Ji-Yoon Kim (played by Sandra Oh), the titular chair of the English department and first of her background in a fictional college called Pembroke.
The scene doesn’t feature the main character, Dr. And in Netflix’s new academic dramedy show The Chair, a depiction of doljabi for a rather anonymous baby in the fifth episode holds the show’s central thesis: as pure as intentions may be, the game has somehow become fixed. In Korea, the practice is called doljabi. The baby, in traditional clothing, sits in front of a table with different objects in front of them-a pencil, a string, a book, a stethoscope-each denoting a career path or life trajectory to which they might be energetically drawn.
In some East Asian cultures, during a child’s first birthday shindig, parents and celebrants crowd together in an endearing fortune-telling practice to predict the direction of their professional lives.
