Wonkyu is, by nature, someone who seeks extreme stability. So it's not that he looks down on any particular job or cares about its "status," but rather that he wants someone who sets a clear goal and dedicates themselves to it. Whether that's in entertainment, a professional field, or public service doesn't really matter to him; what matters most is whether the person has decided on a direction to pursue and is staying committed to it without wavering.
But if you listen to Wonkyu's interview, that wasn't what he was seeing in Jihyun. He's the kind of person who feels a deep sense of stability just from knowing, "I may not be fully there yet, but I'm finding my footing." Jihyun, however, isn't that kind of person at all, so Wonkyu's words probably felt like a heavy burden to her.
She has lots of interests, lots of things she wants to do and try, and she's capable of many of them too. So she's still in the stage of wanting to explore different things. Even when she appeared on the show, it wasn't that she had a stable career, but more like, "This is what I'm doing for now."
Wonkyu, on the other hand, is the type who takes good care of the people around him (as even Jihyun mentioned in her interview). So if Jihyun had said, "I'm going to focus and give this one thing my all!" he would have supported her endlessly. But because it seemed more like, "Is she not really planning to give anything her full effort? Is she just taking things as they come?" he probably started to feel frustrated watching from the side.
As he said in his interview, he'd tried to comfort and help her refocus at first, but over time it must have felt like trying to light a wet piece of wood. From Wonkyu's practical and realistic point of view, when he started to think seriously about marriage, the issue wasn't so much job instability (X) as undecidedness (✓), that sense of an uncertain and unpredictable future. And on top of that, he must have realized, "Our values and ways of looking at life itself just don't align. What kind of outlook on life does this person even have? Is she really serious about marriage?"
Meanwhile, for Jihyun, who has her own personal circumstances, Wonkyu's words and behavior would have reflected all those thoughts directly, leaving her hurt and pressured in ways she wouldn't have felt otherwise. That sense of burden and urgency must have grown, and as time went on, both of them probably became emotionally exhausted.
The longer it went on, the more Wonkyu's realistic and logical side took over, leading him to conclude that marriage is a real-life decision, and while he still wanted to get married, the more he saw of Jihyun, the more he thought, "She's not the right person to marry." So even though he
didn't want to think that way, he ended up choosing to break up.
But as time passed, he realized something: it wasn't that he simply wanted to get married; he had specifically wanted to marry Jihyun. And that's why someone as extremely stability-seeking as Wonkyu made the rare decision to appear on Transit Love in the first place
Wonkyu is, by nature, someone who seeks extreme stability. So it's not that he looks down on any particular job or cares about its "status," but rather that he wants someone who sets a clear goal and dedicates themselves to it. Whether that's in entertainment, a professional field, or public service doesn't really matter to him; what matters most is whether the person has decided on a direction to pursue and is staying committed to it without wavering.
But if you listen to Wonkyu's interview, that wasn't what he was seeing in Jihyun. He's the kind of person who feels a deep sense of stability just from knowing, "I may not be fully there yet, but I'm finding my footing." Jihyun, however, isn't that kind of person at all, so Wonkyu's words probably felt like a heavy burden to her.
She has lots of interests, lots of things she wants to do and try, and she's capable of many of them too. So she's still in the stage of wanting to explore different things. Even when she appeared on the show, it wasn't that she had a stable career, but more like, "This is what I'm doing for now."
Wonkyu, on the other hand, is the type who takes good care of the people around him (as even Jihyun mentioned in her interview). So if Jihyun had said, "I'm going to focus and give this one thing my all!" he would have supported her endlessly. But because it seemed more like, "Is she not really planning to give anything her full effort? Is she just taking things as they come?" he probably started to feel frustrated watching from the side.
As he said in his interview, he'd tried to comfort and help her refocus at first, but over time it must have felt like trying to light a wet piece of wood. From Wonkyu's practical and realistic point of view, when he started to think seriously about marriage, the issue wasn't so much job instability (X) as undecidedness (✓), that sense of an uncertain and unpredictable future. And on top of that, he must have realized, "Our values and ways of looking at life itself just don't align. What kind of outlook on life does this person even have? Is she really serious about marriage?"
Meanwhile, for Jihyun, who has her own personal circumstances, Wonkyu's words and behavior would have reflected all those thoughts directly, leaving her hurt and pressured in ways she wouldn't have felt otherwise. That sense of burden and urgency must have grown, and as time went on, both of them probably became emotionally exhausted.
The longer it went on, the more Wonkyu's realistic and logical side took over, leading him to conclude that marriage is a real-life decision, and while he still wanted to get married, the more he saw of Jihyun, the more he thought, "She's not the right person to marry." So even though he
didn't want to think that way, he ended up choosing to break up.
But as time passed, he realized something: it wasn't that he simply wanted to get married; he had specifically wanted to marry Jihyun. And that's why someone as extremely stability-seeking as Wonkyu made the rare decision to appear on Transit Love in the first place