Comedian Kim Ji-sun cheered on the dream of her son, rapper Shiva (real name Kim Jeong-hoon).
On the 30th, a video titled [year-end roundup] Cho Hye-lyeon·Lee Seong-mi·Kim Ji-sun·Nam Kyung-pil all gather! Our boisterous year-end party full of laughter was uploaded to Lee Seong-mi's I am a kkon-dae.
That day, while Lee Seong-mi was talking about her views on raising children she said, "My hope is that studying not be the goal. I don't expect my kids to live extravagantly, but my children say, "Mom, I am truly happy." I wish parents would sometimes ask, "How is your life?", "Are you struggling?", "What are you worried about?" and talk with them to find out how the children are doing now. Without that kind of communication, we live in a world that only values children who do well academically, and I find that very heartbreaking and upsetting because I was not good at studying," she confessed.
He asked Cho Hye-lyeon, "You did well in school, didn't you?" and Cho Hye-lyeon replied, "Look at the results now. Whether you did well or poorly in school, isn't it all like it is now? What's surprising is that Uju finished elementary school. Uju didn't study. In a way, doesn't he seem like a failure? There were parts where he couldn't communicate with me that piled up, but he began reading the Bible, met God and is now in Switzerland," saying her son Uju is currently on an overseas volunteer mission as part of faith training. She said, "This child became a completely different person in speech, how he treats people and his behavior, regardless of studying. When he couldn't go to school and was broken, 'It's okay, I love you' came to him as warmth and that helped him stand up," she said.
Lee Seong-mi said, "Parents who are very successful feel ashamed if their child does poorly in school. They are embarrassed that their child is like that. So they are aggressive toward their children. And if they are very poor they want at least their child to do well, and since they think that's about academic background they squeeze the children. So the children suffer a lot," and added, "I held a concert for students who took the college entrance exam this time. Haha came out and said he scored 127 out of 400 or maybe 340 and is living well. That was very comforting to the kids. I hope parents would stop having such high expectations for their children. These days there is too much advanced learning. I hope in 2026 more parents will let their children be," she said, expressing her conviction.
Then Kim Ji-sun said, "My child was a senior in high school, wasn't he?" referring to her son, rapper Shiva, who was a senior this year. She recalled, "I thought back about how I was in my final year of high school. At first I applied for the first exam to the Department of Microbiology. I liked doing experiments. I loved experiments where you drop one drop at a time, so I applied to microbiology, but I caught a bad cold and by the first period I had already used a whole roll of toilet paper. It was a snotty cold. So I failed the first exam. For the second, I applied to the Department of Forestry at Kookmin University, but more importantly I dislike mountains. Thinking it over, I wondered what I would do if I went there. Then I went to Seoul Institute of the Arts, Department of Broadcasting and Entertainment," she recalled her exam days.
She continued, "I hadn't even acted properly but I passed. During university orientation a senior saw me doing a North Korean dialect and suggested we take the same exam, so I took the comedian exam; that senior failed and I alone won the grand prize," and added, "Because it was a path completely unrelated to the college entrance exam, I tell my children who want to do something, 'Find what you can really go all in on,'" showing wholehearted support for her children's dreams.<
[photo] SNS, Lee Seong-mi's I am a kkon-dae
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