Why am I the only one who adopted? Lee Kun-joo sobbed and confessed his sad family history (with his father) for 42 years

By Yoona, Lee

Jun 18, 2025

Why am I the only one who adopted? Lee Kun-joo sobbed and confessed his sad family history (with his father) for 42 years



"Sundoli" Lee Kun-joo sobbed for 42 years."Why only my younger brother was adopted"

'Sundol-i' Lee Kun-joo revealed his family history for the first time in 42 years to his adopted brother in France.

On TV CHOSUN 'Dad and Me', which aired on the 17th, Lee Kun-joo met with his brother Lee Kun-chul and answered the question that his brother had been asking in his heart all his life.




Lee Kun-joo revealed his family history for the first time while eating local food at a French restaurant with his younger brother. The two first met 17 years ago, but they couldn't communicate enough about their curiosity because they couldn't talk to each other and had different cultures at the time.

At the interpreter's meeting this time, the younger brother "Do we have the same mother?" `Why didn't my parents act as my parents'````````.

Lee Kun-joo "Mother is right to be the same. My dad went to the army at the age of 20, and my mom was about 20 and I was a parent with no financial power. Mom and dad gave up both of usThe grandmother raised three siblings alone due to the absence of her grandfather. Then, my father gave me a birth and I had a younger brother, and he gave birth to me and enlisted in the military. I was discharged from the military and my mother was pregnant with my second child"It revealed the difficult times of living."




Why am I the only one who adopted? Lee Kun-joo sobbed and confessed his sad family history (with his father) for 42 years
Even if my grandmother made money, the house was in such a difficult situation. The aunts were too young to raise two babies, so they decided at the time that they would be better off if they sent their younger siblings for adoption abroad. "It was not a time when grandmothers went out to make money and aunts were middle and high school students, but they couldn't wash their newborns in cold water and boiled them in a furnace, so they were scared and afraid that something would go wrong. It is said that my aunts resented my grandmother a lot. Do we have to suffer from your brother's fault. In addition, the grandmother also had a debt of heart to her younger brother, Guncheol. He was so sorry that he couldn't raise him together."

Younger brother Gun-cheol "I understand that you're sending me for adoption. But why did you send only one person. Neither of them sent an adoption, and asked again. He said "It was a big hurt that I was the only one sent for adoption. Of course, I think it's a good thing that my older brother stayed in Korea and raised him.

Lee Kun-joo shed tears, saying, "I was left behind because I was born first. I felt most sorry for my younger brother. I had a hard time in Korea, but I was with my family, and Geon-cheol was alone in another country, right?"




Geon-cheol "This is neither your fault nor our fault. It's just fate"It's okay. I don't want you to have a hard time with this. I feel sorry for you, too. I think you were alone, too. Looking back, I met my good adoptive parents and spent my childhood. My brother may not have enjoyed that. It's really a shame that you had a hard time alone. I'm really glad to know that now."

Lee Kun-joo handed his younger brother a handwritten letter in French that he had prepared in advance. The younger brother touched my heart with more than a touching expression"I felt the sincerity.

Why am I the only one who adopted? Lee Kun-joo sobbed and confessed his sad family history (with his father) for 42 years
The younger brother "I think we need to get to know each other one by one. I'm so happy to have an older brother I can trust and rely on. I hope you can trust me and rely on me when you're having a hard timeLee Kun-joo shed tears again, saying, `Trust me and rely on me is something I have to say and I can't easily say, but thank you so much. My younger brother is like an older brother."

On this day, his younger brother Gun-cheol introduced his son Luca, who was born when he was 20. Lee Kun-joo, who I saw when I was a baby 17 years ago, gave me a gift, showing the side of his nephew. Younger brother Gun-cheol "The child's mother broke up before giving birth to Luca. I know what it's like to be thrown away. I didn't have a choice. I raised Luca from the age of 20."



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