#im solim

She was always an exceptionally bright child, whizzing through schoolwork until she was a few grades ahead. Solim ended up graduating when she was sixteen, though she had no idea what she wanted to do beyond that. School was something she was good at. It was easy. There were rules and guidelines and things to do, and now she was free. So Solim decided to go back to school, throwing a dart at a board full of career options and going to college for advertising and marketing.

Solim was 20 when she met Hyukwon– she’d been getting coffee on her way to school (she was in her final year) when she’d run into him, and while it was accidental and by chance, Solim is convinced it was fate. She gave him her number, and they’ve been together ever since.

Their daughter Songyi was an accident. She was conceived early in their relationship. Solim loved Hyuk, but she felt too young to get married. If she was to get married, she wanted to be able to fit in her dress and have a steady job (she was still looking for jobs at this point). But she wanted to keep the child too. So Solim and Hyuk raised their daughter despite not yet being married, Hyukwon not proposing to her until Songyi was four years old and Solim was twenty-five. Though, there’s a small part of Solim’s brain that recognizes they were already in a civil union according to law, there was just something about being formally married. And while unconventional, it was even better having Songyi present.

Solim’s been doing a good job climbing the corporate ladder and juggling that with her family life– she’s the director of marketing at New Age now, so she supposes that has to count for something. Her daughter is following more in her father’s footsteps though; while Solim is technically part of the entertainment industry, she’s very much behind the scenes, and Songyi is now an idol. Wherever she ends up, though, Solim is as proud as can be.