Background

Yoon Junhee was born into a middle class family in Suwon, South Korea. Her father, a civil engineer, barely made time for his daughter. Her mother was a homemaker and gave her the bare minimum of care, but still bothered to teach Junhee the basics of homemaking. Meanwhile, Junhee's older brother was their parents pride and joy; The favorite. And Junhee was... Just Junhee. More of an inconvenience than anything. Desperate to step out of her brother's shadow and earn her parents approval, she stretched herself thin picking up multiple hobbies. Singing, violin, painting, even Badminton. but still it wasn't enough to impress them. Unlike her brother, her grades weren't very remarkable. Around the final year of high school, Junhee dropped all of her hobbies and focused on studying for the CSAT. If she could score high enough then maybe, just maybe she'd earn their approval. Right? Unfortunately, Junhee /didn't/ score high enough to be placed into a prestigeous university like her brother did. It didn't matter that she passed and had the option to attend a lesser-known college, because to her family that still meant failure. Because of that, her parents didn't think it was worth funding a higher education for their daughter. As a coping mechanism, she added a brand new hobby under her belt; Baking! She would watch baking competitions on television all the time. Why not try it out herself? Junhee borrowed cookbooks from the library and tried out beginner friendly recipes. As expected, she failed. Miserably. Turns out, baking was a /lot/ harder to do than she initially thought. By her 20s, she was much better at baking and it became a passion that she threw her all into. Her mother took notice. Without asking, her mother arranged for Junhee to move to the states to live with her aunt and help out with desserts at her restaurant. It would be her first real job. She was expecting New York, or even California. Nope! Her flight landed in Louisville, Kentucky. Junhee's English was... okay. She learned just enough to earn a passing grade in school, but she was limited to basic conversational topics, at best. She didn't get much of a chance to improve since she never really interacted with the customers, and is usually too shy to communicate outside of Korean unless she needs to. Junhee had been in the states for just a few months when a deep, pounding sound interrupted her lunch with a co-worker. She witnessed a rift opening in the distance, then the bodies began spilling out of it. More of them opened, some closer, some further away. The restaurant and her aunt inside of it were easily overrun, and Junhee would have been next had it not been for her co-worker grabbing her wrist and making a run for it. She didn't know how or when, but she ended up in front them. And then they were just.. gone. Junhee ran until her legs threatened to give out, eventually finding shelter inside a convenience store with a small handful of other survivors. By the time the emergency broadcast reached Junhee, she was alone. She didn't want to continue fighting for her life out in the wild anymore, so she took her chances and followed the broadcasts instructions to make her way toward the Mega Mall.