[Sports Chosun Online, reporter Lee Ji-hyun] Actress Go Hyun-jung also turned out to be a ‘mother’. Ultimately, she shed tears while talking about her children.
On the tvN entertainment program ‘You Quiz on the Block’ that aired on the 27th, actress Go Hyun-jung appeared and opened up about her personal life, including her debut as Miss Korea, dating, marriage, and divorce, sharing stories she hadn’t been able to tell the public before.
While discussing her life project ‘Sandglass’, Go Hyun-jung recalled, “I suddenly started dating. I didn’t know dating could be so fun. I was all in. I didn’t think about anything else. I was completely smitten. I still can’t forget that feeling. I could work even after staying up all night. It felt like everything in the world was going my way,” and, “It was as if nothing existed before and after. That love came swiftly and colored my entire twenties. It was a deep love, and it doesn’t come often.”
She added, “‘Sandglass’ became a social phenomenon, but it coincided with a period where I was closing one chapter of my life to open another. Several years after getting married, I truly realized its popularity and cried heavily. While filming ‘Sandglass’, I felt like dating was a distraction. I thought, ‘I’m not going to work anymore; I’ll just get married and quit.’ When the show aired, the reaction was enormous, and it was an experience that’s hard for an actor to have. But I didn’t realize how precious it was. I didn’t want to allow myself to feel it.”
Go Hyun-jung was candid about her children as well. She shared, “Many people wonder whether I live with my kids or not, and for the first time, I’ll say, can’t a mother just be comfortable? But that feeling was wishful thinking; it felt awkward and unfamiliar not being close. I didn’t know feeling distant could hurt so much. I felt intensely sad. It’s something that can’t be filled, it’s gone. It made me very upset,” she said tearfully.
She continued, “A lot of people feel sympathy for me when they connect my activities on YouTube or SNS to my children, but I don’t want to burden them. I just want to live earnestly and brightly, and I want to give back the love I’ve received from the public,” shedding tears again.
Meanwhile, Go Hyun-jung married Shinsegae Group chairman Jung Yong-jin in 1995, and they had a son and a daughter, but they divorced in 2003. The custody of the children was granted to Jung Yong-jin.