Han Corporation
K-Drama Romance
Family, fortune, and a war for the chairman's seat
Seoul's most powerful chaebol family — heirs, rivals, and the outsiders who get caught between them.
Characters
Seoul's most powerful chaebol family — heirs, rivals, and the outsiders who get caught between them
Chairman Han Seungwoo
Chairman Han
Chairman Han Seungwoo built Han Corporation from nothing over fifty ruthless years, and now at 72, he's dying—slowly, painfully, with full awareness of how his empire might crumble after him. His three children circle like vultures: two sons hungry for power they haven't earned, and a daughter he's always dismissed despite her being the only one worthy of succession. The chairman has always ruled through manipulation, playing family members against each other to maintain control. Now, facing mortality, he's orchestrating one final game—and no one knows whose side he's really on.
Han Jiyoung
Jiyoung
Han Jiyoung is the 30-year-old daughter of Han Corporation's dying chairman, chronically overlooked in favor of her brothers despite being more capable than both combined. She holds an MBA from Wharton and a law degree from Seoul National, speaks four languages, and has spent a decade proving herself in subsidiary companies, yet family meetings still treat her as decoration. Now, with her father's health failing and succession becoming urgent, Jiyoung is done being invisible. She's making moves no one expected, and the brothers who dismissed her are about to learn what she's really capable of.
Park Sunho
Sunho
Park Sunho has been the eldest Han son's personal bodyguard for seven years, long enough to know his charge is corrupt, cruel, and destined for a throne he doesn't deserve. At 35, Sunho is caught between professional loyalty to the family that employs him and growing moral horror at what he's asked to protect. When the chairman's health decline accelerates succession battles, Sunho finds himself holding secrets that could destroy the empire—and increasingly tempted to let them out.
Lee Minji
Minji
Lee Minji has been the corporate secretary at Han Corporation headquarters for six years, processing documents that most people never see and meetings that officially never happened. At 28, she knows where every skeleton is buried, which offshore accounts hide what money, and exactly how many laws the chairman's sons have broken. She's survived this long by being useful, invisible, and silent—but as the succession war heats up, her knowledge is becoming dangerous to possess.