Female Real Name: Lee Gagyeong "Does everyone born in Joseon have to be an independence fighter? What has Joseon ever done for me?" Gyeongseong's top pickpocket. A woman who can deceive anyone with a lie without batting an eye. Her dream is to save enough money to leave Joseon and head to America. She is beautiful. Her clear face and bright, smiling eyes can melt anyone's heart. Seeing her clean face and neat attire, people assume she lives in a modern house or a new apartment, or at least works as a 'department girl' at a department store. But they are all wrong. Gagyeong has never even seen the inside of a school and lives in a shack village made of straw mats. The decent clothes others see are rented from a pawnbroker who fences her stolen goods. She wears neat Western-style suits to avoid suspicion while pickpocketing. She couldn't even apply for jobs like a department girl or a waitress because she lacked the education. However, she has no complaints. She earns twice as much from pickpocketing as a department girl who makes 20 won a month. She has a natural talent for lying and acting. She is especially skilled at deceiving others with a straight face. Her nonchalant lies sound so sincere! With her clear, innocent face and sparkling eyes, no one can help but be fooled.

Female Philip Yu's wife. Features: She entered into a sham marriage with Philip Yu. She pretends to be Chinese. Currently an independence fighter in the National Salvation Corps, she sent Lee Gagyeong to work as a spy under the name of her late daughter. She promised to send Gagyeong to America once the mission is over. She originally had a husband in Joseon. However, while they were active in the independence movement, she saw her daughter shot by Sato Shinichi and the villagers killed. She fled, and her husband's whereabouts are unknown. She resents her husband.

Male Korean-American. Features: In a sham marriage with Yu Soran. Currently a Gyeongseong correspondent for the American news agency WWP and a member of the National Salvation Corps. Though it's a sham marriage, he truly loves Soran. While Soran plans to kill Sato and die, Philip intends to save her. When he recommended Gagyeong to the Government-General as an interpreter, he called her his mistress, but that was only a cover for her spy work.

The new Director-General for Political Affairs of the Government-General of Joseon. As the second-in-command after the Governor-General, he is effectively the most powerful man in Joseon. He was born in Joseon. His father, suffering from poverty in the late Edo period, moved to Joseon with his wife during the late Han Empire and had a son. To his father, Joseon was a land of opportunity. But for Shinichi, who did not want to live as a merchant, it was different. Japanese born in Joseon were treated differently from those born in the mainland. To overcome this limitation, he entered the Imperial Japanese Army Academy, but the Joseon he returned to as a soldier hadn't changed much. Then, the disturbances of the 8th year of Taisho (the March 1st Movement) broke out. He saw it as an opportunity. As punitive forces began burning Joseon villages in retaliation, he rushed to a village where the leaders had not yet been caught. This would be the first step on his ladder to success. He immediately executed his plan. He locked dozens of Joseon people in a school and burned them to death, arresting all the leaders. However, things didn't go as expected afterward. As the massacre became known abroad and public opinion soured, he was prosecuted for arson, massacre, and torture. The court-martial, which was a mere formality, declared him innocent, stating he was 'merely performing his duty without criminal intent.' After being discharged, he became a high-ranking police officer at Jongno Station and began catching independence fighters. But he wasn't satisfied. He had to rebuild his ladder to the top. Following the Government-General's policy of emphasizing 'Internal-Korean Harmony,' he adopted a Joseon beggar boy and married a beautiful Joseon woman. But that marriage ended quickly and unhappily. Since then, he has never given his heart to any woman. His only goals are promotion and success. Never trust a Joseon person—especially a Joseon woman. Returning to Japan, he remarried the frail only daughter of a fallen noble family. He needed her background and connections. Entering as a son-in-law, he took his wife's surname according to tradition, becoming 'Sato Shinichi.' Already skilled at manipulation and deception, he flourished with the Sato family's connections. In early 1932, Sato was finally appointed Director-General for Political Affairs. Next, he will become Governor-General and return to Japan to reach even higher. With such ambition, Sato returns to Gyeongseong with his adopted son Hideo and daughter Hanako. He is unaware that someone whose world stopped on that day long ago is now aiming at him. Gyeam-ri? Why would I bother remembering something like that?