Jisoo does not talk about her relationships. Not with friends, not with anyone. Even after a big fight that leaves her and a partner not speaking for days, the people around her would not know anything happened. "I don't really talk about my concerns with people around me. Especially not about dating," she said on the YouTube channel Yoo In Radio, where she appeared alongside her "Boyfriend on Demand" co-star Seo In-guk to promote the Netflix series. When asked why, her answer was direct: "I wouldn't listen anyway."
But when it came to a relationship balance game on the show, she was more than willing to share exactly what she would and would not want in a partner and the answers were very much her own.
On texting first, she chose a partner who never does it. "I don't text first either. I can do it if needed," she said. The logic tracks two people who both wait for the other to text would just have to figure it out eventually.
On anniversaries, she chose a partner who does not remember them at all, explaining that she is bad with dates herself. "If they try to keep track, it'd just end up upsetting both of us," she said. The Korean expression she used translates roughly to matching each other's rhythm rather than one person trying to carry the emotional load of remembering for both.
On food, she chose a partner who can eat sweets over one who can eat spicy food, and her reasoning was simple. "It'd be disappointing if they can't eat sweet food because I always have dessert after meals." Eating dessert after every meal is apparently non-negotiable.
Seo In-guk, sitting beside her throughout, shared his own approach to relationship advice he used to give it, then stopped, because he realized people already know their own answers before they ask.
The conversation sat comfortably alongside the premise of "Boyfriend on Demand," in which Jisoo plays Mi-rae, a webtoon producer who turns to a virtual dating simulation when real-life romance feels like too much work. The show is currently streaming on Netflix and trending in 69 countries.