29 December 2019

Kim Jisook - I Live Alone

Rainbow's Kim Jisook (김지숙) appeared on "I Live Alone" (나 혼자 산다), where she talked about her many hobbies. "It's hard to even count my hobbies," she revealed. "I normally do things like cooking, games, nail art, handling machinery. I also like maintaining cars," surprising everybody with not only her plethora of hobbies but how diverse her hobbies are. Kim Youngcheol (김영철) observes that Kim Jisook is the female version of Shinhwa member Kim Dong Wan (김동완) who is a passionate hobbyist particularly extreme sports, whilst another cast member compares her to Angus MacGyver, the protagonist in the action-adventure television series "MacGyver". In addition to being a singer and member of Rainbow (until the group was disbanded in 2016), Kim Jisook is a power blogger with her own  lifestyle blog Coming Sook, Sook Log on the Naver portal site which she began in 2013 during her band's hiatus. Her blog averages several thousand visitors daily, peaking at 10,000 to 20,000 visitors when she updates a new post. However, Kim Jisook is diligent blogger as each post involves taking over 300 photos whereby she spends a day preparing the layout of the selected photos and another day writing. When asked what has changed since she started blogging, Kim Jisook admits that she has become addicted to taking pictures everywhere. "Sometimes I wonder whether I'm a blogger or a girl group member", she adds. She also likes organising regular events on her blog, doing crafts such as the scented candles she makes for the winners of her blog event, maintaining her car 'Babari' as can be seen in the footage of her replacing the air filter and filling up the washer fluid with useful hacks, attending broadcasts and audio equipment exhibitions and likes collecting electronics of which she has five computers, each of which has a different operation system and serves a different purpose. Kim Jisook reflects on her daily busy life and explains, "I want a family just like the one I'm in. I want my husband to be just like my dad, and I want to be like my mum. It's my dream to make a family just like that. I've always had a happy life. I want a harmonious and happy family. In order to do that, I plan on practicing how to be happy alone so that I could apply it to my married life. I think it'll be great. This is why how I'm enjoying my single life to the fullest."