Little Women — Characters & Cast

To obtain financial stability and protect her younger sisters at any cost.

Begins as a naive corporate outcast desperate to secure a clean apartment and safety for her sisters, traumatized by the childhood loss of an infant sister to poverty. Across the series, she evolves from a bewildered pawn manipulated by elites into an assertive, courageous agent who values sisterly integrity above sheer survival.

To expose systemic injustice and prevent predatory corruption from poisoning the truth.

A fiercely idealistic broadcast journalist struggling with alcohol dependency used to numb her overwhelming empathy. Despite continuous professional sidelining and mortal threats from the Jeongran Society, she refuses financial compromise, ultimately dismantling the corrupt conspiracy through investigative rigor.

To establish artistic independence without relying on her sisters' financial martyrdom.

An exceptionally gifted visual artist who resents the stifling, self-sacrificial love of her older sisters. Initially accepting patronage from Won Sang-a even at the cost of selling her authorship, she matures into an autonomous creator who rejects toxic patronization to forge her own destiny abroad.

Personal security, financial accumulation, and resolving his family's dark historical debts with the Won dynasty.

An elite financial consultant and money launderer who claims to trust nothing except numbers and capital. As his partnership with In-joo deepens, his icy cost-benefit calculus yields to quiet loyalty and protective calculation, risking his freedom to safeguard the sisters' future.

Total narrative control, sadistic aesthetic realization, and escape from intergenerational entrapment.

Presenting herself as an eccentric, melancholic socialite and loving mother, she is revealed as the ruthless architect of the deadly games and staged murders. Traumatized by her childhood confinement in a closed room by her authoritarian father, she reenacts her psychological cage by turning the lives of real people into her personal macabre theater.