Singer Yoon Bok-hee said she has no biological son but there is a man who calls her "mom."
Yoon Bok-hee will tell a unique story related to the national song "Yeoreobun," which was covered by numerous junior singers including Lee Sun-hee, Lim Jae-beom, Kim Kyung Ho, and Kim Jaejoong, and whose cover videos have a combined view count of a staggering 31 million, on the 23rd episode of MBN's Kim Joo-ha's Day & Night, which will air on the 2nd.
Yoon Bok-hee said "Yeoreobun" won the grand prize at the 1979 Seoul International Song Festival and that it was originally an English song but Korean lyrics were added for the competition. Then, at the request of the three MCs Kim Joo-ha, Moon Seyoon, and Jo J-jae, who were surprised to hear that the first verse is in Korean and the second verse is in English, Yoon Bok-hee readily grabbed the microphone on the spot and sang the second verse of "Yeoreobun" in English, moving everyone deeply.
Yoon Bok-hee added to the sadness by confessing a heartbreaking childhood that was very different from her lifetime on stage. Thanks to a father who studied classical vocal music and a mother who studied traditional Korean music, she was born with an exceptional "music DNA," but she lost her mother at the age of 7 and then her father at 9, living a turbulent life. Yoon Bok-hee said, "I thought when I die I would go to my mother..." revealing the story of how, at 7, she found it hard to accept her mother's death and tried to go to her mother's side, which left listeners feeling heavyhearted.
Yoon Bok-hee recalled an episode that shocked people: while performing in the children's musical "Peter Pan," she fell from a two-story-high stage top while trying to save a fellow actor who was in danger of an accident due to a problem with the stage, suffering a collapsed spine, yet she refused injections and medication. Questions remain about why Yoon Bok-hee refused injections and medication even after doctors warned, "You could become paralyzed on one side."
Meanwhile, Yoon Bok-hee said she has no children but there are men who call her "mom," and revealed that those men are Choi Min Soo and Huh Joon Ho, surprising everyone. She added that Huh Joon Ho held a concert at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for her when she turned 70, making him the first Korean singer to do so, and that because of that she has been steadily holding concerts in Korea as well.
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