confident, diligent, perceptive, resilient, protective, supportive, fair

moralistic, judgemental,
harsh, inquisitive, self-important, controlling, distrustful

seven years have passed since park yejeong became a trainee. park yejeong with her quiet and steady confidence, with her head held high. by now, some people in her position would feel like a failure. some girls with even shorter trainee periods choose to surrender to the industry's incessant whispering of you're not good enough, but that's not yejeong. yejeong chooses to believe trainee life has shown her that she is strong, that she is capable. she's perseverance personified and her mentality is made of steel, immune to mind games and insults. for seven years, park yejeong has proved herself every day, pulling crazy hours and honing her craft. she knows she's good enough. she's worked damn hard for it.

there's a difference between cocky and confident, though, and, fortunately for her, yejeong's friends will tell you she doesn't overstep confident. she's a wonderful friend: not full of herself, funny, supportive and protective, she loves to uplift her loved ones and will take a backseat to her friends' success anytime. she will always have your back, whether you want to vent or to randomly dance. simply put, she has so much love to give.

that's exactly why yejeong doesn't give love easily. seven years of training means meeting a lot of people whose heart isn't in the right place, so she's gotten used to making judgements, reading people, perceiving what they're struggling with or what they don't want her to know. her respect, just like her trust, is earned. similarly, she thinks self-worth is earned too. you are the sum of your actions, she thinks, and that is why she proves herself every day. can you say the same? are you working towards becoming a better version of yourself every day? yejeong believes in being fair, so she looks at a person's actions harshly and with no remorse. she condemns underhanded and lazy actions and she's drawn to sincere efforts and good intentions. fair as she might be, there's no grey zone with yejeong: she either likes you or she doesn't, she either lets you in or she doesn't, and she won't change her mind easily.

she's wise, yejeong. she's the type to warn you before you self-sabotage and say "i told you so" when you do it anyways. if she thinks she can help you suffer less and become a better you, she'll do it. it doesn't matter, in her eyes, whether you're ready for it, whether you want to do it, because she's right and her intentions are good. in the blink of an eye, yejeong's good intentions can turn into overstepping boundaries and broken trust. because being right doesn't matter when you're hurting people.

but if only she was in charge, she wouldn't hurt people. if only everyone understood, she could help them change for the better. if only she could make them think what she thinks, feel what she feels, see what she sees... things would be better. but yejeong is only human. yejeong is not in charge. it's not yejeong's job to decide what everyone else is worth or to make the world follow her definition of right. she has to stop asking questions that people aren't ready to hear and she has to learn how to let her friends make mistakes. because the universe works out the way it does, not the way park yejeong wants it to, always has and always will. and the universe doesn't always work out fairly or for the best. and that's how things are.

during her childhood, yejeong enjoys three key things: sugary cereal, beating her brother at soccer and singing. oh, and control (perhaps the one truly key thing). that too. then comes a time when she gets cavities from all the cereal, so her mom doesn't buy it anymore when she goes grocery shopping. then they move into an apartment, so eventually she stops playing soccer with her brother in their garden. then the only thing that she still has control over is singing, and she takes it with her into her pre-teens.

after collecting a modest amount of school talent show trophies on her bedroom shelves, fourteen year old yejeong begins to dream big. she's seen the girl group idols belting on t.v, you know? maybe she can do that too...

so she drags her friends to a jyp casting call where she sings and poses for pictures and stumbles through some dancing and they say they'll call her back. great, so when, for example? like... later that day? later that week? she comes back home ambivalent: she's satisfied, but she doesn't like the idea of the phone never ringing. or worse, getting that call when no one's home. she can already hear her mom telling her to be patient. 

her mom's right. two weeks later, from across the house, she hears the phone ring.

yejeong is very keen on making progress and developing her skills. she could be main vocal level or main dancer level if she worked for it, so why doesn't she? exactly. so she does. even during comeback season, she finds windows of time to keep growing her skillset.

anything like diets or eternal practice sessions, she's on top of it. she doesn't chase people around to do the same, but she definitely disapproves of members who don't commit. you can feel the judgement rolling off of her in waves

that being said she will partake in snacking if it's not comeback season. she's human. unfortunately

her kpop favs are snsd and twice. boy groups are... okay i guess. she used to like infinite and 9muses too.

twice's music is "motivating", she claims.

she has a very distinctive laugh, kind of high pitched and comes out in bursts.

her fancams tend to get a good amount of views for superficial reasons (her body), which is a little sour for her. she particularly remembers looking herself up a month after debut and seeing slow-mo gifs, which was a really negative experience.

anything that's giving advice or showing support to fans, she kills it and delivers great heartwarming content. lots of her fansign responses make their rounds on twitter. wishes the best for lgbt+ fans

yejeong doesn't think highly of lune blue from the get-go because, the way she sees it, they didn't earn their debut. some self important rich executive didn't want to accept sunbank already debuted a girlgroup without him so he made his own on a whim. where's the merit in that?

however, she uses lune blue as motivation to prove how unique and special and deserving of more popularity lune black is.

the thing she'll struggle with the most is learning to live with the unfairness of it all. to yejeong, it's obvious: lune black deserves more, lune black deserves better. but that's not what they get and it's going to drive her crazy, because that's not what would happen in a fair world, in her world. it's going to make her isolate and judge the lune blue girls herself, because apparently nobody else will.