Park Il-jun, ‘South Korea’s first generation multicultural singer ‘, reminisces about his life.

Park Il-jun appeared on KBS 1TV’s ‘Morning Plaza - Tuesday Invitation Seat’ aired on the 15th and opened the show with his new song ‘Are We Men?’

Park Il-jun said about the expression ‘first generation multicultural singer of the Republic of Korea’, “Now we say it so nicely, but before that, I was mixed race.I was teased a lot.” He cautiously said, “(In my opinion, I think that even if we have to use the expression multicultural,) we all think of ourselves as Koreans.”

Park Il-jun then shared the story of his birth.Park Il-jun began by saying, “I have an adoptive mother who is not related to me by blood.I am truly grateful to her.I had a biological mother, but they were like sisters.My birth mother said to my adoptive mother, ‘Sister, I am pregnant.’ She got pregnant without a man.She said, ‘I was raped by the Korean military.’”

Then, she confessed, “My adoptive mother accepted me when I was born.She said that my hair started to turn crooked about 100 days after I was born.Eventually, (my biological mother)told me about her relationship with the American soldier, and as I grew up, I became strange, so she abandoned me in an orphanage.”

At that time, Park Il-jun had no name, so he was called’ Gaedongi ‘, and a neighbor told his adoptive mother,’ Gaedongi is eating corn at the orphanage, so go quickly.’That’s how Park Il-jun and his adoptive mother met again and started living together as mother and son.He added that he found out that she was not his biological mother when he was 15 years old.

Regarding her longing for her biological mother, she said, “I was annoyed.I wonder why she couldn’t raise me and left me to someone else.But now that I think about it, I think she gave birth to me well.The people of the country made me like this.”

Meanwhile, Park Il-jun, born in 1954, debuted in 1977 with “Oh! Jin-ah” and has had many hit songs.Although he once had a difficult time with business failures, he recovered and has been active for over 30 years.

Photo = KBS 1TV ‘Morning Yard’

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