The Obsessive Dilettante

Director Ma – Miss Korea

Yes, I mentioned Miss Korea during last year’s KWW, but let’s just accept the fact that I’m never going to stop talking about this show, especially in matters pertaining to awesome women.

Director Ma is, to me, the epitome of a matriarch. She not only runs her own business, but she runs it incredibly successfully. If you want to become Miss Korea, you’d better hope that Director Ma sees something in you and decides to make you one of her girls (unofficially or not), because she’s the queen maker. Her girls aren’t just her subjects, though – they’re her family, to be protected just as much as they are to led through the painful process of becoming beauty pageant winners.

Short of telling you to watch this drama already, I’m just going to link to some of my favorite Director Ma gifsets and you can see for yourself why a single, unmarried woman was easily my first pick for “matriarch,” a role that one might traditionally assume to be the head of a family (the kind that’s related by blood, and not just sweat, tears, and a unifying goal).