Singer and broadcaster Shin Jung-hwan has confessed for the first time how he first started gambling.

On the 24th, a video titled ‘[Non-non-non] Shin Jung-hwan and Kang Byung-gyu‘s First Confession: Is Gambling My Path?’ was released on the YouTube channel ‘Fix Channel’.

In the video released that day, in response to the panelist’s question, “When did you first gamble?”, Shin Jung-hwan answered, “When I was 27 and Country Kkokko was gaining popularity with ‘Gimme, Kimme!’, the company was supposed to settle the accounts, but the settlement kept getting delayed. I should have paid them at home, but after three months or so, it was so hard, so I asked when the settlement would be.”



Shin Jung-hwan recalled, “I‘ve never talked about it anywhere,” and said, “The company gave me the money in a promissory note. They gave me a promissory note for 50 million won, and a company executive gave me the money in cash. I was using that for living expenses, and on my day off, my older brothers suddenly said, ’Come out.‘ They said Kangwon Land had opened.”

Shin Jung-hwan also said, “They said let’s go for a walk. That was my first official casino. I was 27 and didn‘t know anything. I had 2 million won at the time, and I won a lot. I think I won over 20 million won at the time. My older brothers said, ’Jung-hwan is a natural.‘ I thought, ’Is this the path I should take?‘”



When the panelist who was listening to this asked, “So how much did you lose?”, Shin Jung-hwan drew attention by saying, “At the time, I must have earned more than 10 billion won from my broadcasting career and events,” and that he lost 10 billion won.

Meanwhile, Shin Jung-hwan was sentenced to 8 months in prison for illegal gambling at a hotel casino in the Philippines in 2010 and was paroled in December 2011.

Choi Yoon-na, Donga.com reporter yyynnn@donga.com

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