She’s single, pretty and has a stable job that most people would die for. What more could she ask for? For Lee So Young, her complex is her age, which most people wouldn’t believe even after a thorough look at her. At 34 years old, she is at a risk of becoming a spinster, but all she worries about is keeping her job to pay off her huge debt, incurred by her spendthrift younger sister.
So Young’s life is a harsh one, waking up and going to work early in the morning, sewing endless pieces of garments at a factory where she works as a seamstress. And finally one day she was fired from her job, only to be replaced by a much younger girl. Desperate for a job, she hunts down every shop in her neighbourhood, only to be placed in a more distressed situation by her ruthless younger sister who takes off with a customer’s branded coat at the shop where she was left to handle alone after being hired on the spot.
She followed her sister, So Jin, to a club where an accident involving a guy named Choi Jin Wook left the coat drowned and stained by pink liquor. Worse, So Young and Jin Wook also caused a huge damage to the audio system and were demanded to pay up for their mistakes. Being locked up in the washroom, they decided to escape. So Young managed to run, but Jin Wook was unfortunately left behind when guards spotted her escaping.
With a ruined coat, she was fired on the first day at her new job and was left to explain herself to the coat’s owner. Luck was on her side, the coat belongs to a friend from school. Off the hook, she went home and woke up the next day to discover that her sister had agreed to work as a fitting model at a fashion house but could not go. Can she turn up instead since the pay for the job is very high? Since it was a one off job, So Young decided to give it a go.
When she turned up at the job as the 25-year-old So Jin, people believed her white lie and worked her hard, thinking she was a gullible young girl. Hilarious moments ensued as So Young finds out that the part-time gig was for a week and paid far lesser than her sister had mentioned and screamed at her over the phone. What’s more, Jin Wook happens to be the MD of the company and demanded that she comes out a share of the money for the damage done at the club.
Being the youngest, she was blamed for the loss of a dress sample that the director wants to have a look at. Desperate and frantic, So Young sewed up an exact copy of the dress which she had worn just before it was lost. The design team was saved by her actions but they were not thankful. She was dismissed, but the director saw her talent in sewing and recreating pieces and he hired her back as a junior designer.
So Young was happy at the chance but by accepting the job she has to live the lie of being Lee So Jin, a 25-year-old graduate for the next 6 months. After much deliberation, she accepted the job, and went through sweaty moments at the HR department, producing her sister’s ID card instead.
What So Young didn’t know is So Jin entered one of her designs for a competition held by the company and her entry was picked as the winner. For the prize, she gets a job at the company as a designer, which is a notch higher than her current status. Can she tell her superiors the truth that she is not Lee So Jin, but in fact, Lee So Young, a 34-year-old retrenched seamstress?
Find out what will So Young decide by catching KBS World’s drama Baby-Faced Beauty on ASTRO Channel 391 every Monday and Tuesday at 9.00pm.
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