who knew intelligence could be a negative trait to have, right? it is when you're hwang jeup, a boy who grew up not understanding the meaning of hard work and that other people actually have feelings. at first glance, you would think he was a pretty detestable person with his serious expression and monotonous voice. in actuality, jeup is a two toned kind of guy - it just depends on if you're close with him or not.

SIDE A : if you've just met this guy, you'd see that he is overflowing with book-smarts and hurting for stree-smarts. he's quite out of tune with his emotions in the sense that, as a mr. know-it-all, he often thought instead of felt i.e always better at explaining his emotions rather than actually expressing them. it caused him to be quite out of tune with his emotions as well, which came off as jeup being a pretty aloof guy.

he's pretty honest - blunt honest. jeup is that friend that is going to tell you how it is, in that annoying nonchalant tone whether it was meant to be sarcastic or not. so, it's safe to say that this definitely makes dating hard - like who wants a boyfriend that is going to tell you "you do look kinda fat in those jeans" without missing a beat?

SIDE B : as jeup opens up, you get to see the more positive side of him. of course, the word 'positive' is all about how you perceive things. to start, he's quite a perceptive person. jeup may be as lazy as a log, but he's one observant log. a lot of coworkers or students take his lazy nature for granted. when they think he's sleeping or not paying attention and they start gossiping or swapping answers, there he is - listening in. the downside to being an observant genius is that you end up hearing things you necessarily didn't want to hear - like how teacher oh's labor took sixteen hours.

jeup is also a rather friendly person once you get past his cold exterior. he's patient and quirky and pretty chill. the people that really came to know jeup's inner self are his students. spending an entire year with someone, you tend to learn all about their little quirks and just what makes them tick. they've come to notice all his child-like spitefulness and humorously, sarcastic remarks, and wonder just how someone would think he was cold and mean. definitely the opposite of an open-book, but he's a nice read once you do get him to open up.

ACT I
born november sixth on a cold night, the weather could of been said to be a premonition of this how this child would live. jeup's family wasn't the weathliest, but they also weren't hurting for money. his father an accountant and mother a food critic (okay, fancy name for a newpaper columnist), they lived in a happy medium. a very quiet happy medium since jeup actually never saw much of his parents. they both had high work ethics and strong drives to succeed, so they often stayed late at work.

it was a wonder jeup never had that same strong motivation. instead of two positives making a positive it looked like, against all odds, two positives made a negative. since he was a small child, jeup didn't really show much interest in things. he favored staying home in his comfortable nest, watching reruns of cartoons. not questioning it much, his parents figured he would grow out of it; that is was just a phase.

ACT II
during his school days, jeup was that kid in class that you would see sprawled across their desk - asleep. everyone knew it wasn't because of the extra homework or the long study hours stealing away the kid's sleep, he just didn't want to be there. you see, jeup didn't have the biggest interest for school - and to be honest he thought it was a waste of time. he didn't understand why he needed to go to school when he already knew everything in his teachers' currriculums. heck, he'd be the one to correct other students when they were wrong before the teacher could. which, some of his classmates didn't take too kindly to a know-it-all, and would more often than not, tell him to go back to sleep.

it wasn't his fault that things just seemed to come easy to him.

in high school is where he started to show some kind of interest. it was in his literature class. they were touching on the topic of the darker side of literature. you know, the monsters: frankenstein; dracula; the monk. all the creepy stories that usually didn't end well. if we're being honest here, he liked the movies better than the actual reading. they intrigued him because they were easy - kind of a one-and-done style. jeup was a person who didn't know the meaning of 'hard work', so that included studying to succeed in academics. if he could watch a movie instead of reading its text, and still get the same outcome, why would anyone not choose the movie?

ACT III
growing into his young adult years, jeup went to college like the rest of his classmates. it seemed everyone around him knew what they wanted to do while jeup, he was just along for the ride and wherever it would take him. many classmates didn't think he would be accepted seeings how most of the entrance exam he was either sleeping or staring at the ceiling, counting the tiles.

if you asked jeup, the only real reason he enrolled was for his parents. all three of them knew he wasn't exactly, well, normal, but they always treated him as so. jeup knew he was too advanced mentally for frivalous college courses, though it made his parents happy, so why not?

in college, jeup took literature classes in hopes of having a repeat of high school i.e the movies. safe to say he was back to sleeping in class, and woke up to graduation. all of this classmates swore he had cheated his way through somehow, but he just shrugged off those rumors and lazily picked up his literary degree.

during the months following graduation, jeup's parents had high hopes that he would produce masterpieces that would change the course of literature in the modern times. they had dreams of seeing their sons name on the top shelf of bookstores. only things didn't work out as they hoped, but then again, did anything they hoped for their son work out? not really.

ACT IV
so you're probably wondering why or how this guy became a teacher, right? well, he didn't choose it. it was his mother. i know, i know, "his mom?" yes. she took things into her own hands because she knew that if, left up to jeup, he wouldn't get a job until there was no food in the fridge and cabinets and he was broke.

jeup's mother had a friend who worked for the seoul school system that had told her they were looking to hire substitute teachers. one thing led to another and jeup had a job that next week. at first, he wasn't too sure about it because teaching was always said to have a lot of work. but jeup made himself at home in the classroom - albeit a little too much - but his students liked him and they learned some things, so the school decided to look the other way if he fell asleep in class or had reoccurring movie days.

even though he didn't have a very dramatic background, it made him into an average kind of guy. just, the kind of average that occassionally will fall asleep on the job, but at least he can relate with his sleep deprived students.

: blinks with both eyes
: the only way he would get on an airplane is if he was drugged or dead
: has an unhealthy obsession with banana milk
: his couch is his best friend
: always drools in his sleep
: if he drinks, he really doesn't have a filter, and says whatever comes to his mind
: rides the bus to school because he never learned to drive
: teaches gothic imagination in film and literature 
: thought LOL meant 'Lots of Love' until he started his first year of teaching
: movie addict - american movies, korean movies, any movie
: loves his music - especially girl groups
: uses a bendy straw with every drink, every
: is slowly learning teenage slang
: hates clingy people and their random hugs
: has showed up to class late more than his students
: his students made him an instagram [see below] okay, so its more like a fanpage, but its still about him
: when he saw the instagram his response was "i'm going to get more followers than you guys, and i don't even know how to post on the thing."