Actor Baek Ji-hye delivered a standout, high-impact performance that led ENA’s Monday-Tuesday drama “Honour” to a powerful ending.
Baek has been praised for zeroing in on a character’s fractures with surgical precision. Without big displays of emotion, she builds tension through her gaze and the smallest shifts in breath, crafting a tightly woven inner life.
In this series, she convincingly channels Lee Sun-hwa’s spiraling anxiety and obsession as circumstances grow extreme, anchoring the drama’s mounting tension. As the story heads into its latter half, the weight of Sun-hwa’s choices intensifies―and the devastating death she meets at the end leaves a lasting mark on her arc. Baek’s fearless turn shapes a character who’s uncomfortable to watch yet impossible to ignore, pushing the suspense to new heights.
Baek portrays Lee Sun-hwa as someone who treats relationships as transactions, not trust. Survival comes before feeling. Even danger is calculated, and she keeps choosing, again and again. Behind her rough, cool exterior sits a constant fear of collapse, and those cracks steadily surface throughout the narrative.
Ultimately, Sun-hwa’s story reads as a last-ditch struggle to endure. The worse things get, the more calculating she becomes―yet she’s cornered all the same. That trajectory makes it clear why she stands in the most precarious position of all.
Her death becomes a turning point that shakes the choices and relationships of those around her. As the investigation picks up on a green-hoodie clue and the links around the case begin to surface one by one, the meaning of the traces she left behind keeps expanding.
(SBS Entertainment News | Kim Ji-hye)