Kim Sung-soo, a member of the group Cool, has been updated with news.

On the 14th, a video titled [Meet Kim Sung-soo] Mental breakdown due to the ‘supercar scam, one of only two in the country… Current status of the broadcaster who disappeared from TV’ was released on the YouTube channel ‘Recent Status Olympics’.

Kim Sung-soo, a member of Cool, the best mixed group that swept the 90s, appears in the video. During their heyday, when they had numerous hit songs such as ‘Fate’, ‘Lucifer‘s Excuse’, ‘Beach Woman’, and ‘Sorrow’, they swept up summer beach events in particular. Kim Sung-soo recalled those days, saying, “My skin was never white.”

When asked about the settlement amount at the time, Kim Sung-soo said, “We received the settlement well. We received it in a wad of cash. At that time, the Hyundai apartment was worth 100 million won. If only we had bought that... ” he expressed regret.

However, Kim Sung-soo has thin ears and a weak heart, so he was scammed a lot. He said, “I did a lot of good things for others. I was also scammed by investments and lost a lot.” “A dealer said, ’Bro, there aren‘t many of these cars in the world. Just give me 90 million won. He said, ”I’ll return the car in my brother‘s name,“ but he received 90 million won each from 10 people with that one car. And then he ran away to China. The car itself wasn’t even his,” he said, sharing an anecdote.

Kim Sung-soo confessed, “I invested in a sports bar business in New Zealand and got scammed... There were a lot. I got soaked like clothes getting wet in a drizzle and now I‘m like this. It’s almost like a flood,” and the host predicted several billion won.

He then expressed his regret again, saying, “If only I had continued on ‘Infinite Challenge’,” and explained the reason for his departure. “The reason I left ‘Infinite Challenge’ after being active was because of my entertainment slump. If only (Yoo) Jae-suk had listened to me at that time,” and said, “I hit the ground and regret it. After that, he confessed that he hadn‘t even watched ’Infinite Challenge‘.

Who was the biggest driving force for Kim Sung-soo, who took on various challenges since then? It was his only daughter.

Kim Sung-soo said, ”My life’s wish is to send my daughter to a good college. To raise her well. The hardest thing was that one axis was broken, so I tried to balance the two axes.“ He added, ”I went through a lot of confusion. There should be people who scold me and say I‘m not doing this, and there should be people who protect me, but since I did everything by myself, there was confusion like, ’He‘s such a caring dad, but he’s scolding me again?‘“ It was hard to make him understand that,” he confessed.

Kim Sung-soo, who recently achieved the ‘double crown for early admission’ by his daughter’s acceptance to Kyonggi University and Dankook University’s College of Fine Arts, said, “I was more nervous than when I first went on air after taking her to take the CSAT in the morning. I felt like I was flying when I heard that I had been accepted to two schools.”

Meanwhile, Kim Sung-soo married his ex-wife A in 2004 and had a daughter. After their divorce in 2010, his ex-wife A tragically passed away in a stabbing incident at a bar in Gangnam in October 2012.

Photo=YouTube channel ‘Recent Updates Olympics’
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