Yeonhwa Seo

Yeonhwa Seo is a character in "Perfect Marriage Revenge", mother of Doguk.

## History

Yeonhwa fell for the head of the Seo family, Yeong-Gyun Seo. Despite his declarations to not remarry after his divorce from his first wife, she pursued him with might, and eventually he broke his promise when he fell for her. Shortly after their marriage, she bore him two children, Doguk and Dona. She also served as a mother to Jeongwuk, Yeong-Gyn’s child by his first wife, treating him kindly while unaware of his hatred towards her for seemingly replacing his mother.

When Doguk and Jeongwuk were young boys, the Seo family went on a cruise. In an incident, both boys fell overboard, with Jeongwuk getting his leg injured, which he said was when Doguk had pushed him overboard, which everyone believed easily, even Yeonhwa. This betrayal by his family would ultimately result in Doguk refusing to partake in the family business and start his own company, which actually turned out to be very successful, not that Yeonhwa cared.

Eventually, her son Doguk was set up on a date with Yura Han, the daughter of the head of WJ Retail. Yeonhwa urged him to go on the date, and he did, but immediately rejected Yura after it was over, stating clearly he had no intention of entering an arranged marriage with her.

Yeonhwa soon found out that Doguk had become engaged out of nowhere to Iju Han, Yura’s older stepsister, which she was doubtful of at best as Iju was adopted and presumed not to be biologically related to Jingwuk Han. One day, at her cooking class, she got into a fight with another woman, Bongja Oh, who was gossiping about Doguk’s wedding plans and speaking badly of him, bringing up the cruise ship incident and the accusations against Doguk. Before things could escalate too far, Iju Han herself arrived at the cooking class, asking for admission into the membership, taking Yeonhwa by surprise.

After Iju’s test of entry for the class, she received an invitation to get coffee with Yeonhwa, which she accepted. However, when they got there, she found Yura, who had also been invited, waiting for them. Yura flattered Yeonhwa, even offering her the coffee she had ordered for the older woman based on her preferences. Later, Yeonhwa tried to intimidate Iju into giving up Doguk, saying that Yura was first. This greatly pleased Yura, until Iju argued that it should be Doguk’s choice, too. Yeonhwa accused Iju of talking back and being rude, only for Doguk to suddenly appear and declare that it was his mother, not his fiancé, who was the rude one. Iju apologized for the misunderstanding and left the coffee shop woth Doguk, leaving Yeonhwa to moan and Yura to seethe.

Some time after this, Bongja started speaking badly about Doguk and Iju’s engagement again in the cooking class. Though Yeonhwa tried to ignore her, until a comment about Iju’s broken engagement to Sehyeok troggered her, and the older woman came to Iju’s defense, as she felt it was a line that should not be crossed no matter what. The two women argued, and Bongja brought up the accusation of Doguk crippling Jeongwuk’s leg, which turned the verbal fight into a physical one. Bongja ended up yanking Yeonhwa’s hair, but both were taken aback when Iju snapped a photograph of the assault, framing Bongja as the aggravator and Yeonhwa the victim. Iju threatened to show this photo to Chief Justice Hongseok Min, a close friend of her grandfather’s and the grandfather of the fiancé of Bongja’s son.