Part 1 is here: Character Summaries, part 2

Credit belongs to Welmaris, our Court Historian. She’s assisted by Growing_Beautifully and agdr03.

Please try to remember all the facts. We’re having an exam at the end of this kdrama. Seriously.

-pm3

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Jeong Tae Eul, Lieutenant Jeong

• Born 27 May 1990
• Her KOC doppelgänger is Luna.
• Her National Police Agency ID card pulled out of savior’s pocket by Crown Prince Lee Gon during assassination. Card issued 2019.11.11.
• Police officer; works for Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, Jongno Station, Violent Crimes Division, Squad Three
• Has a filthy temper, per co-worker and friend Kang Shin Jae.
• Has a good sense of smell.
• Excellent fighting skills
• Violent Crimes Division: “You can’t get promoted, the pay’s bad, you get hurt, you get disciplined for everything.”

• Cusses
• Often ties up her long hair in a ponytail, particularly when she’s frustrated with LG.
• Was Jo Eun Seob’s senior in high school.
• Nicknamed herself Princess Diana
• Loves chicken and beer. Loves meat. Loves MSD (beer & soju mixed). Loves beer.
• Wants evidence before she believes. “I’m the type of person who still can’t believe the Earth is round.”
• Sense of duty: “You only need that when you have to save the country.”
• Helps LG even if she doesn’t believe him. “There’s no reason. I just do it.”
• She and her father have a loving, but contentious relationship. They squabble.
• Her mother had run the Taekwondo Centre with her father, and had been a well liked Taekwondo instructor, but had died of cancer when TE was 5 years old.
• She entered high school January 2006. Bukchon High.
• She wanted double eyelid surgery when she was in high school.
• Met Shin Jae in April 2006, trying to drum up business for the taekwondo center. He saw her sitting in the window, then came for lessons.
• Was a taekwondo instructor in her father’s center. Five tenants of taekwondo: courtesy, perseverance, integrity, self-control, and indomitable spirit. Was Shin Jae’s initial instructor.
• Black belt in taekwondo. The belt belonged to her mother.

• Photo of Tae Eul and her dad with Shin Jae when he celebrated his graduation from high school.
• Photo of Tae Eul with her dad at her high school graduation includes Shin Jae in military fatigues.
• In 2016 LG ordered JY to investigate Lieutenant Jeong Tae Eul. Nothing found in KOC databases.
• Didn’t know that all the time LG was in ROK the first time, he’d visit her father at the taekwondo center.
• Doesn’t know much about car maintenance.
• Not comfortable just accepting the obvious evidence in the Lee Sang Do murder investigation. She feels “like someone planned all this.” Wants to continue investigating.
• With Shin Jae gets into a street fight with a gang whose boss used to be Shin Jae’s school mate, whom Shin Jae sent to jail three years ago. Lee Gon joins the fight with his riding crop and beats down the combatants.

• Even when she and SJ were greatly outnumbered by gang members, TE remained confident and calm. She told SJ, “You can rely on me.”
• LG asked TE why she became a cop, because it is dangerous to be a cop. She said, “Not everyone in the world can be brave. So I decided to become brave.”
• When LG said goodbye to her, telling her he was going back to his world, she was abrupt and dismissive. She confirmed LG should say goodbye and not wait for her to get off work, because she would be working late. Instead, she went shopping with Na Ri.
• When she was a young child, she watched a police show with her father instead of watching typical girly fare. As she watched the show, she wanted to be a cop.
• TE has been friends with Eun Sub since she was three.
• Arrived at the Palace in KOC around 8pm. That’s when HCL Noh restricted access to Gwangyeongjeon (the king’s personal residence) from everyone in the palace.
• When she was given the chance to wander in KOC, she took a train from Busan to Seoul to see if she could find parallels of her police co-workers and her family members. At the KOC Seoul Jongno Police Station, she met the KOC parallels of Chief Park and Detective Shim, but they didn’t recognize her, nor did they know the names Kang Shin Jae, Jangmi, or Director Kim Hee Ju from Forensics.
• When she didn’t have enough money to buy a train ticket from Seoul back to Busan, phoned the Royal Court’s main number 17 times asking to speak to the King. She said she was Princess Diana. She didn’t know JY had been following her on LG’s orders: “He said you must be kept alive until your beheading.” JY hadn’t disclosed his presence or offered her money for a train ticket back to Busan.

• The only memories TE has of her mother are from when TE was five. Her mother was sick. TE hoped to find the KOC parallel of her mother so she could just watch her from afar.
• When PM Koo tries to find out why LG landed his helicopter in Seoul unexpectedly, and who TE is, TE did shake Koo’s hand offered in introduction. She appealed to Koo’s vanity, “I’m a big fan.” She didn’t give her name when asked: “I’m a traveler. I’m honored just to be able to see you like this. I’m leaving soon. This is my first time in the Kingdom of Corea. I feel like I’m in a storybook.”
• When SJ as a high schooler was being beaten by schoolmates, TE called the police and then beat up all six of the bullies when they tried to stop her.
• TE convinced SJ to come back to the taekwondo center after his beating and continue his training.
• Her first visit to KOC was about 24 hours, from around 8pm until the following night.
• “He [LG] said he would come back soon, but he didn’t come back for a long time. I wasn’t holding my phone as if I was waiting for someone. I was just waiting on Earth, which has become slightly rounder. There was no way I could know what was happening in his world. Because he was a person who was beyond one and zero.”
• In ROK, planted in a pot “Imaginary Flower” seeds she’d bought in KOC. Remembers she’d also sowed them on the path in unknown dimension, despite LG reminding her that there’s no wind, no rain, no sun, and no time there, so flowers wouldn’t grow. TE said, “We don’t know that if no one has sown seeds yet.”
• Orders Lee Sang Do’s wife to be put on the wanted list. Tells Jangmi to do a missing person’s search for her, note if her children are transferred from their current school.
• Figured out the source of the news reports on Lee Sang Do’s burner phone voicemail was KOC, recognized Professor Lee Jon In is Prince Buyeong. Is shocked.
• Junior to SJ as a police officer.
• Asks SJ if he trusts her. He does. But she hesitates to tell him anything about KOC as it relates to Lee Sang Do murder. “There’s something, but it’s more like science fiction. I will tell you when it becomes science.”
• LL takes and develops photo of her with SJ.
• TE is less accurate than SJ at quick firing a revolver at distance.
• Graduated from National Police University.
• Wants to take the promotion test.
• Wordlessly runs to LG and hugs him when she sees he’s returned (his third time in ROK).
• Calls LG “Mr. Lee.” JY finds that offensive. LG says he’s missed how they treated him in ROK. TE used to call him just “Hey” and “Mister.”
• Says her pay is chicken feed.
• Bought LG an ROK phone. Saved in it the numbers of the five people who will help him “regardless of anything in this world.” One of the numbers she saved is for Sin Jae, because he “is one of the most trustworthy people.”
• When LG asks TE if she’s one of the most trustworthy people, she says, “For me, the citizens come first.”
• LG says he always wanted to try just a normal daily life with ES: “Call you…Chat on the phone…Ask you what you did today…And tell you that I missed you a lot.”
• TE proves that she’s a much better shot at the arcade than LG, knocking down seven targets in seven shots.
• “Shooting is the act of filling the void between me and the target. It’s too late if you shoot after you look. You need to look after you shoot.”
• “I waited for you as a detective, but also as myself all this time.” LG is concerned when he hears this statement, asking, “Has something happened? Were you threatened by someone?” TE: “I guess that means it will happen. That’s why you came.” She’s worried. She may be thinking about her conversation with Na Ri about doppelgangers, one always killing the other. She asks LG questions that confirm the voicemail recordings on Lee Sang Do’s phone were from KOC. Her summary, “We’re screwed.”
• About the recordings from murder-victim Lee Sang Do’s phone that TE discovered are from KOC: “…I thought about just covering it up [no one will believe it; it’s dangerous]. But if I cover it up, then no one will ever find out about this since there would be only two people who know about this. Me and the culprit. The two worlds shouldn’t get mixed up like this. They’re supposed to stay on their respective paths. But the two worlds are already colliding, and I’ve discovered it. So what else could I do? I decided to investigate. I’m a police officer in the Republic of Korea.”
• LG’s two requests of TE: “Don’t tell me not to come, and don’t tell me not to leave. I have to go back sometimes, and when I do, I want to come back soon. Whichever it is, if you tell me not to come or leave, I don’t think I’ll be able to do anything. So I’m asking you not to get exhausted.”
• Receives report on Lee Seong Jae, LL’s ROK doppleganger. Also contains info on deaths of his brother by hit-and-run and nephew in an accident. She realizes the nephew was Lee Gon’s ROK parallel.
• Visits Yangsun Care Center
• Thinking to herself: “Parallel worlds, same faces, same ID card, balance…Where did my new ID card disappear to? Who is keeping the balance?”
• “I should’ve know that day when I was wondering where my ID card went…That Lee Lim is alive and the two worlds are getting mixed up. At least at the moment when I sensed the transcendental power that was trying to restore balance…I should’ve known before we had to face this situation. That it’s something like fate, so to speak.”
• Scolds LG for not contacting her before moving to the hotel. One of the 17 things she asked of him is to contact her before going anywhere. She doesn’t know LG tried to go to a budaejjigae restaurant with JY and they got into a fight with the gangsters, which was witnessed by Chief Park and Detective Shim. JY pretended to be ES, and introduced LG as his friend from Busan.
• TE: “The very first time you came here…Would you still have fallen for me even if I had never helped you?” LG: “I would’ve understood. And that understanding would’ve led me to fall for you.” TE: “What if I was super rude to you? Still the same?” LG: “You were. Yes, still.” TE: “Why?” LG: “Because you must’ve had your reason.” [voiceover, see below] …LG: “Why do you ask?” TE: “In the beginning, you ask about everything. We just skipped too many things.”
• [TE voiceover]: “It took me a long time to realize this. When it’s fate, there are no coincidences. Your fate is determined by the choices you make, but there are times when your fate chooses you.”
• “I haven’t eaten yet, so I’m irritable now. I’ll add one more into the 17 rules. No cheesy comments when I’m hungry.”
• [TE voiceover]: Things that are bound to happen are taking place even at this moment. I was struck with a sad premonition that this will be short-lived, but I decided to love my fate that chose me.” TE turns back to LG and tells him, “I love you.” LG looks stunned, is speechless. TE switches the subject to Yeong’s location. LG tries to talk, is flustered. As TE gets into her car, LG says, “Jeong Tae Eul. I also.” TE starts to drive away, stops, rolls down her window, and says, “So you heard what I said.” That could be in reference to her declaration of love, or instruction for him to get JY back to the hotel. She’s smiling as she drives away.
• TE and Jangmi are doing a stakeout together. It is Jangmi’s first stakeout. He wonders if the murder victim knew she’d die like that. TE: “Did you know many cops commit suicide?…You’ll see countless more cases like this going forward. Work is work. We do our best to investigate every case. When the case is closed, we have to do our best to forget about it and move on, or you can’t do this for a long time.”
• As she’s seeing him off after he’s been released, the boyfriend of the murder victim says he wishes she’d died a few days later, since he was going to break up with her. TE slugs him in the face. When he objects, she smacks his chest and says, “Hey. Be respectful to the deceased. Get lost, or I’ll punch you again. I need to close this case and move on too.”
• Is miffed when LG admits he briefly sent JY to tail her at work. “You think I’m being like this for having him tail me?…You should’ve done it yourself. Why send someone else?”
• Ep 11 TE remembers meeting LG of the future. Her voiceover: “I could tell that he was from a different time, not a different world. Perhaps that was the day when I made up my mind about a lot of things.
• She remembers her encounter with future LG while looking at the lion key chain. “Am I being dumped like this No way. I’ll teach you a lesson when you come back.”
• She and SJ hear that Jang Yeon Ji ‘committed suicide’ and she decides to search for the mother of Ji Hun, Song Jeong Hye.
• Ep 12 She manages to escape from LL’s goons and make her way towards the Busan Palace. LG fights his way towards her and brings her to the palace.
• She sees his dress jacket that he would wear in the future. She asks him: “What’s that? When do you wear that?”
“At the most glorious moment. For example, when I’m holding flowers in my hand? What flowers do you like?”
“I don’t like flowers.”
• She tries on the necklace LG left in the pocket for her but puts it back. She says its so pretty that she wants to wear it on a glorious day too, when she has no wounds.
• She gathers from LG that if LL gets the whip, then the door will close for LG.
• At the church she hears that it’s the only place the same in both worlds. The church is where LG’s parents got married.
• TE tells LG about her parents running the Taekwondo Centre and that her mother died of cancer when she was 5, and she is still wearing her mother’s black belt.
• TE is shocked when HCL Noh asks her about the 1950 Korean War in ROK.
• Ep 13 TE tells HCL Noh that ROK is a divided country. She ruminates on HCL’s words: “Since the moment your ID card fell into the hands of His Majesty, you have been the one guiding him to his fate. Please take good care of His Majesty.”
• TE plants more seeds of the Resurrection Lily/Magic Lily in No Man’s Land.
• Meets her father and discovers that Luna has been impersonating her for days.
• Tries to locate Luna without success. Speaks to Luna on the phone. Luna tells her that if they met, TE would die. Luna tells her that if she had planned to touch any of her friends/family, she’d have done so when TE was away, and that she had come to see TE.
• Meets SJ outside and finds out that he had met Luna. Finds out that she had applied for leave in her name which means Luna has the lost ID Card.
• Finds LG in her home for breakfast and tells her dad that he’s her boyfriend.
• Wraps a piece of meat in kimchi and gives it to LG.
• Prevents LG from leaving ROK early by saying that she wanted to see him after work.
• Tries to find her cell phone and finds out that Luna cancelled the number. Has to get a new phone.
• Finds out that Eun Ha has been reported as missing and that some fingerprints brought up records of one of LL’s minion’s who had stolen from Yangsun Center 19 years previously. Decides that Yangsun is the place where people like Koo Seo Yeong or her doppelganger, are being hidden.
• Searches Yangsun Center with SJ for Koo’s doppelganger, and notices that the Center’s manager stared at SJ.
• Finds the corpse of Koo Eun Ha, PM Koo’s doppelganger in the morgue at Yangsun Center.

Luna

• Jeong Tae Eul’s KOC doppelgänger.
• Per Soompi: Was abandoned in poorest neighborhood; no family.
• Per Soompi: Diagnosed with cancer, with just three months to live.
• Pursued by gangsters after running away with their boss’s money.
• On instinct after seeing her in the rabbit-ear hoodie running from the site of the rowing competition, LG chases her. He equates her with the White Rabbit with the clock in Alice in Wonderland.
• LG sees her running in her rabbit-ear hoodie at the Royal Stables, chases her on Maximus.
• Her reflection briefly appears in Tae Eul’s rearview mirror in ROK moments before TE sees LG riding Maximus in Gwanghwamun Plaza.
• Doesn’t have a home.
• Doesn’t have an identity.
• Commits various crimes like theft and assault.
• KOC police don’t know her face or her name.
• Gangsters and the police are looking for her.
• Document forgery, theft, breaking and entering, assault, pickpocketing. Hundreds of reports on her, but she hasn’t been caught yet.
• TE’s fingerprint matches Luna’s, per KOC police detective.
• Luna was already arrested for special larceny and serving time in jail when TE came to KOC.
• Was arrested and held at Dongnae Penitentiary
• “…She’ll be released soon and she was locked up not long ago.” Per Secretary Kim.
• PM Koo came and met her when she was released
• “That girl is very famous in this world. Her name is Luna. If you pay her, she finds people and even steals things for you. She does everything for money.”
• Talks casually to PM Koo. Says, “I do not recall meeting you.” [Gets right up into PM Koo’s face]: “Ms. Civil Servant. Those who talk to me belong to one of these two categories. They either stole something from me or got something stolen by me. It never ends well in either case. Get out of my way.”
• PM Koo asks if she has a twin sister. Luna: “Is that what they’re saying? You have access to enough intel to figure out my release date, so it’s possible that you know more about me than I do. Let me know if you find her. I’m curious too.”
• Stole bracelet off PM Koo’s wrist during their chat in front of the penitentiary. Seen wearing it at the ice cream parlor.
• Has freckles on her face.
• Waits for young child to leave ice cream parlor, advises child to leave at once, before attacking man. He didn’t expect her: “What are you doing here? How the hell did you get out?”
• Was arrested and served jail time because the man betrayed her. He took 20 million won insurance payout from her.
• “You see, do you know what’s good about having nothing? I have nothing to lose…I don’t understand why a jerk like you got married, knowing it’s just be your weakness.”
• Comes to bookstore to collect her van key from Yoyo Child, who has been wearing it on a chain. Child: “You got out early. And your style has changed.”
• Gives child the rabbit-ear hooded jacket. “I just grabbed a random one on the run. It’s getting cold. Put it on or you’ll freeze to death.”
• Lives in her van. Child asks, “You steal stuff every day, and you’re still broke? Luna: “No, I have a lot of money. But I also have a lot of enemies. It’s a world you don’t need to know about.”

Update by @GB
• Luna entrusts the Yoyo Girl/Fate, with all her earthly possessions in her van, her van key and her ID tag. She gives Fate her rabbit jacket.
• Ep 10 Luna is borrowing her name from a cat with a collar. Luna feeds the cat in repayment for using its name.
• She had an early release because she is terminally ill. LG wants to meet her.
• Her prisoner ID is 0631 “Special Larceny”. The mugshot of her is in the police file.
• Ep 11 Luna rides a motorbike
• She is seen mostly with shoulder length brown hair but it is a wig. Removes it to reveal long, black hair.
• When on the motorbike, she is knocked unconscious. LL meets her and shows her TE’s ID Card and a photo of TE’s family when she was a child.
• She has the dubious distinction of making LL laugh. “I may use people’s weaknesses, but I never poke others’ wound. You’re a douche bag. I refuse to be your ally” LL laughed loudly with a degree of mirth.
• He tells Luna: “I always meet the right people. Have you been praying? …. Fortune has come knocking on your door.” Says she’s hurt that TE had a good life compared to her.
• She agrees to take on the identity of TE and watches TE with her father at the supermarket.
• Luna prepares to leave KOC by giving all her possessions to Fate in return for feeding the cat. Fate shows her the switchblade that had been in the pocket, but Luna says: “I didn’t come for that. You can keep it. Use it to protect what belongs to you.” Fate asks if she’s stealing something again and Luna looks aware that she is (stealing an identity).
• When Fate says she believes god exists, Luna says: “Then I’ll be punished.” This is in response to LL asking her if she had been praying.
• She is concerned that the red string of Fate’s yo-yo might break. Tells Fate to restring it.
• Ep 12 Luna in ROK goes through TE’s phone for call history and photos. Eats fried chicken. Sees that she had searched “How to raise a magic lily.”
• Took 21 days leave from work. Messages SJ that she’s getting some fresh air and don’t worry.
• Ep 13 Goes to TE’s home and meets TE’s father who does not sense that she’s not TE.
• Asks ‘dad’ if she is a good daughter. He says she is on the 29th of the month when she gets her salary.
• Notices the stars on the ceiling of TE’s bedroom and says “Gemini, that sucks”.
• Is interacting with a cat when Sin Jae accosts her. Kisses Sin Jae, presumably to distract him from noticing that she is not TE.
• Takes a call from ‘dad’ and runs off before Sin Jae can find her.
• Tells TE it’s good that they did not meet and that if they meet, TE will die.
• Tells TE that if she had planned to touch any of her friends/family, she’d have done so when TE was away, and that she had come to see TE.
• Spends a night in a van (Registered as 04D 7283) writhing in pain. The ceiling of the van has star stickers on it.
• Impersonates TE and visit’s LG at the hotel. Speaks of searching the Internet on how to grow the magic lily, and discovered that it is difficult to grow. Says that the meaning of the magic lily is hopeless love. Betrays her identity by her nervousness.

Jeong Do In
• Tae Eul’s father.
• Runs Hero Taekwondo Academy. A taekwondo instructor.
• Widower.
• Not a great money manager. Accepts a large quantity of eggs in place of money for one student’s tuition.
• He and Tae Eul have a loving, but contentious relationship. They squabble.
• Photo of him and Tae Eul with Shin Jae when SJ celebrated his graduation from high school.
• Photo of him and Tae Eul at her high school graduation includes Shin Jae in military fatigues.
• Fired Shin Jae as taekwondo instructor because he scared the children he was trying to teach.
• Per Shin Jae, “You promised to keep me off the streets for my money.”
• Encouraged Shin Jae to study to join the police force.
• Lee Gon visited him at the taekwondo academy since his arrival in ROK.
• He gave coffee to LG and tasted it first for him.
• Did not notice TE was gone during the approx. 24 hours she was in KOC. Asked if she’d been working undercover.
• Talked a lot with LG in front of the horse during LG’s first visit to ROK.
• LG told him he likes it in ROK.
• LG didn’t say goodbye to JDI before he left.
• LG tells TE her father seemed happy to see him (again), but sad he didn’t bring Maximus. JDI loaned LG a key to Hero Taekwondo Academy.

Ahn Bong Hui
• Deceased
• Jeong Do In’s wife, Jeong Tae Eul’s mother
• She was sick
• TE’s only memories of her are from when TE is age 5.

Jo Young, Captain Jo

• His ROK doppelgänger is Jo Eun Seob.
• His father was King Lee Ho’s friend.
• As a young child attended King Lee Gon’s coronation held by his father, who was in uniform.
• Offers King Lee Gon a cookie during the official mourning rite for King Lee Ho. It is all part of a plan by Head Court Lady Noh.
• As a young child, becomes friends with King Lee Gon, who calls him the Unbreakable Sword. Friendship engineered by Head Court Lady Noh.
• Is comfortable enough in relationship with LG to nag him; LG jokes with him.
• Is annoyed by LG’s frequent disappearances from the palace.
• Professional in his appearance and behavior.
• In charge of King Lee Gon’s security team. Captain of the Royal Guards. Highest position in the Royal Guards.
• Has a strong sense of duty.
• Has heard of LG’s savior the night of the assassination 25 years ago.
• Respects LG. Tells him, “…you’ve grown up well. You don’t need anyone’s [the savior’s] help now.”
• Can ride a horse
• Famous in KOC. People recognize him.
• Notices picture of Lee Lim at rowing competition among photos on Myeong Seung A’s camera. Asks her to email him all her photos from the rowing competition.
• Appears to have a good working relationship with Head Court Lady Noh. She trusts him.
• In 2016 investigated Lieutenant Jeong Tae Eul in KOC under His Majesty’s orders. Found nothing in KOC databases. Thought the ID could be fake because of the issue date in the future.
• Based on ID photo, thought TE not His Majesty’s style: not a science person, wouldn’t get along well with him.
• TE describes him as prudent and serious.
• Followed TE on the day she went to KOC Seoul without her knowing. Tells her it was on King’s orders: “He said you must be kept alive until your beheading.”
• For security takes photos of Myung Seung A and female staffer who’d helped with placement of talismans in LG’s bedroom. Later uses these as two of four images in photo lineup during which jailed gangster identifies TE as Luna.
• His uncle works in Royal Media Relations Office. Uncle looks to be the same generation as him.
• Believes Luna has deceived LG by posing as Jeong Tae Eul.
• Is better at swords than LG.
• LG takes him to ROK.
• Shocked and offended at how informally TE and ES talk to LG.
• Jo Yeong is an only child.
• His parents got divorced.
• To LG about being in ROK, “…we don’t have a life here.”
• LG tells JY he’s going back Thursday evening, but leaving JY in ROK. Tells him that it is possible the traitor Lee Lim is still alive and in ROK.
• LG gives JY a King’s Order to kill Lee Lim as soon as he finds him.
• Sends ES in his place, in hat and face mask, with LG to eat at the budaejjigae restaurant. When gangsters exit the restaurant and threaten them, LG is confident JY will show up, and begins to defend himself when attacked by seven men. JY makes his entrance, and after a moment of unspoken communication and a nod between him and LG, JY takes over the fight. When Chief Park and Detective Shim break up the fight and see JY after the gangster boss pulled off his facemask, JY pretends to be ES. JY stops LG from introducing himself to Chief Park, talking condescendingly to LG and describing him to Chief Park as his hapless friend from Busan. Later he apologizes to LG: “I tend to improvise in emergencies.”
• Seen by Na Ri when he’s out on the street and she’s driving by. From the moment she sees him, she’s nagging him. JY realizes she looks like Seung A. He gestures for her to come out of the car to him, to her chagrin. JY’s impression of Na Ri is “She’s tough.” He decides to speak to her in his own voice, not ES’s, leaning in close and asking, “I’m curious about something. Do I have a crush on you? Or is it the other way around? I mean, in this world.” She smacks him on the shoulder, and continues nagging him. He’s stunned.
• JY describes Na Ri to ES, but is thinking of Seung A: “She’s kind of pretty and…She has pretty eyes.”
• The wallpaper on his phone is the picture of him and LG standing together in their military uniforms.
• JY finds JS searching LG’s hotel room and fights JS. During the fight, JS sees JY’s face and recognizes it to be the same as ES’s, but knows the person isn’t ES.
• JY pulls his gun on JS when he hears him call LG an unregistered stateless dirtbag. SJ [looking at JY]: “This bastard even has a gun?
• Ep 10 JY had gotten Det Kang Jun Hyeok to track down TE. Det Kang found info on Luna.
• Has a meeting with TE in the hotel and shows her LG’s phone with a message in the saved searches. JY did not want to delete it and so could not use the phone to look up anything.
• Asks TE if she can handle everything that will happen after LL is caught. “Will you travel back and forth?” … “Can you abandon everything you have here and become the Queen of the Kingdom of Corea? And keep the two worlds a secret forever.” TE cannot answer.
• Tends to have an opinion that will be shown to be wrong later. He thinks Eun Bi will be too fond of him but she is the most suspicious of him of the family. He also said that the girl who matched the ID Card was not LG’s type.
• Although he seems stiff, he cares a lot for LG as seen in how he collapses and is affected to think that Luna is TE, because LG would be hurt. He also has a whole lot of stickers stuck messily on his laptop that seems not in keeping with his very rigid, neat style.
• Ep 12 Na Ri tells Jo Yeong that she experiences déjà vu: “when your frequency matches that of another world and you get a glimpse of yourself in that world. You know that I used to be in the radio club, right?” JY “But why are you mentioning that right now?” “I saw myself just now. But I was with someone who looks exactly like you. My doppelganger had short hair, and your doppelganger was in a hospital gown.”
• Sees PM Koo in the café and follows her in Na Ri’s red sports car. Calls Sin Jae for backup. Accosts Koo on the road but gets shot by a drive-by shooter. Saved by bullet proof vest. Is helped by Sin Jae.
• Gives Sin Jae the backstory of him at 4 and LG at 8 and that he became his body guard since age 4. He wanted LG to be happy. Says to Sin Jae that SJ and TE protect the law and justice with their lives, but for him he protects LG with his life.
• Explains to SJ that LG witnessed his father’s murder and sleeps thinking about death. His palace is where LG is safest but also the most dangerous battlefield. “But now it seems he has entered a new battlefield. If that is his destiny, I must follow him, whatever that battlefield may be.”
• Ep 13 Jo Yeong meets SJ at a restaurant. Asks him who Kang Hyeon Min is, and guesses correctly that this was SJ’s name when he was a child in KOC.
• Offers to find out about Kang Hyeon Min and his family when he returns to KOC.
• Tells SJ that he should confess his feelings to TE because TE and LG can’t be together as their worlds are too far apart.

Jo Eun Sup

• b. 1991
• His KOC doppelgänger is Jo Young. Is a childhood friend of Na Ri whom he likes.
• Per Soompi: While he was in his fourth year of college, his parents had twins. He took a break from his studies to care for his younger siblings.
• Per Soompi: When he returns to college, he gets in a car accident trying to save a young child.
• Per Soompi: When he’s ready to leave the hospital, he gets his enlistment orders.
• For his military service, works for Social Service at Jongno police station.
• Goofy personality
• Was Tae Eul’s junior in high school
• His much-younger siblings are fraternal twins: a boy and a girl. He helps take care of them.
• His nickname for Lee Gon is King Arthur, after cartoon.
• Thinks LG is handsome.
• Glances at LL as they pass each other in the yard of Na Ri’s café. ES’s younger brother frightened by the fiery root pattern he saw on LL’s face.
• Faints when he meets JY.
• A guard of the police station.
• Raised as an only child until his twin siblings were born.
• One of his first reactions on seeing JY, his double: “I didn’t realize until now, but I’m pretty handsome.”
• Faints again when JY tells him military service is voluntary in KOC.
• Tells LG he just realized his 63rd dream: in his next life he wants to be a citizen of LG’s kingdom. LG says, “I won’t allow that.”
• He’s from Busan. When LG and JY arrive in ROK, his parents and siblings are in Busan for the holidays.
• On JY’s first day in ROK, ES tells him that his military service ends in two days, and that he’ll fulfill one of his dreams: becoming a civilian.
• Failed driving test because he couldn’t make turns correctly
• Got perfect scores on CSAT (College Scholastic Ability Test)
• Is with LG when they bump into the gangsters at the budaejjigae restaurant. LG thought he was with JY. When LG tells him to try and hide far away, he runs. Watches as JY fights the gangsters. When Chief Park and Detective Shim break up the fight and see JY after the gangster boss pulled off his facemask, JY pretends to be ES.
• When JY asks him about a woman who is kind of pretty and has pretty eyes, ES figures right away he’s talking about Na Ri.
• ES admits to JY that he has a crush on Na Ri. “Who wouldn’t?” He’s flustered that after JY talked to her, “Na Ri and I? Our first japchae together?”
• Wears JY’s coat to work, finds his KOC cell phone. Sees picture on phone of JY and LG in military uniforms. “Wow, I look great. Oh, come on. A picture with his boss as the wallpaper? Jeez, this nutcase. Something is definitely wrong with him.” SJ sees, and demands ES hand the phone to him.
• He helped LG and JY check into their hotel room using his name.
• Ep 10 ES’s family visits at Lunar New Year. The name of his brother is Gga Bi and his sister is Eun Bi.
• Lives up to his moniker “Unbreakable Sword” by taking the bullet for LG. Is not too badly injured as the bullet proof vest had protected him.

Updated by GB
• Ep 12 He mistakes Seung Ah for Na Ri but futilely covers up his error. She thinks he should ask for her number to cover for being a bad liar.
• Misses Na Ri, but acts cool in front of TE pretending that he had not thought of Na Ri. Is delighted to hear that Na Ri did not like Jo Yeong. Misses the twins.
• Ep 13 Is more astute and smart than he shows himself to be. Found a bug and enabled LG to catch another minion of LL at the hospital.
• Does not have any fiery scar. Is afraid of lightning/thunder.
• Returns to ROK with LG and TE, wheeling his luggage across No Man’s Land.

Kang Sin Jae, Detective Kang, Lieutenant

• b. 1987
• Police officer; works for Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, Jongno Station, Violent Crimes Division, Squad Three. Same unit as Tae.
• Likes ice cream popsicles.
• Violent Crimes Division: “You can’t get promoted, the pay’s bad, you get hurt, you get disciplined for everything.”
• Notices when Tae Eul comes physically close to him as they’re investigating.
• Doodles plum flower design in his police notebook. Recognizes the emblem on Maximus’s saddle horn. Asks LG where he got the saddle, because he recognizes the logo. LG tells him, “That logo is used in a country in another world. It’s not used here…I’m the King of that country.”
• Threatened by Lee Gon’s handsome appearance.
• Friends with both Tae Eul and Eun Seob outside work.
• Refuses to answer LG’s question about the nature of his relationship with Tae Eul.
• Met Tae Eul in April 2006 when he saw her sitting in the window of the taekwondo center, then came in for lessons.
• Tae Eul was his first taekwondo instructor at the center.
• SJ’s salary seized again; previously because of his mother’s gambling and maybe this time too.
• Refuses bribe from gambling den boss who asked, “Just give me a call before any crackdowns, and let us off a little if we get caught.” SJ’s response, “You asshole, you chose the wrong guy. You better be here at the next crackdown. And make sure I catch you, so I can get promoted all right?”
• His family was rich, but went bankrupt when he was 15 (c. 2002).
• He is drowning in debt, per the gambling den boss’s research.
• Lives on rent.
• He says, “I don’t live honestly. Somebody once told me to be someone standing at the edge of the wrong path. So I’m living like this.” (Tae Eul’s dad is the one who told him, “Why don’t you become someone on the edge of the wrong path.” Gave him a Police Exam Preparation book.)
• Photo of Tae Eul and her dad with him when he celebrated his graduation from high school.
• Photo of him in military fatigues with Tae Eul & her dad at TE’s high school graduation.
• Black belt in taekwondo.
• Not good at working as a children’s instructor at taekwondo center. Not able to keep them under control, yells and cusses at them, frightens them. Fired by Tae Eul’s father, who encouraged him to study to join the police force.
• Said to Tae Eul’s father, “You promised to keep me off the streets for my money.”
• Wants Kim Bok Man put away for Lee Sang Do’s murder, but supports Tae Eul’s instinct to keep digging. “If you’ll dig more, trust the evidence we found. If it really was planned by someone, that evidence will point to something.”
• In 11th grade, was Number 5 in Class 3. A schoolmate became a gangster, and Shin Jae sent him to jail three years ago (2016). When investigating Lee Sang Do’s murder with Tae Eul, they’re confronted by this boss & his gang. Lee Gon comes to help, beating down combatants with his riding crop.
• When Tae Eul comments the gang boss must have succeeded after jail because he has a large group, SJ says, “Yeah, and I only have you. Sometimes I think I should’ve just stayed on that path.” TE’s response, “You can rely on me.”
• Was having nightmares.
• Was getting therapy because of recurring nightmares, but stopped seeing the psychiatrist.
• Has feelings for TE.
• Eats sweets, especially ice cream bars. Even Director Kim Hee Ju of National Forensic Service knows he loves sweets because her husband, Chief Park, told her.
• Per TE: “I’ve never seen any woman who talks to you except for testifiers, suspects, and criminals.”
• Calls in raid of the house where his mother had been gambling, brings her as he returns the money she’d brought home, lets her be arrested.
• On his day off, eats dinner (microwaved packaged food) and sleeps in the police station break room.
• Used by Chief Park as his alibi to leave home late at night. Asks Chief Park who he’s actually meeting. CP’s response, “Loneliness.”
• Name Kang Shin Jae is not recognized at KOC Seoul Jongno Police Station.
• Before his family went bankrupt when he was little, his family home was near Pyeongchang-gil in Seoul. They moved out when he was in middle school.
• When he bumped into the psychiatrist and she commented on him still eating a lot of sweets, he told her sweets (ice cream bar) were better than medicine. The second time they bumped into each other, she asked if sweets are really effective. His answer: “It’s just nice because it’s sweet and melts fast.” She asks, “Isn’t it better for it to melt slowly if it’s sweet?” SJ: “It’s going to melt anyway.”
• The psychiatrist had prescribed medicine for him. She doubts if he took it.
• SJ visits his old neighborhood sometimes, but feels bitter.
• Was beaten by school mates from the same high school TE attended, Bukchon High. TE found them while they were beating SJ and called the police, then gave them a whippin’.
• Senior to TE as a police officer.
• When TE askes SJ if he trusts her, he says yes.
• LL has been taking and developing photos of SJ, and TE with SJ.
• Is very accurate at quick firing a revolver at distance.
• Checked alibi of roommate of murder victim, Jang Yeon Jo, at convenience store and confirmed it. When SJ left convenience store, LL’s lead henchman was sitting just outside the door, reading a newspaper dated 2019.12.3.
• Plays the lottery, always buys 10,000 SKW in lottery tickets.
• TE bought LG an ROK phone and saved in it the numbers of the five people who will help him “regardless of anything in this world.” One of the numbers she saved is for Sin Jae, because he “is one of the most trustworthy people.”
• Sleeping in the station’s Night Duty Room because his wages are garnished.
• The flower he likes is mugwort.
• Has memory of himself as a child lying in bed wearing an oxygen mask. His mother leans over him, crying, and saying, “Honey! Honey, Sin Jae is awake!” There are child-drawn colored pictures on the wall. There is an array of medical equipment and sick-room items. It isn’t a dream, because Sin Jae’s eyes are awake.
• When Chief Park’s wife asks SJ about being her husband’s alibi for being called out, SJ says he’s the one calling him out.
• Lets TE know he’s noticed her absence. “You’ve been taking off often. Are you receiving bribes?”
• Switched stakeout shifts with Jangmi. Neither Tae Eul nor Jangmi knew why.
• Went to get his ROK mom out of jail after she’s arrested again. “You know this isn’t her first time…We let her go every single time. I can’t believe she’s here again. Next time, we won’t let her go so easily.”
• According to his ROK mother, was ill for a long time before regaining consciousness. “That one year was hell for us.”
• His father is in jail. SJ sends money monthly to his inmate account.
• “I felt the same way. [Like his mom, thinking about that time made his heart pound.] When I woke up, you held me in your arms. And you smelled so nice. That’s when I first realized that a person could smell so good.”
• SJ remembers as a child looking at a family photo album, then practicing how to smile.
• “Mom. You see, I was always so happy to be your son. I know that I wasn’t always a good son to you. I called the cops on you…I’m really sorry, Mom. So please. Do not ruin yourself anymore, please.”
• “Kang Sin Jae. You’re a miracle to me.” [Said by his ROK mother] • Officer Yoon of Forensics gives reports TE requested to SJ to deliver. They are death records for Lee Seong Jae [LL’s ROK doppelganger] and Lee Ji Hun [LG’s doppelganger]. SJ says to himself, “Tae Eul, what are you up to?”
• Goes to visit the crypt of Lee Ji Hun. While there, remembers seeing TV coverage of King Lee Gon mourning his father’s death in official rites according to court laws. Ji Hun’s mother sees SJ at the crypt. She and her driver tail SJ back to the police station.
• SJ sees ES looking at JY’s KOC cell phone, demands ES hand it over to him. Sees the photo of JY and LG standing together in their military uniforms. Tells ES to take him to the hotel where LG is staying and get him a room key.
• Goes into LG’s hotel room to investigate. Checks LG’s coat pockets. Finds ROK cell phone TE got LG, sees Tae Eul is in the contacts. Finds envelope in the inside pocket of the coat; envelope has plum blossom logo, which he remembers doodling; envelope contains autopsy report of LL’s body double [SJ has looked at the ROK death certificate of Lee Seong Jae, which TE requested from Forensics]; envelope is marked The Kingdom of Corea Royal Court.
• JY fights JS in the hotel room. During the fight, JS sees JY’s face and recognizes it to be the same as ES’s, but knows the person isn’t ES.
• Calls LG an unregistered stateless dirtbag. JY pulls his gun on JS when he hears that. SJ [looking at JY]: “This bastard even has a gun? [Almost in tears] Who the heck are you guys?” LG: “If I tell you, will you believe me this time? I’ve already told you who I am, multiple times.” … SJ: “Who are you? Who the heck are you? Are you…Lee Gon?” LG: “Lieutenant Jeong Tae Eul even told you things like that?” SJ: “Tae Eul knows about this too?” LG: “She’s not the one who told you?” SJ: “That boy who was crying…That was really you? Are you really Lee Gon?” LG voiceover: “He heard my wailing. A lot more people have come over to this world than I had thought.” … LG: “One thing is for sure. You are the reason why I must return to my world. It seems like I am your king.”
• Ep 10 SJ stands at a stall eating fish or rice cakes on skewers. He gets a flashback of eating at the same stall with TE when they were teens. He looks at her but she does not notice.
• He speaks to the psychiatrist, “Was it a really long dream?” He remembers his house with a gate and sofa, and his mum smelled really nice. He wishes ‘Kang Hyeon Min’ (this is his real name) was only a dream, but believes that it is a memory.
• Took 21 days leave and returned to work on Lunar New Year’s Day.
• Tells TE that he had taken the top secret reports that Gyeong Ran had meant for her and looked at them. Ended up at Lee Ji Hun’s ‘grave’. Tells TE that he knows (the face of) Lee Ji Hun and remembered Lee Gon’s name.
• He does not know who he is and asks if he is meant to be in ROK and if TE would welcome him.
• His address is 28 19 Ga-Gil Dongil-Ro Jungnang-Gu. JY sees SJ’s mother speaking on the phone outside this address. JY recognises that she has the same face as a Court Lady in KOC.
• Meets Jo Yeong with TE and disagreed with JY about the KOC people being repatriated under KOC law.
• Learns that the car number, “7370” was registered under a missing person.
• Ep 11 SJ had seen the face of Song Jeong Hye and asked the Columbarium for photos of the carpark.
• TE tells him that LL is the instigator and probably the one who brought SJ over to ROK.

Update by GB
• Ep 12 Sin Jae literally runs into LL on a rainy night in ROK and drops his bag of beer. Lightning strikes and the fiery scar shows up on LL’s face but SJ does not see it.
• Ep 13 Is told by JY to confess his feeling to TE because she and LG should not be together, as their worlds are too far apart.
• Accepts JY’s offer to find out more about his family in KOC.
• Mistakes Luna for TE and is stunned when Luna kisses him. He can’t find her when she runs off.
• Is disoriented when TE runs into him and he finds out that Luna had tricked him. Tells TE that Luna had taken leave in her name and to cancel her leave first.

Min Hwa Yeon

• Her KOC doppelgänger is Park Sook Jin
• Shin Jae’s mother in ROK.
• Has a gambling addiction.
• Grew up spoiled in a wealthy environment.
• Uses the mothers of SJ’s middle school friends as her alibi when she’s been out gambling.
• Doesn’t understand that the money she came home with is way more than she could’ve gained by gambling.
• Tries to weasel out of being arrested by using her connection to her detective son. She doesn’t seem to grasp that she’s endangering his career, even when he tells her.
• Arrested again. Sin Jae comes to get her out of jail. “Your mother said you’re a cop…So it’s true. I thought she was bullshitting. You know this isn’t her first time…We let her go every single time. I can’t believe she’s here again. Next time, we won’t let her go so easily.”
• SJ asks her, “Is it that fun?” Her answer: “I’m sorry. I promise I won’t do it again. When I’m sitting there, I feel like everything will go well. And it helps me get my mind off things. I’m broke now, so I can’t even wager large amounts. You were ill for a long time, you know. When you regained your consciousness, I felt like the whole world was mine. I thought only happiness awaited us. But your dad ended up like that. And I just couldn’t pull myself together.”
• SJ asks, “Mom, were you happy when I woke up?” Her answer, “Gosh, of course. Your dad and I thought we’d lose you. That one year was hell for us. Gosh, thinking about that time still makes my heart pound.”
• Considers Shin Jae a miracle.

Park Sook Jin

• Her ROK doppelgänger is Min Hwa Yeon.
• Member of palace staff. Serves tea to OCL Noh & Myung Seung A.
• Spies on palace, leaves notes for LL in book in KOC bookstore.
• May be Kang Shin Jae’s true mother.
• In the book she uses to pass messages about palace happenings to LL, she receives photos of Shin Jae in ROK. Looks at them and touches them tenderly. Cries.
• Goes to the Eosu Bookstore gets photos of Shin Jae. Burnt a photo of Shin Jae with Min Hwa Yeon but it was retrieved and given to HCL Noh.

Update by @GB
• Ep 12 laced her own soup with poison. Is discovered by HCL to be a spy and collapsed due to the poison. To be kept alive for interrogation.
• Ep 13 asks to meet LG. When he comes to see her, she admits she saw a photo of LG with SJ and that she gambled with her life by taking the poison instead of poisoning him. As she survived, she planned to speak to him in person. She says to LG: “It’s shameless of me but I’m asking you to decide the fate of my son. He didn’t do anything wrong. Please (3x) protect my son, Your Majesty.”

Koo Seo Ryeong

• When we first see her, she’s reading about Sungwoon Group labor relations board only advising on labor unions and successions. Turns out Sungwoon Group is owned by the husband of her pregnant sister-in-law [sister of Koo’s former husband?]. LL is targeting Koo’s pregnant SIL, grooming a doppelganger to murder her and take her place.
• Flies into Busan on helicopter for meetings with King Lee Gon.
• Required to go through security when entering palace. Metal detector set off by her underwire bra, so she needs additional pat-down search.
• Prime Minister of Kingdom of Corea.
• Comes early every time to meetings with King Lee Gon; LG requests she wait until appointed time.
• Disliked by Head Court Lady Noh.
• Disregarded King Lee Gon’s request she wait for her appointed meeting time at the palace; came early anyway by meeting him at the stables after he’d finished riding Maximus.
• Proudly claims she often bites people.
• Without LG’s knowledge, arranged with Royal Public Affairs Office for photo op of her with LG. She stands close to him and whispers in his ear so it looks like they’re intimate. She is forward in telling LG she wants to give the impression they’re a couple.
• “I’m the Prime Minister. Not the representative of a party.”
• Formed the KOC Cabinet as part of her role of Prime Minister. Unhappy with them. Chose them “to shoot in the foot.”
• Drinks scotch.
• “If the King has a woman, that woman has to be me. I’m trying to make the whole nation believe that…”
• When LG asked her if she’s honest, she said, “Honesty is a privilege that only the king can have since he doesn’t need to care about approval ratings. But I’m a politician…But as a politician, I’m planning on using your honesty…”
• Vetoed the salary raise of the Congress members. Won that fight.
• “I succeeded [became Prime Minister] because it was me.”
• Judgmental about how her mother continues to live her life, running a fish business and babysitting neighborhood children.
• Came to Palace without an appointment despite everyone being told to send in written reports, told HCL Noh to step back, pushed aside HCL Noh and barged into His Majesty’s study.
• “His Majesty is the only person who has the right to stop me.”
• “I’m not here to report. I just came to see if you were missing. And I’m glad I came. You’re indebted to me now, Your Majesty. Good luck with solving this one.” (LG disabuses her of that notion right away.)
• Got revenge on Congressman Park by exposing him in a sex scandal, releasing compromising photos of him. Photos provided by her white-haired mentor.
• Is aware of the meaning of changing security levels for Prince Buyeong.
• At suggestion of her white-haired mentor, corners Prince Buyeong in a café and sits at his table uninvited, knowing that it will spark rumors. “Will people think that you have my back if I sit here with you like this? I hope they do.”
• Received certificate of appointment as Prime Minister from King Lee Gon on 2017.05.20.
• Her sister-in-law says, “Bad things keep happening to people who oppose you. Rumors say the only one who benefits from the scandal is you. The person who benefits the most is usually the culprit.”
• Is vain about her looks. Brags to Palace security about her breasts requiring underwire support, decides to exact revenge on Congressman Park only after his comment about her perfect nose being the result of plastic surgery, threatens her pregnant sister-in-law with tax harassment after SIL says, “A queen with no term limit is better than a Prime Minister with a five-year term. But I’m not sure if His Majesty likes old women.”
• The youngest female Prime Minister of KOC.
• Comes to investigate when LG unexpectedly lands his helicopter in Seoul. Tries to find out who TE is. “When it comes to the country’s affairs, personal occasions are business too, and you are my country.”
• Is jealous that LG laughs at something TE says, and never at anything she says; bothered when she sees LG wait for TE and put his arm around her.
• “I’ve always been the first to strike when someone looks at me funny.”
• Is perplexed China is taking visa matters to the Royal Court instead of to her.
• Prefers wearing dresses; doesn’t think she has to dress in masculine pant suits to win.
• Sees image of her doppelganger as a reflection in her blank computer screen; is startled. Happens when LG crosses portal from KOC to ROK with JY.
• She has a ROK doppelgänger, someone who wears glasses.
• Learns from Secretary Kim about Luna being in jail for special larceny, will be released soon. Koo and Kim don’t know Luna and TE are separate people.
• PM Koo receives a large envelope with Kim Seong Ae (her mom’s name) in the return address and from her mom’s house. Inside is the ROK newspaper we saw LL reading, dated 2019.7.1, with headline about President Trump visiting North Korea. PM Koo thinks it is fake news, tosses paper aside.
• Koo goes to Dongnae Penitentiary and meets Luna as she’s being released.
• Her ex-husband was rich, with KU Group.
• Ex-husband is in jail. Breach of duty, embezzlement, and diversion of funds.
• Ex-husband was a womanizer.
• She doesn’t deny wiretapping the palace
• Used to wiretap her husband. Threatens him with Guyeon tunnel project seeming to be the fishiest.
• “Greed is the most sincere emotion…I’m sincere about everything. My greed and ambition, too.”
• Wants to become queen because there’s no term limit.
• After talking with Luna outside the penitentiary, believes Luna is not the person she met in front of KU building. After they finish talking and Luna walks away, PM Koo realizes Luna stole the bracelet off her wrist.
• Two voices on recording listened to by ROK doppelganger of PM Koo’s SIL: “…Prime Minister Koo has quite a background. She’s been on an elite path. She went to Seojin High School and Corea University. Then she joined a public channel as an announcer and became the main news anchor in just four years. Then she surprised everyone by marrying the second son of the KU family.” “She surprised us once again shortly after that. She got a divorce in the same year.” “Scandals follow her everywhere she goes. After her divorce, she got into politics. She became Prime minister in just seven years.”
• “Things can’t be good all the time. I don’t get paid if everything is peaceful.”
• Her mother calls to tell her about a weird dream. Warns PM Koo, “I know you rarely drive yourself, but drive safely if you do. And be careful not to lose anything.” While talking with her mom, PM Koo says, “I’d never let anyone take anything from me.” This is as she’d driving back from the penitentiary where she met Luna, and Luna stole her bracelet.
• Asks her mother about the newspaper mailed to her, but her mother knows nothing about it.
• Receives many holiday invitations, but never attends their events. “They just love to badmouth me for not coming.”
• Received a second copy of the ROK newspaper from her mother’s address. First enveloped dated 2019.12.16; second envelope dated 2019.12.18. Calls her mother, but her mother doesn’t know about the newspaper. Cuts her mom off when her mom wanted to talk further; hangs up. “A repeating pattern means it’s a sign.” This time looks through the newspaper. Sees a photo of her ROK doppelganger as a spectator at a baseball game. Is shocked.
• Wants to know what will crush LG’s heart. Is not wise or skilful in diplomacy if she chooses that way to speak to HCL Noh.
• After the shoot out with LL, she is not concerned about LG but only about the trending news about LL and wonders if LG is an honest person.
• Calls LG to say “I trust that you’ll be honest with me. Was it Lee Lim? Or his followers?” LG implores her not to interfere or take the situation to another direction and not to use the word ‘honesty’ as her weapon. In Ep 1 he had asked her if she was honest.
• Asks ex-husband to gather all CCTV footage of the shoot out in exchange for his freedom. She suggest getting him out on Admiral Yi Sun Shin’s birthday (April). He prefers an earlier release date on Gyeongchip. When she refuses, he threatens to get all the footage and to keep them for himself.
• Ex-husband’s prisoner number, “9553”
• Ep 11 She is sent photos of LL alive and young by her ex-husband.
• She wants to crush LG’s heart and is glad to see him in despair.

Update by @GB
• Ep 11 Koo is in KOC and meets TE.
• EP12 Koo is back in ROK without her phone and does not know the news. Hears through Park Ji Young that LG has declared someone else as queen. Tells Ji Young that the baby is a girl and to give birth in KOC.
• She goes to the palace to question LG.
• When lightning strikes, her fiery scars appear on her neck and LG see this.
• Ep 13 Confronts LG about the position of queen and threatens to stand on the opposite side against him. Lightning strikes show LG that she has a fiery scar on her neck.
• She parries TE’s queries about seeing her in ROK and pretends they only met outside KU Building.
• She considers seeing a doctor or dermatologist or even a psychiatrist about the fiery scar.
• Is surprised that she cares about Sec Kim more than she thought and decides not to tell him what she had done so as to keep him from danger.
• Had met LL at Eosu Bookstore and challenged him to show her his abilities by bringing her to ROK. She was the only one quick on the uptake and guessing that she would be killed and replaced by her doppelganger, if she gave LL the wrong answer to his question.
• Unbeknownst to her, her private residence is searched and evidence of her treasonous conversation with her husband is found. This is recorded in a thumbdrive and given to LG by Chairman Choe, through the man who used to be her Advisor. Advisor refuses to leave with her, saying his place is at the PM’s office.
• She is ousted from office, by the Deputy PM, taking only the shoes she bought in the ROK and with only Sec Kim still willing to follow her.

Kim Seong Ae

• Prime Minister Koo’s mother
• Operates a fish store by the harbor; includes home with PM Koo’s childhood bedroom
• PM Koo tells her “I told you to just pretend. Don’t actually sell food here.”
• Her daughter tries to discourage her from operating the fish store or babysitting neighborhood children, but she doesn’t listen.
• Lee Lim left the Manpasikjeok handle umbrella at her fish shop.
• Calls PM Koo to tell her about a weird dream. “I know you rarely drive yourself, but drive safely if you do. And be careful not to lose anything.” [PM Koo had just had her bracelet stolen off her wrist by Luna.] • Does not know what PM Koo is talking about when asked about mailing a newspaper.
• When LL comes to the fish shop and asks for the umbrella he forgot a long time ago, she says, “I thought you’d come back for it, so I kept it. That’s why you looked familiar. I thought I had seen you somewhere before.”
• On a hunch, looks in one of the school textbooks she pulls from a bookshelf in her home and sees a picture of Lee Lim, Prince Imperial Geum.

Update buy @GB
• Recognises LL from a picture in an old book and tells PM Koo that LL’s look-alike retrieved his umbrella.
• Promises her daughter not to tell anyone else.
• Ep 12 faints when she sees that her daughter’s treason has been exposed in public.

 

Yoo Kyung Moo

• Has a ROK doppelgänger that works as Lee Lim’s henchman in ROK.
• Worked as laborer at salt farm.
• Loyal to Lee Lim, calls him Your Highness.
• Had not seen LL for more than a decade by the time of their salt farm encounter.
• Operates Eosu bookstore in KOC; where LL finds notes hidden that report on the Palace; meeting place for those serving LL
• Accompanies LL to visit other minions at salt farm
• Knows about his ROK d doppelgänger through LL.

Lee Lim henchman

• His KOC doppelgänger is Yoo Kyung Moo, bookstore operator
• Works for Lee Lim in ROK as driver, assistant, trusted holder of umbrella with Manpasikjeok handle
• Asks LL, “Which world is better?”
• Wishes LL would bring gold back from KOC instead of a book.
• Concerned LL will favor his KOC doppelgänger over him.
• Sitting outside door of convenience store when SJ went to check alibi of roommate of murder victim. Reading newspaper dated 2019.12.3. Headline on newspaper: Park Mun Haeng of HG Group’s Succession Process Underway
• Is the first one to stab chaebol son, Park Byeong U, to make way for his KOC doppelganger to become Chairman of HG Group in the succession. Is miffed that his sleeve gets dirty during the stabbing.
• Asks LL if he’s paying early the care center’s monthly electricity fees because he’s going to the other world again. LL: “I do everything in advance, but I won’t bring the man with your face too quickly, so don’t worry.” Henchman: “You can never be sure about people, though.” LL does not look happy to hear his retort.
• Visits Jang Yeon Ji in detention center. Not standard visit. Power in detention center goes out, a guard brings her to the prison laundry room where he’s waiting. He’s not happy Jang Yeon Ji turned herself in. She said she did it so he’d come to see her; asks when he’ll get her out, and when she’ll go to the other side. He says she shouldn’t have killed anyone if she wanted to go there. He asks her for her 2G phone, but she says she hid it. She threatens to hand it over to the cops if he doesn’t get her out quickly. He says, “Have you ever heard of a power outage at a detention center?…I can switch it off and on whenever it’s necessary. Whatever it may be. Click.”

Myung Seung A

• Her ROK doppelgänger is Myung Na Ri.
• A fangirl of Jo Young. Takes photos him while he’s working security at rowing competition.
• Happened to capture picture of Lee Lim at rowing competition, later seen by Jo Young on her camera.
• Informs Jo Young which direction LG ran away from the rowing competition site.
• For four years applied for job at the palace. HCL Noh knows this.
• Personally interviewed by Head Court Lady Noh, who hires her for an important job at the Royal Public Affairs Office. “I appreciate your ability to create something from nothing…” Familiarity with After Effects and Photoshop a plus.
• Family lives in Canada. During job interview with HCL she says, “It hasn’t been long since I came from Canada.” [Must mean she submitted applications for the job while still living in Canada.] • Family does not have any financial trouble.
• In KOC she has one childhood friend she meets often.
• Writes fanfic Nickname Jogon Jogon. HCL has read it for four years.
• Owns buildings in Canada.
• Ep 12 Goes to hospital with a bunch of flowers. Eun Seob/Eun Sup mistakes her for Na Ri and embraces her. She thinks he is Jo Yeong and that he should ask for her number.

Myung Na Ri

• Her KOC doppelgänger is Myung Seung A
• After seeing Maximus, assumed LG was rich
• Has two high-end sports cars.
• Operates a café in same building as taekwondo center & Tae Eul’s home.
• Lends Lee Gon 2,007,560 SKW ($1,637.73 USD) to cover the outstanding balance on his hotel bill.
• Trusted LG because “He has even strides, great pronunciation, and is good with words. You can’t achieve that with just any education. I’m sure he’s wealthy. He’ll pay me back double the amount.”
• She told TE, “He would’ve gone back to his world. He said he was going home…He said he’s the King of his country. He left the palace empty for too long.” This is the same as what LG told TE, but Na Ri is more inclined to believe it to some extent.
• LG paid her back with a diamond.
• Owns a building, rents it out to Hero Taekwondo Academy.
• When LL visits her café, she comments that he seems to be a new customer. He tells her it is his first time there.
• Coincidentally cut her hair same length and style as Myung Seung A, startling TE.
• Na Ri tells TE that she believes if she met a doppelganger from another world, she’d have to kill her. “One of the doppelgangers always ends up dying. That’s the rule of the universe…If there’s two of something when there’s just supposed to be one, it will cause chaos in the world…The world needs balance…If there are two worlds, then one world is bound to destroy the other. We can’t be the ones destroyed.”

Updated 5/23/2020 to add Welmaris’ comment.

In ep. 12 Na Ri’s hair is again long. She must’ve been wearing the wig she mentioned to TE when we saw her with her parallel’s hairstyle.

Na Ri and Seung A seem to have their wavelengths fall into sync more than other doppelganger pairs. Some, like King Lee Ho and his doppelganger, were opposite. King Lee Ho, what we saw of him, was loving and calm; Ji Hun’s father had a quick temper and abused his wife. Na Ri and Seung A have similar economic backgrounds, and TE comments on their personalities being alike.

Na Ri appears open to belief in parallel worlds, so that would give her more sensitivity to her doppelganger. Unfortunately, Na Ri believes she and her doppelganger could not peacefully coexist if they ever met. Let’s hope she learns otherwise if given the opportunity.

• Na Ri sees JY when he’s out on the street and she drives by him. From the moment she sees him she’s nagging him, thinking he’s ES but confused by his clothes and hair. JY realizes she looks like Seung A. He gestures for her to come out of the car to him, to her chagrin. JY’s impression of Na Ri is “She’s tough.” He decides to speak to her in his own voice, not ES’s, leaning in close and asking, “I’m curious about something. Do I have a crush on you? Or is it the other way around? I mean, in this world.” She smacks him on the shoulder. “This is why you don’t have a girlfriend. Cut it out.” And she continues nagging him.
• JY’s description of Na Ri to ES: “She’s kind of pretty and… She has pretty eyes.” ES knows he’s talking about Na Ri.
• ES has a crush on Na Ri.
• Na Ri likes ES and prefers his look to Jo Yeong’s.
• Ep 12 Na Ri finds ES different. “Does he have another weird dream?” This is the first time we hear that ES has weird dreams.
• Welcomes PM Koo to her café without knowing her.
• Ep 13 ruminates with the twins on how odd ES is. Eun Bi tells her that was not ES.
• ES returns and hugs her to her confusion. She realises that this is ES.

Gang Boss, KOC

• In pursuit of Luna with his henchmen
• Arrested at rowing competition after firing a gun, apprehended by king’s security team

Kim Bok Man

• Subject of sting operation by Tae Eul’s police unit.
• Operated illegal gambling website.
• Body found in trunk of his car. Looked surprised and frightened to see it.
• Back of head injured by impact of blunt object such as crowbar.
• Denied killing Lee Sang Do.
• Lee Sang Do’s blood found in his apartment.
• His blood and Lee Sang Do’s blood found on murder weapon, a crowbar.
• Changed the web address of his gambling site multiple times to avoid police detection. Would give a lot of points to new members.

Park Moon Sik, Chief Park

• Police officer; works for Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, Jongno Station, Violent Crimes Division, Squad Three. Same unit as Tae Eul.
• Friendly with Detective Shim
• Violent Crimes Division: “You can’t get promoted, the pay’s bad, you get hurt, you get disciplined for everything.”
• His wife works at National Forensic Service
• He and Detective Shim frustrated with Tae Eul’s desire to continue digging in the Lee Sang Do murder investigation despite the obvious evidence. They react as if such skepticism is her habit.
• Leaves home late at night, using going to drink with Shin Jae as an alibi. Tells SJ he’s actually meeting “loneliness.”
• TE meets his doppelgänger at KOC Seoul Jongno Police Station; he is friends with Detective Shim doppelgänger, who is also there. They do not recognize her or the names Kang Shin Jae, Jangmi, or Director Kim Hee Ju from Forensics.
• Upset when TE asks SJ to explain about loneliness quip during Squad Three meeting, threatens to give her less than full 47 points of immediate supervisor’s work evaluation score on her promotion test. She tells him she doesn’t care and can go to Forensics to get information. CP redirects conversation back to murder investigation.
• “I really like snow. I get teary when it snows.”
• When drinking with his wife, tells her the favorite foods of the members of his squad.
• Per wife, of late keeps getting called out [unusual behavior as she sees it].
• On coming out of budaejjigae restaurant with Detective Shim, sees JY fighting gangsters to defend LG. Breaks up fight, and thinks JY is ES. JY talks and acts like ES to convince him.

Director Kim Hee Ju

• Wife of Chief Park
• Works at National Forensic Service
• Not happy when her husband leaves home late at night.
• Threatens to check his phone records
• When SJ asked her for help expediting forensic report on Changsin-dong murder case, she made him write and sign a note promising that he’d never again call out Chief Park after 10pm. CP had used him as an alibi when going out “to meet loneliness.”
• Knows SJ likes sweets, TE is a meat lover, Detective Shim loves makgeolli, the newbie likes macarons. Chief Park tells her when he’s drinking.
• Suspicious of her husband of late because he keeps getting called out. Tells SJ, “You’re his alibi, but I’m debating whether or not I should look into it. What should I do?” SJ says it is him calling out Chief Park; when he leaves, she says to herself, “Nice catch.”
• Ep 13 Hee Ju has a doppelganger named Kim Ju Hyeon, in the KOC NFS who also does autopsies, in the Central Forensics Medical Center.
• Did the autopsies on those who had fiery scars and reported that they had committed parricide.

Kim Ju Hyeon
• KOC doppelganger of Chief Park’s wife, Hee Joo who is also in Forensics in ROK.
• Works for NFS, Forensics Medical Centre
• Kim Ju Hyeon tells LG that she has seen 3 other bodies with the scar. She says to LG: “To be honest, nobody believed me until now. I’ve worked for 11 years, and I’ve seen three bodies with the same scar. And all on rainy days like today. But what’s strange is that all three had served terms in prison for parricide.”

Detective Shim

• Police officer; works for Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, Jongno Station, Violent Crimes Division, Squad Three. Same unit as Tae Eul.
• Friendly with Park Moon Sik
• Violent Crimes Division: “You can’t get promoted, the pay’s bad, you get hurt, you get disciplined for everything.”
• He and Chief park frustrated with Tae Eul’s desire to continue digging in the Lee Sang Do murder investigation despite the obvious evidence. They react as if such skepticism is her habit.
• TE meets his doppelgänger at KOC Seoul Jongno Police Station; he is friends with Chief Park doppelgänger, who is also there. They do not recognize her or the names Kang Shin Jae, Jangmi, or Director Kim Hee Ju from Forensics.
• Loves makgeolli.
• On coming out of budaejjigae restaurant with Chief Park, sees JY fighting gangsters to defend LG. Breaks up fight, and thinks JY is ES. JY talks and acts like ES to convince him.

Lee Sang Do

• b. 1974; d. 2019; age 45 at time of death.
• Moved by LL to KOC to replace Royal Stable worker; son of the master Lee Gu Yong.
• Victim of murder. Body found in trunk of Kim Bok Man’s car. (Actually body of doppelganger from KOC.)
• Killed by blow to the head. Same weapon that caused wound on Kim Bok Man’s head.
• Hardware store owner
• Member of Kim Bok Man’s gambling website. Took money worth a whole building from that site, but he put his store up for sale.
• Married
• Per wife: left home about three weeks before body found.
• Per wife: he had a history of running away after they fought
• Per wife: he was a gambler
• Per wife: he borrowed money from everyone he knew
• Per wife: he carried around two phones
• Per phone records, sent blackmailing text messages to Kim Bok Man, dozens each day threatening to kill him.
• Found the address to Kim Bok Man’s apartment
• Per CCTV followed Kim Bok Man around the time he was killed. Followed KBM to the entrance of his apartment; after that whereabouts unconfirmed.
• Tae Eul suspicious how Lee Sang Do got Kim Bok Man’s address and phone number, as KBM actively hid them to avoid detection by police.
• His blood and Kim Bok Man’s blood found on murder weapon, a crowbar.
• 2G phone found at his hardware store.
• For three months prior to his murder he didn’t access the gambling website. Had 3.7 million points he wasn’t using.
• Made a new account on gambling website under his wife’s name.
• Ep 11 he is recoginised by LG who sees a photo of him given by TE. LG puts him in the palace dungeon.
• Ep 12 Lee suffers from fiery scars when it rains.

Park Soo Yeon
• Wife of Lee Sang Do
• History of fighting with her husband, who would then run away
• Knew about his gambling
• Was distraught about having to repay his debts
• Goes missing, doesn’t answer her phone. Hardware store trashed, abandoned.
• Her husband made an account on the gambling website under her name.
• Did not have her school children transferred after she disappeared.
• Did not change the address on her registration after she disappeared. Still registered in Seoul.

Maximus
• White horse ridden by King Lee Gon
• Doesn’t like women
• Spoiled
• Bites people
• Comes when LG whistles
• King Lee Gon’s seventh-grade official; Senior Seventh Rank Official
• Bespoke watch worn by LG made by Longines to celebrate the first victory of Maximus.
• Refuses organic carrots offered by Tae Eul. Gets pissy. LG later asked TE if she’d tasted the carrots first.
• Definitely a he (at the least, a gelding) per side view while stabled in Tae Eul’s yard.
• Per Korea Racing Authority, Maximus is a rare breed of Spanish descent. They couldn’t find it in Korea when they researched at TE’s request, and are curious how the horse got to Korea.
• Sign outside café reads “The horse isn’t here. She’s gone…”
• The vet checks Lady Maximus.

Seok Ho Pil, Sub-captain Seok
• Male member of Royal Guard especially trusted by Jo Young
• Accompanies King Lee Gon on horseback rides
• From the northern region, ES notices a North Korean accent.
• Attended Pyongyang University
• In charge of Royal Guards when JY “on vacation.”

Park In Young
• Female member of Royal Guard especially trusted by Jo Young
• Accompanies King Lee Gon on horseback rides
• When JY suddenly goes “on vacation” with only one text to the sub-captain, she tells HCL Noh that the team is worried.
• HCL Noh gives her a job while JY is on vacation: bring her a list of court workers on duty and the people who visited the palace from November 11 to midnight the day after. Check anyone who has ever so much as touched the palace. It is in search of the thief (of TE’s ID card).

Yoon Gyeong Ran, Officer Yoon
• Forensics Team
• Reports to TE about fingerprint & DNA research in ROK on LG
• Thinks LG is handsome
• Brings TE the report on Lee Seong Jae [LL ROK doppleganger],

Secretary Kim

• Works for PM Koo; has been for 1-1/2 years
• Keeps track of Palace goings-on and reports them to PM Koo
• Reports to PM Koo about Congressman Park’s insulting comments about her
• Asks PM Koo where she got incriminating photos of Congressman Park in an affair. She scolds him for being curious.
• Wants to be a politician
• He reports to PM Koo about LG’s helicopter landing unexpectedly in Seoul, planting the idea in her head that LG has come to pick up a girlfriend who missed the last train back to Busan. [That he presented this as a hypothetical situation, but was so on the mark, suggests he’d received intel.] • His present to PM Koo: “I won a court lady over who works for the Royal Wardrobe.” That staffer’s name: Yu Jeong Hwa.
• Reports to PM Koo that there’s been a mystery guest at the palace, security was strangely tight, no one has seen her face, it is assumed the King brought her. [How did he know it was a her? Male staffer had brought hair tie he found in Royal Wardrobe to King; LG had commented in staffer’s earshot, “So she did leave something.” This staffer must’ve mentioned his exchange with the King to Secretary Kim’s Royal Wardrobe mole, who then reported to Secretary Kim.] • PM Koo orders Secretary Kim to find out something about the mystery female guest before next week’s state administration report.
• Reports to PM Koo that the Royal Court sent a set of fingerprints to forensics which turned out to be a woman who was unknown until she was arrested. Gives PM Koo Luna’s booking photos. Says the woman has a history of forgery, trespassing, assault, theft, and so on. She’ll be released soon, and she was locked up not long ago.
• Ep 13 reports to PM Koo that Chairman Choe would get a special pardon and be out of jail on Gyeongchip.
• Is liked enough by Koo so that she does not want to endanger his life.
• Opted to follow her when she was ousted from office.

Jang Michael (Jangmi)

• b. 1993

• Has a doppelganger, Jang Mi Reuk in KOC.
• New recruit for Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, Jongno Station, Violent Crimes Division, Squad Three. Same unit as Tae Eul.
• Eager to do well. Gullible when TE fools him about losing his phone (it was in his hand all the time).
• Aghast when he thinks Shin Jae and Tae Eul are in favor of accepting bribes.
• Called by Shin Jae for help busting gambling house frequented by Shin Jae’s mother.
• Looks like a gangster.
• Jangmi name not recognized at KOC Seoul Jongno Police Station
• Wants to take Shin Jae to stay in his home, but knows SJ won’t come. Instead provides him with warm bedding and a lavender candle.
• He sleeps with a lavender candle every night for its calming effect.
• Grew up sheltered.
• Vomits at murder scene. It was his first time at a murder scene.
• Because of his looks and clothing, gangs think he belongs with them instead of the police.
• Because SJ is sleeping in the station’s Night Duty Room, Jangmi handed out questionnaires asking what flower SJ liked. It took three days to decide it was lavender. [He actually likes mugwort.] • Likes macarons.
• His first stakeout is with Tae Eul, after SJ switched with him. He didn’t ask SJ why he switched. “I wouldn’t have to ask if he was going to tell me.”
• He asks TE about the murder victim, “She probably never imagined she’d die like that, right?”
• Has a positive attitude undampened by the cynicism of TE and Det Shim over being the Team that did nightshift on Lunar New Year’s Eve.

Jang Mi Reuk
• EP 13 KOC doppelganger of Jang Michael.
• Has the same nickname, Jangmi as Jang Michael
• Is the most promising royal guard new recruit.
• Has a good sense of smell and knowledge of his land. Was able to help TE locate the place where she had been held when kidnapped, because of the sweet scent of cinnamon trees near a salt farm.

Park Jung Gu

• b. 06 Jun 1992
• His KOC doppelgänger is the new staff member of Lee Gon’s wardrobe.
• Boyfriend of murder victim in ROK.
• Still a student.
• His phone number matches one in the victim’s call records.
• Went into hiding after girlfriend murdered.
• Seemed less likely as suspect after autopsy report revealed his girlfriend was sedated before being stabbed.
• After arrest, claims his girlfriend was already dead when he got there. He touched her to see if she was still alive. He planned to wash up [after getting her blood on him] at his friend’s house, then call the cops. Said his mind went numb because of the situation.
• Per texts, he owed his girlfriend 5 million won. He says he called her because of that text; she didn’t have that kind of money to lend him, unable to even pay her credit card bills.
• As he was being released and TE was seeing him off, he told TE he didn’t love his girlfriend. “It was just a fling.” Wishes she’d died a few days later, since he was planning to break up with her. TE slugged him in the face for being disrespectful of the deceased.

New Staffer, Royal Wardrobe

• His ROK doppelganger is the boyfriend of murder victim in ROK
• As new staff, is stopped from buttoning LG’s shirt because LG doesn’t like to be touched by others. JY warns him, saying a second time would be considered intentional
• [Night] Brings to LG a hair tie he found in the Royal Wardrobe. “After your visit, I found this at the Royal Wardrobe. But there are many things that I don’t know. I wasn’t sure if this is something that you lost or not.” It was left by TE. Raises eyebrows when LG comments, “So she did leave something.” He must’ve spoken of this exchange with other staffer in Royal Wardrobe, because news got back to Koo’s Secretary Kim that the mystery guest in the palace was female. Secretary Kim had won over a woman in Royal Wardrobe as a mole.

Captain Choe Gi Tae, Major Choe

• LG’s superior in the army
• His father passed away, LG & his military colleagues attended the funeral
• LG: I have followed your lead and admired you as you were an upright soldier.
• Captain of the ship, the Yi Sun Sin Destroyer, which the King was onboard during the naval confrontation with Japan.
• He and LG were of the same mind in how to proceed during the naval confrontation, whereas everyone else was concerned about keeping the King safe.

Chief Choe
Squad 2, Seoul Jongno Police Station

Psychiatrist

• KOC doppelganger is woman in ice cream store who is mother of the child, Min Jae, Luna talks to talks to and warns to leave.
• Had treated Shin Jae for nightmares, but he stopped coming
• They bump into each other, and she asks about his nightmares. When he tells her he’s having sweet dreams too [crushing on TE] she says, “There’s no way you can be cured this quick.”
• She points out he still eats a lot of sweets. When he says it’s better than medicine, she says, “There’s no way it is.”
• They bump into each other again in a convenience store in her current neighborhood, his former neighborhood.
• The she comments right away about him still eating sweets (an ice cream bar).
• She’s got a basket full of beer cans. “This won’t be enough if I start drinking in the daytime.” Shin Jae asks, “Is it okay for a psychiatrist to be an alcoholic?” She responds, “I’m not that dependent. I have a high alcohol tolerance.” [Classic alcoholic denial.] • She’s surprised to learn SJ is a detective. She guessed he was a gangster.
• She had prescribed medicine for SJ. She doubts he took it.
• She’s always lived in the neighborhood where SJ used to live. It’s a wealthy neighborhood.

Added by packmule3, from Episode 8

ROK Pregnant Lady

• b. 12 Jul 1989
• Doppelgänger of PM Koo’s sister-in-law
• “I don’t even have money to buy pills to kill myself.”
• Per LL: Living in hell. House has useless locks, a window with no sunlight coming through, walls that don’t protect from cold or heat.
• Will have a daughter
• Frightened by LL, calls police to report him but hangs up
• LL tells her he’ll save her life, but she must kill her doppelgänger
• Listens on cell phone to recording about PM Koo’s bio while doing her make up and hair, and getting dressed to look like PM Koo’s SIL.
• Named her unborn daughter Sa Rang.

Updated by @GB
• Ep 13 She is in KOC in a VIP hospital suite. She memorises the data on her ‘new’ family:
Father-in-law, Yu Heung Ik 510727
Mother-in-law, Choe Ok Seon 530305
Husband Yu Hyeon Jun 770614
Sister-in-law Yu Hyeon Seo, 791112.

PM Koo’s SIL, Park Ji Young

• The granddaughter of the founder of a large pharmaceutical company
• Married the first son of a rich family after meeting him at a yacht club in America.
• First baby is born after four months
• LL’s plan is for her to be killed
• At luncheon with other ladies, she and Koo joust verbally.
• Her husband owns company, Sungwoon Group
• After she insults Koo for her age (“…I’m not sure if His Majesty likes old women.”), Koo threatens to use her position to do a tax investigation into Sungwoon Group.

Updated by @GB

• Ep 12 Joins PM Koo in the private room of a restaurant uninvited. Baits Koo and lets out that Koo has been supplanted in her bid to be queen.
• Is surprised that Koo tells her that her baby is a girl and to give birth in KOC.
• Ep 13 wakes up in ROK in a shabby apartment much to her horror and confusion.

Secretary Mo
King Lee Gon’s secretary

Chairman Choe Min Heong
• Ex-husband of Koo Seo Ryeong
• Chairman of KU Group and has a capable team of secretaries who can obtain ‘hidden’ information.
• Stations Advisor with Koo Seo Ryeong as his go-between with her.
• Provides her with compromising information
• Changes sides to aid LG (for his company) when LG forced him to choose between his ex-wife and his company.
• Sends his Advisor (Unnamed) to LG and Advisor offers to be used by LG to do his dirty work. Advisor give LG evidence of Seo Ryeong’s treason in a thumbdrive.
• Is supposed to receive a special pardon and get out of jail on Gyeongchip.

Jang Yeon Ji

• Doppelganger is palace guard in KOC.

• Lived with roommate in Changsin-dong, Seoul.
• Reported murder of roommate to police.
• Testified she would leave apartment for about an hour when roommate’s boyfriend would come over. Would go to convenience store. Her alibi of being at convenience store at time of murder checked out, per SJ. LL’s lead henchman was sitting outside convenience store when SJ was there.
• Killed roommate in ROK because she overheard phone conversation
• Being groomed by LL to replace doppelgänger, palace security guard in KOC
• Turned herself in; jailed in ROK
• Secretly met in jail by LL top henchman, threatened
• Her 2G phone turned off, but she’s keeping it secretly hidden as collateral.
• Reconsidered as suspect when autopsy report shows her roommate was sedated before being stabbed.
• Became the main suspect after the boyfriend was arrested and interrogated.
• Was reading a script that had a case with the same method of killing. Bloody clothes burned on the rooftop.
• Called TE to turn herself in.
• Testified she killed her roommate because she couldn’t stand her.
• Testified she framed the boyfriend because she couldn’t stand him either.
• The boyfriend told TE that she had two phones.
• While in the detention center, visited by LL’s lead henchman. Not a standard visit. Detention center lights go off, and she’s taken by the guard to the laundry room, where the henchman is waiting for her.
• Tells henchman she turned herself in so he’d come to see her.
• Hid her 2G phone in a secret, safe place as her only hope.
• Asks henchman when he can get her out, and when she can go to the other side. He says she shouldn’t have killed anyone if she wanted to go there. She said she had no choice, since her roommate overheard the phone conversation.

Ha Eun Mi, Female Murder Victim
• Lived with roommate in Changsin-dong, Seoul.
• 26 years old at time of death.
• Killed with a kitchen knife, neck cut twice. Cause of death excessive bleeding from multiple wounds. The wounds match kitchen knife found at site.
• Killed by surprise while already lying down.
• Probably killed by acquaintance, as no signs of entry.
• Probably killed by a first-time offender, as effort to clean weapon showed lack of knowledge.
• A small amount of zopidem [a sedative] was found in her blood. “It explains why there are no defense wounds.”
• Per her boyfriend, didn’t even have money to pay her credit card bills.

Kim Gi Hwan

• Sold water at KOC rowing competition attended by LG, bumped by Luna
• Watching TV news of HG Group succession while in his restaurant. We know LL has put his minions in top positions at HG.
• Brought to ROK, ran budaejjigae restaurant
• When he saw LG as a customer in his restaurant, had the knee-jerk reaction of bowing to him and starting to say “Your Majesty.” LG saw him do this.
• Caught by LG and JY
• One of the traitors who was with LL during the assassination
• LG: “And you came here as a compensation for that bloodbath?” KGH: “That is called balance. It is reasonable and fair. You were lucky enough to be born with everything, so don’t whine about losing your father.”
• LG has his 2G phone
• LG gave him King’s order to commit suicide
• Brought back to KOC by LG and ES (as JY)

Lieutenant Commander Han Jun Yeol

• Received the King’s Flag when LG on Destroyer Yi Sun Sin during Corea-Japan naval confrontation.
• At LG’s request, reported sea conditions.
• Warned LG that the situation was dangerous, LG responded that only he would worry about his safety, everyone else was to protect Corea’s territorial waters.

Prime Minister Mitsuda
Prime Minister of Japan in world of Corea.

KOC Police Detective
• Present during interrogation of gangsters arrested after firing gun during rowing competition. He and JY learn at the same time about Luna from the gangsters.
• Entrusted by JY to check out TE’s fingerprint; comes to the Palace to pick it up directly from JY; reports to JY there’s no match.
• Asks JY why Royal Court is looking for Luna, is told it is confidential.
• Got CCTV footage at JY’s request
• Calls JY to tell him he’s located Luna, and that the fingerprint JY gave him matches Luna. She was arrested for larceny and already in jail when JY gave him the fingerprint.

Male Royal Media Relations Office Staffer
Jo Yeong’s uncle (but look same generation)

Female Palace Staffer
• Follows HCL Noh and writes down location of talismans in LG’s bedroom
• JY takes her photo for security while she’s walking in the palace with his uncle and Myung Seung A of Royal Media Relations Office

Jo Kka Bi
• Eun Sub’s younger brother; has a fraternal twin sister.
• Frightened after seeing LL with the fiery root pattern on his face; says he was like a monster.

Jo twin sister
• Eun Sub’s younger sister; her fraternal twin brother is Kka Bi.
• Scolds Eun Sub
• Tells Kka Bi, “I’m here for you. I have got your back.”

Yu Jeong Hwa

• Female staffer from Royal Wardrobe.
• Been meeting with PM Koo’s Secretary Kim.
• Discovered by Myung Seung A, who followed her media accounts and Secretary Kim’s and found convincing evidence.
• Brought before HCL Noh and told it was treason to spy on the King, steal from the King. She denies stealing anything. “I said His Majesty seemed to have gotten a girlfriend…I was on duty on November 11th, and His Majesty came to the Royal Kitchen. And he cooked food himself. So I could tell right away that his girlfriend had come.” [But LG had told TE he learned from HCL Noh to cook so he could enjoy food that was safe without having to be tasted first. He looked like a practiced cook. So this staffer interpreting his cooking a meal to mean his girlfriend had come is curious.] • Fired by HCL Noh.

Park Mun Haeng, Chairman

• Of HG Group
• Newspaper article announcing process of his succession underway. Newspaper dated 2019.12.3
• In meeting with LL at art studio, greets LL by calling him Prince Imperial Geum, kneeling, and bowing his head to the floor.
• Calls LL “Your Highness.”

Park Byeong U

• Son of Chairman Park
• Does not want Park Mun Haeng to “bow to people like that with my father’s face!”
• Wants the HG group succession to be completed; frustrated because “that idiot is dawdling” and it keeps getting postponed. Asks LL to do something. Succession process has been taking place for two years.
• Seems to know “that idiot” “with my father’s face” isn’t his father. “I’m the one who asked you to bring that idiot, but he only listens to you, and not me.” Betrayed his own father.
• Frightened and angry when his own doppelganger arrives. His doppelganger is the real son of the man brought in to replace his father.
• LL’s lead henchman stabs chaebol son.
• As LL and henchman leave, doppelganger stabs chaebol son again.
• TV news coverage about HG Group official announcement that succession process will end by the end of the year.
• Son (now KOC doppelganger) will become the next chairman and take over the business.

Director Hwang, (Admin Manager)

• Yangsun Care Center
• LL sends lead ROK henchman to give him bags of money. “It’s this month’s electricity fees.”
• Henchman complains that they’re giving him money two days in advance. “He’ll take it for granted soon.”
• Of all the ones who worked at the care center in 1995, he’s the only one still there.
• Per Admin Manager: “The director is rarely in Korea. It’s not like the director has to treat patients. And with all that wealth…”
• Ep 13 is uncooperative when TE returns to Yangsun to search it. Stares at Sin Jae as if she recognises him.

Admin Manager
• Yangsun Care Center
• There for 19 years (2000). [Lee Seong Jae recorded as having died at care center in 1995.] • Asks TE, “If this is regarding a criminal case, you must’ve brought an official document or a warrant.” TE, to herself: “Asking for a warrant first? I can’t tell if she’s good at her job or if she’s done this many times before.”

Yoyo Child/Fate
• ROK doppelganger is the child on bicycle who bumped into TE, causing her ID to fall into a storm drain. Child said, “I’m sorry. Should I try to get it out?” TE: “You can’t.” Told the child three times, “It’s okay.”
• Plays with yoyo outside KOC bookstore
• Yoyo has a red string
• Looks androgynous; wears scruffy clothing
• Is reading book on Arthur; cover of book has picture of sword
• Seems to know Luna well. “You got out early. And your style has changed.”
• Wears car key and metal tag on chain around neck; returns them to Luna on request [Luna just holding out her hand].
• Luna gives child the rabbit-ear hooded jacket. “It’s getting cold. Put it on or you’ll freeze to death.”
• Is concerned about Luna in the cold weather. “Then why do you live in a van?”
• Luna is protective of the child. “It’s a world you don’t need to know about.”

• Ep 11 and 12 Fate says there is only one of her.
• She is entrusted by Luna with her van key and ID/dog tag.

Park Dong Gu
• Man who was a national contributor to the country or Royal Court whose grand-daughter is Park Sook Jin. She allowed Min Seon Yeong to impersonate her in the Royal Court.

Ms Baek
• Mother of the of wheelchair-bound boy whose schoolmates humiliated him and ruined his birthday party. LL offered to have those boys injured as revenge.
• We hear that they met with an accident that maimed them.
• She’s next seen in Ep 12 as the doctor who attends to Song Jeong Hye after latter’s suicide attempt.
• She’s said by the minions to be the new manager replacing Mr Yu. It’s not clear what she is a manager of besides the surveillance on Song Jeong Hye.