sujin jeon 

basic information NAME: Sujin Jeon. PREMADE: The Bartender. DATE OF BIRTH/AGE: July 19th, 1984. PLACE OF BIRTH: Flushing, New York. CURRENT RESIDENCE: New York, New York. OCCUPATION: Bartender at "Circle".

personality 

IN A NUTSHELL At her core, Sujin is an easy-going girl. She doesn't like to waste time on feeling down, and since she's never quite gotten the hang of being chipper, she's found an easy way to avoid that is to simply be aloof. Despite what people might think at first glance, she's a kind person, and if she isn't feeling down she would prefer that others aren't, either. She's always there to help those around her through whatever problem they might be having, whether it be with a night out, a home cooked meal, or just a ear. However, the problem is often the fact that, while she'll lend that ear, she's not exactly cut out to be a therapist - if you're looking for a good heart to heart, she's probably not the one to come to. If you're looking for a joke or a comment to lighten the mood, she's your girl. Too often, her tendency to be sarcastic or love for a bit of good humoured ribbing can lead to people thinking that she's a touch rude, which isn't what she's aiming for, but she doesn't seem bothered enough to make an effort to change her attitude.

trivia 

QUICK FACTS while she's vehemently against smoking and constantly trying to convince her friends to quit, she often finds herself sneaking one or two when she's stressed - or sometimes when drinking. learned to play the bass when she was twelve, and during her first few years in Seoul was part of a band that gained a small following around Hongdae. is extremely embarrassed by the fact, but loves animated (usually children's) films. before turning nineteen, she never drank alcohol and was uninterested in trying. However, once she become legal (in Korea, at least), she's become quite the fan. loves to cook, but despises grocery shopping more than anything. is a rabid hockey fan. her longest relationship was in college, and when she was 23 the two were engaged. however, Sujin broke it off after realizing that her fiance wasn't nearly mature enough to be married. has a three year old border collie/australian shepard mix, Kafka, that she adopted from the ASPCA. is fluent in both English and Korean, and speaks conversational Japanese. tries to avoid female stereotypes, but has an affinity (not "obsession", as some would like to say) for shoes of any kind.

ooc info 

CONTACT, PREFERENCES, ETC. TIMEZONE: pacific. THREADING or AIM: threading preferred, but either is fine with me! PLAYED BY: lee hyori. JOURNAL: ~sujin CONTACT: here / sujin and juice.

biography 

BACKGROUND INFORMATION Neither Kukjin Jeon nor Minhee Shim expected more than a few months of fun to come from their relationship, especially since there was somewhere around 5000 miles between the two of them most of the time. While Minhee had moved to New York as a baby with her family, Kukjin met her when the pair were in their twenties, while he was studying English abroad in the city. Despite the fact that the two hit it off almost instantly, Kukjin had every intention of returning home to Seoul after his year long stay was done; he didn't expect to become so attached to Minhee, and he certainly didn't expect to find himself casually popping the question one night, only weeks before he was due to return home. No one would say it, of course, but there weren't many who felt as though a seemingly spur of the moment decision like the couple's would lead to a lasting marriage. However, over thirty years and a daughter later, they're a bit cocky about the fact that they proved them wrong. It was three years after her parent's marriage, on July 19th, 1984, that Sujin Jeon was born. While the young couple weren't expecting a child just yet, they were overjoyed at the arrival of the healthy baby girl, even upon realizing that raising a child and trying to work to keep their family afloat wasn't the easiest of tasks - especially with a child as energetic as Sujin. Growing up, her parents constantly enrolled her in various clubs and programs to alleviate her energy - from ballet to soccer to taekwondo - but she often grew bored of the activities and seemed much more interested in simply running about outside with her friends than dealing with early morning practices and meetings. Even as a child, there was just something about waking up early to go and be yelled at - although that could have been her bad luck of the draw when it came to coaches - that she didn't care for. Besides, being what most adults called a "leader" herself (which even she admits is a euphemism for "bossy as all hell"), she didn't take kindly to be told what to do. Due to her parents both working full time, by the time Sujin reached elementary school she was - or at least she felt - quite independent. The fact that she was on her own a lot during the day never bothered her; actually, having the house to herself was a luxury - one she appreciated more and more the older she got. During high school, her house was designated the "fun" house - however, it wasn't something that her parents were worried about. Unlike many of her peers who seemed to be preoccupied with throwing parties and wrecking the house in some sort of drunken stupor, Sujin and her circle of friends were much more interested in hanging out until all hours playing video games, or watching movies, or just generally lazing around. Lazing around, if it was offered, would have been Sujin's best class. She was a very apt student, but due to sheer procrastination and occasional disinterest she often found herself on the receiving end of a good talking to from her teachers. Thankfully, as she possesses the uncanny ability to talk herself out of most any jam, she never found herself labeled a "bad" student, per say - maybe because it wasn't often that her marks suffered from late assignments or skipped classes; it's really a lot easier to get an extension or come up with an excuse than people make it out to be. Her parents, however, were hardly pleased with her exploits - despite the fact that they must have only know about a quarter of it. And in all honesty, she would rather deal with any number of bad marks than have to listen to the pair of them lecture her over and over about the importance of her education - usually peppered with a casual threat or two. Unfortunately for her, what she likes to refer to as her "unique charm" didn't (and still doesn't) work on her mother. Despite any hiccups that worried her parents, Sujin graduated from high school on time and with the chance to go to one of many universities that she had applied to. However, an offer from her grandparents in Seoul, where she often went on her summer vacations, seemed much more interesting; they offered to pay for her to come and stay in Korea for a year. Her mother and father decided it would be a good opportunity to study abroad, but her daughter was far more interested in the idea of a year of relaxation and fun. Sujin enjoyed her hometown of Flushing, she really did, but the change of scenery was exciting to her, and she found herself quickly falling for her new location. So much so that, instead of returning home after her allotted year, she decided to enroll in Dongguk University. At 23, after her share of student teaching jobs, Sujin - with the help of her university professor - managed to land herself a job teaching history at a local high school. Not only that, but she had also landed herself a nice apartment and an equally as nice fiance. Her life, at 23, was already threatening to be... well, very nuclear, and while it was something that she supposed she wanted eventually, the ideal was more looming than exciting. She found that she wasn't the only one who wasn't ready to settle down, upon realizing that her fiance's bonding time with his friends was used to proposition other women more often than it was to spend time with his buddies. Once her parents found out about the break off of her engagement, they found that it was the perfect time to convince their daughter to return home - partially because she did find herself missing good ol' New York, and partially because she couldn't help but think that they weren't kidding about flying to Seoul to hunt her ex down. Upon returning, she found that little had changed in her hometown. While staying with her parents for a short while wasn't so bad, she managed to find herself an apartment closer to the big city before they drove her insane. The only thing wrong now was the state of her career; while high schools in Korea were clambering for a teacher who wasn't only qualified, but fluent in English, she found herself hard-pressed to find a steady job back home. A subbing job here and there was hardly enough to keep her afloat, and she found herself returning to an old staple to keep the moths out of her wallet - bartending. Clubs were hardly her cup of tea, even when she was around the ideal age for it, but when a good friend put in a word for her at one of the trendiest (and most decent paying) clubs in the city, she wasn't rude or stupid enough to turn it down. Sujin doesn't exactly feel at home in the middle of a noisy club, filled to the brim with drunken Korean early-20-somethings making fools of themselves, but she figures that it could be worse; free concerts on occasion and a bar to protect her from what most patrons call "dancing" - she tries not to complain.

relationships 

LOVE LIFE Had you asked her five years ago, Sujin would have been sure that she had been in love. However, nowadays, looking back on her high school and college romances, she isn't quite sure. It's something that she tells everyone - even herself - doesn't bother her; she's not out looking for the love of her life, she figures that when it comes, it comes. Despite saying this, and despite how she may make fun of the idea in public, when she hears on of those sappy, heartfelt love songs, she can't help but feel a pang of something. She has no shortage of experiences, and admittedly, there are one or two people she can recall feeling strongly for, but there was always something that never quite clicked. At this point, honestly, she starting to think that maybe it wasn't their problem - maybe it's her. She wonders whether those feelings she hears about on her iPod are actually things that most people find, or something a few get lucky with and what others have to try and work at. Maybe she's too picky, and maybe she's destined to settle for someone who will simply put up with her, but for now she isn't exactly clawing at the bottom of the barrel for husband material - despite how much her parents may push her to settle down. At this point in time, she's not really focused on dating. If the opportunity comes along she doesn't decline, but in the end most of those relationships end up as a fling or friendships (sometimes both). She says it because she's more focused on enjoying her life, but, in reality, it could be because it never quite seems like it could lead to the happily ever after that, deep down inside, she wants.