tales from Korea

I guess it may be time to update the status of my applications; things have been looking promising until some bad news was received today. JaYeon was on to mom for a while, the usual catch-up, but she informed JaYeon there have been some problems with her brother Myung-Gi, who appears to have a chronic back problem which may require surgery. This problem may upgrade his status level on joining the army above 4, which may mean when he starts his conscription he’ll have more of an army ‘office’ type job. This may sound both good and bad, he gets out of the grub work, but it also means he may have a serious back problem. The issue with me is that the plan of me moving involved taking over Myung-Gi’s room when he leaves for the service sometime in June, but if he gets the ‘office’ position he’ll be doing a 9-5 type thing and come home every night instead of living in the military barracks.

I hope he’ll be OK, but it does mess my plans up a bit, not least as I’ve already stated my living arrangements to the agencies I’ve applied to and they’ve taken that under consideration during the applications. I’ll look like a bit of a douchbag turning around and saying, “Actually, yeah, I’ll need the apartment”.

It’s a pity really, I have spent the last while mentally preparing myself for that living situation and now it may not be so. We’ll see what happens though, and at least some of the applications seem to be progressing.