The bar Seo-jun had chosen was tucked below street level, warm lighting and low music giving the place an easy, unhurried feel, and Jihan spotted him immediately at a corner booth, already deep in conversation with two other people.
"There he is." Seo-jun waved him over, grinning. "Thought you might bail on me."
"I don't bail." Jihan slid into the booth beside him.
"This is Hyun-woo," Seo-jun said, gesturing to a broad-shouldered man nursing a beer, "and this is Ye-jin. We all went to university together, terrorized several professors, the usual."
"Terrorized is a strong word," Ye-jin said, raising an eyebrow. "We asked pointed questions in office hours. Once."
"Repeatedly," Hyun-woo corrected. "For an entire semester."
