Jo Jazz Says Lim Young-woong "Looks Like He's Done Some Carpentry"; Lim Says, "I Worked Part-Time at a Furniture Factory in High School"

Jo Jazz said Lim Young-woong "looks like he's done some carpentry," and Lim Young-woong replied that he "worked part-time at a furniture factory in high school."

On the first episode of SBS's "Mountain Bachelor Hero," which aired on the 23rd, singer Lim Young-woong and his "family" moved into a mountain house. Lim arrived at the new countryside home with his companion dog Siwol, while close friends including Heo Kyung-hwan, Hyun Bong-sik and Jo Jazz joined him for the move-in.

After lunch, Lim Young-woong set out to make a bar table together with Jo Jazz. Watching Lim build the table without hesitation, Jo Jazz was visibly surprised and said, "It looks like you've done some carpentry." Lim then explained the source of his ease with the work, saying, "My aunt's husband runs a furniture factory, and I worked there from high school until before I went to the military in order to earn spending money."

Jo Jazz and Hyun Bong-sik also praised Lim Young-woong's character. They said they were impressed by the way he listens carefully to others and by how hard he works even in acting, a field outside singing, and they raised their thumbs in approval.

Lim Young-woong spoke candidly about what does and does not feel comfortable for him. "Acting is fun," he said. "I'm not confident on talk shows. I'm not confident about answering questions that have not been decided in advance." In doing so, he admitted that talk shows are an area where he feels weak.

Lim also surprised everyone with a humble comment about his own career. "Fans like my music, but I don't think of myself as a singer who has hit songs," he said. "I wanted to feel what that feels like for you."

Lim Young-woong is widely described as a singular presence among South Korea's male solo singers. Across genres including trot, ballad, dance and rock, he has produced many hit songs, among them "Love Always Runs Away," "Trust in Me Now," "My Starry Love," "Warmth" and "London Boy."

In 2024, "Our Blues" was counted among the songs that generated the highest annual music-streaming copyright royalties, and in 2025 "Do or Die" was also counted in that category, based on the Korea Music Copyright Association Copyright Awards criteria.

Last March, Lim surpassed 13.6 billion cumulative streams on Melon, South Korea's largest music platform, and entered the platform's "Dia Club." In a music market where idol music is often the mainstream, the male solo singer has held the all-time No. 1 position, even ahead of BTS.

According to the audit report of Mulgogi Music, Lim Young-woong's one-person agency, Lim earned about 14.5 billion won in settlements last year and 1 billion won in dividends, for total income of 15.5 billion won. Even so, he showed humility by calling himself a "singer without hit songs."

Lim Young-woong will hold his solo concert "I'm Hero - The Stadium 2" at Goyang Stadium this September.