'Stars' Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant' Kim Jae-joong's father confessed to having suffered from New Recruit in the past.
On the afternoon of the 19th, the KBS2 variety show Stars' Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant was held as a "mother's hand special" prepared for the upcoming national holiday Chuseok.
Kim Jae-joong's father said he was born with a silver spoon and did well running a transport business. In his 20s he owned several hundred suits and wore sunglasses, living a youth without want. The father said "At that time I was the richest man in Cheongyang." Kim Jae-joong's parents enjoyed smooth years after marrying for love until the early 1980s, but after going into the gas station business with acquaintances they failed and were buried under debts of hundreds of millions of won.
The father said, "My mind snapped. Everyone said I had gone crazy. Like a madman I didn't recognize people around me and they called me a lunatic. I lost my mind."
The mother confessed, "I developed anger-induced illness, depression and mental confusion. My husband went through many trials and nearly died many times. I've never told this story in my life, but when the gas station failed, a shamanic calling came. It was a spirit calling, New Recruit came. Because he kept refusing the spirit calling, people around him said he was mentally ill like a truly crazy person. I didn't tell you children, but a monk told me to have him gain stability at a temple, so I sent him to the temple." The father said, "At that time he went to the temple, shaved his head and lived like a monk."
Left alone to take responsibility for nine siblings, the mother said, "When I think back then, even if I wanted to die I couldn't, and the children weren't one or two but many. What would I do when the children said 'Mom, give me food, Mom, I'm hungry'? I couldn't steal; I had to do something to feed them. I sold ginseng from house to house and sold snacks, and when someone bought tangerines at auction to sell, they'd tell me to move. The stall fees were nothing ordinary. I was spreading out ginseng to sell when my husband came. He said let's go eat a hot bowl of soup, you worked hard in the cold. That moment moved me the most. That was the one time. I vividly remember when he asked me to eat a bowl of soup. Even living with nothing, having my husband made me feel he cared," she said, shedding tears.
[Photo] Broadcast screen capture of 'Stars' Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant'
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