FULL NAME jeannette yoon

OTHER NAMES 

jean is the name she most commonly goes by. she thinks jeannette is such a mouthful to say. she also finds it very odd whenever people call her jeannette.

 

eunbi 은비 is her korean name give by her parents. aside from her parents and korean relatives, it's also used in her korean language classes by her classmates and teachers. she doesn't introduce herself as jean in these classes but chooses to use her korean name instead. 

 

jeanyyy is her instagram handle. it has 3 'y's because jeany and jeanyy were taken when she tried to use those as her username.

 

BIRTHDAY 06/18, 21

BIRTHPLACE santa monica, ca

HOMETOWN santa monica, ca

ETHNICITY korean

NATIONALITY american

UALITY biual

 

LANGUAGES 

korean. she can speak in fluent korean because that's how her parents spoke to her growing up. most of her korean is self-taught from her parents or she just googles certain grammar or vocabulary. she also watches a lot of korean vloggers and drama so she picked up the language there as well. jean definitely does not think her korean is in the vernacular but she can get by with conversing, writing and understanding.

 

japanese. advanced. she's currently learning japanese right now. if it weren't for her japanese roommate, jean would definitely not be able to pick up japanese as fast as she did.

 

she can also speak basic french and spanish as she picked up both languages in high school. however, she doesn't have a very wide range of vocabulary so she's only able to say a few basic sentences.

 

PERSONALITY 

 

if first impressions matter, jean seems like the kind of person who doesn't know what she's doing. you can find her always fooling around, making a mess, spacing out, disturbing her friends, being a public nuisance and not doing much to positively contribute to society. for the most part, it's because she just wants to take life a day at a time and not worry too much about what's going to come next. she lives in the moment and doesn't have much ambition for her future. being too committed to something at any one point in time scares her so she likes to live her life free of expectations and responsibilies in order to free herself from the shackles that is the market economy...

 

one thing she is good at, though, is making people laugh with her strange but funny sense of humour. she's always there to loosen up the atmosphere when things get a little too tense for her liking. she often acts blur and clumsy on purpose just to make her friends laugh, which fits in with her self-deprecatory humour wherein she jokes about the inevitability of her failures and incompetencies. aside from making her friends laugh, she also sees it as a coping mechanism. if she can make her problems and shortcomings into jokes... then they shouldn't be that bad, right?

 

aside from her sleepy face during her classes, jean's signature look is the bright, dopey smile that she wears on her face once she's out of the classroom doors. she makes friends easily and seems to know everyone on campus (the amount of people jean waves to on campus is way too many to count) and it's just easy to chill and vibe with her. she treasures the friends she has and the people she meets a lot, even if it's just for a brief moment. she's extremely sentimental and makes it a point to always tell her friends how much they mean to her! her love language is definitely words of affirmation so she tends to do the same to the people she loves.

 

jean is the type of clown that is able to make others laugh and is also the type of clown that, somehow, always seems to mess things up. she's not the best at fact-checking, in fact, she's not the best at checking at all. she just does what she thinks is right which often ends up being the direct opposite of what she's supposed to be doing. jean constantly feels like shes a mess — she often gets losts, forgets deadlines, important dates and other responsibilities that she has to finish. jean believes that she messes things up more than she does things right. she's very prone to clowning herself and accidentally causing more problems to herself and the people around her. she's far from the organised and well-put together type of person that she wants to be.  

 

while it definitely appears like jean does not have her life in check, she actually does well in both her academic and work life. jean is a hard worker when she puts her mind to it (this doesn't come very often though...). since she's a grade A procrastinator, she has learnt to cope with doing last minute assignments very well and often submits them one or two minutes right before the deadline. she might play very hard but she works fast too (doing work fast doesn't always mean her work is good but she thinks she tries her best). jean is also rather fickle minded and indesicive, not knowing exactly what her plan is because she comes up with too many of them. she's more of a follower than a leader — often just joining in on whatever her friends are doing just for the sake of having a good time but she hates to be the one to initiate anything. jean is a major people-pleaser and would hate to turn anyone down and make them upset (even if they don't really care). still, jean would not hesistate to call people out on their behaviour if she sees that it's against her morals. while she might seem like a pushover at times as she lets most things slide and does let herself get used as a punching bag at times, jean will fight for what she stands for and doesn't mind arguing or fighting with others to get her point across.

 

 

BACKGROUND jean grew up in a low to middle income family. her parents are first generation immigrants who worked on the beachfront — her mother worked as a ticketing staff at the amusement park while her dad worked as a chef in one of the hotels located near the beach. the family of 3 had just enough to ensure that they could get food on the table everyday and that jean could live a comfortable life. jean was honestly thinking of not applying to college just because of how expensive it would be. her parents were able to convince her to just apply for colleges in california and assured her that they had saved up enough for her college fund. with nothing else that she really cared about studying, jean chose linguistics because she liked learning new languages (she soon learnt that that was not what linguistics was about...).