"Hello Purple Line citizen, this is FM The 9th Hour and I am Jung Wheein. How are you today?"

That is the intro to my radio program at Purple Line Corporate. That line has been repeated for more than a year, since I started my job here.

My radio program was called FM The 9th Hour, meaning that after 8 hours of working, the 9th hour was for relaxation and entertainment. The radio MC career came to me as a surprise as prior to that, I used to be an intern scriptwriter at a small TV broadcasting station. I was introduced by a senior to take up script writing for an internal radio program in the company of that senior’s acquaintance – the program was in trial stage so they preferred a temporary staff instead of a full-time one. 

After lots of consideration and taking in advice from other acquaintances, I decided to give up my career at the broadcasting station to begin my role as the person in charge of internal radio. Back then, the only thought I had is to make effort to step out of my comfort zone and somehow, I had achieved that as the radio, surprisingly, turned out to be a huge success. Yet, after that, I resorted myself to only doing the things I can do best – internal radio.

And my life is therefore somehow repetitive: going to work on weekdays, relaxing by myself with writing, hanging out with my girls or taking up sign language lesson at weekends. But I just enjoy it, even though the roommate in my apartment of four girls Ahn Hyejin usually refers to it as boring as hell. I have never thought of breaking the routine. In other words, for someone who had had mental problem before like me, going beyond the comfort zone too much is not a good choice at all.