The Nude

A scandalous affair between a third-generation chaebol heir on the verge of marriage and the young genius painter under his patronage. On the day of her high school graduation, Jin Wooyeon, intending to give up her life at the Han River, encounters Han Iwon, a man who, just like her, is standing there gazing down at the river. ……He’s beautiful. A body with an elegant silhouette and beautifully defined form. A body whose striking lines possess an almost primal kind of beauty. Before she knows it, Wooyeon has forgotten even why she wanted to die and begins observing and sketching him instead. Recognizing Wooyeon’s extraordinary talent, Iwon decides to take her under his patronage. And so, as if destined to do so, the two of them meet. * “Can I tell you what I want as my university admission gift?” “Be my model for a nude… just once, please, sir.” Then, just before entering university, Wooyeon makes him an unexpected and daring request. Within the precarious relationship between patron and protégée, Iwon is both the perfect model and Wooyeon’s salvation. To Iwon, Wooyeon is the crack that suddenly appears in a life that, until then, had been nothing more than an empty shell. An irresistible love story about two people who embrace each other’s deepest wounds and, in doing so, gradually become each other’s salvation.