Sunwoo Yong-yeo, I didn't want to live with my husband because I took 20 billion won in debt due to the military assistance

Jul 09, 2025

Sunwoo Yong-yeo, I didn't want to live with my husband because I took 20 billion won in debt due to the military assistance



Actress Sunwoo Yong-yeo (81) revealed the story of when she took care of her mother-in-law.

On the 9th, a video titled 「Sunwoo Yong-yeo」 was uploaded on the YouTube channel 'Sunwoo Yong-yeo', titled 「81-year-old Sunwoo Yong-yeo (+a story of house-in-law)」 who went to the end of the Korean Peninsula in search of 900 pyeong of land left by her husband. In the video, Sunwoo Yong-yeo is seen traveling to Haenam, her husband's hometown, for one night and two days.

Sunwoo Yong-yeo recalled "My mother-in-law liked me so much" and "I had six daughters-in-law, but I was the eldest daughter-in-law" Afterwards, when the production team asked "Please tell me the story of Byung-soo", Sunwoo Yong-yeo responded humbly "It's something to do, what's so great about it?"




He said "In the past, didn't 60 have a big 60th birthday party. However, my mother said 'Don't give me a 60th birthday party, send me a trip. But my mother-in-law was a monk in the church, and she said, `I have to invite all the people in the church and have a feast, so I did that for you at that time.'

However, after that, the mother-in-law had health problems, and Sunwoo Yong-yeo was accompanied to the hospital. "Two months later, my mother-in-law went to the hospital because she said, "I can't digest well.' The doctor touched my mother-in-law's stomach and let me in, saying 'Mom, get out of here'. On the spot, the doctor said 'Mother is cancer. After that, the doctor said 'The cancer is hardening. He said, 'Send you a lot of trips before you are hospitalized.'"

Sunwoo Yong-yeo told her husband this story, but he said that he decided to put him in Seoul National University Hospital immediately, saying, `What are you talking about, I have to hospitalize him.'




Sunwoo Yong-yeo, I didn't want to live with my husband because I took 20 billion won in debt due to the military assistance
At this time, Sunwoo Yong-yeo had to work to pay for her mother-in-law's hospital expenses, and said to her brother-in-law, "'Uncle is filial with her body, and I will be filial with money.'" I was so busy because I had to pay for the hospital."

But his brother-in-law doesn't understand Sunwoo Yong-yeo's situation, and "My sister-in-law doesn't even come often!," he complained. In response, Sunwoo Yong-yeo confessed, "'My husband heard that and hit his brother-in-law, saying, 'What is that habit of saying that to his sister-in-law?'

In addition, Sunwoo Yong-yeo told an anecdote about her past conflict with her husband and almost got divorced. After 11 years of marriage, he went to his mother's house because he didn't live with his husband. But my mom kicked me out." Then "Just the thought of my husband having to pay off his debt of 17.5 million won as a guarantee makes me faint, but even my house was overwhelmed." However, the husband said he didn't do it and said he would solve it. But I can't afford it. So I went to my mom's house and she said 'Go away' 'Mom becomes a bad woman if you have you. My mother-in-law also said, 'How can you stay in my house when she's sick?' and recalled the conflict at the time.




In the end, Sunwoo Yong-yeo went home and learned an unexpected fact. It turned out that Sunwoo Yong-yeo got a loan from a bank when she bought a house in the past, but she found out that the branch manager took out her money. "I knew my husband didn't do anything at that time, so I made up about it."," he added.

Earlier in May, Sunwoo Yong-yeo was surprised by saying that her husband's debt was 17.5 million won on tvN "You Quiz on the Block" and that it was worth 20 billion won in current value." At that time, Sunwoo Yong-yeo confessed that she worked in movies and dramas to pay off her debt, and it took 10 years to pay off all her debts.

Meanwhile, Sunwoo Yong-yeo married Kim Se-myeong, a businessman and a relative of Anam Group, in 1970, and had one daughter and one son. Kim Se-myeong later passed away in 2014.



yaqqol@sportschosun.com