Jang Yoon Jeong and father's emotional conversation hits 1.3 million views

“To live as Jang Yoon Jeong's father, you have to pay 200,000 to 300,000 won.” What began as a lighthearted 23-minute conversation between Jang Yoon Jeong and her father ultimately turned into a flood of tears. The daughter persuaded her father, who usually avoids appearing on broadcasts, to sit down for a meal, and within just two days of its release, the video surpassed 1.3 million views.

On the 24th, Jang released a video titled “Living as Jang Yoon Jeong's Father” on her YouTube channel, “Jang Factory Jang Yoon Jeong.” Initially, the realistic struggles of living as the “father of a famous singer” served as comedic material. Her father mentioned that while others contribute 100,000 won at family events, he ends up paying 200,000 or 300,000 won, asking himself, “Am I going there to disgrace Jang Yoon Jeong's face by only putting in 100,000 won?” He personally described this as “dignity maintenance fees.”

Jang also confessed that even her husband, Do Kyung Wan, has had to pay more in congratulatory and condolence money due to her fame. However, the cheerful atmosphere at the table changed completely as the father and daughter brought up the difficult times they had endured together.

Jang mentioned that her father had twice headed toward the Seohae Bridge in the past, attempting to give up on life. Her father recalled that once, amidst a heavy blizzard, he heard a sound that seemed to be calling him, but he turned his car around in Pyeongtaek as he thought of his daughter who would be left alone. Facing her returning father, a young Jang cried and held onto him, asking, “Are you going to die? If you die, we should die together. Are you going to die alone? Are you going to run away?” They said the two cried together all night.

Jang felt both apology and gratitude toward her father. Although she passed a gifted education test as a child, she could not enter the gifted education center due to the family's financial situation, and she had to give up learning the gayageum, which she wanted to study. Instead, once she began her path as a singer, her father moved up to Seoul to stay by her side during her trainee days. Jang recalled, “After I won the grand prize at a music festival, my father came up to Seoul and slept with me every night in the car with the heater on.”

Viewers also showed emotional reactions to the 23-minute conversation between the father and daughter. Comments such as “My heart feels heavy and I am tearing up watching the two of them talk,” “The parents' hearts are touching,” “I shed tears while watching,” and “So your father was your pillar of support” continued to pour in.

Ultimately, the reason this video recorded 1.3 million views was not just because of the “dignity maintenance fees” the famous singer's father had to bear. At a table that began with laughter, the two shared stories of failure, poverty, regret, and the times they served as each other's support. The 23 minutes in which the daughter called her father, who usually avoids the media, for a single meal, touched upon the universal moments between parents and children that any family might experience.