K-Entertainment Rocked by News of Lee Ji Ah and Seo Taiji’s Secret Marriage and Divorce

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• seriously!....poor Jung Woo Sung is having a bad year.....first Athena now this?!.....he desrves so much better...good to know your coping well

• Guess that voodoo doll worked, huh? Her career is pretty much be done for

  • for reals!

• I was worried for you! So much! And the news is still mind-boggling. How did they even manage to keep ti secret for so long? How? how? Hoooow?

  but because she LIED to him and never told him about her past. A relationship built on a foundation of one great big lie is doomed to fail, and I’m glad this news came out now so that Jung Woo Sung didn’t get further involved with her.

  THIS. SO MUCH! Exactly what I said on my blog. alsdjlasdkj

  omg, dude. I still can't believe this. It was so out of the blue...

  • I'm actually wondering about the same thing. How the hell did they manage to keep things quiet for like 14 years.

    I don't hate the girl before but now, I feel so disappointed in her. :/ What goes around comes around Lee Ji Ah.

• I can sense that you are a great fan of Jung Woo Sung (which I frankly don't know at all except for the photo above). However, from a reasonable point of view, it's quite difficult to imagine that one can be in a close relationship with another person without knowing that she had children. I mean you can write off a previous failed marriage like a broken off ex-boyfriend not worthy of mention but how can one disregard his/her own children and completely deny their existence? If the two (JWS and LJA) are really in a serious relationship then it can and must be worthy of confidence especially in matters of deep concern/worry. Therefore, JWS should know the existence of LJA's children and her troubles from her previous marriage. The management company is probably just trying to shield JWS from said scandal.

  • If the entire world didn't know about the existence of the two children, it means that Seo Taiji and Lee Ji Ah went out of their way to protect and hide their children. I don't doubt that JWS could be kept in the dark about her marriage and kids, since they just started dating not 2-3 months ago.

    If JWS and LJA had been dating for a much longer period, then I'd be less likely to believe that he didn't know about her having kids. Frankly, this entire mess is pretty sordid, and I don't believe anything about the who knew what and when.

    • Actually, if by any chance JWS does know about LJA's previous marriage and comes out to say "yes, I knew and I still love her anyway", that would still have been cool. There is no crime, they are both single. Divorcees can date and certainly other people can date them too. Nothing wrong there. As long as an artiste hones his/her skills and deliver professionally, living normal private lives together with its usual ups and downs, that's really fine by me. The entertainment industry simply likes to complicate things unnecessarily.

    • I Totally Agree. If JWS knew and was okay with it, I would be totally supportive of him. I have no problems with divorced people dating or people dating divorced people.

      Which is why I think JWS really didn't know. Kim Seung Woo was divorced when he married Kim Nam Joo, and they are a golden couple. Go Hyun Jung is divorced, and everyone adores her. I don't see divorce as a huge stigma in Korea anymore, and JWS hardly strikes me as the prudish type to expect his girlfriend to not have previous relationships.

      I think this all boils down to DISCLOSURE. Doesn't matter what LJA's past is, if she was truthful to him (and that is between them) on their relationship terms.

    • "LIED to him and never told him"
      I can totally understand that she didn't tell anything :i mean we have seen what a huge mess their divorce seem to be....how can you come clean with that with someone you are going out with for 3 months or so involve them and take the risk to wreck the relationship before it has the chance to solidify? .

  • Oh meh gosh...how do you hide children nowadays that's really so hurting and traumatic for the kids, so freaking selfish adults!!!! :-( Like I said people nowadays just do what they want without putting into consideration other love ones feelings, a lie will definitely come out one of these days....I want to know the truth if I had someone no matter how bad it is....I need to know it's hard to live with someone who lies a lot....It's like living with a total stranger after marriage :-(

    • though i think the whole thing have the Hwang Tae Kyung element with all the keeping the children from the public thing but i dont think they were selfish. I think in their own way they were trying to protect their children. as far as I know Seo Taiji was like the Ultimate idol, and in being so he most likely had those tons of over obsessed fans that would go at all lengths to have him single. I think since Seo Taiji was an idol their relationship was intentionally kept from the public but i dont think the kids existence was intentionally want to kept a secret, i think circumstances and consequences just lead to that. I personally, i think the whole secret children thing is actually good for the kids now since they wont be hounded by paparazzi cause no one knows who they are.

      when Lee Ji Ah and Jung Woo Sung first surfaced as a couple, i was actually pretty irritated cause though many people already called dibs on my Jung Woo Sung, i still consider him mine so it was natural to hate any woman who can call him theirs. (cause he is mine...!!!!)
      and now when this story surface, I actually felt sorry for her. imagine being a husband but still unable to call him. being married but having to keep it all a secret. having kids but having to not mention them. Its like she was living a double life where she was this single rising star in one side and a mother and wife in the corner. its like always having a front with all the people you work with. its like lying to each single person that you may call friend.
      and for me that is just a life no one should live. No one would want to live a life always full of lies and acting. that would just be too exhausting.
      i personally think that she loved him (STJ) that much, enough to be invisible in his life. and for me that is just sad. I understand that the decision to make make the whole thing a secret is a mutual thing, that is how secrets gets kept for that long a period of time, though mutual agreement. but i think its mostly for STJ's career. hmmnnnn....

      I hope these whole thing would be resolved and I hope that the kids would be okay in the end...
      still love Jung Woo Sung, and hope he isnt too hurt by this wholke thing...

      PS. is it just me or this whole scandal spells MAKJANG!!!

• I think LJA just confirmed that there were no kids....http://news.mk.co.kr/se/view.php?year=2011&no=255907&sID=507

• Being a big fan of Jung Woo Sung... I felt sorry that he is in this situation...

• A relationship built on secrets and lies never fares well but her situation seems very precarious. I wonder how hard it must be to keep such a high profile marriage and divorce under wraps. Whom do you trust and how soon? Can your new (celebrity) significant other be trusted? Perhaps, the truth was going to come out once the relationship becomes more permanent and such secrets can be entrusted. We will probably never know, of course.

  By no means am I advocating for her,
  I just think that her circumstances makes it very difficult to be more "honest." It's a sad situation for everyone, especially Jung Woo Sung, who is innocent of everything. It's sad how very close this is to K-drama story line.

• When I first heard about this my first thought was either koala is going bat shit with rage or weeping for poor JWS. This was scandal to the highest level when it got out, because people were speculating did she cheat on him while still being married? Did JWS know about it? For how long? Just about 400 responses in under 30 minutes upon airing, it was crazy. Glad everything is clearing up & glad your fine, we all know Lee Ji ah's image is tarnished forever I just hope JWS's isn't.
  Also a secret marriage for 14 years with 2 kids? how the heck did this get past netizens, press or even their companies? :S I now know Anything is possible.

• I am so glad you are OK unni! *hugs* Twitter was crazy last night. Even the ones from East Coast are awake up until the wee hours of the morning bec of this news!

  I'm happy you slept through the madness.

  • I avoided the madness last night. Also, have been way too busy to hang out with my sweet girls on twitter these past few days. *HUGS* you guys are the best~

• I've spent most of my life mired in the murky waters of Bollywood, which is generally pretty lax about stars dating, marrying, and divorcing up a storm -- I mean, I don't know anybody driven to tears over such things, though I did have a friend who devoted hours to throwing shade on a certain actor's then-girlfriend -- and I generally react to marriage-and-divorce rigmarole happenings in Hollywood by rolling my eyes and moving on, so...

  I don't really know what to think of this. Let it be known that K-entertainment is the most bizarre place ever. I didn't even know that secret marriages and divorces happened anymore, and I seriously had no inkling that they would, I dunno, even be necessary. (Well, as long as Lee Ji Ah didn't end up taking roofies from a priest in the process, I guess I'm okay with this.) I understand the need for privacy, I suppose, because we live in a world where out movie and TV stars become more shiny playthings than people.

  But I do wonder how big a part the Korean nature of celebrity played in how hush-hush matters were kept, in how the matter was framed in the media, and how the public has reacted. In America, and even in India to an extent, we enjoy watching out stars fuck their lives up, fix them, fuck them up again ad nauseam; a scandal like this one in America -- which wouldn't be a scandal anyway, because stars of this caliber would have their wedding/honeymoon/various runs to the grocery store meticulously canonized by People or something -- wouldn't really mean anything for the actors'/singers' careers in and of itself. If anything, it would generate PR buzz. I've noticed in Korea, though, stars are held up to impossibly high standards, standards to which plebeians aren't meant stand, but the most visible members of society are, if they want to keep their careers. I wonder why this is, because there's such a divide in how things are framed and conceived in the public consciousness. Case-in-point: In America, some young actor doing e and ketamines in some night club wouldn't even lift eyebrows; in Korea, it's enough to decimate a promising career. I don't know -- I suppose I just don't understand how Korea figures how much of its celebrities are pubic property, and how much of their personas are private.

  Aaaaaand, I guess I'll shut up now and go to class.