Actor Park Jung-hoon first drew attention by mentioning the marijuana incident that once shook the nation.
On the afternoon of the 4th at Jeongdong 1928 Art Center on Deoksugung-gil in Jung-gu, Seoul, a press conference was held to commemorate the publication of Park Jung-hoon's essay "Don't regret". The event was attended with Park Jung-hoon as the main guest and pianist and writer Moon A-ram serving as MC.
In particular, Park Jung-hoon said the essay includes things he did well, things he did not do well, and even his flaws, and he also recalled the marijuana incident that caused a social stir in the past.
According to news reports at the time, Park Jung-hoon was accused in August 1994 of smoking marijuana four times with a U.S. Eighth Army high school teacher who appeared as an English conversation instructor on a morning broadcast. Afterwards, the violent crimes division of the Seoul District Prosecutors' Office arrested Park Jung-hoon and others on charges of violating the marijuana control law.
Park Jung-hoon wrote candidly about the controversial "marijuana incident" in this Don't regret, and about the reason he said, "When you talk about yourself, if you only write praises, it doesn't seem believable. That doesn't mean I have to tell all the ugly things, but for me the marijuana incident was a very big event, even if people born in the '80s and '90s might not remember it. I thought revealing my reflections would increase the credibility of this book," he said.
He continued, "In the end, the past was mine. The things I did well and the things I did poorly were all mine. I felt it's important now, at this age, to properly recover from them and carry them forward and develop them further," adding, "It may sound corny, but my favorite saying is that if cement alone were 100% cement, it would break when it became concrete. Gravel and sand need to be mixed in for concrete to be solid."
Park Jung-hoon also said, "Is there anyone perfect? Is there anyone who has never made a mistake? I think what's important is how you overcome such mistakes and what you make of them," and emphasized, "Those things seem to serve as the gravel and sand for me. I'm not saying I will repeat them, but I accept past mistakes as my own."
Meanwhile, Park Jung-hoon is meeting readers with Don't regret, which was published on the 29th of last month. Don't regret is an essay that looks back on more than 40 years of his career as an actor and his life as a person, Park Jung-hoon.
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