Irene Bae is a high school senior living in Seoul, South Korea. Her father left her family for an American woman just a year ago and Irene is still trying to find ways to cope. One of her main strategies is staring at her crush, Wendy Son.
Wendy, wh...
Hello! This is for anyone who stumbled upon this that isn't familiar with K-Pop. Don't worry, though! You can still enjoy the story!
The only thing that has to do with K-Pop in this book are the characters used. The rest you can understand without having any knowledge of the community. I will provide some pronunciation guides for names I feel might be challenging to pronounce if you've never heard of the people listed in this story.
I would like to also clarify that the roles I have given to these idols do not represent their personalities in real life nor how I think of them. If you see an idol that you are fond of being represented as the bully or just being mean in general, this is not how I think of them, and instead I needed to expand the variety of characters. Thank you!
Pronunciation Guide
Yeri: Yair-ee
Seulgi: Sul-gee
Taeyong: Tay-yong
Taehyung: Tay-hyoung
Yoongi: Yoon-gee
Namjoon: Nam-joon
Jisoo: Jis-ooh
Jaehyun: Jay-hyun
Jungwoo: Jung-woo
Taeil: Tay-il
Yuta: Yoota
Haechan: Hey-chan
Doyoung: Do-young
Jaemin: Jay-min
Chenle: Chun-luh
Renjun: Ren-jun
Xiaojun: Siao-jin
Suho: Soo-ho
Baekhyun: Bake-hyun
Soobin: Soo-bin
Yeonjun: Yee-on-jun
Beomgyu: Bom-gyu
Taehyun: Tay-hyun
Hueningkai: Hwoo-en-ing-kai
Jihyo: Jih-yo
Nayeon: Nay-on
Yeji: Yej-ee
Sungjae: Sung-jay
Jungkook: Jung-kuk
Cast
Since you may have trouble trying to imagine the characters, here is what they look like in real life! (I only put the characters that are mainly mentioned in the story)
Irene Bae
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