‘Ms. Incognito’ Stars Jeon Yeo-Been As A Woman With Nothing To Lose

To fulfill the requirements of her contract, Jeon Yeo-been’s character must pretend to be a kindergarten teacher.

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Having a family is not always a good thing. Not if they are trying to kill you, hurt you or steal from you. In Ms. Incognito Jeon Yeo-been plays Young-ran, a woman scarred by her traumatic childhood. If growing up with a violent father was not awful enough, she continues to be hampered by the reckless spending habits of her mother. Heavily in debt due to her mother’s crazy schemes, she applies to work as a bodyguard at the Gasung Group, watching over chairman Ga Sung-ho, played by Moon Seung-geun. She’s not initially impressive at the interview, wearing threadbare clothes and no make-up, but she knows her self-defense skills and that’s what counts. More importantly, something about the desperate circumstances of Young-ran’s life compels the chairman to hire her. He needs a desperate accomplice.

He’s also surrounded by family he has every reason to fear. His stepchildren are just waiting for him to die. They may even be up to murder to gain the inheritance they feel belongs to them.

To keep them from gaining power, Sung-ho asks Young-ran to enter a contract marriage, so that she can take control of the company when he dies and expose the crimes of his stepchildren. As an actress Jeon (Vincenzo, Glitch, A Time Called You) has just the right kind of grit to play a character willing to risk everything. To fulfill this promise Young-ran must hide for three months, safely hidden away from her malevolent adult stepchildren, until she can step up and expose them.

Her false identity is that of a kindergarten teacher Bu Se-mi, working at a school in a small town four hours away from Seoul. Jeong Dong-min, played by Jung Jin Young (Sweet Home 2 and 3, Police University, My First, First Love) is the single dad of one of her students. He instinctively doesn’t trust her. And he doesn’t even know she was desperate enough to enter into a contract marriage or brave enough to battle the chairman’s undeserving children.

The drama is directed by Park Yoo-young who directed the equally entertaining drama A Kidnapping Day, as well as Love Alarm 2 and an episode of the historical zombie drama Kingdom. The director is good at creating scenes that make viewers feel as if they’ve suddenly reached the edge of a cliff. Young-ran has so little to lose, she might willingly jump off. But will she survive?

The 12-episode drama also stars Seo Hyun-woo as the chairman’s attorney Lee Don (A Shop For Killers), Jang Yoon-ju (Queen of Tears) as his resentful stepdaughter, and Joo Hyun-Young (The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract) as a member of the chairman’s household staff.

Ms. Incognito is written by Hyun Gu-ri, who wrote the screenplay for The Night Owl, a film that won several Baeksang, Blue Dragon and Daejong film awards. It airs in the U.S. on Viki.com.