Project Makeover begins by showing the past of a teenage girl named Na Jung-ju,
who is in love after dating a handsome and popular young man named Jo Ha-ni.
At first,
Jung-ju lives a beautiful love life with her boyfriend, who is always romantic.
Moreover,
Ha-ni, who is exploring a career as a singer,
is known to have a sweet voice that can captivate the hearts of women.
However, Jung-ju has to face the harsh reality when her boyfriend mentions
Han Song-yi's name as the one he loves when he is about to sing in a talent show.
Knowing that her boyfriend has never loved her,
Jung-ju feels very sad and devastated,
especially after Ha-ni decides to end their relationship.
Turning to the present,
Jung-ju, now thirty years old, works as a low-level assistant in the fashion industry.
Meanwhile, Ha-ni succeeds in achieving his dream of becoming a famous singer,
making Jung-ju hate him even more.
One day, Jung-ju meets a bespectacled man who is none other than Oh Tae-hoon,
her old friend from high school who used to be very crazy about her.
Tae-hoon,
who just returned from the United States,
has become a wealthy and successful businessman.
After her brief encounter with Tae-hoon,
Jung-ju is again faced with the fact
that she is just a low-level assistant who has to do a lot of work before the fashion show.
She is then asked to pin a brooch on a man who is none other than Ha-ni.
Unable to contain her annoyance at Ha-ni, who dumped her several years ago,
Jung-ju accidentally injures him with the brooch pin,
which then makes her get scolded by her boss and makes her hate him even more.
Ha-ni's presence made Jung-ju not focus on her work
because he was always reminded of their past.
In the end, she accidentally dropped a pencil
that rolled onto the catwalk and made Ha-ni fall when he was walking on the catwalk.
All the mistakes made by Jung-ju at the fashion show made her furiously scolded by her boss,
causing her to become frustrated and intend to end her life by jumping from the roof of the building.
But then, she gets a call from Tae-hoon asking her to have dinner together.
Without thinking, she immediately agreed to the invitation.
In the evening, Jung-ju and Tae-hoon are having dinner at a fancy restaurant.
Jung-ju, who was initially happy to be alone with Tae-hoon,
suddenly became annoyed that he invited their friend, a woman named Seon-mi,
to have dinner together.
She feels even more irritated
that Seon-mi has repeatedly cornered herself about what happened to her and
Ha-ni, so Jung-ju decides to leave.
Arriving home,
Jung-ju just remembered that today was the anniversary of her mother's death,
in which she felt very sorry for forgetting that important day and cried all night
because she felt guilty for her late mother.
The next day, Jung-ju wakes
up and finds a strange application on her laptop screen because the application displays her past life.
A taskbar column then pops up there and asks if she wants to go back in time.
Without thinking,
she immediately pressed the enter button and followed the instructions.
Surprisingly,
Jung-ju returns to the previous day,
where she saw herself busy with various jobs ahead of the fashion show.
Knowing that soon an incident will occur that will make Ha-ni fall on the catwalk,
she immediately picks up the rolling pencil so that the embarrassing incident doesn't happen.
After correcting one mistake, Jung-ju returns to the future,
telling Seon-mi what happened to her.
However, she doesn't believe her words and thinks she is still drunk.
To prove that she wasn't hallucinating,
Jung-ju then tried to go back in time to high school.
Turning to the past, the younger Jung-ju,
looking for Ha-ni's whereabouts, was startled by a fire alarm that went off,
causing everyone to run frantically to save themselves. Near the stairs,
she accidentally runs into a woman who is none other than the future Jung-ju from the future.
When she finally meets her young self, the future Jung-ju introduces herself as Alice,
a distant cousin who has just returned from the United States. Arriving home, the future Jung-ju,
who I will call Alice from now on, looks happy when she meets her mother is still alive in the
past. She rushed over to her mother and hugged her tightly while crying happily. Long story short,
Alice, who was allowed to live at Jung-ju's house, then devised a plan to change her life
in the future, one of which was to keep Jung-ju, who was in love with Ha-ni, who would later dump
her. Alice plans to make Jung-ju fall in love with Tae-hoon, who was still geeky at the time.
One night, Tae-hoon comes to Jung-ju's house to give her a comic book with a love letter.
But unfortunately, Jung-ju is reluctant to read the letter and chooses to sleep.
The next day, Alice comes to Jung-ju's school, where she then disperses Ha-ni and his gang,
who were on the school roof during class time. She then gives a lyric book to Ha-ni,
and tells him that the lyric book will be very useful for determining his future.
After meeting Ha-ni, Alice goes to Tae-hoon in his class, telling him how to get Jung-ju's love.
A few days later, Tae-hoon, receiving tips and tricks to win over a woman's heart,
confidently approaches Jung-ju and invites her to meet at the school park. At first,
Alice and Tae-hoon's plan went quite smoothly. But because of an unintentional silly mistake,
Tae-hoon makes Jung-ju angry and slaps him in the face. After the incident, Alice tries to convince
Jung-ju that Tae-hoon is a good boy. However, she doesn't believe Alice's words because he has done
something indecent to her. That night, Jung-ju is scolded by her father for getting bad grades.
Alice, who knows this, then defends her by saying that a child is not a machine that must be forced
to continue to study to get good grades. The next day, Alice told her mother about a deadly disease
often experienced by most women and asked her mother to get herself checked as early as possible
to prevent it. However, her mother told her that she was fine and didn't need to see a doctor.
Not long after, Alice is surprised by Seon-mi's appearance from the future,
where Seon-mi tells her that she came to Jung-ju's house and checked her laptop, then miraculously,
she's suddenly in the past. Meanwhile, elsewhere, the younger Jung-ju, who is cleaning the windows
of the classroom upstairs, is surprised by the papers falling from the school roof. However,
when she was about to pick up a piece of paper stuck in a tree, she fell and had to be rushed to
the school's medical room for treatment. There, Jung-ju meets Ha-ni, who tries to seduce her.
Because she does harbor romantic feelings for him, she feels pleased when he is attentive to her.
After school, Tae-hoon takes Jung-ju to the park, where he attempts to kiss her, as directed
by Alice. However, being too nervous, he makes another silly mistake, so Jung-ju gets mad at
him and slaps him in the face. While Tae-hoon is buying ice cream for the two of them, Ha-ni comes
to see Jung-ju sitting alone and takes her to the music studio on his cool motorbike. Listening to
Ha-ni, who sings so sweetly, Jung-ju is even more attracted to him. In the evening, Ha-ni takes
Jung-ju home and asks her out on a date. Without thinking, she immediately accepted the invitation,
jumping for joy because she could finally date the one she liked. Alice, who knows this, then asks
her to cancel the date plan and tells her that Ha-ni is a playboy who will only hurt her. Hearing
this, she was instantly angry and disapproved because Alice always interfered in her affairs.
After that, Alice finds a taskbar on her computer screen that says every wish will come true if you
surrender everything to God. The next day, Jung-ju goes to Ha-ni and apologizes to him
because she was forced to cancel their date. He doesn't mind it and forgives her. He then tells
her that tomorrow he will appear at the talent show and will name the one he loves at the event.
Not long after, Tae-hoon arrives, suggesting to Jung-ju that Ha-ni often plays with women. Ha-ni,
who doesn't accept the accusation, then beats him, so the two of them get into a fight.
That night, Alice warns Ha-ni not to approach Jung-ju because the one he loves is not her but
Han Song-yi. However, he insists that the one he loves is Na Jung-ju. Hearing this,
Alice is in a dilemma and wonders if he really loves her. After that, Alice meets Tae-hoon,
who is preparing to participate in the same talent search event as Ha-ni. Tae-hoon then tells Alice
that he plans to propose to Jung-ju in front of everyone during the talent show. Hearing this,
Alice then devises a plan to eliminate Ha-ni from the talent show and asks Seon-mi to make him come
late, so he will be disqualified. The next day, Seon-mi approaches Ha-ni, who is about to head
to where the talent show is being held. Seon-mi, who is driving a car, then offers a ride to him,
who doesn't waste the opportunity. However, on the way, Seon-mi and Ha-ni had an accident,
so Ha-ni's turn to appear on stage was missed because he was not there. Jung-ju, who feels
anxious, goes backstage to look for Ha-ni's whereabouts. There, Jung-ju even meets Tae-hoon,
who will present a dance performance from her favorite boy band. She then tells him that she
came to see Ha-ni because she worried about his condition. Hearing this, Tae-hoon finally
realizes that she loves Ha-ni and decides to let her go. Towards the end of the event, Tae-hoon,
the last participant, chose to relent and give Ha-ni and his band a chance to appear on stage.
On the other hand, watching the talent show, Alice seemed surprised because it wasn't Tae-hoon who
appeared but Ha-ni, willing to come with a bandage on his head. However, what surprised her, even
more, was that he actually mentioned Na Jung-ju's name as the one he loves, which made Jung-ju's
face light up because she was so happy. The next day, Alice finds out that her mother is pregnant,
which means that her mother will not live much longer because she will die after giving birth.
Alice couldn't hold back her tears. However, her mother hugged her tightly and said that some
things in life can't be changed, and it's meant to be that way so that everything will be fine.
A few days later, Jung-ju intends to go on vacation with Ha-ni. While about to buy a drink,
Jung-ju runs from Alice because she always tells her to stay away from Ha-ni. But this time,
Alice says that from now on, she won't stop her from having a romantic relationship with anyone,
including Ha-ni. She then asks Jung-ju to keep in touch with her on the phone since she will be
far away soon. Sometime later, Alice enjoys her last moments in the past by taking a walk with
Tae-hoon. Not long after, she finally disappeared along with the snow. Turning to the present,
Jung-ju wakes up from her sleep and finds that the time-traveling application on her laptop
has disappeared. She goes back to her normal life, and nothing has changed in her life,
other than being able to communicate with the younger Jung-ju in the past through the
telephone. She realizes that the time travel did not change anything that was destined for her,
such as the death of her mother after giving birth and the end of her love affair with Ha-ni.
One day, Tae-hoon invites Jung-ju to have dinner with him. She then asks him if she is his first
love. While smiling, he confirmed this. However, he chose to give up his first love and went to
the United States to study there because, at that time, she fell in love with Ha-ni.
During a snowy night, Jung-ju hugs Tae-hoon while thanking him for everything. When she was about
to leave, Jung-ju suddenly heard a song by her favorite boyband. She then looks back and sees
Tae-hoon performing the dance from the boy band, just like he did in high school. She
remembers Tae-hoon's words telling her that he would do the dance to express his love for her.
The film ends by showing Tae-hoon, and Jung-ju smiles each other.
The moral that can be learned from this movie is that sometimes the best thing we can do is accept
gracefully what God has destined for us. Because no matter how hard we try to change everything,
if God doesn't want it, then we can't change it. Rest assured that God's provisions are far
more beautiful than our plans because God knows what is best for us.