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Jeon Woo-won "There is a secret safe in the Yeonhui-dong mansion."
In SBS' Curious Story Y, which aired on the 7th, I accompanied and closely covered Jeon Woo-won, who entered the country from the United States on the 28th of last month and met the bereaved families of victims of the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement after arriving in Gwangju on the 30th. According to Nielsen Korea, a viewership rating research company, 'Curious Story Y', which aired on this day, recorded a viewership rating of 6% among households in the metropolitan area and the highest viewership rating per minute of 9%.
Jeon Woo-won expressed his honest feelings, saying, "This whole process is scary and scary," but "I want to tell the truth to at least one person who lives." Regarding his childhood memories of his grandfather Chun Doo-hwan, he recalled, "The family gathered together every Sunday. The family treated (my grandfather) with respect like a mafia boss," and "The value that my grandfather valued was obedience."
Jeon Woo-won also explained in detail the suspicions about his family's 'dark money'. He released a video of the interior of Chun Doo-hwan's Yeonhui-dong home that he personally filmed and drew the internal structure on a tablet PC, saying, "There is a secret room the size of a room and a secret safe." During an interview with the production crew, he spoke to his mother on the phone and said, "The walls were full of cash. The secretaries were changing cash in hundreds of millions."
For the first time, she also revealed the tuition account details she received from her grandmother Lee Soon-ja while attending college in the United States. The depositor was different each time, and among them was the name of the hairdresser in charge of Soon-ja Lee. He claimed, “All the slush funds were laundered through acquaintances.” He also raised questions about the winery run by his uncle Jeon Jae-man in Napa Valley, California, saying, "I think it is the best money laundering facility."
Jeon Woo-won, who visited Yeonhui-dong with the production crew, said, "I've lived there for 27 years, and there's never been a time when there wasn't a bodyguard around Yeonhui-dong. I don't think my grandmother is here. If she's honest, why is she hiding? She's probably hiding because she's being stabbed."
As a child, Jeon Woo-won, who could only hear the explanation from his father Jeon Jae-yong that "Gwangju was a riot," learned the truth through his roommate. Jeon Woo-won confessed, “When I heard, ‘What you know may not be true,’ that was the first time I realized, ‘I must be thinking wrong.’”
Jeon Woo-won apologized once again, saying, “I would like to have the opportunity to comfort (the bereaved family’s) hurt and broken hearts.”
Kim Ji-won, Ten Asia reporter bella@tenasia.co.kr
