Actress Jeon Won-joo revealed she is dating a younger boyfriend even at 86.
Jeon Won-joo appeared as a guest on a video titled 'Why tightwad Jeon Won-joo spent 10 million won at a five-star hotel!' released on the YouTube channel "Cle Meok Time" on the 29th. She met junior actor Lee Dong-jun and shared her recent news.
Born in 1939, Jeon Won-joo is 86 this year. Nevertheless, she said, "Recently I visited Andong and Gumi. I'm almost 90, but I'm grateful people invite me to work," proudly describing her active career.
She said, "I still have energy and I'm alive, so people invite me here and there and I go around," sounding bashful, and is developing new activities such as opening a personal YouTube channel. She mentioned her close friend Sunwoo Yong-yeo and joked, "Yong-nyeo said, 'You don't appear on YouTube more than me, right?'"
Jeon Won-joo said with a broad smile, "I give lectures, and when there are elderly people they always invite me. They don't invite me when young people are there, but if there are old people they invite everyone. When I sing 'What's wrong with my age,' everyone claps when I go on stage. That's the joy of living."
She also said, "I don't feel old right now. With a wonderful junior like Dong-jun, my heart flutters," and revealed, "I have a boyfriend," surprising listeners.
Jeon Won-joo said, "He definitely gives me energy. Meeting a younger man rather than an old man brings it out. My boyfriend is five or six years younger than me. He's in his 80s and healthy," and laughed, "We go to the mountains too. He tries to hold my hand. I tell him to hold me and he holds on and I don't let go. Then the boyfriend tries to pull his hand away but it's too painful so he can't."
She added, "I go to karaoke with my boyfriend and we go to nightclubs," and said, "I dye my gray hair a bit. Still, my face isn't that wrinkled yet. Going out with a younger man gives me vitality and seems to make my face look younger."
In the past, Jeon Won-joo lost her first husband three years after their marriage, and she also lost her remarried husband in 2013. Overcoming the pain of two widowhoods, Jeon Won-joo's steps to regain health and excitement in her twilight years are drawing support.
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