Oh Yoon-ah reveals plans for wedding photoshoot during Tokyo trip

Only about two months after announcing her remarriage, actress Oh Yoon-ah has revealed another unexpected plan related to her marriage: a wedding photoshoot. Having already started a new marital chapter, her mention of a wedding photoshoot draws attention as a move to personally record and celebrate a new phase of her life.

In a video of her trip to Japan released on her YouTube channel "Oh! Yoon-ah" on the 25th, Oh shared snippets of her daily life visiting restaurants in Tokyo with her husband. From the first day of the trip, she appeared so exhausted that she confessed, "I only want to go to the hotel and sleep," but she regained her energy in front of food when she visited a yakitori restaurant late at night. The meal lasted well past 11:30 PM, starting with tartar raw beef and potato salad, followed by various yakitori, french fries, fried rice, and spicy ramen.

This scene is interesting because it contains a sense of time that goes beyond a simple "mukbang." Oh recalled the days when she had to follow extreme diets for her modeling activities and photo shoots. Remembering how she would only visit yakitori restaurants to eat to her heart's content after a shoot was finished, she said, "There was a time when I couldn't even think about eating something at night."

By stepping away from the life of a celebrity who had to manage her body as a product and an image, she naturally revealed her current self, enjoying the food she loves and savoring the moment.

In particular, her comment during a conversation with the production crew about her next vacation plans caught everyone's attention. Oh stated, "I might do a wedding photoshoot."

This is especially unusual given that she already revealed her remarriage this past July. If marriage is the reconstruction of a legal and social relationship, a wedding photoshoot is an act of visualizing that relationship into a memory and an image. While marriage in the past was consumed as a "once-in-a-lifetime ritual," today the meaning of marriage is expanding as a way to celebrate new relationships and identities at every stage of life.

For Oh, remarriage is an event that is difficult to reduce to the mere number of a "second marriage." She married a non-celebrity in 2007 and had a son, but divorced in 2015 and has since been raising her son alone. For her, who has balanced her career and parenting for a long time, this remarriage is not about erasing her past life, but rather a process of adding a new relationship onto her accumulated experiences. In particular, her confession during this trip that she felt uneasy leaving her son home alone shows that her life as a parent is still not separated from her daily life within her new marital relationship.

The public response was also much larger than Oh had expected. She mentioned receiving "an enormous" amount of contact after her remarriage announcement and shared an experience where people recognized her and offered congratulations as she was leaving a meal.

A star's marriage and divorce have long been subjects of public curiosity and consumption under the name of privacy. However, in Oh's case, the public's congratulations read less like a reaction to a celebrity's marriage and more like a form of solidarity and support from those who have watched her life and family history for a long time.

Above all, the image Oh showed during this trip is closer to that of an ordinary person rather than a celebrity described by the grand title of "remarried star." She eats delicious food late at night, confesses she was too tired to pack properly, and expresses realistic worries about having to go on a diet again for a shoot after returning to Korea. Rather than glamorous wedding dresses or wedding ceremonies, these small scenes of daily life more clearly show the reality of her new married life.

Ultimately, the wedding photoshoot Oh mentioned is highly likely to mean more than just another photo shoot. This is because it symbolizes the fact that, moving away from the old notion that a life narrative is completed with one marriage, a person can continuously renew themselves and write new scenes of life through relationships. Attention is focused on how Oh, who has experienced marriage and divorce once and chosen love again, will record her "second marriage" this time.