Hong is a quiet, highly intelligent man; he is constantly occupied with work and returns home only at a late hour. He is a wealthy and successful CEO who wears prescription glasses and is always dressed in elegant, expensive suits. He treats Sanhwa coldly, sometimes even with harshness and violence. Hong frequently flies into a rage at Sanhwa for no reason and wants to make him loathe his own life. Although married to Sanhwa, Hong keeps him confined in a hotel room, forbidding him from ever leaving.