《TERRACE HOUSE APPLICATION》 : LEE HONG GYU
《이 헝 규》 : Lee Hong gyu
BIRTH name : lee hong gyu
other naME(s) : amos lee (his english name)
birthdate & age : 12/25/1994 + 22
ethnicity : korean
languages :
korean (fluent), learned from his parents and spoke korean at home
malay (fluent), the national language of singapore
english (fluent), learned in school- is one of the four official languages of singapore
BIRTHPLACE: singapore
faceclaim : jo youngmin (boyfriend)
Backup : park seungjun (knk)
height and weight : 188cm & 68kg
appearance : amos is very tall and nearly lanky. he has muscle, but it is lean and areas where it shows are only lightly chiseled out. he does not have any piercings or tattoos. presently, his hair is cut short and is dyed a rusty, aubergine shade.
personality traits :
( + ) : genuine . good-natured . humble . organized
( - ) : cautious . secretive . clumsy . naive
( ? ) : athletic . creative . timid . observant
description : amos is has a good heart, truly. he is genuine with his feelings towards people and when he says something to them, he truly means it. he won't blow smoke up anyone's or say things just because they want to hear them. he is humble and he genuinely wants to do things that are in the best interest of others. however, having been hurt in the past because of his disability, be it his girlfriend leaving him or people in general looking down or at him differently because of his hearing loss, has left him cautious and secretive. he does open up to many people and if he does, it has taken a lot for him to get to that point. he doesn't necessarily hide his hearing loss in that he won't go out of his way to hide his ears or anything like that, but he definitely does not address it. if someone else asks about it, or points it out, it will make him feel anxious and he will be tense, but he will talk about it. he just won't be the one to start the conversation. because of his caution and his secretive nature, he has grown to be more timid and less outgoing than his peers and instead he has taken on the role of observer. it is easy for him to pick up on social cues and the smallest pieces of body language because he's so used to being on the outside, watching people as they interact. however, because of that, it is hard for him to make himself seen and heard so he will often times fade into the background and people might forget that he is there if there is a large group of people.
background : before amos was born, his father's company had transferred him to singapore to head the financial sector of that branch. the position was long-term, which led to amos being born and raised in singapore. amos was born with autosomal recessive hearing loss, leaving him partially deaf in both ears. his parents, unbenounced to them, carried a recessive gene for hearing loss, and passed it to him when he was born. there was no living relative that had hearing loss, so there was no expectation during the pregnancy that amos would be born with hearing loss. however, because of singapore's early intervention services, amos was able to get hearing aids by three months old. because of the early intervention, his language is not significantly delayed, though he does have difficulties at times understanding things because even with the hearing aids it can be hard to pick up certain tones and inflections; however, he has found a way to compensate and most people do not notice in passing. It only becomes noticeable the longer and more indepth the conversations get. he has a slight speech impairment as well, but it comes across more as a "thick accent."
amos has a pretty decent relationship with his parents. when he was younger, he noticed that his parents seemed to view him as fragile because of his hearing loss and they wanted to shelter him and keep him in a bubble that they created to prevent him from being hurt. But as he grew and actually went to school, they started to relax once they noticed that his hearing loss wasn't keeping him from doing what other children his age were doing and eventually they stopped looking at him like a weak,fragile person and more as the actual person he grew up to be, strong and capable.
In high school, amos was neither popular nor unpopular; he was simply.. there. He was a good student, seeing as he had to sometimes overcompensate for his hearing loss by studying longer than his peers and rereading chapters to fully understand lectures. he had a handful of close friends and he wasn't really bullied. during high school, he would play soccer and that continued when he started university. his family moved back to korea when it was time for him to go to college as his father wanted his son to go to his alma mater. As of late, amos is studying to become an audiologist, wanting to help young children that are deaf or hard of hearing like himself.
amos has a pretty decent relationship with his parents. when he was younger, he noticed that his parents seemed to view him as fragile because of his hearing loss and they wanted to shelter him and keep him in a bubble that they created to prevent him from being hurt. But as he grew and actually went to school, they started to relax once they noticed that his hearing loss wasn't keeping him from doing what other children his age were doing and eventually they stopped looking at him like a weak,fragile person and more as the actual person he grew up to be, strong and capable.
In high school, amos was neither popular nor unpopular; he was simply.. there. He was a good student, seeing as he had to sometimes overcompensate for his hearing loss by studying longer than his peers and rereading chapters to fully understand lectures. he had a handful of close friends and he wasn't really bullied. during high school, he would play soccer and that continued when he started university. his family moved back to korea when it was time for him to go to college as his father wanted his son to go to his alma mater. As of late, amos is studying to become an audiologist, wanting to help young children that are deaf or hard of hearing like himself.
lifestyle : amos is a university student. he has classes on campus three days out of the week and one class that he takes online. he works as a receptionist in an audiology clinic. his typical work schedule is every day during the week (monday through friday) with weekends off when school is not in session. when school is in session, his schedule is more limited and he typically works monday, wednesday, friday and the shifts will typically be in the morning for about 5 hours at a time (7am to 12pm). he's worked at the audiology clinic as their receptionist since early 2015.
when amos doesn't have to go to work or class, he will go for a run early in the morning, come home, shower, and then have his breakfast before gong on with the rest of his day. then, before he ends his day, he will go out for a nightly jog after dinner, come home, shower, and go to bed. while the rest of his day may be unique and different, he keeps those pieces routine because they help to keep him disciplined and focused, not to mention it helps to keep him in shape for when soccer season rolls around.
as stated earlier, amos is a very organized, neat person so he would be the type of roommate to be cleaning up after the other if the room is messy or out of sorts. because of how neat he is, he can grow a little annoyed with messy people and while he would still clean up the mess, it would cause his blood to boil and could cause conflicts if his roommate didn't at least try to clean up after himself.amos is a self-admitted horrid chef. he can fix the basics (rice, eggs, vegetables), but when it comes to cooking any type of meat, fish, or poultry, he has a hard time and thus has "developed a taste for burnt food" and often jokes that that kind of food is his 'specialty.'
as stated earlier, amos is a very organized, neat person so he would be the type of roommate to be cleaning up after the other if the room is messy or out of sorts. because of how neat he is, he can grow a little annoyed with messy people and while he would still clean up the mess, it would cause his blood to boil and could cause conflicts if his roommate didn't at least try to clean up after himself.amos is a self-admitted horrid chef. he can fix the basics (rice, eggs, vegetables), but when it comes to cooking any type of meat, fish, or poultry, he has a hard time and thus has "developed a taste for burnt food" and often jokes that that kind of food is his 'specialty.'
trivia :
»plays soccer for his university
»is a very big fan of reality tv shows
»when he is alone, he will take out his hearing aids and blast his music really loud, especially when he is cleaning
»he loves to draw chibi human-animal hybrids (e.g. a cute person with dog ears and a dog tail)
»has a jindo-mix puppy named simon (사이몬) who is with his parents while he is staying in the house, out of respect for anyone allergic/afraid of dogs
»loves super spicy food and will often add a lot of peppers and chilis to a porridge or soup to make it more spicy
»even if it is super hot, he will still sleep with a blanket over his stomach in case his shirt rides up
»has a wide collection of snapbacks
»the moment he feels a cold coming on, he will od on vitamin c to try and kick it out of his system
»he knows sign language
»plays soccer for his university
»is a very big fan of reality tv shows
»when he is alone, he will take out his hearing aids and blast his music really loud, especially when he is cleaning
»he loves to draw chibi human-animal hybrids (e.g. a cute person with dog ears and a dog tail)
»has a jindo-mix puppy named simon (사이몬) who is with his parents while he is staying in the house, out of respect for anyone allergic/afraid of dogs
»loves super spicy food and will often add a lot of peppers and chilis to a porridge or soup to make it more spicy
»even if it is super hot, he will still sleep with a blanket over his stomach in case his shirt rides up
»has a wide collection of snapbacks
»the moment he feels a cold coming on, he will od on vitamin c to try and kick it out of his system
»he knows sign language
relationships :
mother / chae min ah ; amos is a momma's boy through and through. he loves his mother more than anything in the world and wants to do anything to help her live comfortably.
father / lee hong bin ; amos and his father have a close relationship. he feels he can go to his father whenever he has a difficult challenge or decision to make, especially when it concerns something major (like college, job, etc.), but he doesn't feel he can go to him with smaller, more trivial matters, such as when he's feeling insecure with himself.
friend / peter singh ; peter is a friend back in singapore. they have been friends since their senior year of high school. they have a good relationship, but they mostly are friends on a surface level.
friend / kathryn liu ; kathryn and elliot dated for a period of time during high school and because elliot was amos' best friend, amos hung out with kathryn whenever she was with elliot. the two have a cordial relationship now, even after she and elliot broke up, and they get along well.
best friend /elliot zhou ; elliot and amos played soccer together in high school. elliot was the team captain of their high school soccer team and whenever amos was having a difficult time, he was able to go to him and confide in him and elliot was able to give him advice and guide him in the right direction.
interview
please answer this section in first person
how long has it been since your last relationship? : My last relationship? Ah, well... my last relationship ended when i left to go back to korea and to university. we ended for a couple of reasons, the easiest being the distance; she didn't want to be in a long distance relationship, which, I suppose i can understand. but the other reason, and i think what was really the main reason, was that we had been together for four years; we had started dating our freshman years of high school and naturally the conversation of marriage and children came up in coversation a number of times and it boiled down to the fact that she didn't want a child who was deaf.
what is your ideal type? :
my ideal type is a someone who is more of a reserved romantic. i like being able to comfortably sit with someone and read together, or lay and listen to the rain. i don't mind when girls are sociable, but when they are very loud and in your face is when i pull away.
WHAT DREW YOU TO AUDITION FOR TERRACE HOUSE? :
i decided to audition for terrace house because i want to come out of my shell a little more. i have lived all of my life with a small circle of friends and keeping my connections small out of fear for being ostracized for my disability and not wanting to be known as "that deaf kid," or "amos lee, my deaf friend." i'm hoping that living with total strangers will force me out of my shell and learn to trust others a bit more.
what is your ideal type? :
my ideal type is a someone who is more of a reserved romantic. i like being able to comfortably sit with someone and read together, or lay and listen to the rain. i don't mind when girls are sociable, but when they are very loud and in your face is when i pull away.
WHAT DREW YOU TO AUDITION FOR TERRACE HOUSE? :
i decided to audition for terrace house because i want to come out of my shell a little more. i have lived all of my life with a small circle of friends and keeping my connections small out of fear for being ostracized for my disability and not wanting to be known as "that deaf kid," or "amos lee, my deaf friend." i'm hoping that living with total strangers will force me out of my shell and learn to trust others a bit more.
scene suggestions : maybe a scene where they are all hanging out by the pool and amos says he doesn't want to go in (because that would require him to take out his hearing aids) and they do not know about his disability yet and the other guys think that it would be funny to lift him up and toss him in the pool, which would cause amos to freak out and thus his secret would be blown.
comments : i hope that you enjoy amos and i cannot wait to read the story. also, thank you because if it were not for this story, i would not have discovered terrace house and would not have my new binge show, haha.
password : i can name all of them if it helps, haha. tatsuya, minori, mizuki, yuriko, yuki (tap), makoto.
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