Ji Jin-hee Reveals Birth Secret... “I Worried About Finding My Birth Parents”

Feb 11, 2025

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Actor Ji Jin-hee revealed that he found out the secret of his birth only after enlisting in the military due to a wrong blood type test.

On the 10th, a video titled ‘Ji Jin-hee and Lee Kyu-hyung. The Too Much Talker Who Surpassed Park Chan-ho While Unraveling the Legendary Travels of Hwang Jo-ji’ was posted on the YouTube channel ‘Salty Brother Shin Dong-yup’.

In the released video, Ji Jin-hee and Lee Kyu-hyung, the leads of KBS 2TV‘s Wednesday-Thursday drama ‘Kik Kik Kik’, appeared as guests.

On that day, Ji Jin-hee revealed an anecdote from the past, saying, “I have a funny story”.

Ji Jin-hee said, “The first thing you do when you enter middle school is get your blood type tested. Since I was type A, I went home and asked my parents about their blood types, and my mom was type B and my dad was type O. So I thought, “He must have been picked up,” confessing that he once suspected the secret of his birth.

Jinhee Ji then said, “I even thought, ’It‘s because he couldn’t have another child,‘ since he’s an only child.” Lee Kyuhyung was surprised and said, “Did you think that much when you were in the first year of middle school?”

Ji Jinhee said, “I was worried about whether I should tell my parents who raised me and find out the secret of my birth, or whether I should find my biological parents. I wondered why they abandoned me. I couldn‘t help but think, ’Was he poor?‘”

Then, “I looked through my photo album to find out when (I was adopted), and there was a picture from our first birthday party. I thought, ‘You prepared thoroughly,’ and recalled that time, saying, “The people who abandoned me after much thought are not my parents. I decided to live thinking that the people who raised me are my parents.”.

Jinhee Ji later surprised everyone by revealing that he had misunderstood things from middle school until he enlisted in the military. Jijinhee Ji said, “I took a blood type test in the military and it was type B. Doesn’t that make sense?”. “I thought, ‘They say if you live together, you start to resemble each other, and you really do resemble each other,’.”, making everyone burst into laughter.

Kim Seunghyun, Donga.com Reporter tmdgus@donga.com

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