Cheon Seojin

***Cheon Seojin (천 서진. Seojin Cheon)***  is the main antagonist for **Season One** and **Season Two** of The Penthouse: War in Life korean drama series and a major character for **Season Three.**

**Seojin Cheon** (In Korean: **천서진**, Cheon Seojin) is the secondary antagonist of the 2020 ~ 2021 Korean television series *The Penthouse: War in Life*. A famous soprano and the Head of the Arts Department at Cheong-A High School, Seojin is a glamorous and wealthy woman who harbors warped ambitions and will do anything for power, money, and pride. She is Ha Eun-byul's mother and Ha Yoon-cheol's ex-wife.

She is portrayed by South Korean actress Kim So-Yeon.

## Personality

Seo-jin is proud, arrogant, and the epitome of extravagant arrogance. Born into wealth and having spent her entire life in the spotlight as a famous soprano singer, she believes the world revolves around her, and will go out of her way to make it so or keep it that way. In her eyes, her own success comes first, and shows little to no hesitation in committing crimes and depravities regardless of the means and methods to achieve what she wants.

Surprisingly, she lived in love and died of love. In Season 1, when she realizes she loves Joo Dan Tae, she divorces Ha Yoon-cheol and chose to be with Joo Dan Tae, mostly because of how far more rich and powerful the latter was compared to former. In Season 2, amidst the struggles of her declining voice and new marriage, she realizes that the person she's ever truly loved was Ha Yoon-cheol and hangs on to him, but goes through with her new marriage to Joo Dan Tae nonetheless in order to make what she sees as necessary sacrifices and to overwrite her sins. This pretty much provides another reason to why Seojin's hatred for Oh Yoon-hee grew upon the latter's return to Hera Palace; not only because Oh Yoon-hee had married Ha Yoon-cheol, but also because their healthy relationship and marriage constantly reminded her of her selfish choices and the happiness she could've had with him.

Seojin's one redeeming quality would be her love for her daughter Ha Eun-byeol, though it is somewhat twisted as well as a mirror of her youth. When she was younger, she was pressured by her father to outdo Oh Yoon-hee, who was evidently more talented that her; this would culminate in her slitting Oh Yun-hee's neck with a trophy, thereby taking away Oh Yun-hee's ability to sing and securing the scholarship for herself. Now as an adult and a parent, she continues the cycle by pushing Eun-byeol to outdo Oh Yoon-hee's daughter Bae Ro-na, causing Eun-byeol to develop imposter syndrome. Nonetheless, Seo-jin does truly love and care about her daughter, and as Eun-byeol would admit it at Seo-jin's trial in Season 3, most Seo-jin's crimes were done out of anxiety regarding her daughter's future and to ensure her daughter's success.

Seojin shows suspicion of borderline personality disorder, as seen in her fear of abandonment and near-extreme mood swings, and it seems that her condition is serious enough to require immediate medication, counseling, and hospitalization.

Sadly, as the series progresses, Seojin becomes blinded by her ambitions and pride and begins her descent into an ever-deepening abyss of madness. She was even willing to murder her own father just to become Chief Director of Cheong-A Group (though she does feel bad about it at first, as seen in her iconic piano scene). In the end, her crimes catch up to her and is ultimately forced to watch her daughter pay the price of her sins, which is a karmic mirror of what she did to Oh Yoon-hee in the past.

## History

### The Penthouse : War in life

From the beginning, she has an affair with Su-ryun Shim's husband, Dan Tae Joo. Yun-cheol Ha compares himself with Su-ryun Shim at the Hera Palace couple's gathering, and breaks the wine bottle and gets angry when his wife tells him to do it like Su-ryun Shim.

When Seol-ah Min comes to the group tutoring interview, she is suspicious when she sees her poor behavior, but after seeing a simple test, she attaches her as a tutor. In particular, when testing whether Seol-ah Min has really studied abroad in the United States, she asks about the school campus and restaurants near the school in English and French. It is one of the few human figures.

## Gallery

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## Trivia

* Her actress Kim So-Yeon, is known for being a very good-natured actor, unlike this character.
* Even Kim So-Yeon hated Cheon Seojin for killing Oh Yoon-hee, stated that moment was difficult to film.