Hongja plays 30 minutes on stage and doesn't get paid..I was really going to die then. I remembered 8 years of unknown life

By Yoona, Jeong

Jul 03, 2025

Hongja plays 30 minutes on stage and doesn't get paid..I was really going to die then. I remembered 8 years of unknown life



Trot singer Hongja recalled the hard unknown days.

Hong Ja, the main character of the Korean trot craze, appeared on MBN 'Special World', which aired on the 3rd.

On this day, Hongja met with the production team at Dongmyo Market. Hongja came to see what she would wear when she was on stage or filming a show. There are many clothes with good cost-effectiveness," he said, explaining that he coordinates himself without a stylist.




In particular, Hongja attracted attention by going to the market with her sister and brother. It turned out that my brother and sister were helping Hongja with her work. My brother explained "I'm a manager who drives and is in charge of chores."

Hongja plays 30 minutes on stage and doesn't get paid..I was really going to die then. I remembered 8 years of unknown life
On the same day that she recently started living alone, Hongja revealed her house. On one side of the room, there was an audition program and a trot rookie trophy that I received at first, which attracted attention. Hongja, who won the trot audition program through a competition ratio of 12,000 to 1, said, `If I don't do well on TV, I might have no more place. So I decided that I would never have this opportunity again. I was so desperate"He told the story of how he became a trot singer after eight years of unknown life.

On this day, Hongja also revealed her difficult family history.




Hongja says of her father "He prefers country life to city life. Although we lived together, it has been 30 years since my father lived alone in the countryside. Thanks to such a father, my mother suffered a lot instead. He confessed that his mother raised his three siblings alone, taking care of his father's share.

Hongja plays 30 minutes on stage and doesn't get paid..I was really going to die then. I remembered 8 years of unknown life
A sudden ordeal came to such a family one day. Hongja said "My mother ran a business with my uncle. Then my uncle started to get sick by the time I thought 'It's going to be a little better now. He died of cancer because of his rapid deterioration. At that time, it was so difficult that my mom should have worked separately and made money. At that time, I spent time with my younger brother, and he confessed that his family was separated due to financial difficulties.

Hong-ja, who chose her dream of becoming a singer to be with her family, said "After debuting, she lived an unknown life for eight years. 'I'll give you 300,000 won. Come here and perform for more than 30 minutes. But when I came down after singing proudly, I said, 'Well done.' They just say goodbye and don't give you any money. I didn't even get a fair pay for the stage. So, while working as a part-timer while being unemployed, he recalled, "I just worked as I wanted."




In addition, Hongja "I had to work at random without having to calculate how much came in. I was just going to die. I can't forget the horrors then. At that time, I thought that people who have never experienced this would never know."



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