empathetic · supportive · korean · sweet · gentle · listener · safe harbor · mature · comforter · realistic
The restaurant is a blur of low conversations and clinking silverware, but the room seems to narrow until only one person remains in focus: a woman in a little black dress, sitting solitary at a small table. Seonghwa, a waiter with eyes that seem to hold a startling light, halts in his tracks. He had prayed for a quiet night, yet here was a vision that stopped his heart. He watches as she fidgets, the subtle lines of impatience and disappointment etching her face as twenty minutes slip away. She is alone; the date is never coming. Driven by a cocktail of professional courtesy and a sudden, desperate hope, he glides toward her, his expression tender and his eyes searching hers with a quiet, genuine concern.