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Cheon Seojin (In Korean: 천서진, Cheon Seojin) is the secondary antagonist of of the 2020 ~ 2021 Korean television series The Penthouse: War in Life. She is a woman who used to be a soprano player and is now the head of the Arts Department at Cheong-A High School. She is Ha Eun-byul's mother and Ha Yoon Cheol's ex-wife.
She is portrayed by Kim So-Yeon.
Her Evil Ranking[]
What Make Her Heinous?[]
Season 1[]
- In the past, because of her inferiority complex, she cut Oh Yoon-hee's neck with the blade of a trophy, which caused excessive bleeding, which prevented Oh Yoon-hee from singing.
- She had an affair with Joo Dan Tae because she was not loved.
- She rigged the exam and singing contest for her daughter
- She bought Ma Doo Ki and made Ma Doo Ki cheat on Bae Rona.
- Together with Joo Dan Tae, she tortured Min Seol A, who was aware of the entrance exam corruption at Cheong-A Arts High School, in the machine room of Hera Palace.
- She choked Min Seol A when she told her that she knew about the exam being rigged
- She caused Oh Yoon Hee and Bae Ro Na to be in a car accident as she had a car ram them in the back on their way to the recital so that they could not make it and Eun Byul would win.
- When Min Seol A was found dead in the fountains of Hera Palace, she joined Min Seol A Exploring Tombs led by Joo Dan Tae and she wrote a fake will for Min Seol A.
- She tried to frame Oh Yoon Hee as the murderer of Min Seol A, but was unsuccessful by her husband Ha Yoon Cheol.
- She mentally abused Ha Eun Byul because she wanted her daughter Ha Eun Byul to win Bae Rona. She also imprisoned Ha Eun Byul in her machine room.
- She threatened Ha Yoon Cheol, who was about to divorce her, that she would reveal a medical accident, and forced Ha Yoon Cheol to continue living as her husband.
- She indirectly killed her father, Cheon Myung-soo. However, considering the abuse Cheon Myung-soo inflicted on her, this is somewhat understandable.
Season 2[]
- She insulted Shim Su Ryeon by telling Joo Seok Kyung, "Does your mother seem indifferent to your education?"
- She held a disciplinary committee to force the expulsion of Bae Rona, who had been plagued by the conspiracy of Joo Seok Kyung and Ha Eun Byul.
- She forced her daughter Ha Eun Byul to win even by killing Bae Rona, which eventually led to Ha Eun Byul's attempted murder against Bae Rona.
- She even chewed up the SIM card of Ha Eun Byul's cell phone that had a video of her killing Cheon Myung-soo and destroyed it.
- When she was arrested by the police, she told Shim Su Ryeon that she was innocent and still showed no regrets about her misdeeds.
- She ignited the brawl in court by throwing a punch at Joo Dan Tae
Season 3[]
- She pretended to be mentally ill to get out of prison, causing trouble to many inmates.
- In prison, She fought Go Sang Ah over food
- She rescued Ha Eun Byel and saw Oh Yoon Hee put into jeopardy by Fake Joo Dan Tae, reminding her of her inferiority complex to Oh Yoon Hee, so she pushed the car over a cliff and killed Oh Yoon Hee.
- She collaborated with the real Joo Dan Tae to kidnap Logan, then finance the real Joo Dan Tae, who was addicted to gambling, to make Logan betray the real Joo Dan Tae.
- She gets Ha Yoon Cheol our of jail just so he can drug and keep Logan Lee alive to torture him like pouring boiling water on his leg e.g; in an attempt to frame Shim Su Ryeon for attempting to kill torure and kidnap him. Causing the Lee family to be vengeful toward Su Ryeon.
- She works with Joo Dan Tae to increase the payouts to rip off the Lee family, and when Logan is on the verge of death, she uses drugs herself to sneak into Shim Su Ryeon's penthouse and hold the Lee family for all their sins at the same time. Shim Su Ryeon, Real Joo Dan Tae, and Ha Yoon Cheol were also eliminated through . Meaning She almost caused the Lee family to kill Shim Su Ryeon, The Real Joo Dan Tae (Baek Jun Ki), and Ha Yoon Cheol, and they would have had Logan not lived.
- She physically fought Joo Dan Tae and even bit him in a remote location because Joo Dan Tae exposed the truth about her father's death.
- She spread false rumors to reporters that Bae Rona cheated on the Cheong-A Art Center resident artist audition, which proved to be her undoing as Bae Rona would proceed to expose the truth behind Oh Yoon Hee's death to the reporters in front of her.
- She pretended to have early set dementia and even had her assistant and doctors manipulate false evidence to try and prove it so that she could avoid trial for her crimes.
- She went to Ro Na's house pretending to have dementia and pretending to believe Ro Na is Ha Eun Byul and forces her to come with her, attacks and almost kills her when she refuses.
- She knocks Ha Yoo Cheol off of the balcony, even while he is blind.
- She left Ha Yoon Cheol to die from blood loss after he fell off the apartment's railing when he said he loved Oh Yoon Hee.
- She's not worse than Joo Dan Tae, but she has made as many unhappy people as Joo Dan Tae.
- With the Heinous standard high due to Joo Dan Tae, she still passes the baseline with 3 successful, 2 attempted (Bae Ro Na and Min Seol-ah) and 2 indirectly attempted (Lee family almost killed Shim Su Ryeon and Real Joo Dan Tae because she framed them), her actions also stand out because of her personal villainy against Oh Yoon Hee (slitting her throat so she cant sing) and Shim Su Ryeon (having Killed Oh Yoon Hee) and mostly torturing Min Seol A by locking her in machine room and tying her up in a chair so tight she was badly bruised and Painfully squeezed, this is fairly unique. She also abused her daughter Ha Eun Byul, worse than anyone else abused their children in the series, so bad that Ha Eun Byul attempted to kill Bae Ro Na so that She could be top of the class, and drove her into insanity. Not to mention she's not As powerful as Joo Dan Tae in terms of resources.
What Make Her Inconsistent?[]
- Despite her misdeeds, she is portrayed as way too tragic and sympathetic. Growing up under the coercive abuse of her father her, Cheon Myung-soo, she shows how she wants to be loved by someone. This eventually led to her being stripped of her Near Pure Evil status. She was even shown sympathetic when she's was physically abused and forcibly married to Joo Dan Tae and at the end of the Series, she was diagnosed with Laryngeal Cancer before she died.
- This is also why she had an affair with Joo Dan Tae, she had an affair with Joo Dan Tae because she was not loved by Ha Yoon Cheol, and she once felt loved by being with Joo Dan Tae. But Joo Dan Tae only loved his childhood friend Na Ae Gyo, and she was just a pawn.
- She had a few comedic moments to detracted from her villainy such was when she was forced to sing for a fellow inmate while in prison after being beat up for refusing at first.
- She has moral standards. She once loved Joo Dan Tae, but after she developed a hatred for Joo Dan Tae, she became truly disgusted with Joo Dan Tae's misdeeds, and she truly stopped Joo Dan Tae from beating Jo Ho Young.
- She is genuinely affable to her secretary, Secretary Do, and to Park Myung-geun, the janitor of Cheong-A Arts High School.
- She is very regretful of the wrong she had done to Ha Yoon Cheol, which is heard when Ha Yoon Cheol fell off the railing of the apartment, she yelled at Ha Yoon Cheol not to die, and tried to call an ambulance urgently.
- In a twisted way, she loves her daughter Ha Eun Byul. She said that she had committed her abuse, but she truly stopped when Ha Eun Byul tried to harm her, and the reason why she committed suicide and Redeemed herself, atoning for all her sins, is that she It was because of Ha Eun Byul.
Trivia[]
- She is the only Inconsistently Heinous in The Penthouse: War in life series to be approved so far (Joo Seok Kyung and Ha Eun Byul could qualify)
- Unlike Joo Dan Tae, who once was Near Pure Evil, she maintained her Near Pure Evil status until the end in Season 3, but her regret grew so high that she lost her Near Pure Evil status.
- She is Inconsistently Heinous while her arch nemesis and rival Oh Yoon Hee is Inconsistently admirable.
External Links[]
Cheon Seojin on the Villains Wiki