Former announcer-turned-anchor Kim Joo-ha regretted enduring her marriage for i-dle.
On the 21st, a video titled 53-year-old anchor Kim Joo-ha's life advice to colleagues in their 40s - anchor Kim Joo-ha part 2 "MK Show" was uploaded to the MKTV Kim Mi-kyung TV channel.
That day Kim candidly confessed in response to the question, "Do you have anything you want to tell people in their 40s, like 'in hindsight this is good to do'?": "When I think about it now, there is no need to live that hard. For people like me, I would tell them to live roughly."
She said, "In fact, don't we define ourselves by our work rather than ourselves? It is a sad thing to be defined by work rather than by who you are. I wrote about that in my book. It's not a special person's experience; it's something anyone can go through, and I want to tell people who feel they have to hide it that there's no need to. You don't need to live that hard, and don't live just for others," she said.
Kim showed regret, saying, "Women tend to have that tendency, don't they? In a way I also endured it for the children. I didn't need to. Looking back now, getting out of it would have been better for the children, but I didn't know that. I'm a little sorry I couldn't do that."
Meanwhile, Kim married in 2004 and had one son and one daughter, but she filed for divorce in 2013 over her ex-husband's domestic violence and infidelity, and officially ended the marriage in June 2016. In the meantime, when asked in the first part of the "MK Show" video why she endured the marriage for more than 10 years despite her ex-husband's affair and assault, she confessed, "When women give birth, most of them are shackled at the same time. I endured because of the children. If I had known about these facts before giving birth, I would have separated. Because there were children, I had the greed to give them a complete family. In a way, it might have been greed."
In response, Kim Mi-kyung said, "It seems people realize too late what a complete family is. Mother, father, child — that's not necessarily complete," and Kim Joo-ha added, "That's right. Even if one person is missing, it can still be a complete family, but I didn't know that. And people ask about that a lot. They ask why I had a second child amid all that. That was also for a complete family. So they say the greatest gift to a child is to give them a brother or sister. Because parents can't be with them forever, right? I thought it was the only way to create someone who would be a support to them for life."
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