Minkyung

* Regular
* Hostess

## Plot Overview

### Past

Minkyung use to be friends with Siwoo’s family. She grew up in a rich family, often feeling superior to others until her father went bankrupt and she had to earn more money to continue living the high-class lifestyle. She had heard Miwoo entered the entertainment industry and after Siwoo went to study, she would continue to meet up with Miwoo. One day, she asked Miwoo to help her get in the entertainment industry, but Miwoo slapped her, telling her someone like her should stay away from the entertainment industry. However, for Minkyung, Miwoo’s words only implied that she should stay away not that she could not achieve it.

### Present

Siwoo meets up with Minkyung and they eat and drink together. Siwoo notices the men around and comments how they are quite handsome. Minkyung tells her that they are probably male escorts and hear many come to this area for a drink in their time off. Upon hearing that, Siwoo stands up to leave, stating that this place feels dirty. However, a recruiter, Changhoo, had overheard their conversation and walks by saying that no place is as clean as Gangnam and how the dongs here are some of the cleanest and bustling areas of Korea. Changhoo comments how top escorts never work in dirty places and asks them if they know why one third of all entertainment bars are in Gangnam and if they have ever heard of Tenpro, one of the bigger salons.

Changhoo begins introducing the various salons in the area, but Siwoo insists that no matter how you beautify trash, it is still dirty. However, Changhoo begs to differ, saying that trash that has value can be sold at really high prices and some people are willing to pay tens of millions of won to have these girls “sit-in”. Minkyung and Siwoo ask what that means. Changhoo explains that “sitting-in” is when a hostess gets paid to pretend to be the customer’s girlfriend and doesn’t have to work for a few months.

Changhoo asks Siwoo what’s the use of living a morally upright life when that person’s worth is a measly hourly wage of only 5000 won. In a capitalist society, money is power, and in the end of the day, the person with lower worth has to bow before the one with higher worth. He tells Siwoo that it is better to be expensive trash rather than upright trash. Changhoo explains how there are incredible hostesses that average people can’t even imagine.

Changhoo tells the two girls that in some of these top places, history is made, deals between political and financial giants. He tells them that it is the hostesses that set the mood for these transactions, telling Siwoo and Minkyung that in order to face those high-profile people, the hostesses not only need the looks, but have the guts and be wells spoken, knowledgeable, and perceptive of the world. He tells them that these hostesses are among the top 0.1% of all women in Korea. However, Siwoo only answers that a whore can only be a whore.

Minkyung goes out with Siwoo and other friends. One of her friends mocks her saying she not going to get any guys with that jumpsuit. Minkyung tells them to leave her alone, saying that there is probably some guy who likes that style. All the sudden someone bumps into Siwoo, she turns around and notices Miwoo in a car and sees the guy delivering something to her. Siwoo excuses herself to follow Miwoo’s car.

### Miwoo's Death

After hearing upon Miwoo's death, presummably, Minkyung attends the funeral at some point. Later on, Minkyung calls Siwoo to tell her that Miwoo’s body had gone missing. It turns out that Siwoo’s uncle had taken to get cremated without Siwoo’s knowledge.  Shortly after, she taken in by the police, who question her to get information on Siwoo. That is when she realizes that Siwoo has been considered a suspect. However, Minkyung tells them there was no reason for Siwoo to kill her sister.

After Miwoo’s death, she went to find the recruiter Changhoo, whom she and Siwoo had met before. Minkyung her interest to enter the entertainment business. Halfway through the conversation, Changhoo gets a call from the Bodobang manager complaining about Siwoo and tells him to give her some more time, once she is used to it, the money will start rolling in. He hangs up and turns to Minkyung. She tells Changhoo to keep their meeting a secret, which he agrees. However, Changhoo asks why she needs money, whether she is facing some difficulties. Minkyung says it’s just because she needs money to pay for school as well as some loans. Changhoo notices her clothing and her brand bag and can see Minkyung is on a different level in terms of spending. He mentions that the tuition for university is about 3.5 million won and tells Minkyung to not worry, that she can make in a week what she needs to pay for one year’s worth of tuition. Minkyung decides to enter this line of business.

Siwoo meets with Minkyung to eat some mango ice. Minkyung mentions how it has been a while since they met since Miwoo’s funeral. She tells Siwoo how Miwoo would always contact her at least once a month. Every time they met, all Miwoo would do is talk about Siwoo. Minkyung suddenly apologizes for bringing up the topic of Miwoo. Siwoo says its ok, as it is good to hear from someone who still remembers her.

Apparently Minkyung begins to make her name for herself, as she begins making love with the customers. The manager of the salon even calls Changhoo to tell him that Minkyung is quite a good recruit.

At A3, Minkyung is attending a customer who is trying to explain to her something about cocktails, but she isn't interested and keeps seducing him. The customer tells her to listen, mentioning how they just made love not too long ago. Minkyung tells him that since he has to leave early, they should party before he has to leave. He tells her that this is not a nightclub and she doesn't need to sell her body all the time just to get repeat customers. However, again, Minkyung ignores him and tells him that she can make something better than cocktails and proceeds to give him a fellatio.

When Siwoo arrives at A3, she meets Minkyung and they recognize each other.  Minkyung overhears the other ladies whisper in the back about how they had heard rumors that Siwoo was going to be the ace in the new Dasom. Minkyung was shocked to hear this as she remembered Siwoo saying how disgusted she was with this line of work. However, even more upsetting was that Siwoo was going to the very Dasom from which she was rejected. She remebers when she had asked Changhoo, the recruiter, about going to Dasom, but he had just laughed at her, saying she was not material for Dasom. This aroused her jealously, wondering what was it that Siwoo had that she didn’t. The Madam there tells them there is another new person apart from Siwoo, Sujin, the ace of Drop Pavillion. As the days goes one, Siwoo has to change rooms to attend different customers and runs into Minkyung who gives her a glare and leaves.

The next day Siwoo walks in and the madam pretends to care for her asking if she is ok, telling her she bill the guy extra money for being a jerk. Siwoo sees Minkyung and calls out to her and asks if she wants to eat together. However, she refuses. Siwoo tells her she just wants to talk, to which Minkyung says there is nothing to talk about and tells Siwoo they should just both do their jobs and get out of this business. She even scolds Siwoo, asking how could she get into this business after Miwoo’s death? She walks away.

The following day, Jonghoon arrives and demands all the hostesses and madams to basically give him a blowjob, presummably including Minkyung. The girls leave the room asking each other if they have mouthwash or toothpaste.

A few days later, Minkyung is attending a customer who talks about rumors of a lady (Siwoo) who had dealt with a difficult customer, but she was able to handle him and even sent him out to the cab. He is quite curious who this lady is and has been wanting to book her, but always gets the response that she didn’t come to work. He asks Minkyung if perhaps someone is booking her every single time? Minkyung is a bit irritated and tells the customer why he keeps taking about other ladies when she is here and if he wants her to leave. The customer immediately replies that of course not, that he always books Minkyung.

At A3, Minkyung talks to Sujin about going to the new Dasom, saying how jealous she is about her being able to make 100 million won in a month. Sujin corrects her saying that only the ace makes that much, the rest probably 40 to 50 million won. Minkyung mentions how Miwoo would make around 100 million won. Sujin is surprised to hear Miwoo’s name and asks if they knew each other. Minkyung tells her that they have known each other at a young age. However, she adds that she doesn’t think Siwoo is qualified to go to the new Dasom. Sujin immediately notices her ambitions, but does not think Minkyung is qualified either. Jonghoon and Seungpyo arrive. Sujin recognizes Seunpgyo and he greets her, saying it’s been a while. All the sudden Siwoo walks in with a complete makeover.

Minkyung is playing cards with the other girls in A3 and begins talking bad about Siwoo behind her back. She mentions how though it is thanks to Siwoo that they don’t have to worry about the troublesome Jonghoon, that doesn’t mean she can do as she like, deciding whether or not she wants to be picked or not. Minkyung complains about Siwoo thinking herself all high and mighty when she is not. Siwoo shows up at that moment and joins the table interrupting Minkyung’s banter. Some girl asks if she knows how to play cards. Siwoo say she knows a little and will learn pretty quickly after losing a few bucks.

Minkyung walks by and happens to overhear a conversation between Siwoo and Sujin where Sujin tells her that Minkyung keeps coming to ask her about how to get in the new Dasom. Sujin says she doesn’t know why she keeps asking her when she is Siwoo’s friend, so Sujin asks Siwoo to put a leash on her friend, Minkyung. Sujin also adds that honestly, Minkyung is not at the level to go to Dasom. Siwoo tells Sujin that she’ll talk to Minkyung.

The following day, Minkyung and Siwoo are in the same room with some customers. The customers are talking about students and their grades as well as the educational system. As they disucss, they mention about a girl student from a particular elementary school. The cutomer next to Minkyung reads out the letter that kid that says her dream is to become an artchitect like her father who teaches architecture at the Newcastle University in UK. He then asks the other customers if Newscastle is famous as he hadn’t heard about it before. Minkyung answers that Newcastle is actually in Australia. The customer isn’t very convinced, but Minkyung explains saying her friend was there on work-holiday, working just nearby Newcastle. She continues saying that this girl is lying and making stuff up, probably from stuff she sees on TV. However, just as the customer is still in disbelief, Siwoo interjects and corrects Minkyung saying that Newcastle University is in fact in England and that it is well-known for architecture and fine arts. She tells them that she lived in England. The customer turns to Minkyung and tells her to stop spouting nonsense if she doesn’t know what she is talking about. The customer then asks Siwoo hwo many years she’s lived in Englnad as his nepwhe is currently studying there. Siwoo tells him that she lived 4 years in London. The customer is surprised, exclaiming how Siwoo’s family much have a pretty good background a sthe schooling fees are enormous. Minkyung, however, continues to try to explain that there really is a newscaslte in Australia Siwoo turns to her and puts finger in lips to signal her to stop talking, which thoroughly embarrasses her.

Later that day, after the customers leave, Siwoo talks on the phone with Jonghoon about meeting next week. Minkyung walks in and lashes out in anger at Siwoo for having embarrassed her. She slaps the phone out of her hands, causing the call to end abruptly. Minkyung asks Siwoo if she was trying to steal her customer. Siwoo explains that she was only stating the facts and correcting what was wrong. Minkyung tells her that she was out of line. However, Siwoo just tells her that if Minkyung didn’t try to show off to start off with, this wouldn’t have happened. However, Siwoo tells her nevermind and that she would be more careful in the future. In anger, Minkyung grabs Siwoo by the hair dragging her out, telling her that she is sick her attitude, all high and mighty and still pretending to be her friend. She also insults Siwoo’s sister, calling her a slut.

In a turn of events, Siwoo frees herself from Minkyung’s grasp and grabs Minkyung instead and shoves her head into the toilet. Minkyung screams for help and the staff finally notices. As Siwoo is shoving Minkyung, she dares Minkyung to say that insult towards her sister again.

Staff escort Minkyung out as she demands them to let go saying that she has done nothing wrong and that they should be taking Siwoo out, not her. The staff try to calm her down. Sujin turns to Siwoo and mentions how she is more like a real hostess now, no longer needing friends after changing her looks and becoming prettier. Sujin mentions to Siwoo how she remembers back when Siwoo was just a newcower, pretending to be all high and mighty about upholding certain values. Siwoo tells Sujin that that is not true and to not say such things so casually. Sujin says fine, but reminds Siwoo that one day, when she yearns for an ordinary life, this place would feel like hell for her. She tells her that this is the words Miwoo told her back when she aspired to be the ace of Dasom and now she wanted to pass these words to Siwoo.

Minkyung is walking outside while it rains when she receives a message on the phone from her mother, telling her to come back home to eat. However, Minkyung doesn’t want to go back home as she considers her old place quite lackluster compared to her life now. She is also upset at Siwoo just showing up out of nowhere and beginning to ruin her plans to get the money out of these customers. She is even more upset that SIwoo embarrassed her in front all those people. All the sudden a guy shows up in front of Minkyung. Apparently, they are acquaintances and he tells her that he brought the coffee she usually drinks. However, MInkyung calls him a stalker and tells him to go away and if he takes a step closer, she will call the cops. However, she pauses and thinks of a plan and turns to the guy and asks him if he is still working at Pleasehelp, which is a P2P platform for errands (much like UberEats, but emcompassing all sorts errands). The guy answers yes.

Minkyung sleeps with the delivery guy and tells the delivery guy to be on hold whenever she needs him and to pick up the call whenever she calls. The delivery guy agrees and asks if they can go a second round, to which Minkyung gives him a disgusted look and tells him not to touch her. Minkyung shows up at A3 the next day. As she is asking the staff about where the madam is, Siwoo passes by. Siwoo approaches Minkyung to apologize about what happened yesterday, but Minkyung pretends it’s ok, that after calming down and thinking about it, she probably went a bit overboard as well. She offers to restore their relationship and become friends like they used to.

Jonghoon shows up and books a room with Siwoo. During their conversation, the delivery guy, whom Minkyung slept with the night before, walks in, delivering Siwoo flowers and a bag, saying that someone wanted him to pass it on to her. Siwoo tries to ask who it is, but the delivery guy runs out. Little did Siwoo know that the delivery guy delivered the flowers per Minkyung’s order, as inside there was a audio receiver in the flowers so Minkyung could eavesdrop.

Jonghoon discusses with Siwoo in the room in A3, saying how Sungjin’s public image is surprisingly good, most likely because of his policies and stance on certain issues. If the public were to know the truth about all the ugly stuff behind Sungjin, they wouldn’t stand on his side. Minkyung listens in through the flowers, but realizes that they are only talking about politics. Jonghoon receives a phone call from Seungpyo and asks Siwoo to step out as he needs to pick up and talk in talk in private.

As Siwoo leaves the room, she runs into Minkyung who asks about the gifts. Siwoo explains how a mysterious person gave the gifts and left, saying how awkward it was. The madam is also quite curious and wonders what is inside. Siwoo tells her that she has no idea who sent them. Minkyung encourages Siwoo to just leave it at the store as the person sending it might have made a mistake and come back for it suddenly. She lies to Siwoo about how she had a customer who came back demanding what he had given her. Siwoo agrees and asks the madam if it is ok to leave it at the store. The madam answers that it is fine. Siwoo thanks Minkyung for her suggestion and leaves. Of course, this was all Minkyung’s plan as if Siwoo takes it home, then she would no longer be able to eavesdrop.

Minkyung then tells the madam if she can attend the customer in the room that Siwoo just left from. However, the Madam reminds her that Jonghoon is a difficult customer. Minkyung says that it’s part of work if she wants to make extra bucks. Furthermore, she’ll just tell him that she is Siwoo’s friend. The madam agrees but all the sudden Minkyung puts a bandage on her face, telling the madam that she wants to play the role of the victim. The madam warns her that it is not a good idea and that it will have the opposite effect on the customer, but as she tries to explain, MInkyung interrupts her. Minkyung tells her to just let her go inside, that if it was Siwoo, the madam wouldn’t be so nosy, furthermore, it’s not like she’s her mom. The madam is also pretty irritated at Minkyung, so she gives on explaining and lets her in.

Minkyung enters with the madam and Jonghoon asks the madam how come only one girl, to which the Madam explains that there are many customers today, so not enough girls. She introduces Minkyung as Siwoo’s friend. Jonghoon sees the bandage on her face and asks if it was because of her fight with Siwoo. Minkyung is surprised that he already knew about. Jonghoon asks the reason for them fighting, to which, Minkyung explains it was over a customer. She tells him that she butted heads with Siwoo because of her insecurity. She sarcastically comments how she should be more like Siwoo who sticks to every customer, instead of being so naïve and getting her customer stolen. Minkyung then begins to badmouth Siwoo, saying how when people have power they completely change. She tells Jonghoon how Siwoo used to be kind and polite to others, but after becoming a hostess she now treats customers like cash cows to squeeze cash out of to buy her bags and clothes. Jonghoon tells her that if it was him, he’d go and talk to Siwoo in person rather than keep talking bad about her behind her back. Minkyung says that it’s her right, she was the one who got hit. She also warns Jonghoon to be careful as he always books Siwoo. She tells him that she is the kind of person who would abandon family and friends when they are no longer useful.

Jonghoon tells her of a story of a woman who had tried to scam him of his money by getting close to him. That hostess made up a story of how her sister refused to be possessed by the gods and ended up with evil spirits around her. In order to drive the spirits away, she needed to borrow money, which she asked 20 million won from. Later on, the hostess came again saying her mother was being influenced by evil spirits to kill her and she had a bandage on her face from the supposed “assault” from her possessed mother. Jonghoon rips off Minkyung’s fake bandage and tells her that that hostess’ madam just so happened to be the current madam here in A3. Thus, he had specifically requested that the madam never bring any girl who was injured. Jonghoon tells Minkyung that given the fact that the madam asked him to pick Minkyung despite knowing his dislike of injured women would only mean that she wanted Jonghoon to teach MInkyung a lesson. Jonghoon grabs her by the mouth and asks Minkyung if he looks like a fool who can't tell if he’s been scammed and scolds her for mindlessly speaking ill of other ladies in front of customers, telling her that she should filter words thorugh her brain before they come out of her mouth. He then lifts his hand to slap her saying that perhaps beating her a few times will help her learn. Just as he is able to do so, Seungpyo steps in and grabs his hand.

Jonghoon shakes off Seungpyo’s hand and lets Minkyung off the hook, patting her on the face, telling her to stop spouting nonsense and just attend customers. Minkyung shakes in anger as they leave.

Two weeks after Kallas (new Dasom) opens and Siwoo leaves A3 to return, Minkyung overhears about Siwoo going to the new Dasom and asks the staff at A3 about it. The staff tells her that it has already been 2 weeks since she quit. The fact that Siwoo has gone to Dasom drives Minkyung crazy with jealously. The staff mentions how he knows a manager in the new Dasom who had taken care of him before. He asks Minkyung if she wants his contact number.

## Relationships

**Family**

* Unnamed Parents

**A3**

* Unnamed Madam
* Sujin

**Childhood Friends**

* Siwoo Ha
* Miwoo Ha

**Others**

* Changhoo
* Jonghoon Kim
* Unnamed "Pleasehelp" Delivery Guy

## Trivia

* trivia 1
* trivia 2

## References

1. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.2
2. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 1, Ep.1
3. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 1, Ep.2
4. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 1, Ep.2
5. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 1, Ep.2
6. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 1, Ep.5
7. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 1, Ep.9
8. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.5
9. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.2
10. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 2, Ep.3
11. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter than Your Days, Season 2, Ep.19
12. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.1
13. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.2
14. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.2
15. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.2
16. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.3
17. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.5
18. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.6
19. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.18
20. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.20
21. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.22
22. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.24
23. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.24
24. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.24
25. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.24
26. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.25
27. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.25
28. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.26
29. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.26
30. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.27
31. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.27
32. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.27
33. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.27
34. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.27
35. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter Than Your Days, Season 3, Ep.28
36. ↑ My Nights Shine Brighter than Your Days, Season 4, Ep.1