Park Jung-soo Says Business Partner and 'Practical Foster Son' Kim Yoo-seok Is More Useful Than PD Jung Eul-young

Actress Park Jung-soo, 73, introduced the young man she calls her foster son on the June 10 episode of her YouTube channel, "You Can't Stop Jung-soo That Easily." Preparing food on camera, Park said she wanted to try a healthy meal that day, explaining that as she gets older she has become less fond of eating food bought outside and now prefers simple, health-focused dishes.

Park then introduced the man cooking alongside her as Kim Yoo-seok, the head of the food company connected to her own business. "You know I run a food company," she said, presenting him as CEO Kim Yoo-seok. The program's on-screen caption described him as her "practical foster son," emphasizing that their relationship goes beyond an ordinary business connection.

Explaining why Kim had come to see her, Park said a new product had been developed and brought to her for approval. She said that before any product goes to market, she makes sure to inspect it again herself, checking the ingredients and adjusting the flavor when she feels something should be added or changed. Park stressed that customers buy the products because they trust her, so she feels responsible for reviewing them carefully.

Park added with a pleased expression that Kim had offered to cook for her because she had been working hard on YouTube lately. She said she thought she might as well enjoy being treated to a meal for the first time in a while. Kim, caught off guard, responded by asking whether they were not supposed to be cooking together.

Park recalled that she and Kim first became connected about five years ago. According to Park, Kim persuaded her while she was working in the home-shopping business. At the time, she said, she had become angry and insisted that cosmetics were her field, not food, loudly saying that she did not want to go into the kitchen. Although she now enters the kitchen often because she is in the food business, she said that in the past she only went in occasionally and did not want to do so every day.

She continued by saying that she had refused because of her image and other concerns, but Kim kept trying to convince her. Park joked that if someone keeps talking to her, she eventually gives in, adding with a laugh that she would fall after being asked ten times and might even fall after only eight.

As Park tasted the food with Kim, she also opened up about her dissatisfaction with PD Jung Eul-young, the production director with whom she is in a common-law relationship. Park said she loves flowers and always keeps fresh flowers at home, but complained that her partner only looks at them and does not know how to change the water. She asked whether changing water was really that difficult, then praised Kim by saying it would be nice to live with a man like him because he does everything, even the dishes. After tasting the dish Kim had made, she expressed her admiration, saying it was truly delicious.

Park said that she and Kim meet often even outside work. She added that their families travel together and described Kim as someone who is useful in many ways, speaking with an expression reminiscent of a mother talking about her own son.

Park Jung-soo married a businessman in 1975 and had two children, but the couple divorced in 1997. Since 2009, she has maintained a common-law relationship with PD Jung Eul-young, who is the father of actor Jung Kyung-ho.

Park has also been carrying out a food business in collaboration with Olbareunga Co., Ltd., the company founded in 2021 by CEO Kim Yoo-seok. Through home shopping channels and online malls, the partnership sells a range of fresh foods and convenient meal products.