He can claim that learning a foreign language is difficult, but to everyone else in the company, it is no excuse. Jackson, his roommate, joined the company a year after him and could already speak acceptable Korean in barely a year. What shames Mark the most is Bambam. The Thai boy, a few years Mark’s junior, joined the company at the same time as him, and has already mastered the language. Mark can’t help but feel a tinge of jealousy when he sees the young boy communicating well with his noona and hyung instructors, laughing as they crack jokes that Mark can hardly understand. He just hopes they weren’t laughing at him.