Seo Dong-ju cries after winning the auction for his lungs

Seo Dong-ju revealed the abandoned house he bought at auction.

Seo Dong-ju, an American lawyer and broadcaster who has been in the second act of his life for 10 years, appeared on TV Chosun's 'Now I'm Alone', which aired on the 30th.

Seo Dong-ju married a Harvard University graduate and American businessman six years older than her, and divorced in 2014, five years later. Seo Dong-ju, who met through someone who went to the same church as her mother, said about the reason why she got married so quickly at the age of 27, “To be honest, I don’t think there was any reason. At that time, my friends were getting married. I felt like I would be left behind when everyone else went, so I wanted to do it quickly. “When I think about it now, I wonder why I did that when I was so young,” he regretted.

Seo Dong-ju said, “I think the biggest thing is that I got married and broke up when I didn’t really know what kind of person I was. My mom said she wanted me to be a wise mother and good wife when she raised me, so I guess she thought I was that type of person. I thought I had a lot of patience and a strong spirit of sacrifice, but I was a person with many things I wanted to do and many different sides. “I think the biggest reason for the divorce was that I wasn’t the person I knew.”

He continued, “I think there was a discrepancy between what I thought of myself and who I felt after getting married and living my life. “I got married at a very young age before I could find myself, and there were things that I thought were hard to handle even though I don’t have this type of personality, so I think this happened naturally,” he added.

Seo Dong-ju said, “My mom and dad divorced around the same time. “I could rely on my parents as long as I had my divorce, but since it happened all at the same time, I had no one to rely on, so I think it was even more lonely and difficult,” he confessed.

He said, “Those who have been divorced for a long time will be like that. It feels like a past life. My memory is blurry. Personally, it feels like the 10th act of my life. “Now, I want to live in a new home, doing more enjoyable, hopeful, and positive things.”

Afterwards, Seo Dong-ju revealed the house he won at auction. Seo Dong-ju said, “I came to Korea and lived in rent for three years. This is my home that I worked hard to save up to buy. “I wanted to buy it at least a little lower than the market price, so I went to the court and participated in a mock auction and actually participated in it, and ended up winning the bid for this house,” he explained.

When Park Mi-sun was worried and asked, “Is the house in good condition?” Seo Dong-ju said, “There are a few tears in my eyes. Auctions don't really allow you to look inside. Because the site was large, I did it with this mindset. “I bought it cheaply,” he said, revealing that it was being remodeled.

Park Na-rae also won a mansion at auction. Na-rae Park won a single-family home in Itaewon-dong for 5.57 billion won at an auction in July 2021, which was assessed to have increased by 1.5 billion won in three years.

Seo Dong-ju, who revealed that she currently has a boyfriend, told her mother and grandmother, who were hoping for a second child, that she had frozen her eggs, saying, “I don’t know if I’ll be able to have a child.”

Taeyuna, Ten Asia Reporter youyou@tenasia.co.kr