[Staff Spotlight] Get to know Jenzy

by Jenzy

Explain your username and/or avatar.
My username doesn’t really have a deeper meaning. I wish it did! But it was really just my Starbucks name put through multiple name generators until I found one that sounded — as the kids say — hip and cool. As for my avatar, it’s the ever-iconic Eun Dan-oh from Extraordinary You! I came across this drama back when I was pulling multiple all-nighters trying to get all my projects done, and this drama + caffeine was the perfect combo needed to get through all those nights. There was just something about Dan-oh’s crackhead energy that my sleep-deprived self could relate to.

What is the first drama that you watched (or the first drama that made an impression)?
My gateway drug was Dream High. I’d seen some of my mom’s soapier dramas with her growing up, but this was the first drama that really unlocked my obsession with dramas and a lifelong crush on Ok Taecyeon. There’s dancing, singing, and a ragtag cast of beautiful high schoolers. What’s not to love?

Name a job or two that you’ve had in the past.
I find this hilarious because I have absolutely zero interest or skill in sports, but my very first job was a short stint as a ticketing worker for my college athletics department. I had really upsold my (even shorter) stint on my high school swim team and gotten the job, but I was laughably bad at the customer facing side. I didn’t know anything about any of the sports or even the athletes’ names! There was even a time when the mother of our basketball team’s star player asked for the comp tickets under her son’s name, and I blankly asked her, “Is he a coach or cheerleader?” Needless to say, I left that job pretty quickly, and it taught me that unlike in dramas, you can’t always fake it till you make it.

What drama genres do you especially like?
I love ensemble sitcoms/comedies. They give me that warm feeling of hanging out with your friends and getting into hijinks together. Also friends-to-lovers > enemies-to-lovers – I’m sorry I don’t make the rules.

What drama genres do you especially dislike?
Anything gory is an unfortunate no from me. It’s why I still haven’t seen Squid Game.

What drama character would you want to be?
If I could even begin to embody a sliver of Search Query: WWW’s Cha Hyun, I would be content. She has an uncompromising moral compass, she’s unapologetically sensitive, she’s great at her job, she’s a complete badass, her lip gloss is always on point — I could go on forever. I feel like I’ve seen a lot of characters embody the capable badass, but never with the level of endearing sweetness and fierce empathy that Hyun does. She’s that girl often imitated, never duplicated.

What was your major in school?
I chose English on a whim as a placeholder major because I didn’t want to go into college undeclared and ended up sticking with it for the rest of my college career. My secret confession is that even after four years I still don’t get most poetry (and not for lack of trying!)

Favorite non-Korean movie and/or TV show?
I will always be trying to plug the 2013 masterpiece Austenland into any conversation. The complete campiness, the outfits, the Austen, the respectful (!!!!) love interest — it checks all the boxes for me, and with every watch there’s always something new to laugh or swoon at.

Which Hallyu celebrity would you actually want to meet and spend an hour with?
If Lee Da-hee could just grab some coffee with me and give me fashion advice, that would be amazing. I would also be content with her stylist.

Which of the 7 deadly sins would be your undoing? (Pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, or sloth.)
Definitely sloth. I like to call myself a high-functioning procrastinator when the reality is I push off projects until the last possible second and then cram them in lightning speed.

Your favorite drama has an unholy alliance with your most hated drama and produces a mutant baby drama. Describe the plot.
In a high school for chaebols, one poor girl must navigate the pseudo-bullying advances of Lee Min-ho playing a curly haired chaebol by day, and a crime fighting vigilante by night. Tropes include: Birth secrets, amnesia, and early 2010’s fashion.

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[Staff Spotlight] Get to know Jenzy