Ha Joon Kim's family was your typical average life family. His father, Kim Dong-Hyun, was a professional neuroscientist who traveled a lot due to business trips, and his mom, Kim Seol-Hyun, was a nurse for the state hospital.
From the outside, one could say they were a normal, well-disciplined family, and they would be right. But that only stood because they were not the type of family to ever move from the line they had drawn.
The timetable was strictly followed, their son wasn't allowed to have friends outside of the family circle — rules were placed on everything.
Even after the death of their daughter, they still had the same rules up, even though one of those rules was what led to her death.
This affected Ha Joon a lot as a kid. His life constantly felt like a simulation, and he wanted out. And so, he did. He separated himself from the family once he got old enough, living by himself as the loser he was.
