Hwasin: Controller of the Heart
- We have the best radio DJs for SBS. - 'Cultwo Show!'
- With me... - Let us begin.
Stay tuned!
The power of one-liners.
- What's your one-liner, Dong Yup? - 'Safety First Won't Guarantee Your Safety.'
My one-liner is... 'I am...'
He gave a rocker's lesson. 'Ki Ha, let's lie down.'
'This shall also pa--'
How I became a comedian is... because I got into a fight.
- 'Is this salted pollack roe?' - Don't!
- 'Hee Sun, what was that?' - Assarabia!
[Hwasin]
Our guests today are the ones who are responsible for the ears of every Korean.
The top DJs of SBS Power FM!
Welcome!
[Jeong Chan Woo, Kim Tae Gyoon, Jeong Sun Hee, Choi Hwa Jeong, Jang Ki Ha]
[The most familiar music at 2pm]
- 'Escape at 2pm!' - 'Cultwo Show!'
['Escape at 2pm Cultwo Show' by Jeong Chan Woo and Kim Tae Gyoon]
'Escape at 2pm Cultwo Show' is on Hwasin today.
Hwasin is a new show and it's doing very well. Hwasin as in 'the god of Tuesday.'
And the hosts are Shin Dong Yup, Yoon Jong Shin, and Kim Hee 'Shin.'
And maybe because of that, they're changing their content every week to get higher ratings.
We're here today to wipe away all their anxiety about ratings, aren't we?
They are very unique people.
Yoon Jong Shin looks like someone from a history book on the Late Chosun Period.
- Kim Hee Shin is a goddess, you know? - Yes.
To encourage viewers to gather around their TVs, Dong Yup is their host.
Anyhow, we'll do our very best here on Hwasin.
Yes, here is our first song. She encourages childbirths.
'Come on over, baby' by Christina 'Aguil-nara' (means 'make babies' in Korean).
- Shall we listen to Jeong Sun Hee now? - We're different because we air at night.
It's just a little too... a little too...
Once the show begins, I speak with more energy, but--
- in the beginning of the show... - There is a remnant of Jeong Ji Young.
- Oh, Jeong Ji Young used to DJ that hour. - I see. She was the previous DJ.
- I'll keep it short. - Please play the intro.
Showing how we really are is not as easy as we think it is.
Yet there are good friends here on Hwasin
so I would like to enjoy our time together and be the authentic Sun Hee that I am.
Hi, everyone, this is Jeong Sun Hee for 'A Night Like Tonight.'
- She knows how to do it right. - 'A Night Like Tonight.'
Honestly, I thought she wouldn't make a good DJ for that hour.
I thought she wouldn't make a good DJ for a quiet show.
I wasn't before, but...
I became good at it very quickly.
It's because everyone has different sides to them, like day and night, you know?
Of course, and I see you've chosen a very nice dress.
- I wanted that late night feel. - I thought Yuna Kim was sitting beside us.
- I used a high-quality body lotion. - It's like you had surgery.
Rather than how I dressed today, I think Choi Hwa Jeong... you know...
[The snow white goddess has descended?]
Certainly, I can tell that you have that vibe of a legendary DJ.
[The image of an expert DJ?]
Hi! It's Choi Hwa Jeong for 'Choi Hwa Jeong's Power Time.'
Ladies, please get down from your high heels.
Gentlemen, how about unbuttoning the top of your shirts?
Let's all be cool and relaxed.
I am on Hwasin today. I'll make this a wild Tuesday.
- Stay tuned! - Yes!
[I am a legend!]
Sun Hee, you can impersonate Hwa Jeong, right?
'Okay, it's good.'
What if you did her voice for a late night show?
'Everyone, hi, it's Choi Hwa Jeong.'
'Wow, it's good.'
'They say you can't spot stars in the night sky these days?'
'But ladies, come down from your high heels. Gentlemen, get down from your heel inserts.'
'That will actually make you taller than when you're in heels. Wow!'
- Do I talk like this? Like this? - Yes.
[Ah...]
- What surprises me is... - You didn't know?
When words are spoken with Hwa Jeong's speaking style, she makes them sound rich.
She and I went to buy salted pollack roe at a market.
- You went together? - Yes, yes.
When you think about salted pollack roe, it's something unique to our culture.
- 'Please give me a lot,' you say. - Yes, you talk like that.
Lee Young Ja would say it like, 'Give me a couple more, come on,' you know?
The way she asked for salted pollack roe eliminated
my preconceived notions of salted pollack roe.
Holding a shopping basket, she said, 'Is this salted pollack roe?'
[Her tone of voice shines brightly even at a marketplace]
She said she thinks of salted pollack roe as the representative of all salted fish.
She went there to buy salted pollack roe and asked the seller, 'Is this a low-salt item?'
And she wanted to buy salted pollack roe...
They do sell low-salt salted pollack roe, right?
They do, they do.
She doesn't look like a person who would buy such things.
No, she likes things like that. She once got angry and told me
'I cannot forgive anyone who sells blood sausage in small pieces!'
- Don't! Don't! Don't! - Why?
Kim Young Cheol told me when Hwa Jeong was in a historical drama...
During a serious scene, the guy who played her older brother told her
'Haven't you seen him?' And she reacted like this.
At the time, I didn't know how to act.
I didn't and I was supposed to convey a complicated emotion, so I did this...
[Oops Oops]
Why didn't you do this as well?
- Jang Ki Ha looks so pale. - It's because there are master DJs here.
But I've only been a DJ for a year, so...
I know I am the worst one here.
No, it's not about that. Everyone has their own style.
Go, Jang Ki Ha, go!
- Nice music. - Wow!
['Amazing Radio' by Jang Ki Ha]
A 32-year-old, he is a guest on a variety show.
He is a lucky one who happens to be the youngest one on that show.
If you know who that lucky person is, send us the answer via text or via our mobile app.
It's the 'Power FM DJ Special' here on Hwasin. Let us begin.
[His voice is full of personality]
There is Jang Ji Ha's way of talking.
- I thought you were rapping. - 'A-thirty-two-year,' like that.
Your speaking and singing voices are so alike.
Our show has been around for only a year, but I've written two theme songs for it.
We have theme songs for the first and third parts of the show.
When you listen to them, it makes you think, 'Yeah, I am an amazing person.'
- Really? - Yes, yes.
- Please show us. - Shall I?
You, who are listening to this show, are an amazing person.
Because this isn't just a so-so or predictable radio show.
It's an amazing show for amazing people.
'Amazing Radio' by Jang Ki Ha.
One more time, 'Amazing Radio by Jang Ki Ha.'
When he sings, his songs have a sense of rhythm even without background music.
Sounds like a weird song.
He's very charming.
We also have our own rap for our show.
[Intense and expressionless, the original fast rappers have descended!]
[Assarabia!]
[Haha!]
[Snaps you right out of dozing off from eating lunch!]
[In a trance]
[A theme that marked their show?]
[Brass coins... 15 of them...]
[Its appeal is that each does whatever he wants to do]
[Might take all night...]
[Amazing]
- Was so mindless. - It was.
You had more lyrics, right?
They can do it until the end of their show.
But they can't repeat it, right?
- They do. - Really?
My part is always the same.
So, we've incorporated every story that we know into it.
Yes, I got it.
I think Hee Sun was pretty irritated by it.
I wanted to focus on Ki Ha and they do things like that.
- Is this the first time you've met Ki Ha? - Yes.
- I have so many questions to ask, and-- - I always see the back of your head...
She doesn't look at me. She looks only at Ki Ha.
- Do you have a girlfriend? - Ah, that is confidential.
That is a great answer.
Wait a minute, he said it's confidential.
But Sun Hee said, 'He has one.'
Since self-praise has started, let's hear yours, Hwa Jeong.
When it comes to Choi Hwa Jeong's Power Time...
what's good about it is that... I am the host.
[Composure worthy of a goddess of radio shows]
I have a fact sheet that says Hwa Jeong's name
has the best marketing power among radio DJs...
I got this from Hwa Jeong's manager.
Her manager did the research?
He handed me a small envelope.
I thought he was bribing me.
'I have something here...' 'You didn't have to,' I replied.
It's not something new... I won that title four years in a row.
Yes... How about a round of applause?
[She deserves it. A legendary DJ indeed!]
I acknowledge.
- Choi Hwa Jeong! - [Startled!]
The embodiment of dating in secret. You acknowledge that, right?
Why do you ask me? I don't know.
I say that because she has never been in a scandal in 30 years after her debut.
Known instances of her dating... none.
She's a scary person who no paparazzi ever took a photo of.
It isn't my value nor philosophy to do things in secrecy.
While you did talk about your boyfriend on a talk show...
you two have never been photographed, nor has anyone seen you two together.
- How does your date go? - Is he a real person?
- Like he is an Avatar? - Are you dating a ghost?
- You are dating someone, right? - It's confiden-- No comment.
She doesn't know the name of her boyfriend well.
What?
It's not that. There was a misunderstanding when I talked about it on 'Go Show.'
I call them Steve. I call my boyfriends Steve because...
Let's say I am going out with Jong Shin.
If I call him by his name, then people will say, 'So, it's Yoon Jong Shin?'
But when you make it a habit, you don't say 'Dong Yup' when you call for Jong Shin, right?
- So, you're calling every boyfriend 'Steve?' - Yes, yes.
- That's a good idea. - But the important thing is...
I don't like to keep things secret.
I walked with him on a busy street but nobody noticed.
- These days they don't. - True.
Tell us how you don't get noticed?
I think it's normal for me to be careful about it.
And it doesn't mean we should hold hands and walk, since we are not so young.
I found hanging out at home to be most comfortable.
Your home can be a very dangerous place to date.
Does he dress as a plumber to get into your house, by any chance?
'Delivery! I have a package for you!'
When he comes to your apartment, what about the security guard?
We don't have a security guard.
- You don't? - No, we don't have one.
My boyfriend's place also didn't have a security guard.
- No security guard? - No.
- When you are buying a house... - No security guard.
A place where people don't notice much?
'I am here to look at a house.'
'How big of a house...' 'No, just no security guard, please.'
One time...
I don't know why we did that... We placed a picnic blanket in our living room.
- Inside? - Does that sound sad?
- We placed a picnic blanket and-- - Like going on a field trip.
As if we went outdoors on a picnic.
- On the floor? - In the living room.
We ate kimbab.
- Staying inside? - Yes, and--
You ate kimbab out of a lunch box instead of a plate?
When he sat outside of the blanket, I said, 'You might get dirty, sit over here.'
[Can you believe that?]
You played a game and the loser had to roll the blanket, right?
I think she was playing a game of imagination.
No, it just happened that way somehow.
I think it would be a lovely memory for him.
I heard that... you played games of room service?
I did.
I like eating meals in bed.
Don't you also do this--
[One of her lethal charms]
He said, 'It's room service.'
You were sitting on your bed and your boyfriend knocks on the door.
'Who is it?' 'It's room service.'
He opens the lid to serve food.
'Why are you standing there?' Like a role-playing game?
- Suddenly he says... 'I love you.' - No, it has to be something rough.
Such as, 'Shut up!'
- He pushes her onto the bed? - That's it.
I like to cook, so people ask me what I enjoy making.
I joke and say that I like room service food the most.
It's not like I drink wine.
I like to eat triangle kimbab and ramen noodles that way.
I really enjoy eating while sitting on a comfy bed.
Isn't that great? One of the reasons why I've been friends with Hwa Jeong is that...
Some people struggle just to survive, but she knows how to enjoy life.
So I don't get bored when I hang out with her.
At one point I told her, 'You are too charming for one person to handle.'
And she replied, 'Okay, I'm dividing up my charms accordingly.'
Have you been able to keep some things secret? Is it easy?
One time, I...
One of my neighbors in my apartment building was moving away.
I talked to him in the elevator.
'Once you move away, I probably won't get to see you again,' I said.
'Yes, I won't say anything about it at all, Hwa Jeong,' he replied.
Let's find him. Let's find out where he moved.
- So, the neighbors know. - Yes, it's fascinating because...
Nobody saw him come visit me. It's not like he was trying to be sneaky either.
He told me nobody saw him knocking on my door at that hour.
And also, what's so wrong about me dating someone, you know?
What's wrong about it is that I haven't gotten married yet.
No, nothing wrong with being single.
- I think it's very good to stay romantic. - Wait a minute.
A production staff member just told us that there was a scandal
involving Jeong Sun Hee and Yoon Jong Shin in 2002.
[A scandal involving Jeong Sun Hee and Yoon Jong Shin in 2002?!]
What? How did that happen?
That is amazing. What's more amazing is that your writers found out about it.
It's such an uninteresting fact.
It happened because of the shapes of our mouths.
And Sun Hee liked soju as much as I did.
Jeong Sun Hee, Kim Won Hee--
When we sit even a little close, it looks like we are
whispering to each other because our mouths stick out.
Jong Shin called me after that scandal broke out.
'Hey, did you read it?' he asked.
'Jong Shin, it's happening to us too.' And we were joking about it.
Jong Shin tells me, 'Since this already made news...
if someone asks, tell them that I am a manly man.'
[Calls himself 'a manly man']
He asked you to say that?
'If people ask you why you two don't go out lately, say that I dumped you.'
'It's only reasonable,' he said.
- It's been ten years already? - Yes, it's been ten years.
- How about you, Ki Ha? - What I've heard about Ki Ha is...
He's voted as the number one male celebrity that female celebrities want to meet.
Me?
How...
[The information comes from his manager, right?]
You've gone out with a female celebrity, right?
- Have I ever met them in private? - No, have you dated one?
- As your girlfriend. - And he pretends to be dumb.
There is something fishy here.
I think he's dating a female celebrity right now. It's just us here.
[It's just us here?!]
No, we are on air.
In the past, yes...
He debuted only a few years ago and he says that.
When I debuted after releasing 'Cheap Coffee...'
there were so many people who were very interested in me.
I was welcomed wherever I went. At the time, I thought, 'Oh, I get to meet people like them.'
What I like about Ki Ha is that he seems like a genius to me.
Also, he seems to have everything... everything that we don't have.
- A guy from another world. - We are rough and blunt, but...
it seems he knows everything that's going on and thinks to himself, 'Let's see what you do.'
As if singing were his fake profession.
As if... there is something gigantic supporting him.
I heard he has so many fans who are men.
Guy fans feel very comfortable with me. They say, 'Brother Jang.'
- 'Brother Jang' is what male fans like to call me. - 'Brother Jang.'
I can understand why. Our show is on from 10pm to midnight.
On other major radio stations, Sung Si Kyung and Super Junior are hosting shows.
It's hard for men to listen to them...
He acts shy yet says what's on his mind.
- Why, why is that? - Oh...
I could talk about Si Kyung but I am afraid of talking about Super Junior.
[Sung Si Kyung and Super Junior fans, he's just kidding]
I heard some people call you 'Sister Jang.' Why is that?
Yoo Hee Yeol told me that a DJ should be able to do a woman's voice.
Hee Yeol told you that?
But the way he did it, it didn't sound like a woman or a man. It sounded like a pervert.
He came up with a thin voice that sounded androgynous and perverted.
- Hee Yeol did? - But when I heard it, I thought...
'I want to do that voice. A DJ needs to do that voice.'
Let's see.
If I do the same voice that Hee Yeul did, it sounds like
'Hi...'
'I live in Ahn Yang, in Gyeonggi Province.'
'My name is Ahn Sang Min.'
He did this and I couldn't tell if he was a man or a woman.
- Let's see another one. - A nagging mom?
'Hee Sun, what was that?'
- Oh. - That's a good one.
- How was he? - He did pretty well.
Let's hear his other voices.
- How about a selfish girlfriend? - A selfish girlfriend.
- 'How could you do that to me, sweetie?' - Oh, that was good.
Do something so excruciatingly cute that it's annoying.
[How about a cute voice too?]
- It's okay. It's okay. A DJ needs to do it. - Okay.
'Buy me a dress, please,' like this.
Tae Gyoon, please do a nagging mom.
There is a mom's voice that any man can imitate.
A mom with a husky voice, 'What's the matter with you?' You can do it this way.
'Why are you doing this to me? So annoying!'
[Funny!]
- There are 2 ways to do a nagging voice. - Do a selfish girlfriend.
'Who are you to do that to me?'
'How dare you, you freaking bastard!'
[As if he's possessed]
- But isn't Ki Ha good at it too? - Yes, yes, he's good for sure.
Shall we talk about 'Cultwo' now?
I heard their program director has to dry clean his suit every four months because of them.
Because he has to go talk to the Korea Communication Commission.
They host their show in a dangerous way because they say all kinds of things.
But the funny thing is, the things we get in trouble for aren't really serious.
- Can you tell me about one of them? - We just talk frankly.
Once in a while I notice that someone in the audience
might have had double-eyelid surgery, so I ask
'You had double-eyelid surgery done, right?'
I ask a question like that. When they deny it, I say something like, 'I can definitely tell.'
'I am sure about that,' like this.
When the program director plays a song that we don't know
and if we have no idea what song it is nor who sings it...
I say, 'That was a song we don't know by a singer we don't know.'
'I am sure you don't know who sings this one either.'
'I don't know this song either. It's none of my business
whether the program director plays a song like this.'
- And when we hear a song we know-- - We say everything we know about it.
'It's been so long since we heard a song that we know,' and we talk about it for 10 minutes.
And we do this too.
There are times when we know the song but don't know who sang it, right?
We say, 'It was a song we know by a singer we don't know.'
We give every detail.
- But you do make mistakes, right? - Yes.
And nine out of ten times you guys get in trouble because of you, Chan Woo.
[A major contributor to making mistakes on air?]
I am concerned because I think Tae Gyoon probably has a hard time because of him.
I am sure he doesn't know, but I am a member of the review board.
Actually he doesn't make too many slip-ups.
He doesn't slander or use bad words on air.
That's what I mean.
He doesn't talk that way at all.
We often talk about strange things on air.
For example, we got a letter from a listener and the story was about pizza.
And in the middle of the show, I said, 'Send us a pizza.'
Things went crazy and we started to get pizzas from everywhere.
- From everywhere? - Yes.
From everywhere.
It was like every motor scooter in Mok-dong was parked in the SBS parking lot.
I think we received about fifty to sixty pizzas.
The funny thing is... only two of them were pre-paid, only two of them.
- Really? - They just sent it to us!
They were like, 'You sell pizzas, right? Please send a pizza to SBS radio.'
'Who is paying?' 'They will.'
They were just like how we are.
So I said later on air, 'Please don't send us pizzas anymore. It's so overwhelming.'
I paid for the pizzas.
I donated them to an old folks' home somewhere in Guro district.
I heard you said, 'Don't eat bread because it makes you gain weight.'
But you received so many complaints from bakeries.
'I didn't mean don't eat it. I meant to say don't eat too much of it,' you later explained yourself.
'Don't eat bread if you are on a diet, but eat it if you like it.'
You gave a little bit of a cowardly explanation.
That's what I mean. Most of them are like that.
We do have a number of them.
You give advice on air, too, right?
- If you have a concern... - Tell me. Let's try it.
- How about a blunt counseling? - But she's blunt as well.
Mr. Chan Woo--
Why is she talking to me that way all of a sudden?
- Just call me Chan Woo. - No, it sounds like we're friends.
[Blunt one to his face]
Do what you like!
[You know what I mean, right?]
She's funny.
I am a rookie MC, you know?
While I am listening to someone, there are things I need to say as an MC, right?
I need to ask them follow-up questions when they are talking...
but I get so into their stories and I find myself just listening to them.
Don't fight it because that's what is attractive about you.
You are a person who doesn't have the skills to do something like that.
You know what I mean?
You aren't someone who can lead the flow of the show.
Your job is to mess it up.
And their jobs are to straighten it out and make it funny.
It says right here, 'Kim Hee Sun is a regular guest.'
Hee Sun, why do you try to be a real MC?
If you don't do things like that, Hwasin isn't as entertaining.
I think the flower of Hwasin is... Hee Sun.
When I first met you... I didn't like you too much before.
But she's a very charming person.
How about you? Is she the kind of person you like?
When she says she doesn't like me, how can I say that I like her?
That's not what I mean. What I tried to say is...
I thought you were kind of a cold person.
But when I looked at the way you host this show, I thought you were charming.
Meeting you in person, I think they edit out so much of your charm.
It's because I speak so bluntly.
She was a guest on my radio show. She's a very deep person.
I thought, 'This is what happens when you give birth and become a mom.' I learned so much.
- She is very wise. - No, I had no idea.
Never even guessed it.
Then again, I never guessed it about Dong Yup either.
That's the case for everyone here.
Everyone's like that.
Hee Sun burned it to the ground for two hours with her straightforward manner.
No other actress talked so frankly about breast-feeding.
I have high-quality milk.
And that's how moms talk about it. That's how they talk.
That's how you call it.
'True milk? True milk?'
- A high-quality milk? - Yes, yes.
The important thing is not the quantity.
It's not.
It's the kind of milk that's ivory-colored and a little sticky.
A person who helps me with breast-feeding told me...
'Hee Sun, it's high-quality milk. Give a lot of it to your baby.'
On our web board, someone wrote, 'She's pretty and has high-quality milk too...'
This show is very entertaining.
This one too... As Chan Woo went through it...
When he told people not to eat bread, bakers were angry at him, right?
- What if... - Companies that sell baby formula?
I am afraid those companies or moms without high-quality milk might be upset.
- It's not the same thing. - 'Moms without high-quality milk.'
'I don't have high-quality milk! I hate Hee Sun!' Something like this?
I've never heard it before.
It's 'high-quality milk.' What's its antonym?
Are you born with it?
'Watery milk?'
Ki Ha didn't say anything up until now and then he finally says...
'Are you born with it?'
Wonder how you get to have it.
[New world of breast-feeding]
When I watch a baby lotion commercial where the mom
cries looking at her baby, I think, 'That's so not true.'
It's so hard being a mom and I often think
'I want soup and pizza as soon as possible.'
I had my child by natural childbirth, and my baby had a cone head.
Yes, their heads are very wrinkly and long.
My baby is a girl and she looks a lot like my father-in-law.
I almost bowed down to her.
What did you say?
'Almost bowed down to her.'
She almost bowed down to her baby because she looked so much like her father-in-law.
When I held her in my arms, I was like, 'Oh my gosh.'
'Oh my, oh my.'
I almost knelt down.
Shall we talk about Ki Ha?
He is 182 centimeters tall.
[Tall]
He has a height that's a little uncomfortable, right?
He's tall.
He graduated as a sociology major from Seoul National University.
His debut album made his agency 3,000 times more money than the previous year.
- It was a very small company. - He's very capable.
Is this who he really is?
We've been through Mr. Flimsy, Lee Chun Hee and Mr. Clumsy, Lee Seung Gi.
Now it's time for Mr. Loophole, Jang Ki Ha.
I am very gullible.
You can be gullible with things like infomercials.
Rather than infomercials... I tend to like beauty stuff.
Beauty stuff?
- Like getting a massage? - Doesn't he have great skin?
He does.
I went with Jeong Jae Hyung to get a massage with aromatherapy.
I don't have much experience with beauty care, but I do enjoy them.
What kinds of cosmetic products do you use?
The president of my agency is a lady. She told me...
'You need to use anti-aging eye creams since you're in your thirties now.'
'Your eyes will get more wrinkly by the year.' She told me I have to use them.
'Ah, really?' I thought, and that's when I started to use anti-aging eye cream.
- You went shopping to buy those recently? - So I...
- I wanted the best, so I went to a mall. - You went there in person?
I did. I went to buy groceries, and I went straight to where they sell cosmetics.
I went to a shop that sold the make-up I've tried in samples.
I can't even imagine that.
'Please give me a moisturizing cream,' I said.
I thought if I said that, they would hand me one and I could take it home after paying.
- 'Please have a seat,' she said. - Right.
To test some products on the back of your hand?
On the back of your hand?
Yes, and she wanted me to test it on the back of my hand first.
She applied it to the back of my hand.
'This is not sticky, so I should buy this one,' I thought to myself.
'It's good. I'll take this one,' I told her.
'But actually...' she said.
'Actually, moisturizing cream doesn't supply moisture to your skin.'
'It just protects the moisture that your skin already has.'
'The one that supplies moisture is the essence.'
- Is that so? I didn't know. - I didn't know either.
He is so gullible too.
What's interesting is--
All his thoughts are about cosmetics now.
That's all he is thinking.
When I heard that, I couldn't disagree with her at all. So...
I thought, 'I've been missing something,' and that's when I bought the essence.
I use four different--
Since Ki Ha is interested in it, I would offer you a suggestion.
- Start to take care of your neck. - Neck?
Apply the essence on your neck just as you do on your face.
I think it's good to apply it both to your face and to your neck.
- Just like the way I apply it on my face. - That's correct.
Looking at Hwa Jeong... her neck looks so...
because most people's necks get wrinkly at her age.
But she doesn't--
Because she doesn't have any wrinkle on her neck
some have said that she probably stretched it and pinned it.
When Hwa Jeong washes her face at night, she does it very thoroughly.
- But in the morning-- - I only wash my face with water.
- You don't use soap? - No.
I wash my face very thoroughly before I go to bed but I use only water in the morning.
- I just used water this morning. - Really?
And you know... being beautiful is all about your habits.
When you talk this, your voice changes, 'It's all about habits.'
I think I should learn this from her. When she talks, she moves her shoulders like this.
- She moves her shoulders up. - Cho Young Pil does the same thing.
Cho Yong Pil does that too.
I should do this too.
It's about your habits.
Being beautiful is all about your habits.
When you wash your face thoroughly before bed
your skin won't get dirty when you sleep.
I think it's good to just water-wash your face.
What kind of water do you use?
I don't like cold water.
Some say we should wash our face with cold water but I like to use lukewarm water.
It's not for everyone because I did the same thing and got sebum on my nose.
I don't feel refreshed if I only use water.
This is about one or two years ago. She told me she couldn't sleep.
Yes, yes.
She struggled with it for several months.
She couldn't sleep until five, six, seven, or even eight in the morning.
She had to host her radio show at 12, but she didn't get to sleep until 10.
One day, she looked so happy.
- 'Did you get over your insomnia?' - 'I did. I found something that works well.'
'Really? You shouldn't use sleeping pills.' 'No, it's not sleeping pills.'
'How did you get over your insomnia?' 'I eat at 3 in the morning.'
- You get sleepy when you're full. - I got sleepy when I was full.
You get sleepy if you're full and lying down in a warm bed.
Whenever I hear someone complain that they can't sleep, I say to them
'Eat something. You'll get sleepy if you eat something.'
'Everyone has that one-liner that works like a charm.'
We would like to talk about that wise one-liner that comes from life experiences.
By just watching this show, you get to learn the essence of what it means to live...
Isn't this a great segment?
How would we know? We've never done this.
She told you to use essence, right? It's time to use the essence.
Yes, it's the power of the one-liner.
Let me show you. What's your powerful one-liner?
Me?
No, no, I--
- Erotic thoughts. - I think... It's not.
My philosophy has become... 'Putting safety first won't guarantee your safety.'
'No More Business Venture.'
'It's not people that betray you. It's money that betrays you,' I think that.
I told them my one-liner, but one of the writers
told me to use another one that sounds cooler.
Then what was... what was the one you told them first?
'When it comes to humans, accumulations of
mundane reality become history and life itself.'
'We get so excited when we listen to motivational speakers
but we don't think about our everyday reality.'
- Good thing you didn't choose that one... - She was nodding, but...
'I'll do this one.' But she said, 'Sun Hee, I get what you are trying to say, but...'
- 'Use this one instead.' - What did our writers want you to use?
They accepted the one that I said without thinking.
- What was it? - It was...
'When I am struggling too much, I should stay away from friends who are too happy.'
Oh, I get it, I get it. I get it.
Yes, our writers are indeed competent.
- It's a great saying. - Yes, it is.
When you're struggling and every day feels like a battle...
There is no room to think about getting on my feet or planning for the future.
It hurts just meeting people.
Even if they try to console me.
After talking to them, I feel so bad because
I have to listen to people who are moving forward while I feel I'm moving backward.
The people I've been friends with for a long time such as
Hong Jin Kyung, Choi Hwa Jeong, and Lee Young Ja.
I haven't been to our group get-togethers in a while, and the reason is...
They are very good friends, and they are kind to me, but...
not that I don't like them, but when I meet them, all they talk about is their future.
'I do this when I take my kid to her kindergarten,' one says.
Hwa Jeong says, 'I am launching a new TV show.'
And another one says she is launching a new line of cosmetic products.
Everyone talks about their future, but I don't have the space to plan for my future.
I don't have the room to be able to applaud and cheer for their success.
I am in a battle right now because the foundation of my life is destroyed
so I need to set up the foundation again as soon as I can...
but it's like they are constructing tall buildings.
They are my close friends, but I hate the fact that
I'm not able to genuinely be happy for their success.
I wasn't being cool while they helped me when I was struggling.
I hated that I wasn't applauding the fact that they were on fast tracks.
I decided not to meet them and to spend that time to care for myself.
I did it because I didn't feel confident about myself.
I started to avoid them when I didn't feel confident about myself.
After the incident happened, I had confidence that I'd be able to get back on my feet again.
But I don't think it's because of the incident.
Later I realized, 'I have to build something entirely new. I've forgotten something.'
When I realized that it would take a while to get back into the entertainment business
I felt so afraid and I couldn't applaud when I heard success stories from my friends.
I was being so cowardly when I thought I was such a cool person.
That's when I started to look for things I could do at home.
Because my radio show airs at midnight, I have so much time before work.
I have enough time to fly over to Thailand and eat some tom yum soup.
You have so, so much time until you need to work.
'I am going to Thailand. I'll go there and have tom yum soup and be back.'
Even after I do that, it's not 12am yet.
Then what do I do during the day? Since I need to take care of myself...
I set aside time just for myself.
That's why I wanted to do translation.
I know how to speak Japanese, but I don't know a lot of the Chinese characters they use.
I took on an essay and I've been working on it tooth and nail for months to get it done.
I started to grow a plant on my balcony. Stopped drinking.
I stopped drinking because I kept thinking depressing thoughts that were too extreme.
When I am sober, I am a happy person. Got in trouble because of that, too.
People have told me, 'How could you be so happy at a time like this?'
But I was born that way.
I am sure you only looked happy but your heart was broken apart.
Anyway, because I'm naturally happy, I forget my worries if I eat something delicious.
'She's eating, she's eating,' they'd say.
'I guess I shouldn't be eating right now,' I'd think.
But no matter what kind of healing I sought, I kept attracting hurt.
Even if people treated me nicely without any ulterior motive, it's useless if I feel inferior.
But when I started to take care of myself, I started to feel better.
'I am getting something done. While it may be tiny progress, it's still progress.'
I am sure when you were going through it, you met many people.
I did. That's when I found out there are so many religions in the world.
In our country?
Didn't they try to counsel you using their religion?
I know they only want to help and save a young soul, but...
Whenever I opened my front door, they left books about their religions.
- Someone even left me a martial arts uniform. - For some kind of practice...
They were people who lived in a mountain as a community.
They said I needed to turn my back on the world for a while and come live with them.
Philanthropists started calling me, too.
There was a self-made lady who struggled and suffered for 20 years before she succeeded.
One of my friends suggested that we go have a dinner with her.
I have a hard time saying no... because I'm timid.
'Yeah, sure...' and I went.
My friend took me to a hotel restaurant.
She was very elegant and noble.
'Welcome, Jeong Sun Hee, please have a seat.'
At a very long table, I sat on one end of it and she sat on the other.
'Things are pretty hard for you, right?'
- 'Ah, yes,' I said.' - 'I know...'
She treated me with a lot of respect.
'Living is like going through four seasons,' she said in an elegant tone.
She wanted us to drink a little, so I moved closer to pour her a drink.
And she told me that she'd been through so much in her life.
I could feel her inner strength.
After she had a few drinks...
After a few, it makes you feel relaxed.
I think people feel at ease when they talk to me.
Once in a while, there are people who start to talk to me about their troubles.
Maybe because of that, we were drinking and she said
'Sun Hee, and...
[Tears up!]
Was she Lee Young Ja?
'I am an atheist, but they say this in the Bible.'
'This shall also pass...'
[A genius actress!]
'You don't need anybody. We are all alone. We live in this world alone.'
At the beginning of our meeting, she told me...
'Living is like going through four seasons...'
But two hours later, 'We are all alone, alone!' and she cried her eyes out.
I didn't know what to do, so I hugged her.
'It's okay. You've done well. You have done well.'
She put her head in my armpits and cried.
I told her, 'You've done well. I am sure things will work out,' and we concluded our meeting.
After that day, what I've learned is that the world is full of people who are hurting.
I tell a lot of people that I've been healed quite a bit since I became a radio DJ.
Everybody's hurting and there are people who can't even scream in pain.
In my case, I at least make money and can make a living.
I couldn't even do that if I weren't healthy, you know?
So what happened was that I started to feel embarrassed to be a crybaby in front of them.
'What do you know?' I don't like it when I think this way.
How did Hwa Jeong console you?
She told me to apply a face pack before I go to bed.
- Something realistic. - Yes.
When I wasn't feeling well, Hwa Jeong helped me feel refreshed.
For example, 'Do you always feel good and happy?' I asked her.
'Mm, Sun Hee, I don't always feel that way.'
'Hwa Jeong, then how do you always...' You want to know how, right?
'How do you maintain that attitude?'
If she said something predictable, I might have forgotten it, but she said
'Yes, I always take Omega-3.'
[Omega-3 power!]
That's a jackpot.
When Sun Hee says it like that, it makes me look pretty strange, right?
- But I love to make people laugh so much. - That's why I say it like that--
When she's so serious and asks me, 'What should I do, Hwa Jeong?'
'Apply a face pack and take omega-3.'
It's such a good one, you know?
She told me that and said, 'This stuff is so good.'
I looked at it and asked her, 'What's in it?'
'Omega-3, this is special stuff,' and she takes it back.
Cause I eat only special stuff.
She told me Omega-3 is her secret to looking and feeling young.
- You only eat special salted pollack roe, too. - Low salt.
'You know, it's not just ordinary omega-3,' and she wanted to read the bottle label.
And she moved it farther and farther away from her eyes.
[Oh, aged eyes]
- There is nothing you can do about it. - Nothing you can do about that.
When Sun Hee tells me she's struggling a lot
it's hard to feel at ease, so you think twice about saying that it's going to be okay, right?
Yes, I think people who are close friends with Sun Hee...
I am sure they thought, 'How should I start a conversation with her?'
When men offered me their awkward attempts to console me...
I remember that I felt that they were such kind gestures. I could sense that.
After saying, 'Hey, Sun Hee,' I need to follow it up with how she's doing, but...
I just say, 'Hey, Sun Hee.'
I think I talked to her about one or two years after that incident happened to her.
Maybe because my blood type is A, but I prepared 3 or 4 ordinary topics to talk about.
I try to overcome my personality traits.
I am born with blood type A but I deliberately try to appear clumsy.
Yes, I have that too.
You know, I've been through some stuff too, while they may not be extremely difficult ones.
I've been through some gentle ones...
- How did you want people to console you? - No, you went through some very difficult stuff.
But... in my case...
I feel uncomfortable when people call me and try to console me.
They might think, 'I should do something for him.'
'I think it's better to text or call him than doing nothing.'
Because so many people try to contact me at once, I need some time to myself.
Also, I think a lot of people call you to console you in order to make themselves feel better.
- 'If I don't call Sun Hee now... - Yes.
Feeling that need to join others in consoling her.
Yes, even I do that.
It's a kind of self-centered thinking.
I found out that I am a very uncool person.
I thought, 'When something bad happens to other celebrities, I won't pay attention to it.'
'It's because I know how cruel people's attention can become,' I told myself.
After I felt better, I was reading up on them. 'My gosh, poor guy,' I found myself doing that.
I hate that I do that, but--
- I think it's only human to do that. - I think it's only a human thing to do.
I've said this before.
You said that people started talking negatively about you because you came back too early.
I heard that you were coming back as a radio DJ, right?
Taking care of yourself by going to Thailand to eat tom yum soup or translating Japanese...
I would never be able to take care of myself like that.
I think if it happened me too, I would be passed out or something in some mountain.
You would be able to handle it.
I think you handled it so well and I wanted to applaud you for it.
Yes, yes. Okay, yes.
[You are the best, Sun Hee!]
Shall we hear Ki Ha's powerful one-liner?
He was nodding along so hard.
She said the writers changed her one-liner. They changed mine too.
What's your original one?
- The original one. - The original one is...
It... what was it?
If it's similar to something, it's fake.
See, everyone prepared something that sounds so cool.
What did the writers want you to use?
'Drinking during the day makes life beautiful.'
It hits home. It hits home.
As Sun Hee said, if you drink too much or drink while you are depressed
you can start to lose yourself in drinking.
My philosophy is to not drink when I feel depressed.
'It's better to drink when I feel good and with the people I enjoy.' I believe that.
In terms of timing, daytime is better than night time.
How come?
I've never thought about the reason until recently.
I think it's because of the daylight.
If you... open the windows and drink while you look at the daylight...
I take a drink...
and take a look around after the alcohol has permeated the cells in my body.
The sun was looking at me and clouds were moving about and covered the sun.
It's like--
Doesn't it sound like he is rapping?
It sounds so poetic...
After talking with my drunk buddy for a while...
I realize the sun that was bright white the last time I looked has now turned red.
I realize the sun is setting and I take another drink.
I can't tell whether the alcohol is permeating my body or the setting sun--
You should write a song titled, 'Drinking In The Daytime' with those as the lyrics.
Taking a drink in the middle of the day...
I've done something that I maybe shouldn't have done.
What, what was it?
There is a rock band called 'Crying Nut.'
Han Kyung Rock, the leader of the band, teaches Rocker 101 to rising stars.
[Rocker 101?!]
There are people who do that.
And he drinks so much as well.
He does.
Rocker 101 is about drinking as much as you can.
Drinking as much and as long as you can.
We were drinking for two straight days.
We drank and dozed off. When we woke up, we were in my house.
'Ki Ha, let's go eat beef stew,' he told me.
- We were eating stew and-- - Started drinking again.
'Ki Ha, let's go to a tree-lined street and eat pasta and drink wine,' he said.
So we went there in a taxi.
How many days did you guys do that?
I think it was about two and a half days.
It's hard to be a rocker...
I was so eager because that was the kind of life I wanted to live.
Yes...
A lot of people were walking on the street.
He told me, 'Ki Ha, let's lie down.'
- In the middle of a street? - Yes.
It was a tree-lined street.
- On a small street or a highway? - No, it wasn't a highway.
- On a street? - Yes.
Because it's dangerous to do that on a highway.
He said we should lie down on the street.
At the time... we had quite a few drinks and I was taking Rocker 101 from him.
'We must not retreat,' I thought to myself.
- It was when you were well-known? - Yes.
People know who Han Kyung Rock is, as well.
At the time, I was on TV a lot more than I am now.
I was on the news too.
- You were in high demand. - Yes, yes.
He lay down... So I lay down beside him.
I lay down and I thought, 'It's not as bad as I thought.'
It is good.
I felt I like I was in a painting.
He knows something about it, he does.
- So attractive. - He is a great person.
It's a way of breaking away from the norm, isn't it?
If we did that, people would have pointed and yelled at us.
When he does that, people love it.
If you two did that, you'd need a sign that says
'Please don't step on them.'
And then?
Because it was a sunny day, the asphalt was warm.
It was like we were lying down on a heated floor.
We saw something that's hard to spot.
Roadside trees pointing straight to the sky.
I thought, 'Wow... it's very nice...'
I had an experience like that and after that I became very confident.
What I feel bad about what I did is that...
Police came to the scene.
Someone saw us and called the police saying, 'There are people lying down on a street.'
Police officers came and they recognized us.
'Oh, you're Jang Ki Ha.'
'Sir, you know you aren't supposed to...'
[Mr. Rocker, you aren't supposed to do that]
'Sorry about that,' we told them.
And we moved on.
I experienced romanticism like that once before.
- When? - I tell this to people close to me.
It was a rainy day and I was drinking with about 30 of my fellow comedians.
We went to a spot below the Wonhyo Bridge.
It was raining so much.
It was raining hard and everyone was gone except for us.
- When it rained so much! - Yes, raining really hard.
- The heavy rain became like curtains. - And we were sitting inside it.
We could see the Han River through the rain.
And street lights came on, right?
It was so beautiful, yet there was nobody but us.
When it rains a lot, go to a spot under a Han River bridge. It's so beautiful.
Once this episode airs, everybody will be there. 'Move over! Go away!'
'But you know, most people don't go to see it.'
[What is your place of cocoon, your place of comfort?]
- Who is sharing theirs next? - Let's go to Jeong Chan Woo!
I say, 'A mistake is also a skill set.'
'A mistake is also a skill set.'
I think it's the starting point because...
It's so funny... How I became a comedian is...
I became a comedian because I got into a fight when I was 23 years old.
- Pardon me? - It sounds so crazy, right?
I was going through a really tough time and my family was in complete ruin.
My dad got into a car accident and he was admitted into an intensive care unit.
He was in a coma. I wasn't the kind of person who gets into a fight.
Our group got into a fight with another group.
I was trying to break up the fight.
When I saw my best friend, Jae Bum, being beaten, I just lost it.
I tried to stop it and I punched the other guy, and...
When you hit a punchball just right, you can feel that sensation. It felt just like that.
When I punched the other guy.
When you watch a highlight reel for boxing, there are
ones where they fall down like this after being punched.
That's what I saw after I punched him.
It was like a world champion knocking out his opponent.
I was so scared because my dad had a serious brain injury.
What was really scary was that I saw that image when his head hit the pavement.
Oh my gosh.
He fell down and his head bounced like this when it hit the floor.
- Oh my gosh. - Because he lost consciousness.
His neck had no resistance and his head bounced on the floor.
In that moment, my dad came to my mind and I ran away because I was terrified.
I ran away.
We were charged with mob violence even though we were the ones who were beaten.
Police started to track me down while my family was in complete ruin.
They say misfortunes come in bunches, you know?
So I couldn't go back home for six months.
I didn't go back home and I did manual labor.
- A fugitive... - Because I'd get arrested if I go home.
My family was going through a difficult time.
Mom told me not to come home until it was sorted out.
Because I needed money if we were going to settle.
So I did manual labor for six months and I saved up a lot of money.
I thought, 'I can save up a lot of money,' for the first time in my life.
After we resolved that incident, I enlisted for my military service.
Because my family was struggling so much, I could go on a vacation
once a month if I got assigned to capital defense command.
'Since your dad is hospitalized, volunteer to be assigned there,' they said.
So I volunteered for it.
But there was a record about the fight that I'd gotten into.
Because of that, I didn't get assigned there.
- It was the reason. - It was.
I didn't get accepted and I got assigned to a reconnaissance team.
I got assigned to a reconnaissance team.
Things were gloomy. My dad was hospitalized and our family was a total wreck.
And my father passed away two weeks after I joined the army.
At the time, it was very...
My teenage years weren't good either, but that was when my world was falling apart.
In the middle of all that...
a group came to our base to perform for us.
They wanted someone from every platoon to participate in the talent show.
But there was nobody in our platoon who could do it. I was a quiet person back then.
Because my family was in a complete mess.
I was the senior private first class. I was.
Then you have to do it.
And the senior private first class does everything that nobody wants to do.
You have to do whatever no one else wants to do.
- 'I am the senior private first class.' - 'Then, you do it.'
So I got signed up for the talent show. The winner gets to go on vacation.
So I came up with skits, and I won first place.
What were the skits about?
I talked about the corruptions that exist in our military base.
How the first sergeant took stuff from the storage.
I did impressions of senior ranking officers too.
They thought I went insane because a quiet guy went crazy and won first prize.
I did it to get to go on a vacation.
Because of that, later on, I was sent to Moon Seun military base.
- They are soldiers who are entertainers. - So they saw your performance.
They sent me there because I won first place.
I did it for six months.
When I was there, I remembered that I used to want to become a comedian.
'I should audition to become a comedian,' I thought to myself.
I auditioned and I became a comedian.
The mistake I made in the past was once a bitter experience...
but I am here now because that was my starting point.
Someone asked me, 'What does today mean?'
When a day passes, tomorrow becomes today, and so on and so forth.
There's no such thing as 'now' because it's a passing thing.
There is a word for it, but it's something that always passes by.
Having gone through it, you get old and feel skeptical about your job.
'Am I living the right way? Am I working too hard?' You start to think this way.
'A mistake is also a skill set.'
I can totally relate to that.
Yes, of course and there are men who do this.
'How am I going to pick up that girl?' There are men who think that way.
You should ask her out as if you are asking for directions.
Men who have never been lucky with women are like that
because they never ask the woman how she feels.
Right? They only worry about, 'What if she rejects me?'
If you come across a woman you like, just talk to her as if you are asking for directions.
'I like you. Do you like me?'
Then women can also reject men as if they are giving directions.
- What I am trying to say is... - 'Please go around that corner.'
I mean you should ask her out with the attitude you use to ask for directions.
- With a light-hearted attitude? - Yes, with a light-hearted attitude.
I mean you can't do it if you are too afraid of it.
Yes... so people need to get hurt and learn from it.
Being rejected is also a skill set.
Being rejected and being dumped by women and things like that.
Being rejected is a skill set, so can you guess how spectacular my skill set is?
Then you have enough aptitude to go to Harvard.
- Your one-liner, Hwa Jeong? - My one-liner is...
'I am most beautiful today.'
Very much so.
It's something I am so glad to hear as a woman.
Not only in show business, but also in real life
women feel they are on shaky ground when they are close to 30.
When I think back, can you imagine how beautiful I must've been in my late 20s?
- Aren't we like babies at that age? - Yes.
When I was 28, I didn't know that, so I spent those years feeling so depressed.
But when I was in 'Hotelier' and 'The Greatest Love,' and when I looked at myself on TV...
I thought, 'Why do I look like that? Don't I look fat?'
Looking at it now, I was so pretty.
I don't know if it's the power of nostalgia.
I don't know why I complained so much about it when I did look so pretty.
I even hoped there'd be a blackout in the entire nation when it aired!
I think that you were so pretty whenever you were on TV.
- You are so good at that. - Of course. And this won't get edited out.
[The power of one-liners: I am at my best today]
The secret to looking your most beautiful today?
- I think it's about having your own style. - 'Omega-3.'
Were you a unique child when you were young?
When I was in a group photo, I instinctively knew that a smiling face was a pretty face.
You knew the right angle too?
Children stand looking dumb when they take a picture.
But I was like...
That's how I posed when I was young.
- At that age? - Yes.
- When you were 6 or 7 years old? - Yes, when I was in kindergarten.
How come you wear high heels at home?
They're just a little high.
Killer heels?
They aren't killer heels.
- They are wedge heels of 7 to 8 centimeters. - No, no.
In your living room?
- Don't women wear them? - In your living room?
Don't they wear slippers that have high heels? Don't they?
- Slippers that have 7 to 8 cm heels...? - No, no, Sun Hee was lying.
- Oh my gosh, oh my gosh-- - I don't have them anymore.
Oh my gosh, you are filming this, right?
'I don't have them anymore.'
I saw the ones that were that high.
- Why in the living room? - Don't people wear slippers that are a bit high?
No, we don't wear them at home!
Because we wear them outside the house, people don't want to wear them at home.
A very long time ago, I went to Hwa Jeong's house as part of a TV show.
When friends come visit her, she wears her sunglasses at home.
What's wrong with wearing sunglasses?
- Inside your home? - Yes.
Wearing sunglasses at home?
No, wearing them in the morning when the sun is too bright.
I think actresses have their own way of doing things.
- Can you imagine wearing sunglasses at home? - No, I can't.
- Wearing sunglasses at home? - Yes, yes.
I... I feel like I am in a totally different world.
I feel like I am in a strange world.
But when you just woke up and you're cooking, it's comfortable to wear sunglasses.
I hope you never wear exercise outfits when you go to bed?
- No... - Then what do you wear to bed?
I wear a robe.
An American middle-class lady.
Norah from New Jersey.
You are always ready for room service.
'Steve, please check the mail for me.'
When I went to a restaurant with my grandma, I read a saying on the wall.
'Pay cash today and pay credit tomorrow.'
I had no idea what it meant. 'Pay cash today and credit tomorrow?'
Then I realized what it meant.
Because the day after today will be another 'today.'
So it means you can never pay with credit.
In the same way, 'I'll be happy starting tomorrow. I'll have fun starting tomorrow.'
'I'll work hard starting tomorrow.' Stuff like that doesn't work.
So in my perspective, as a woman...
I could complain and cry about getting old, but...
If I look back at myself today ten years from now...
I am most beautiful and brilliant today. So, I am most beautiful today.
Yes, that's right. That's right.
Men think about it from a different perspective.
In our 20s, 'In my 20s, I need to have fun... because I can't have fun once I'm in my 30s.'
But when I got to my 30s, I found there were so many things I could enjoy!
So my 30s felt even better.
So I had a lot fun in my 30s thinking, 'I won't get to have fun in my 40s.'
But being in my forties, there are so many fun things too!
Now I am afraid of being in my 50s.
So I asked my friends who are in their 50s and they said
'Jong Shin, being in your 50s is a lot of fun.'
They said they have so much fun.
Friends in their 50s were enjoying what it meant to be in their 50s.
Of course.
Even my friends in their 60s don't seem to be struggling. They have so much fun.
They have so much fun.
People in their 80s say, 'It's so thrilling because you never know when you are going to die.'
Friends in their 50s say, 'Being in your 50s isn't like the way you imagined it to be.'
So, when you really think about it
the years you spent before your 20s don't really mean much.
Because you have no idea about how the world works or anything else.
I think I wasn't really living it in those years.
I think I really started to live starting from my late 20s and early 30s.
So, it hasn't been long since we've started to live it up.
- It hasn't been long since we debuted. - I believe that.
- So it's like I've just been born? - You are like a newborn baby.
Lastly, shall we listen to Tae Gyoon's one-liner?
I'll tell you my story first.
- Guess what my one-liner might be. - Yes, yes, yes.
We have the answer right here.
You changed your format already and it's changed to a quiz format once again.
Dear viewers, see if you can guess what might be my one-liner.
I would like to tell you how I got married.
Chan Woo knows this. I wasn't going to get married.
I was going to remain single and live with my family and take care of my mom.
And then...
In 1996, I met my wife who was a stylist who worked for me.
We had our own stylist for about a year, I think.
We weren't going out, but I did think I liked her.
But at the time, she had a boyfriend and I had a girlfriend too.
It was about five years after that.
We ran into her by accident and I asked her, 'Are you seeing someone right now?'
'I don't have anyone either. Then do you want to go watch a movie with me?'
That's what happened and we went to watch a movie.
We started going out with each other, and it happened so naturally.
After going out for a few days--
You say that it happened naturally, but...
we know how it really happened.
- Didn't something happen? - Yes, what happened was...
She had feelings for me.
More than I did for her.
- I told you I wanted to remain single, right? - Why was that?
There were many reasons, including our family situation. I had no desire for marriage.
You had a tough time with it.
I told her seriously, 'I'm not interested in marriage.'
'If you are going out with me because you want to marry me...'
'I think we should break up.'
- Right away? - After a while.
He had to say that because he loved her a lot.
I loved her a lot so I felt worried since I didn't want to get married.
'Let's think it over for a week and talk about it again since this is what I am thinking.'
After a week, she told me...
'Give me a chance.'
'I've had feelings for you for a long time...'
'And it would feel so empty if we break up after not even giving love a chance.'
She said it so sincerely that...
I couldn't say, 'No, I said I won't get married.'
So I said, 'Okay then, let's...' And we resumed our relationship.
I think it was three to four years after that.
I noticed my decision not to get married was starting to erode because of her.
'If I was to marry, I should marry her.' This thought came to my mind.
Then she took me to her house for the first time ever.
Her parents told me it's the first time their daughter ever brought a boyfriend home.
I am sure... they were telling the truth.
Families know how to put on an act like that.
- They were a great team. - They even rehearsed their movements.
I didn't notice that at all. They put on a perfect performance.
- Including their dog. - Her mom waits outside the door and says
'Yes, that is true.'
And they were a happy family.
I went into her room and I looked at their family photo album.
They were so happy together.
They spent a lot of time together.
They went on trips together and they were so happy together.
I could see that in every photo.
Was the photo album in a bookcase, or was it placed where you could see...
[Suspicious!]
I asked for it myself.
- My father passed away when I was young. - When you were young.
Mom had to work hard to provide for us.
- She had something you didn't have. - Yes, and I felt so envious about it.
As soon as I finished looking at the last photo, I thought...
'I should marry her.'
So...
What would be my one-liner?
Okay, here.
Here, guess his one-liner based on the story.
So this is my one-liner.
'Close the album?'
- 'Teamwork between family members?' - 'Teamwork in putting on an act?'
Okay, okay, I think she got it.
'Play hard to get again and again.'
Nope.
'Observe the family of your potential spouse.'
It's close.
'That family didn't rehearse it.'
- 'That family was for real!' - 'That family didn't rehearse it.'
It's a one-liner I would like to share with those who haven't married yet.
'You don't have to do it.'
- But I did get married! - Sorry, sorry.
- I told you that. - Ki Ha's answer?
- Jang Ki Ha! - Isn't it this one?
'If you're hesitant about marrying someone, look at his or her family photo album.'
- Yes, that's correct. - He got it?
'Look at the family photo album?'
I think it's important to observe his or her family environment.
It's so important.
I feel so envious when I look at how my wife's mom and dad are so happy with each other.
And I am so happy, too.
Aren't you happy being married after resisting it for so long?
I am very happy. Our child is now in the first grade.
- Your son is in elementary school? - Yes, he's now in the first grade.
This means I became a school parent, you know?
I am sure some of you went through it already, but...
On the first day of school, he looked so cute in his school uniform.
All the students were standing in a line.
A girl in the second grade stood at the podium and
gave a message to the students while standing like this.
'Dear first grade students!'
And every first grader went, 'Yes!'
Every parent laughed so hard because it was so cute.
I think she did the same thing about five times in her one-minute speech.
It was so cute.
- Chan Woo, you have a daughter and a son? - Yes.
- Your son is in middle school already? - Yes. He says they're cute, but...
it fades so quickly.
One day, he asked me, 'Dad, could we go to a public bath together?'
He enjoyed it when I took him to public baths because I'd tell him about different things.
'How is school? Is there anyone who's bullying you?' We talk about everything.
- 'Where is a good video arcade?' - 'There is one over there.'
'Go to one that's good, not the ones where they smoke inside.' I talk to him like a friend.
He wanted to talk that day.
So I canceled my work schedule and drinking with my friends and went home.
How could I not? I went home and we went to a public bath.
'What is it about?' I asked him.
'Dad, I have a problem...'
So I asked him what it was.
'I don't know why people worry about my grades when I'm okay with it,' he told me.
It's very philosophical.
'I don't know why people worry about my grades when I am okay with it,' he says.
'Who's worried about it?' I asked him.
He said it's Mom and Aunt who are so worried about it.
What is with that?
I think studying is not for everyone.
I believe that because I wasn't good at studying.
- Studying is a skill. - Yes, it is a skill.
I was good at speaking, not at studying.
Was my wife good at studying? No, she wasn't.
'You nor I weren't good at it, so how could he be?'
'Why do you want him to be good at studying when neither you nor I weren't good at it?'
'Just help him to be happy every day.'
- 'Did you do your best at studying, son?' - 'Dad, I did my best.'
'If you don't get good grades even after doing your best, it's okay.'
'What can you do when that's your personal best?'
'It just means that's how intelligent you are.'
I believe this... I think it's better to do something you enjoy doing.
That's the best you can do in studying.
Yes, it's better to read manga instead.
It's fun and he enjoys it.
But moms feel otherwise.
You know, he's so fortunate to have a dad like him.
He really is.
I think he's so fortunate that his dad talks this way.
By the way, I see how all this fits together.
- What do you mean? - So, I see...
She says not to hang out with happy friends when you are struggling so much, but...
'No, I know you are struggling, but a mistake is also a skill set.'
- And then, she feels a little better and-- - How does the family photo album fit in?
- And then... - How about drinking in the daytime?
You feel a little better and drink in the daytime with good friends.
'Yes, you are most beautiful today, at this moment.'
- How about the family photo album? - If you keep that attitude...
you meet someone and wonder if you should marry that person.
And then...
Why did you have to mention that album?
'When you are struggling, stay away from happy friends.'
'Drinking during the day makes life beautiful.'
'A mistake is also a skill set.'
'I am most beautiful today!'
'If you wonder whether to marry, look at his or her family photo album.'
[Next week on Hwasin]
- He has returned! - Gu Ra, Gu Ra.
I am sorry. I should be the center of attention.
Kim Gu Ra is the only one who can say that.
You have many girlfriends!
- Your one-liner, Gu Ra... - I'll prostrate myself on the ground.
I gripped my mouth shut and cried.
What's even sadder is... that I miss her.
- Wait a little more. - It worked! It worked! Yes!