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hi all! firstly, our sincerest apologies for the wishy-washiness in activity. we hope to return to you soon-- which brings us to those who applied before our disappearance: if you would still like your application to be processed, simply shoot us a message! otherwise, we hope to get up and running again soon. thank you for your patience!

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reserved

until 5/10

kim dasom, formerly sistar, jo a

kim sohee, elris

jung jaehyun, nct

applied

krystal jung, f(x) as jeon sua — received

jeon jeongguk, bts as jo yeongjae — received

lee taemin, shinee as nam daeil — received

miyawaki sakura, iz*one as fujikawa hanae — received

kim jisoo, blackpink as kang soyi — received

min yoongi, bts as ahn taeil — received

im yoona, snsd as song hyejin — received

bae joohyun, red velvet as kang hanui — received

shin yeeun, actress as song jiae — received

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When are you reopening?

very very soon! we’re just waiting for the tenth application to come in.

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reserved

until 5/2

kim taehyung, bts (extended)

jennie kim, blackpink

until 5/3

lee taeyong, nct (extended)

until 5/4

kim seunghun, cix, moon c (extended)

applied

krystal jung, f(x) as jeon sua — received

jeon jeongguk, bts as jo yeongjae — received

lee taemin, shinee as nam daeil — received

miyawaki sakura, iz*one as fujikawa hanae — received

kim jisoo, blackpink as kang soyi — received

min yoongi, bts as ahn taeil — received

im yoona, snsd as song hyejin — received

bae joohyun, red velvet as kang hanui — received

shin yeeun, actress as song jiae — received

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mwf?

we answered this previously here, but prospective members are welcome to contribute!

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reserved

until 4/30

bae joohyun, red velvet / cashier (a poem a day)

until 5/1

kim taehyung, bts, kang a

lee naeun, april

shin dohyun, actress

tiffany young, soloist

until 5/2

lee taeyong, nct

jennie kim, blackpink

until 5/3

kim seunghun, cix, moon c

applied

krystal jung, f(x) as jeon sua — received

jeon jeongguk, bts as jo yeongjae — received

lee taemin, shinee as nam daeil — received

miyawaki sakura, iz*one as fujikawa hanae — received

kim jisoo, blackpink as kang soyi — received

min yoongi, bts as ahn taeil — received

im yoona, snsd as song hyejin — received

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reserved

until 4/30

bae joohyun, red velvet / cashier (a poem a day)

until 5/1

kim taehyung, bts, kang a

lee naeun, april

shin dohyun, actress

min yoongi, bts

tiffany young, soloist

until 5/2

lee taeyong, nct 

jennie kim, blackpink

applied

krystal jung, f(x) as jeon sua — received

jeon jeongguk, bts as jo yeongjae — received

lee taemin, shinee as nam daeil — received

miyawaki sakura, iz*one as fujikawa hanae — received

kim jisoo, blackpink as kang soyi — received

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reserved

until 4/30

bae joohyun, red velvet / cashier (a poem a day)

jeon jeongguk, bts, jo sibling c

until 5/1

kim taehyung, bts, kang a

lee naeun, april

shin dohyun, actress

jeon sonee, actress

min yoongi, bts

tiffany young, soloist

applied

krystal jung, f(x) as jeon sua — received

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are you guys taking reservations/applications right now?

 we’ll reopen at 10 applications but we’re taking reservations! feel free to send them in.

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revamp and reopening!

we hope you’re all doing well given the circumstances. we’re going to give hs a second run, with a few tweaks: we’ve decided to convert homestay into a share house. so how will this affect how homestay is run? 

common areas will still be retained (the living room, patio, kitchen, etc). brief overnight stays are still welcome, but the majority of guests from now on will be more long-term. this means your muse will be expected to pay rent and stay for at least a week, though basic amenities will still be offered.

bathrooms and laundry rooms are communal use.  there will be communal bathrooms on the first and second floor.

local businesses will remain as is. we may decide to add more as we go along, but that will be determined by the number of members we have.

we will provide shared rooms-- this option will be indicated on your application. if you choose not to have a roommate, we’ll simply place them in a single room.

that’s about it! we’ll be restructuring as we go, but we hope to be up and running again soon. as always,

welcome home. 🌴

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do your members have any wanted connections that they would like filled?

members, speak up if you do!

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jo hyejin

29, owner of unnamed restaurant from jeju-do, south korea

homestay

She’s in a daze as the restaurant bustles with endless energy around her. She tries to keep focused managing tasks instead of her father who has chosen to stay in the kitchen for once. He always seemed to take on this job like a captain commanding his subordinates, a skill he learned from taking care of three kids on his own. Hyejin tried to be just like her father, more stern and forceful but it always failed. Her force was soft and gentle, not hard like her fathers. She lived in Jeju her whole life. This restaurant was no stranger to her but she felt like a fish out of water. Yet her sister seemed to thrive under the pressure she always folded under.

There was always a quiet commotion once the sun started to set and people made their way home. Once the flood of patrons started to quiet down she found herself looking out the window. The view of the ocean always calmed her stirring heart. The sound of the waves seemed to drown out the commotion of people laughing and talking with their loved ones. The voices now sounded distant. She inhaled eyes closing before she relaxed, her shoulders slumped against the open windowsill, her eyes fixed on the ocean in front of her.

“What are you doing?” Her father’s rough voice jolted her from her daze.

She jumped her hand coming up to hold her heart as if it was going to leap from her chest. Once settled she turned to her father and regarded her curiously for once his gaze was gentle up a stark change from the icy man who was commanding the kitchen. “I just thinking.” Thinking about being anywhere but there, dreading her father’s idea of giving her the restaurant when there are people much more suited to take on that responsibility. She stared at him for a moment, the look on his face, his tired eyes and his turned down lips were a familiar sight for her.

“About?” He asked, taking his towel off his shoulder leaning on his elbows on the open window beside her. His tone was tired. Sometimes she forgot how old he was and how much he had to give up because he was left alone with three kids to raise on his own. The toll of his life was apparent from the wrinkles engraved in his skin.

Hyejin’s knuckles were white as she gripped the open windowsill. She closed her eyes taking a deep breath, the ocean breeze permeating her senses. Once she opened her eyes she peered over at her father, her voice small and hitched. “Why she loved the ocean so much.” The stories she heard about her mother from her grandmother were different from the ones her father told her. His always ended in sadness while her grandmothers in adventure and happiness that was at her fingertips but lost once three kids were brought into the world. She didn’t want to end up like her mother or father. She didn’t want to settle because of children and didn’t want to feel trapped by responsibilities like her father never truly achieving happiness. “I just…” she lifted a hand and placed it on her father’s shoulder. She couldn’t bring herself to chase the same freedom her mother did. There was no way she could bring herself to leave her father with more pieces to put together.

He opened his mouth to speak but before he could she cut him off. “Sorry I was just in my own head. We should go there and still have people to serve.” Her hand fell to her side before she put on a fake smile and reentered the restaurant.

No, she’ll never leave him because she fears this time he won’t be able to be whole again.

bio

Ever since Hyejin was a young child she admired the sea. She remembers the first time she witnessed her grandmother dive beneath the water’s surface. She would be gone for what to a young Hyejin felt like hours, she always came back with a bag full of what she thought at the time was treasure. Her grandmother would always resurface with a bag full of fish and shells. Her siblings would sit around in their grandmother’s house while she told them stories too grand to be true but Hyejin clung to every word.

In her youth, Hyejin would clip shell barrettes and sit on the rocks in her white nightgown until the moon shined down at her. She loved the sea she dreamed of plunging beneath the surface hair in silky knots, sound filled with silence, she dreamed real mermaids would whisk her off to underwater paradise glittering with gold and pearls faraway from the world ashore.

until her father’s rough voice reigned her back into reality.

Her father was a hard worker. who never caught a break. On good days, he told them stories about her mother, about how he’d heard her singing from one of the tourist boats sailing by and had been lured in by her song. He’d made a fool of himself, had jumped into the ocean with all of his clothes still on to try to swim to her but had ended up nearly drowning himself; she saved him then invited him back to her house to dry off. The two had fallen in love over a bottle of soju and a plate of seafood, talking from dusk until dawn, that night the conceived Hyejin. For a moment, the two had convinced each other that it could last forever.

The first eight years of Hyejin’s life she remembers her mother and grandmother at sea and her father in the restaurant. Hyejin always was one step behind her mother copying everything she did. It was easy to pretend for their beautiful family, but her mother had never planned to stay for eight years as she had, and Hyejin’s father had a grip that was too tight for comfort.

The story always ended in his slurred words describing the night she fled without a single word or even a note, leaving him behind to raise three children on his own and nurse his devastated heart at the same time. He’d done a decent job at it, or at least he told himself that. He prided himself on what beautiful and mature daughter he had raised, even though all that she was came from shying away from him. Her father tried to be a good person despite his efforts; his anger always got the best of him. His anger was always a third person in the room, wilting her every time she showed the same spirit her mother had, every time she so much as waved her hand like the woman used to.

Her father never hurt her physically, the abuse of his words and actions pushed her farther away from him and caused her to long for an escape. When she was done serving tables at her father’s small restaurant and had hung her apron for the night, she slid a jeweled band onto her hair, then painted her lips the color of orchids. Jeju wasn’t exactly overpopulated, but there were places in the shadows if you’d lived there long enough, hubs filled to the brim with beautiful music and stone bars that spilled out onto the seaside. She danced in the arms of strange men, hummed to the rhythm, felt what her mother must have felt that summer. Freedom, beauty, as wide and unwavering as the ocean. Sometimes she ended up in her white her white bathing suit, dove into the ocean for so long she felt she might disappear, might sprout gills and fins and find home in some pearly atlantis.

When she was done, she’d kiss the cheek of her dance partner, wring out her hair, and tiptoe home, hanging her clothes to dry where her father and siblings wouldn’t see them.

Hyejin was a leading lady in the making, but her story never came.

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reserved

until 3/22

moon gayoung, actress 

applied

im yoona, snsd as jo hyejin — received

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hi is this a strict literate rp? are gifs allowed to be used? thank you.

If you’d like to incorporate them into your writing that’s fine, we just don’t want any one-liners or simple threads that depend on them.

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min sehyeon

25, former lifestyle blogger from seoul, south korea

homestay

min sehyeon thinks she’s going insane. her therapist says she just needs a new start.

for the past few months, life has just been boring— an ironic statement coming from someone whose job it is to have an interesting life. after all, no one wants to read posts from a lifestyle blogger filled with a deep ennui. (“dear readers, today i went to another cafe! did you know most of the coffeeshops in hongdae source their beans from the same purveyors? all of these iced americanos are going to taste exactly the same wherever you go.”) maybe she’s just getting jaded with age— and all at just 25!— but she gets the feeling that she’s lived through all of the excitement she was meant to have in this lifetime.

there’s nothing exciting about doing things just for the sake of having something to talk about. there’s nothing romantic about turning her life into bite-sized treats for easy mass consumption. she realizes now more than ever that she isn’t a real person to her audience, she’s simply a conduit to vicariously live through; an avatar of the digital age. thus arises the question: if she isn’t living for herself, then what is she living for? she waxes existential to her therapist until she realizes she’s not bored, she’s deeply, deeply unhappy.

god, maybe she does need a new start.

so now here she is, sitting in the incheon airport with nearly 2 hours to go before her flight to jeju-do, saying goodbye to people she’s never known. the spotty public wifi doesn’t make it easy, but eventually she finally finishes typing and hits post. it’s succinct— she tries to convince herself it’s a chic farewell, but the reality is that she doesn’t know what else to say. she shuts her laptop and slides it into her carry-on bag.

having you all join me over the years has been the adventure of a lifetime, but it’s time for me to search for a new one. i hope you all get to find yours too. love always, sehyeon.

bio

sehyeon’s childhood is a study in juxtaposition, thanks to her detached father and overbearing mother. she is the sole focus of their attention (or lack thereof) for 3 years, until her little sister sehee is born.

as she grows up, she seeks out ways to blend in as much as she seeks out ways to stand out; she throws herself into her studies to avoid the criticism of her mother, she wants to be the best to gain the approval of her father. life is a juggling act for many years.

she’s fairly popular in middle school and high school, with loving friends wherever she goes. an incident with a boyfriend in her final year of high school leaves her far less trusting than she had been before.

her uncomfortable home dynamic starts manifesting itself in her mental health. she begins seeing a therapist, a kindly man whom sehyeon will continue to see for many years.

an acceptance letter arrives from kyung hee university, her father’s alma mater. it’s the first time he says he’s proud of her and really means it.

upon finally matriculating, sehyeon feels lost. after years in this rat race where the finish line is the ambiguously labeled “college,” she doesn’t know what gives her purpose anymore. her therapist suggests keeping a journal and giving meaning to her days by putting them to writing.

she starts a blog for her day-to-day activities. it’s more of an online diary than anything, but people seem to like her writing. (that, and it’s much easier to be famous when you’ve got a pretty face and know your angles.) hyeony day, as her blog is called, begins gaining traction and sehyeon becomes an influencer.

although she graduates with a degree in journalism, she realizes that she can just keep blogging for a living. it’s not the career anyone thought she’d have, especially her.

years of the same old routine has left her blasé and unaffected. she is terrified by her own apathy.

she realizes that her life has just been method after method of escapism.

what is she running from?

who is she running from?

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song ahrin

23, receptionist at doldam from jeju-do, south korea

homestay

time had flown by so quickly for ahrin as she spent the past few hours in the beach listening and writing lyrics on her notebook. rather than heading straight back home, she decided to take this night to visit a place that has always caught her interest. her parents had told her in the past how they really loved the place (especially the pets, who seemed well acquainted with them) but it wasn’t until now that she actually got a chance to visit homestay.

when she arrived at the location, she is curious but confused about the situation. “was it always like this?” ahrin thought to herself quietly as she was surrounded by a crowd of people. conversations were exchanged between people and the petite individual only heard bits and pieces of it. there are some people that she has never seen before, but then there were a few that she knew.

“ahrin!”

her name was called and in an instant, ahrin turns her head towards the direction of the sound. it’s from her sister who rushes to hug her tightly. without getting a chance to say anything else, she is led by the older woman to the crowd of people.

after several introductions and small talks, ahrin looked at her sister before the other tells her something that impacted her life.

“hey, i’ll be leaving to go to seoul tomorrow. take care of mother and father for me, okay?”

and since that day, ahrin vividly remembers homestay as the place where she last saw her sister before her disappearance.

bio

after ahrin’s parents had given birth to her older sister, ahjung, the family decided to move to jeju for a change of environment. at first it was a temporary move that would only last a few months, but the three of them enjoyed jeju so much that they decided to permanently stay once ahrin was born.

ahrin’s childhood was a rather simple one — while she did get along with her peers, there were times when people would expect more from her. whenever her older sister did well in something, she was pressured to do just as good as her (and it also didn’t help that her mother was an elementary school teacher).  as the years went by, ahrin came to the conclusion that she could never be just like her older sister, so she had to find something else that she would shine and it was music. she loved listening to all kinds of music thanks to her father, who would always spend his weekends listening to a variety of songs in front of their house.

once ahrin was in high school, she really felt the pressure get the best of her as some of her peers were accepted to different colleges and universities (some of which were far from jeju). she parted ways with most, if not all, of her closest friends as they left to go to college. as for her, she wasn’t quite sure what she wanted to do afterwards so she took a break and helped her father with a book that he was working on.

however, that lasted for a short while especially when ahrin found out one day that her sister would be leaving them to go to seoul. for the first few months, ahrin was confused and lost as to why her sister would leave them all of a sudden but she soon found out from her mother the reason why — ahjung wanted to move in with her boyfriend, which was something that her mother didn’t approve of. whenever ahrin would ask why the older woman felt that way, her mother would tell her that leaving jeju would change them for the worse and that she was forbidden to leave jeju.

the following year, ahrin was recommended by her father a job opening at doldam, the clinic. ahrin takes the job in hopes of finding out what she wants to do in life and to help take care of her parents.

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activity check

the following have been removed for inactivity (>2 weeks):

@sominhs​

@hsjinjoo​

the following are at risk of being removed-- please contact the main if you would like to go on hiatus or post within the next two days to maintain your spot:

@serinhs​

@junghanhs

the following have gone on hiatus:

hseunho (until 3/25)

hsdoona (until 3/20)

hsjiseong (until 4/6)