Character Analysis Of Jin-Ho

between them. He constantly criticizes her dressing sense and at one point Gae-In remarks that Jin-Ho has ‘delicate sensibilities’ owing to his ‘preference’.
Gae-In appeals to the ‘gay’ Jin-Ho to help her with her makeover because she associates him with good perception about personal grooming and relies on the abilities he has acquired from being gay. Gae-In puts Jin-Ho in same place as her, since both of them are attracted to men. Jin-Ho not from a man’s perspective but as a gay man’s perspective will be able to help her because she doesn’t expect Jin-Ho to act as a ‘man’. Jin-Ho lays out several traits of attractiveness for Gae-In to follow – he locks her in a cabin for two hours to develop patience, light steps while walking because it make a women appear ‘sexy’, eating less in front of a man (“an attractive woman can live on dew drops alone”) and so on. Gae-In remarks that it must be his gayness that makes him so different. Here Jin-Ho embodies the ‘lifestyle gay’ as he helps Gae-In to have
His first encounter with the idea is when Gae-In mistakes him to be gay. Because he thinks very little of the idea and her, he doesn’t bother to clarify. When the narrative gradually escalates, Jin-Ho remains very reticent about it because the narrative is build in and around his career – he needs to pretend that he is gay so that he can move into Sanggojae. Gae-In lets it slip to multiple people including In-Hee and Do-Bin and because the narrative transfers itself into a public setting, Jin-Ho does not have an outright reaction. When Do-Bin assures him that his personal circumstances are not something that interest him, Jin-Ho drops the issue and initiates a professional relationship with Do-Bin in his capacity as the President of his architectural firm. His public image is left to take shape without Jin-Ho’s intervention to direct the