wooseok doesn't remember much about his father.

his mother always says that he'd been an honorable, upstanding man with a high sense of morals, and that she wished wooseok would grow up to be just like him.

he has no shame in admitting that he's likely grown up to be the opposite of his father.

born as the only child from a couple struggling in poverty, wooseok grew up helping his mother run the small, decrepit ramyun shop that his father had started. it was a difficult life, but somehow, they managed. despite his mother's insistence on him growing up like a normal boy, wooseok would rush over after school to help her with the (very few) customers and the maintenance of the shop.

it was a simple life, yes... but wooseok always wondered if there was more to it than this — if there was something more that he could do for his mother.

eventually, he got his answer in the form of making bets and playing card games with his friends. they'd give him their allowance, and with the small amount he got, it would mean more meals for him and his mother. more things that could make her happy. despite her concern as to where he received this kind of money ("i got a part time job, mama!"), wooseok continued on this path, until he became an infamous poker player within the halls of his public school. 

it was then that a few older students took him into the place where he'd spend most of his adolescence — the casino.

with his height, the bouncers had no problem believing that wooseok was 21, despite the fact that he was only 16. he spent many days and nights there, honing his skills and becoming one of the best gamblers in the casino. he'd lose money, yes, but he'd gain it back the next day, and his mother would know no better. she was pleased that wooseok managed to find an "upstanding part time job" as a daycare assistant (a complete lie), and she lived out her days knowing nothing of her son's gambling addiction.

one fateful night, an overconfident young man entered the casino and challenged wooseok and a few others to a game of poker. he took pride in seeing the man's face fall, in seeing him give up everything he had in his pockets and his saVings. just when wooseok thought the man was completely broke and sapped of all savings and opportunity, he bet one fateful thing:

his job.

unsurprisingly, wooseok won the game. despite the man's aversion to giving up everything, wooseok forced him to pay what he owed — after all, he had made some friends that were willing to do the dirty work of getting unwilling losers' dues. the man then quit his job as a butler of the gaya family and recommended wooseok in his place, thus earning him his current occupation.

that was four years ago. combined with the money from his gambling stunts, wooseok's pay as a butler goes almost entirely to his mother, who is overjoyed at the thought of her son serving the gaya family like an honorable man. although wooseok is anything but, he does his best to pretend he's exactly that around her.

after he secured his job as a butler, a fellow gambler approached him one night at the casino to proposition him. the gambler was an employee of the tap, and she offered to pay him for information regarding the royals' lives. wooseok had never been one to turn down money, so he took the offer. as he began to provide more information, he'd receive more and more job offers at the tap, eventually becoming an employee and writer of the publication's articles. 

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