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It's because he actually called him "hyung" which in Korea is something you call any man that is both older then you, and you are close with. That is a very common social custom over there but when translated directly to English we loose the meaning a little bit. I guess the only equivalent is calling him "uncle" like how some kids refer to close family friends as uncles or aunts regardless of relation

Ahjusssi woulda been WAYYY closer. But I think this Ian has a lot of dry humor. That's the vibe I get from him, at least.

Stranger comes up and demands dad title? Nope. Build up to that properly, and I'm sure Hyung has different levels of meaning.

It's not a literal brother title, it's just an honorific for somebody older than you in general. In my country we have something similar to it too so no, it's not literally older brother. Just something to address them respectfully plus I don't think he's been told that he's his father.

It just means an older person that’s a guy

Ian is definitely building it up, if not for the sake of YeJun, in not directly making himself insta-dad. But for sure it's funny as hell. Calling himself Hyung. Instead of AHJUSSI.

True, but Hyung had a limit on age before it becomes AHJUSSI. I'm sure his dad is like 22 years older than he is. In my country there is a step up from "older brother", to "uncle", to something resembling and uncle who is an even "older uncle", then to calling someone who is an elderly person who might be around the same age as your grandparents, and I think beyond that there is another term, but most ppl don't live That long. Lmao.

true, but like he does look young to be called ahjussi it's usually towards more mature/older looking men like 40's up hahaha

Yah. For us for sure, since we're older. So someone in their forties and older would make sense for us. But if you think about it from kiddo's p.o.v. the difference in age is about the same for us as for him. Lmao. I had a friend who had kids and when she tells her kids to address me, or she herself would address me as "auntie" to teach them, I'm like, I ain't no aunt. ┗( T﹏T )┛

He most likely asked the kid to called him "hyung" because being called "dad" definitely will need a lot explanations and being called "ahjusshi" feels too old, he still in his 20's after all lol

No. My friend addresses me and our other friends as uncles and aunties to her kids. We were in our twenties.

Six years after they'd met and had the kid would place DY and YJ in their late 20s. So prob 27 if they had graduated college at 22. Assuming a four year program, and no grad school. And compared to the kid, like I had said the age difference is too big to be called Hyung. But to each their own.

I mean it's most likely Doyoon who asked Siyeon to call him with "hyung" for whatever reason (Yejun looks confused so that calling definitely not from him), so their age gap doesn't matter if that's the case. Probably similiar case with Euiyoung from low tide in twilight called Taejoo with "hyung" because Taejoo wants it like that, and TJ-EY age gap are similiar with DY-SY age gap, plus TJ and DY are around same age too.

I don't remember about LTIT, I'll have to reread and catch up. But the thing is, TJ & DY may be close in age, and I don't know their ages, but EY & DY are BROTHERS, so their age gap can't be all that big. I think DY may be about college age and his brother is a kindergartner?!? (Since idk his age, I'll assume 18-20, so 18-5 = 13, or 20-5 = 15 age gap.) Whereas SiYeon's dad is 27. So age gap is 27-5 = 22. Basically, any one who is someone who can give birth to you (except for super young dads) they are of uncle status to you.

If you're 20 and someone who you consider is an uncle and would address them as uncle if they're 20 years or older than you are, then for you it would make sense to call that person uncle, so as you say, you would only consider someone an uncle if they were in the late 30s-50s/older, with the appropriate age gap. Same difference w/ SiYeon calling his dad uncle. The age gape would still have been 20/+ years. As per my example, my friends and I had ranged from our early 20s to late 20s, at the time of the friend who had conceived & given birth. We were in the role of aunts and uncles, being older than her kids by 20+ years. We only retained brother and sister roles with each other/ppl close in age. Also, in Korean culture, it is rude to call someone who is MUCH older than you are by the title of Hyung. Not to say it isn't possible or ok, depending on your relationship with that person. In my culture too, it is really rude to call someone "Hyung" if they are a lot older than you are. Anyways, I'm sure DY had him call him "Hyung" as a joke. DY is a jokester.

And ofc it's DY who had told SiYeon to call him "Hyung". That's Obvious from YJ's reaction.

But like I said, it's normal to be called aunties and uncles when your friends have kids, unless you're really young and are closer to their kid's age, with the exception being families, where if your grandparents had kids with a wide age gap, and your parents were the ones that were the first or second child and had you early, then you might end up w/ an uncle who is only slightly older than you are, the same age as you, or even younger than you are, but they would still retain the title of uncle, regardless of the age gap.

I'm gonna guess you guys are really young since you have not experienced being called aunties or uncles from friends who are your age who have had kids. I had felt really young so having to be in the auntie or uncle role was really hard to adjust to, but once you've reached a certain age, you just get called aunts and uncles no matter WHAT your age, as long as in relations to the child the age gap is wide enough that it warrants so.

Thanks for thinking i'm still so young I'm not though, and have experiences being called auntie in my 20's by my cousin's and friend's kids. I'm also from SEA so i know and understand how asian honorific works. I'm not confused about how Siyeon should called Doyoon or something, just lightly guessed about why Doyoon prefer to be called Hyung rather than uncle. Honestly i don't get what's wrong in my comment that made you think i don't understand about honorific thing.

Btw in LTIT, Euihyun and Euiyoung are half brothers with 20 years age gap, then1 Euihyun and Taejoo are on same age. Euiyoung is 7 now so both Euihyun and Taejoo are 27, most likely same with Doyoon and Yejun.

Ah. I see. Well, from your argument it's seems like you don't. But thanks for clarifying. And I know they're ages apart, but didn't know it's THAT MUCH of an age difference. Plus, I would have thought that if EuiHyun were that old he would have been able to find adequate employment. I'm really behind that one so I don't know what else has occured. It's just weird for me to have them call them thatm in the case of TaeJoo, it makes some sense. But in the father's age w/ DoYoon it doesn't to me. Like, I myself feel young so when my friend had her kids call me that it felt out of place. But it wouldn't have been appropriate for them to address me as older sister. And for ppl older than a certain age gap, it becomes improper or disrespectful to address them as of they are closer in age to you as older sister or older brother.

And I would have to address her kids as "daughter" or "son" and not "younger sister" or "younger brother". I guess it makes more sense w/ TaeJoo because EuiHyun is EuiYoung's older brother.

Yeah, Doyoon's case is raising eyebrow because he and Siyeon are real father and son, but on more serious thought he probably did it just for teasing Yejun lol.

EXACTLY!!! For sure. I've been saying he's been saying these things from the beginning as a joke. But YeJun is very serious and doesn't seem to take things lightly, so I think he scares HIMSELF more than ANYTHING. He reads a LOT into things.