On the 13th, episode 11 of "Let's Go" season 5 aired, actor Jang Hyuk and god's leader Park Jun-young, who have been best friends for 30 years,
From the first glimpse of Jang Hyuk's home, to the story behind god's signature song "Dear Mother," to stories from their younger days when they lived together in a training camp, dreaming of debuting.
In the program, MCs Ahn JungHwan and Hong HyunYi visited Jang Hyuk's house with Park JunYoung.
Everyone was amazed at the neat and tidy house, which they had never even seen before, and couldn't help but be surprised at the large number of DVDs, figurines, and trophies arranged by genre in the hobby room.
In the subsequent talk, the MC asked about their first impressions of each other, and Park Ju Hyun said about Jang Hyuk, "He was extremely handsome, like the main character in a manga. But he also seemed poor."
"I was a cool, handsome American, but as time went on, I became a poor, hungry American," Jang Hyuk said, making everyone laugh.
Junyoung surprised everyone by saying, "When I first came to Korea, I was around 89-91kg, but I lost weight down to 63kg in a year and a half," but Jang Hyuk replied, "That's nothing.
Everyone lost that much weight. Junyoung had a friend who was a designer, and the first Korean phrase he learned was, "I'm hungry, please give me some food."
Park Joon-young then drew sympathy by saying, "When I asked him what he had been eating recently, he told me he had made porridge with shrimp-flavored snacks."
Next, Jang Hyuk and Park Junyoung talked about their poor days before their debut.
"We went to eat meat only once a month. The owner of the restaurant said, 'You don't have to pay us back, just eat as much meat as you want.' We ate so much that he called us 'a swarm of locusts.'
"I called them 'meatballs'," he said. "As I was eating, they would disappear one by one, so when I went to look for them, they were vomiting in the toilet. I didn't know when I would be able to eat meat again, so I just stuffed myself."
He opened up about the tough life he lived at the time, surprising the studio. Afterwards, Park Junyoung talked about the reason why "god" made their debut and the song "Dear
He also revealed the story behind "Mother." He said, "The agency didn't pay the electricity bill for our dorm. When I asked them why later, they said they didn't have the confidence to make us successful.
"They were expecting us to leave on our own," he confessed. "But after six months we were still there, so we ended up releasing an album. It worked out well in the end."
He also reflected on "Dear Mother," saying, "When I was a child, racial discrimination was terrible in America, and I was beaten almost every day. My mother shared lunch boxes with other Koreans at work.
They would wrap things like japchae in aluminum foil and give it to me when I went to school with it as my lunch, and the kids around me would say, "It smells like an earthworm," and spit on it.
"I would get into fights over it and my mother would be called in," he said, recalling his bitter memories. "I told Park Jin Young about that experience, and he wrote a book called 'D
On the other hand, Jang Hyuk said, "I was actually supposed to go down the melodrama TV series route, but I decided to go down the melodrama route."
" he said jokingly. MC Hong Hyun Yi then asked, "Why don't you do melody? Didn't you perform with Jung Jihyon in the past?
How was it then?" Jang Hyuk replied, "She really was like a little sister. A little sister. At that time, I was a rookie.
"The only actors were me and Jung Jihyon, and we were both the youngest, so we practiced acting together," he said, looking back on those days with nostalgia.
In season 5 of "GO," Ahn Jung Hwan and Hong Hyun Yi visit special and meaningful places such as their friends' homes, workplaces, and practice rooms that best represent their personalities.
It is broadcast every Saturday from 8:20 pm as a "national home visit tour program" in which guests talk about their lives.
2025/09/14 20:17 KST
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