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momentskrp-archive · 6 years ago

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introducing…

lee danbi, the youtuber + manager at jules who moved into the sweetheart sharehouse four years ago. we hear she’s staying in 1C, and that she wants to be a stylist or designer under hyun mi nielsen. good luck with that.

PAST.

“I guess it all started there,”

A camera begins to focus from the blur of dark hair and pale skin to the youthful face of a young lady, she is making eye contact with the camera so intimately it almost feels like she’s looking at you individually.

“One comment and I was done for, almost like… love at first sight?”

She laughs and reveals a very old lady cackle as she almost falls backward from her own joke, very different than what you would expect from a delicate beauty.

“I always thought that fashion and the aesthetic that came with it were something extraordinary. I mean, I started this whole youtube channel just to share my style with the world.”

Dark eyes are unwavering from the lens as she shift in her seat, the girl seems to be in a bedroom where she is sat atop of a bed with bright yellow covers, and the walls around her are surrounded by pictures of designs by what must be either hers or Hyun Mi Nielson.

“When I picked up a bit of a following on my videos, I thought I should go back to my original platform… instagram.”

The video cuts to what must be her instagram, pictures varying from posed ones of the same beautiful girl in clothing that seem out of this world, candid where she seems to be staring intently at material as she sews, and pictures of beautiful clothing on mannequins with Jules tagged as the location each time.

“I found my voice on youtube, but I found my eyes on insta.”

A voice narrates, the same one earlier, though the voice seems more personal now. Closer to your ears.

“On the explore page, I found Christine along with a few other accounts and mass followed them. I liked their looks after all.”

The screen now shows the comment from user hyunmi.nielsen in which one word is written but the rest begin to blur as affects probably from the editing. ‘pretty.’

“But I’m getting ahead of myself, first I was just another country girl in Jeju.”

Though she does seem to have a slight accent from the dialect, it’s not very noticeable until she pointed it out.

“My life wasn’t anything too extrodinary or intresting, I grew up in Panpo-Ri… if you never heard of it I’m not too shocked it’s mostly just farmland after all.”

The girl seems to press her lip into a straight line, obviously cringing before continuing on after a beat. “I wasn’t very good at the family trade, my family in particular raised orchards. You know like, the fruit trees, that was our contribution.”

She seems to be smiling fondly before catching herself,

“I’m not sure if you know, but to take care of a orchard you need a lot of able-bodies and hands to help. Which is why my parents got to work having four children pretty back to back,”

Her expression softens again as she leans forward with a wink,

“though we weren’t much help for the first ten years or so, we would just run around and climb the trees back than.”

She laughs again, or should I say cackle as she covers her mouth this time to be modest before continuing

“Two older brothers and a one eldest sister.”

She held up three fingers and began to name them off,

“My eldest brother is now the town doctor… I think, and the other one married rather quickly and has land of his own… while my sister is going to take over the family farm with her husband.”

With all fingers down, she lowers her hand off screen before sighing.

“I never really fit in, both in the family or in the town. I was a bit too… let’s say eccentric and I stood out from the first day of elementary school. But I stayed until I graduated from high school, where I studied fashion and design at Hongik University. ”

The girl pulls up the collar of her shirt to reveal the whole sweatshirt and the school logo on the front. “

Which I’m currently repping with the merch that I definitely bought while in school and was not given free by somebody at all..but this is not sponsored by… yet.”

She raises and eyebrow before laughing, that infamous laugh again.

“From there, I collected lots of debt since I paid for college on my own without any help and I didn’t have any job while attending school and ended up having to go to a sharehouse after getting my bachelors.”

Leaning over, to reveal a necklace in the shape of what seems to be an island peek out from her sweatshirt as she reached her hand out to the camera before smiling knowingly.

“And well from there… it became quite an adventure.”

The screen turns black before a variety of social media is displayed after on the darkened screen with music playing in the background, the music is folksy and the it doesn’t last too long before the video ends completely.

PRESENT.

After Lee Danbi finished school, the debt that seemed to pile up from her time in university prevented her from being able to afford a flat all her own. Reluctant to move back home right after graduating, the twenty-one year old decided to look into other housing. Within a week, the lady luck shined upon her and she found an ad for a share house.

Though she had never lived with anyone outside of her own family, she wasn’t opposed to the idea. In fact, she looked forward to it. She believed it would be no different than living with her extended family all pushed into one living space as they found camaraderie with one another in the cramped spacing.

Four years later, Danbi is one of the longer staying tenants and acts as the younger sister/older sister to everyone in the house as she looks out for them and tries to keep morale up with her bubbly personality. Though being the mood maker of the house, along with keeping up a persona on the internet has taken a toll on the young girl as she has since developed major depression disorder. Though she hides this from her housemates and audience for their sake as well as her own.

She works at Jules full time; helping customers, stocking and restocking and most importantly styling the mannequins. Danbi found the job at the same time as the share house, both on the ads page of the newspaper. She was pretty sure she was the only one in this day and age who enjoyed the printed news. Thanks to her enthusiasm and hard work she was able to become the manager at the store and has since begun to bring a touch of Christine with every outfit she wears to work.

All awhile, she juggles her hobby of youtube, managing the store and getting along with everyone at the house. She isn’t sure how long she can handle under all the stress and expectation and if she can keep that bright smile on her face forever.

#mm:accepted

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