], in great contrast to Dantae. [[HatesTheirParent He of course hates Dantae,]] given how abusive he is towards literally everyone.

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* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Played with. Despite Dantae raising him in his image, especially [[spoiler:given that he is his only biological child]], and despite initially being an insufferable and violent bully like the rest of his friends, Seokhoon [[IAmNotMyFather grows up to be kind and compassionate]], in great contrast to Dantae.compassionate]]. [[HatesTheirParent He of course hates Dantae,]] given how abusive he is towards literally everyone.
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* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Played with. Despite Dantae raising him in his image, especially [[spoiler:given that he is his only biological child]], Seokhoon [[IAmNotMyFather turns out to be kind and compassionate]], in great contrast to Dantae. [[HatesTheirParent He of course hates Dantae,]] given how abusive he is towards literally everyone.

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* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Played with. Despite Dantae raising him in his image, especially [[spoiler:given that he is his only biological child]], and despite initially being an insufferable and violent bully like the rest of his friends, Seokhoon [[IAmNotMyFather turns out grows up to be kind and compassionate]], in great contrast to Dantae. [[HatesTheirParent He of course hates Dantae,]] given how abusive he is towards literally everyone.
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* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Played with. Despite Dantae raising him in his image, especially [[spoiler:given that he is his only biological child]], Seokhoon turns out to be kind and compassionate, in great contrast to Dantae. [[HatesTheirParent He of course hates Dantae,]] given how abusive he is towards literally everyone.

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* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Played with. Despite Dantae raising him in his image, especially [[spoiler:given that he is his only biological child]], Seokhoon [[IAmNotMyFather turns out to be kind and compassionate, compassionate]], in great contrast to Dantae. [[HatesTheirParent He of course hates Dantae,]] given how abusive he is towards literally everyone.
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* BrokenPedestal: When she meets Seojin, whose operatic career she'd been in awe of.
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* ProfessionalButtKisser: A senior teacher at Cheongha Arts, his loyalty is initially to his boss Seojin [[spoiler: but we soon see how mercenary he is, given that as soon as Dantae offers him money in order for Seokgyong to gain an advantage over Eunbyeol he switches sides. One of the first things Suryeon does [[HonestCorporateExecutive once she replaces Seojin as Director is fire him from working at the school.]]]]

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* ProfessionalButtKisser: A senior teacher at Cheongha Arts, his loyalty is initially to his boss Seojin [[spoiler: but we soon see how mercenary he is, given that as soon as Dantae offers him money in order for Seokgyong Seokgyeong to gain an advantage over Eunbyeol he switches sides. One of the first things Suryeon does [[HonestCorporateExecutive once she replaces Seojin as Director is fire him from working at the school.]]]]
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* ProfessionalButtKisser: As a senior teacher in the school, his loyalty is initially to his boss Seojin [[spoiler: but we soon see how mercenary he is, given that as soon as Dantae offers him money in order for Seokgyong to gain an advantage over Eunbyeol he switches sides. One of the first things Suryeon does [[HonestCorporateExecutive once she replaces Seojin as Director is fire him from working at the school.]]]]

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* ProfessionalButtKisser: As a A senior teacher in the school, at Cheongha Arts, his loyalty is initially to his boss Seojin [[spoiler: but we soon see how mercenary he is, given that as soon as Dantae offers him money in order for Seokgyong to gain an advantage over Eunbyeol he switches sides. One of the first things Suryeon does [[HonestCorporateExecutive once she replaces Seojin as Director is fire him from working at the school.]]]]
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* ProfessionalButtKisser: As a senior teacher in the school, his loyalty is initially to his boss Seojin [[spoiler: but we soon see how mercenary he is, given that as soon as Dantae offers him money in order for Seokgyong to gain an advantage over Eunbyeol he switches sides. One of the first things Suryeon does [[HonestCorporateExecutive once she replaces Seojin as Director is fire him from working at the school.]]]]

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* ProfessionalButtKisser: As a senior teacher in the school, his loyalty is initially to his boss Seojin [[spoiler: but we soon see how mercenary he is, given that as soon as Dantae offers him money in order for Seokgyong to gain an advantage over Eunbyeol he switches sides. One of the first things Suryeon does [[HonestCorporateExecutive once she replaces Seojin as Director is fire him from working at the school.]]]]]]]]
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[[folder:Ma Dooki]]
->'''Played by:''' Ha Dokwon

* ProfessionalButtKisser: As a senior teacher in the school, his loyalty is initially to his boss Seojin [[spoiler: but we soon see how mercenary he is, given that as soon as Dantae offers him money in order for Seokgyong to gain an advantage over Eunbyeol he switches sides. One of the first things Suryeon does [[HonestCorporateExecutive once she replaces Seojin as Director is fire him from working at the school.]]]]
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* GossipyHens: Especially when with Sangah.


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* GossipyHens: Especially when with Mari.
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* ParentingTheHusband: She is a frustrated housewife who, despite their wealth, isn't allowed to hire any home help and even has to wait on [[ObnoxiousInLaws his mother and sisters]] hand and foot, lest she receive a tongue lashing from them all.
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* HappyMarriageCharade: True for both of his marriages. [[spoiler: He is forced to stay legally married to Seojin just long enough for her to be named Director of Cheongha Arts. Played with in his subsequent marriage to Yoonhee; while they marry in season 2 in order to exact revenge on Seojin; he actually loves her.]]
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* HappyMarriageCharade: True for both of her marriages. [[spoiler: She forces Yoonchul to stay with her just long enough for her to be named Director of Cheongha Arts. And her subsequent marriage to Dantae is a sham, but they have to maintain pretences to the public for the sake of their companies.]]
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* DisposableWoman: To an extent; we learn her full backstory and characterisation, but it's mostly through flashbacks and other people's memories. Her actual time spent on the show is pretty minimal.
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* OpportunisticBastard: Perhaps you could use this to describe every Hera Palace club member, but Kyujin is particularly slippery; in just season 3 alone [[spoiler: he betrays Yoonchul in prison, and later on he runs off with the money Dantae placed in his account for safekeeping, taking his family with him.]]
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* TurnOutLikeHisFather: Played with. Despite Dantae raising him in his image, especially [[spoiler:given that he is his only biological child]], Seokhoon turns out to be kind and compassionate, in great contrast to Dantae. [[HatesTheirParent He of course hates Dantae,]] given how abusive he is towards literally everyone.
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* UnwantedSpouse: [[spoiler: Her marriage to Dantae is under duress. He is blackmailing her, and she needs preserve their reputation long enough to maintain the value of their companies - hers in particular.]]
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* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler: It turns out Dantae was the one who assassinated Suryeon's first husband. The one she left him to be with. The one who turned out to be Seola and Seokgyeong's biological father.]]


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* GreenEyedMonster: A key aspect of her dynamic with Rona; it's especially galling that her crush Seokhoon prefers Rona over her.

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