Choi Kang-hee, the moment of deciding to retire… “It’s burdensome to be loved” (Ok Moon-ah)

TV Jun 04, 2025

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Actress Choi Kang-hee reveals the shocking truth that led her to decide to retire.

On the KBS2 entertainment show ‘Problem Child in Rooftop Room Season 2’ (hereafter referred to as ‘Problem Child in Rooftop Room’) that will air at 8:30 PM on the 5th(Thursday), Choi Kang-hee will be invited to the rooftop room.On this day, Choi Kang-hee confesses the dizzying situation that made her decide to retire in the past.Choi Kang-hee said, “I decided to retire because I felt that I couldn’t enjoy myself as an actress and that being loved was burdensome,” and confessed her worries to Kim Sook and Kim Hye-ja at the time.

Choi Kang-hee then revealed that the person who prevented his retirement announcement in advance was none other than Kim Sook, saying, “Kim Sook told me not to tell anyone else that I was retiring and to keep it to myself.”

Meanwhile, it is said that the reason why the 30-year friendship between Kim Sook, Song Eun-i, and Choi Kang-hee was possible was because of their unimaginable commonalities.Kim Sook said, “Song Eun-i and Choi Kang-hee went to a pension to play, and on the way back, Choi Kang-hee said she left her sunglasses.” She then said, “I went to get the sunglasses, but I got a call again.This time, she said she left my pouch.So I went back to get them, but Song Eun-i got mad.She said,” Did you all pack them? “So we told her we didn’t have any anymore, but this time, the pension said there was a big bag.It was Song Eun-i’s.” She is expected to make everyone laugh by revealing the terrible forgetfulness that all three of them have in common.

Joo Woo-jae cheers on the friendship of three people with seemingly different yet similar personalities, saying, “I think the lives of these three people could be made into a sitcom.”

Here, Choi Kang-hee says, “To me, Kim Sook is like an older brother who is not uncomfortable or difficult, and Song Eun-i is like an uncle who solves everything, like Gwan-sik in ‘I Was Fooled by You, ‘“ and expresses her gratitude for the friendship between the two.

Indeed, what was Kim Hye-ja’s advice following Kim Sook’s decision to block Choi Kang-hee’s retirement announcement? The unexpected advice from Kim Hye-ja that moved Choi Kang-hee to tears, along with the reason Choi Kang-hee said she was confident in her future role as a kitchen aunt, will be revealed in the original broadcast of ‘Okmoonah’.

Photo = KBS ‘Problem Child in the Rooftop Room’

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