Elegant Empire (Uahan Jeguk / 우아한 제국)

Honey.

Hi. I'm Seo Hee Jae.

I'm Jacklyn.

Are you really going to start a YouTube channel?

I will upload a video,

and if it gets a good response, I will continue.

If not, I'll just quit.

A stylish rich lady. Not a bad theme, right?

Really.

That just now was a concerning scene.

Jacklyn, don't get the wrong idea.

I'm not so low as to do something weird with my friend's ex-husband.

"My friend's ex-husband?"

That's right. I'm a friend of Ju Kyung.

You're a friend of the late Shin Ju Kyung?

What a shocker.

You're wearing only one of your earrings?

Oh, I lost the other side.

But I can't seem to remember where I lost it.

I found it.

In his car.

My car?

My gosh.

Thank you.

I must've dropped it in your car that day.

See you again, Jacklyn.

Why did that woman...

drop her earrings in my car to cause a misunderstanding?

Put a distance from her. She seems dangerous.

Looking a lot like your dead wife...

gives me the creeps.

I never kept her close to me.

Don't make me witness you two alone again.

This is a warning.

Isn't it rude to use such a word between a married couple?

That tone of voice and look as if you can't trust me.

Don't do that again.

You better not ignore my warning, Jacklyn.

Hye Rim. Stop breathing.

I'm not breathing.

My gosh.

This is bad!

Girl, I told you not to breathe!

Jeez.

Seriously.

Jacklyn! Why are you back so early?

I left a document behind.

Isn't that my dress?

Are you crazy?

Why are you wearing my clothes?

Are you nuts?

Is your head straight?

She must be cussing in English, which I can't understand.

Maybe it's a relief?

Oh, my gosh.

BJ Hyunta shows off an unpredictable charm,

which is a perfect match with Miyu's new product.

I gathered statistics on the reviews of Miyu's products until now.

As you can tell from the graph,

the main customers were in their 20s and not in their 30s.

You even researched into that?

Hyunta is good at live shows.

I can say with confidence that...

she will bring in more sales than Oh Na Hee...

once you launch a home shopping.

Hi.

I'm here to hand out profiles of NA Entertainment.

Over there.

Hi.

Hi.

You're Mr. Choi Dae Il, actor Kang In Sun's manager, yes?

Yes.

I'm Director Seo Hee Jae of NA Entertainment.

Can you invite me to the managers' group chat?

Let's share information.

Please, okay?

Nice to meet you. I'm Seo Hee Jae of NA Entertainment.

Thank you for adding me.

What? Barely anyone texts me at this hour.

Hee Jae! I got invited to the managers' group chat!

That's great.

I heard managers share information and support each other.

"Support each other?" - Yes.

They help and inform each other of roles that suit a particular actor.

I see.

Hold on. Who said you could get a business card as a director?

The company had no director,

although it had a general and a senior manager.

So I went with what was left.

You can be the director next year.

We can take turns. - What?

Jeez.

Seriously.

Yoon Ji Tae. How are you feeling?

It was you, wasn't it?

The one who told the chairman...

he drank and played cards at the hospital.

It would've been better if you had played fair from the start.

Yoon Ji Tae.

Shin Ju Kyung is my friend.

She told me a secret of yours.

You do look like her.

People said a woman resembling Director Shin was running wild...

in NA Entertainment.

So it was you?

Forcing your ex-girlfriend to get an abortion.

You promised to act while repenting your whole life.

That was why Ju Kyung accepted you back.

I also know...

the number of the girl you forced to get an abortion.

If you act so proud now that you've become quite famous,

didn't Ju Kyung tell you you won't last long in this field?

What the...

What did she say? - Nothing.

Hey, kiddo. Are you nervous?

Not at all.

Did you think it was unfair to get fired when you did nothing wrong?

If you think it was so unfair, get back at them with your acting.

And to become a great actor, you must bear it.

What's harder than acting is to wait and bear.

Get it, kiddo?

Good luck.

You were pretty good today.

Your voice was stable.

Well done.

You too, Hee Jae.

What's gotten into you? No more Ms. Seo?

If that's what you want, I'll call you Ms. Seo.

You turn out to be a detective in this work.

There will be a handcuffing scene later.

How did you know?

I called the writer.

Speaking of which,

Here.

It's a toy, but practice with it. Okay?

Sure.

Excuse me.

Yes, Ms. Bong.

Ms. Seo.

We just had a meeting on the commercial model.

Hyunta became the new model for Miyu Cosmetics.

Oh, my. Really?

Oh, thank you.

Thank you so much.

Bye.

Yes!

But Oh Na Hee of WJ Entertainment is the model for Miyu Cosmetics.

Hyunta pushed her out and became their model?

I appealed to them like crazy...

since their contract with Oh Na Hee was near the end.

How did you know their contract was near the end?

WJ Entertainment must be shocked.

Gosh. Oh Na Hee...

She thinks she's renewing the contract tomorrow at Miyu.

What now?

Is NA Entertainment on the seventh floor?

I can't believe that small company pushed us off.

This is embarrassing.

Is this how you get your job done?

Na Hee. Calm down. Take a deep breath.

How can I calm down?

How can you lose my cosmetics model position...

to NA Entertainment of all companies?

Did she really get it?

She's becoming a model? Amazing.

Hyunta! Oh, my goodness!

You're choking me.

What's going on? You never greeted me so much like this before.

You became the model for Miyu Cosmetics.

Me? As a cosmetics model?

I don't plan to do that.

No? Why not?

What's the good in it?

I have to force myself to smile and look pretty in front of a camera.

They'll pay you a lot.

I still make 200,000 dollars a year.

You think I'm not making ten million because I can't?

It's because I don't want to fake a smile or tears...

in front of a camera.

I'm not doing it.

I would if I were you.

Imagine it's a graduation photo.

A graduation photo?

You get to remember that moment.

You can always look back to it later.

To your good old days.

He's right.

Do you want me to be a cosmetics model?

Yes.

You don't even say hi now?

Didn't you say I get on your nerves?

I'm trying to avoid that.

The door's opening.

Hyunta or whatever.

I can't believe that obscure young kid stole my modelling job.

Don't you know how much money I got you?

I'm breaking the contract and moving to a different agency.

Oh Na Hee, trust me and go.

Trust you how?