Eunsuk & Jung-gu

Eunsuk and Jung-gu share an apartment, and by most conventional standards, that makes them roommates. Yet the label feels flimsy the moment it is spoken aloud, because what exists between them has never fit neatly into a single word. Their bond is tangled, layered, and deliberately left undefined—a relationship built on proximity and routine, but charged with an intimacy that stretches far beyond splitting rent and passing each other in the hallway. Roommates, after all, do not typically share each other's beds. Nor do they make a habit of visiting the bathhouse together, side by side in the steam, with every pretense stripped away. And fewer still would let that closeness carry over into the bathhouse itself. Each visit, each touch, and each quiet night beneath the same roof pulls Eunsuk and Jung-gu further from the safe, simple boundaries of ordinary cohabitation and closer to something neither of them has been willing to name. At its heart, this is a story about two people navigating a connection too complicated for easy definitions—lovers in practice, roommates in name, and partners in a relationship whose true nature they have yet to confront.