Confessing about life, Jea Kim Tae-heon folded a Chinese restaurant and worked at a construction site. Anything to make a living

By Wooju, Lee

Sep 10, 2025

Confessing about life, Jea Kim Tae-heon folded a Chinese restaurant and worked at a construction site. Anything to make a living



Kim Tae-heon, a former children of the empire, cleaned up the restaurant he used to run and expressed his dream of a new challenge.

On the 9th, on the YouTube channel 'One Mic', 'Leave a Chinese restaurant and try a new challenge..A video titled 'Empire's Children Members Meet in East Incheon' was posted.

Kim Tae-heon, who is staying in East Incheon, said, `I organized the Chinese restaurant I used to run. I put down the restaurant business for a while and I'm staying three minutes away from work" he said. It is known that Kim Tae-heon has been working part-time in delivery and part-time in delivery and delivery cars since his activities at JeA. Since then, it has received a lot of congratulations for opening a Chinese restaurant last year by building a career in the restaurant through a part-time job in the restaurant.




Kim Tae-heon, who is working part-time at a construction site after cleaning up the restaurant, said "Part-time job at a construction site is given by an acquaintance I know, so I'm working part-time as if I'm armed again." I'm pushing or shoveling the floor with a machine."I was supposed to go to work on the day of the shooting, but I can't go because of the rain" he said.

Confessing about life, Jea Kim Tae-heon folded a Chinese restaurant and worked at a construction site. Anything to make a living
"I've been an idol for a long time," Kim Tae-heon said. Our managers usually solve everything, so they don't know the society at all. I thought there was something I could learn, so I had a part-time job at a construction site"Since we were always busy at dawn, don't you see people working at dawn and talk about this and that while working at the construction site together and go down for about four days when you go to the countryside?" I can talk to them over a glass of soju. That's how I learned a lot about society" he said.

Kim Tae-heon said, "I couldn't work part-time at the construction site because I moved and came a long way, so I decided to look for another job rather than a part-time job at the construction site, so I ran a delivery distribution center, but there are people who work there as well." He said, "They told me a lot of good things, and we met and had a drink of soju and talked together." I learned a lot about society there, too" he said.




Kim Tae-heon said, "But don't you have to do everything to make a living?" Until two years ago, there was a time when I had no 1,000 won in my bank account or a hundred won, so it was very fun to go. It can't be helped that it's hard. Don't you have to smile for 8-9 hours. After about a month, I felt numb around my mouth. I thought the people who came to the store were the fans. I was so thankful" he said.



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