Seo Dong-ju and Seo Se-won have a lot of similarities, so I decided not to hate them

By Bit, Jung

Oct 14, 2025

Seo Dong-ju and Seo Se-won have a lot of similarities, so I decided not to hate them
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Lawyer and broadcaster Seo Dong-ju frankly confessed his complex feelings about his father, the late Seo Se-won.

Seo Dong-ju recently appeared on the YouTube channel 'Sebashi Lecture' and recalled that he had a lot of similarities with his father in the past.

Seo Dong-ju said "When I think of my father, the word love and hatred fits perfectly. I love it, but I hate it, and I also hate it even though I want to look good. It was always difficult amid complicated emotions that I didn't want to admit because I had a lot of similarities.




"I wrote 'I decided not to hate it because I didn't want to hate it, 'I decided not to be disappointed because I didn't want to be disappointed'", he said, adding that many people were consoled through their writings at the time.

There are many stories about good parents in the world, but there are few stories of children who do not. I think that's why he sympathized with me."

Seo Dong-ju and Seo Se-won have a lot of similarities, so I decided not to hate them
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In the meantime, "The story of my father is naturally embedded in the book I wrote after my father's death" and "I had funerals twice in Cambodia and Korea. In the process, Chloe, my old dog, also got sick and passed away on the day of her father's death."




"Life was so vain after two funerals"Seo Dong-ju said, "Why did he try so hard to live, that he could disappear so easily."It was a difficult time for me financially because my father passed away, my mother was sick. I wrote and drew pictures so that I wouldn't die."

He also tipped off his happy status after remarrying. Seo Dong-ju said, "I've never been as happy as I am these days" and "I feel happy in the daily life of sleeping hand-in-hand with my husband or cooking ramen at night." I found my own happiness, not social standards."

Meanwhile, Seo died in Cambodia in April 2023 at the age of 67. After getting married and divorced in 2010, Seo Dong-ju remarried to an entertainment industry worker four years younger in June this year.








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