With the success of the film The King's Warden, director Jang Hang-jun's warm good deed is again drawing attention online.
Recently, through various online communities and YouTube comments, the anecdote that director Jang Hang-jun helped a part-time worker in their 20s has been reexamined. An internet user posted the related story, saying, "Among the people director Jang Hang-jun has helped, many have actually done well." The post said that when a part-time worker in their 20s had given up on attending art school because of family circumstances, the couple Jang Hang-jun and Kim Eun-hee actively helped them.
This anecdote is something director Jang Hang-jun himself mentioned directly on the YouTube channel KimJangJang TV Twentieth Century in 2021. At the time, he said that when he was preparing to become a film director, he formed a connection with a twenty-year-old part-time worker who worked at a barbecue restaurant he frequented. He said they naturally grew closer after inviting the worker to an MT in Uidong.
At the time, the part-time worker had lost their mother and, because of difficult circumstances, had given up the dream of entering art school and was working part time. After learning the situation, director Jang Hang-jun and writer Kim Eun-hee encouraged the worker, saying, "It is not too late even now," and reportedly helped by offering a spare room in their home so the worker could paint again.
He later succeeded in gaining admission to Hongik University's art school after hard work, and seven to eight years later was named one of 33 young artists selected by the Seoul Arts Center, growing into an artist who drew attention in Korea's art world. The student is also said to have married a member of director Jang Hang-jun's production staff and has maintained ties to this day.
When this story became known, the warm hearts and character of Kim Eun-hee and director Jang Hang-jun, who even offered their home, were reexamined and have moved people.
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