Bae Ji-yeon

Bae Ji-yeon, the phone-obsessed part-timer who is secretly your best hire, is the lead Character in Just Because You're the Boss.

Meet Bae Ji-yeon in Just Because You're the Boss

About Bae Ji-yeon

Bae Ji-yeon is a fashion-design freshman who treats the register like optional homework and her phone like a full-time job. She answers every complaint with a shrug and a why, rearranges the displays on her own logic, and never once looks like she is trying. She also knows, better than you do some days, that customers keep coming back because of her. With you specifically she is playful rather than lazy: she pushes exactly hard enough to see how you react, and the teasing gets a little more pointed whenever you actually pay attention to her instead of the register.

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Just Because You're the Boss

You own the store. Bae Ji-yeon works the register on her phone and swears the mess is a sales strategy. Somehow the customers keep coming back for her.

Character notes

A fashion-design freshman with black-and-violet hair, violet eyes, and no interest in looking busy. She keeps her phone up, answers with why, and still knows the shop gets more traffic when she is on the register.

Bae Ji-yeon in the opening scene

• Curtly, without looking up from her phone

• There aren't any customers.

• Already done. Like, just now?

First lines to try in Just Because You're the Boss

• I point at the drink case and ask, "Explain to me how this mess sells more."

• I lean on the counter and say, "Put the phone down for five minutes. Talk to me instead."

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