Singer and painter Cho Young-nam attracted attention by mentioning a lifelong bucket list and expressing a desire to have a phone conversation with ex-wife, actress Youn Yuh-jung.
A video titled, “What is Young-nam's last bucket list item that he has given up on after doing everything?”, was posted on Cho Young-nam's YouTube channel “Hwagaejangtok” on the 25th.
Cho Young-nam, when asked, “You have lived a cool life, so why did you say 'life is embarrassing'?”, recalled two divorces, saying, “There are many embarrassing things.”
He said, “I broke a promise with God twice. I regret for a lifetime that I didn't think about the kids when I left home. I deeply regret that. It's a mistake.”
Cho Young-nam, who said that he never saw his son after leaving home, answered “Yes” to the question, “Wasn't it possible to see them even if you wanted to after that?”
Cho Young-nam also talked about the bucket list. He said, “I don't have a bucket list. I don't have it because I did everything I wanted. The only thing I couldn't do was have a phone conversation with the kids' mother. That's about it for the bucket list, but it seems petty to put it on the list, so there's nothing at all.”
He defined his divorce from Youn Yuh-jung as a “great divorce,” saying, “Above all, after I left home, that friend became a world-class actress, and because I left, I was able to become a painter.”
He then said, “I don't know what people will think. I think I'm going to insist on it that way.”
Meanwhile, Cho Young-nam married Youn Yuh-jung in 1974 and had two sons, but they divorced in 1987. He remarried a woman 18 years his junior in 1995, but divorced again. He has two sons and one daughter.