Actress Lee Yu-ri reveals new home filled with career costumes

Actress Lee Yu-ri will showcase her new home on the KBS 2TV variety program "Stars' Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant" on the 5th, revealing a collection of costumes from her 25-year career that required 18 experts for 15 hours of organizing.

Actress Lee Yu-ri will reveal her new home for the first time on broadcast, showcasing an extraordinary scale of household management. Although she stated that she pursues a minimal life, her home is filled with items and costumes collected throughout her long career as an actress. Her reputation as a "big spender" in household management is drawing attention again, following past revelations that she owned five refrigerators and 300 towels.

The KBS 2TV variety program "Stars' Top Recipe at Fun-Staurant," airing at 8:30 PM on the 5th, will be presented as the second part of the 7th-anniversary special "Home." Following Oh Yoona last week, Lee Yu-ri, described as the original "large-capacity goddess" of the show, will appear to reveal her current life and her new home for the first time.

Introducing herself as a "minimal life seeker," Lee Yu-ri first shows a neatly organized living room. The interior is simple and the space is tidy, exuding a truly minimal atmosphere. However, the mood shifts when looking at the hobby room, dressing room, and kitchen. These spaces are filled with various items, creating a surprising contrast to the minimal life she previously claimed to pursue.

The dressing room particularly draws attention, as it is packed with costumes she personally wore in productions during her 25-year acting career. The collection includes outfits from her time playing the legendary villain Yeon Min-jung in the drama "Jang Bo-ri Is Here!" as well as a white dress worn in the KBS 2TV drama "My Father Is Strange." Rather than a simple closet, the space serves as a repository of Lee Yu-ri's past works and time.

The white dress holds special significance. It is the actual outfit she wore during the wedding scene in "My Father Is Strange," which recorded a peak viewership rating of 36.5%. That scene, which garnered significant interest from viewers at the time, continues to be loved, having recorded 12.79 million views on YouTube. Despite the long passage of time, the appearance of the costume from that production in her new home adds a sense of nostalgia.

Even with items filling every corner of the house, Lee Yu-ri emphasizes, "I reduced my belongings a lot." However, she also admitted, "I still have a lot to get rid of," drawing laughter. It was reported that the moving process was not easy. Lee Yu-ri surprised the cast by revealing, "18 organizing experts helped me when I moved. It took 15 hours to organize."

The fact that 18 experts were deployed for a full 15 hours of organizing provides an indication of the scale of Lee Yu-ri's household management. With reports that even the experts rated the difficulty of the move as "special high," interest is growing in her vast storage needs, despite her claims of reducing her belongings.

Lee Yu-ri's unusual collecting and household habits are not new information. In 2014, she drew attention during an appearance on KBS 2TV "Happy Together 3" by revealing she had as many as five refrigerators at home. She explained that she prepares food in advance because she is often away from home for long periods due to filming. Additionally, she boasted of her "big spender" qualities by revealing she owned 300 towels.

While she has portrayed a wide range of characters in her works, from intense villains to lovely individuals, she provides a different kind of humor in real life with her down-to-earth side, being unable to easily discard items. Following the stories of five refrigerators and 300 towels, interest is focused on what kind of fun Lee Yu-ri's extraordinary scale of household management will provide in this broadcast.

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