Park Tae-hwan's filial piety to fight cancer is happier when he presents home and tea than first place

By YoonSeon, Cho

Jun 13, 2025

Park Tae-hwan's filial piety to fight cancer is happier when he presents home and tea than first place



'Marine Boy' Park Tae-hwan showed deep filial piety toward his mother.

On the 13th, KBS 2TV 'New Release Pyeon Restaurant' posted a video titled 'Park Tae-hwan, Time to endure watching his mother who was battling cancer'.

In the video, Park Tae-hwan describes his daily life as an athlete, saying, "Daily life begins at 4 a.m. and ends at 10 p.m. until the time he takes care of himself."Since I've lived like that for over 30 years, I think I've always done nothing but flogging without carrots."




Park Tae-hwan, who first began swimming at age 5 and was selected as the youngest member of the national team at age 14, replied "When I was young, my mother had a hard time fighting cancer." "At that time, I didn't mean that I would end up with swimming and become No. 1 in Korea, but I thought I should do as much as I could for my parents," he said. "No matter how hard I am and how hard my heart feels, I think my mother thought that the pain I felt was nothing compared to her hard work," he confessed.

Park Tae-hwan's filial piety to fight cancer is happier when he presents home and tea than first place
Park Tae-hwan said, `I thought my heart would explode while swimming because my breathing was so bad that I thought 'I'll die if I do this, but I won't die.' `No matter how hard and painful I feel, when I think about how much more pain my mother felt, I think it's only pain that I complain about"He expressed his sincere filial piety toward his mother.

When many people ask me when I'm happiest, of course, I feel good when I stand at the highest place, but I think it's not the time when I gave my parents a house and a car as a gift. I think that was the happiest time."




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