Post by Kim Soo Yun on Jun 11, 2009 22:49:24 GMT
Basic Information
Family Name: Kim
Other Names: Soo Yun; Magnae (nickname- means the youngest)
Gender: Female
Age: Seventeen
Year and Class: 3rd Year, Class A
Occupation: Stationary and Gift store in Shinada Mall [weekends]; Dance Instructor for younger students at Nagai Dance Studio [Mondays and Thursdays]
Appearance
Celebrity Claim: Hyori Lee
Hair: Chocolate brown, waist length, layered
Eyes: Almond shaped; dark brown
Body:
With a dancer’s build, Soo Yun is petite and slim with pale skin. She has long legs that are well built due to her hours of dance practice. Without shoes she measures to about five foot three.
Usual Clothing:
A simple girl by her standards, Soo Yun is very active and prefers to wear jeans and fitting T-shirts that always have some sort of random pattern. She likes to dress in layers and favors a slightly tomboy style but will wear dresses occasionally when required. She prefers style with comfort and her clothes reflect this.
Distinguishing Features: None
History
Mother: Solbi Kim [47]- A responsible and understanding woman, she often indulges her children on their whims and allows them to be independent. She is clothing designer and often chases her youngest and only daughter down to use her as a model. Overall, she is not a housewife, but manages to get by using recipe magazines and with her children’s help.
Father: Dong Min Kim[49]- Stern and quiet, he is an accomplished businessman running an international business and rarely spends time at home. He has high standards for all his children and for himself. Although he is warm toward his wife, he often gives an aloof air to his children and expects results rather than discussions.
Siblings:
Dae Hyun Kim [22]- The eldest son of the Kim family, Dae Hyun is the most responsible of the three Kim children and has a talent for managing things that often reflect their father’s. Athletic and outspoken, he is charismatic and often gets his by through his own determination. He currently attends Tokyo University as a pre-law major and calls every few days to check on his sister who he is overly protective of.
Young Min Kim [21]- The second son of the Kim family, Young Min is the quiet one that grew up in his brother’s shadow. Meticulous and reserved, he harbors a genius mind especially for the sciences and mathematics. He is incredibly observant and sharp with his words. He also attends Tokyo University but as chemistry major. He calls home every other week or so just to check on the family, but rarely returns home to visit.
Other Significant Relatives:
Jin Ae Park- She is Soo Yun’s youngest cousin who is the same age Soo Yun although older by a few months. Jin Ae is Soo Yun’s closest friend, but still resides in Korea, keeping contact with her cousin via email and phone conversations. The two also exchange letters telling each other of the drama each of them face on a daily basis.
Short Biography:
Soo Yun was born in Seoul, Korea before immigrating to Japan when she was thirteen years old. Thus, her Japanese is still accented and figures of speech and idioms are difficult for her. However, she quickly adjusted to life in Japan, sticking close to her brothers at first, before expanding out of her family circle and meeting people in her school at her mother’s urging.
A dancer since she was five, Soo Yun spends most of her free time rehearsing or in class learning how to perfect her moves. She is a student of ballet, jazz, hip hop, and Korean folk dance, much to the displeasure of her father who wishes her to be a doctor. However, because she pays for lesson out of her own pocket, he does not object.
When her brothers went to college, Soo Yun lost her two best friends and the people who she always jokingly called ‘her bodyguards’, but before the eldest, Dae Hyun left, he bought Soo Yun her Pomeranian puppy who she named DongDongBang. Without the over protectiveness of her brothers, Soo Yun is finally getting a chance to venture out of her close family unit. Her social circle is rather lacking due to the number of hours she spends at the dance studio but she is trying to be a bit more social and friendly. She is not popular but considered to be nice among her peers although few know about her dedication to her art.
Personality:
Growing up with two older brothers that were very good at pranks, Soo Yun has a tough and slightly tomboyish personality and will not hesitate to speak her mind. Stubborn and sarcastic, she has a tendency to deliver a continuous string of clever one liners in slightly broken Japanese until frustration at being misunderstood sends her into a string of Korean curse words.
Her Japanese vocabulary is made of mostly slang and grammatically improper sentences although she can cuss beautifully in Japanese, which was the first thing she learned in the language.
Blunt and to the point, she is practical and logical and will only express her softer side to those she truly cares about though she is never directly mean, but rather honest. She has a temper and those foolish enough to ignite it are in for harsh yelling and perhaps a few smacks. Soo Yun doesn’t hold grudges and her anger made by quick to rise but also very quickly to put out. Overall, she is a tomboyish girl that has a rather laid back attitude about life.
Sample Roleplay
Was it really necessary to fill the entire board with Japanese characters in a math class? It made interpretation of the numbers and facts and figures much more difficult for the Korean girl sitting in the back of the classroom, copying notes down frantically. Halfway through some random Japanese character, Soo Yun gave up. So she would get less than spectacular grade in math. Who cares?
Besides her father.
It wasn’t her goal to always piss him off. Honest it wasn’t. It just always ended up that way for Soo Yun could never follow in the academic steps of her brothers. Not that she really tried. Her eyes focused on the balding spot on her teacher’s skull as she flicked bits of paper off her desk at the floor. She simply wasn’t interested.
Her only effort to pass came from her father’s threat to ban her from dancing should her grades drop any lower. Thus knowing what a toll the ban would’ve had on their sister, the Kim brothers engaged in a rescue mission, forcing their sister to actually study for once and raise her school performance. It had saved her…barely, but the threat lingered and Soo Yun had to keep up her end of the peace treaty or face UN consequences.
-15 Minutes Later-
The bell for dismissal rang and Soo Yun was the first out of the classroom in spite of her seat being in the very back row. Pumping her fist into the air with a cry of “Ah-sah!” She hurried out of the school, messenger bag bouncing against her hip. Dodging a few cars, two bicycles, and a skateboard, Soo Yun was the entrance of the dance studio.
She changed quickly in the locker rooms and made it just in time to teach a beginning class of ballet which took more patience than usual as she watched less than graceful eight year olds dance about without regard to rhythm or form. Finally as the class ended, she changed the music to a hip hop beat and faced the mirror, smiling.
