A participant from ‘I Am Solo’ Season 24, Young-sik, appeared on ‘Ask Anything’.
In the 313th episode of KBS Joy’s ‘Ask Anything’ aired on the 21st, a participant who appeared as 'Young-sik' in the nerdy special of ‘I Am Solo’ Season 24 appeared alongside his workplace superior.
The participant, who shared his story on the dating reality show ‘I Am Solo’ Season 24, expressed his concerns, saying, “I got so immersed that I unintentionally became a villain and am receiving criticism beyond just criticism.”
He explained, “There was a nice person named Ok-soon,” and added, “On the first day, she asked me, ‘I noticed you cleaning up trash. Would you like to go stargazing with me?’” He said, “From that moment, I thought, ‘Does she like me?’ but I wasn’t chosen by anyone when it came to selecting a date.”
After that, he revealed, “I became withdrawn and started comparing myself to other guys. I cried a lot.” He confessed, “So I thought the person who asked me to go stargazing on the first day was ‘my destiny’ and acted inappropriately.”
One of his inappropriate actions included mentioning to another woman during a date that “you are a simulation tool.” When Seo Jang-hoon asked, “Did you say that openly?” the participant replied, “Not directly. It was more like, ‘I will use you as a practice tool.’”
Hearing this, Seo Jang-hoon remarked, “You have issues too,” and asked the workplace superior about the participant's usual behavior, to which the superior replied, “Not much, just a little.” Lee Soo-geun interpreted, “He’s fine at work, but his social skills drop a bit in front of the opposite sex.”
When Seo Jang-hoon asked if there was anything worse, the participant said, “Using a practice tool is just the first level,” and added, “The second level was during a 5:1 date when I was the only one crying and confronted them, saying, ‘You said you had at least 1% of feelings for me, so why are you making me suffer?’”
When the hosts asked, “Did you really like Ok-soon that much?” and “Did you confess?” the participant replied, “I think so,” and said, “I directly told her, ‘You might feel burdened, but I think I love you.’ There wasn’t a big reaction.”
Additionally, he explained the behind-the-scenes situation of watching Ok-soon on a date with another man through a crack in the door, saying, “It was a date I had to do after waking up, and I didn’t know when my turn would be, so I waited from a distance to not interrupt their conversation.”
Seo Jang-hoon asked, “What do people say about you?” and the participant replied, “They called me borderline intellectual disability, loser, and the worst was insults about my parents,” adding, “It was hard to live my daily life.”
In response, Seo Jang-hoon said, “Even if it’s uncomfortable to watch, please understand it as a concept for the show. It’s really not okay to leave malicious comments after the broadcast,” and continued, “The problem was that you expressed your feelings too excessively. Even we, who are meeting you for the first time, think you might have gone a bit overboard.”
When Lee Soo-geun asked about his parents' reaction, the participant said, “On the way home after filming, I called my mother and said, ‘I acted. After watching my son act, she might feel that I can be an actor,’” and added, “At first, my mother believed me, but after seeing the crying scene, she realized it wasn’t acting.”
“So far, we’ve been nice in our comments. You may think it’s pure now, but if you continue like this as you get older, you’ll become a strange person. You need to abandon the thought of charging ahead without considering the other person’s feelings,” he advised coldly.
[Ji Seung-hoon, Star Today Reporter]
