Seo Dong-ju becomes a different person after going to a detention center referring to Seo Se-won who died in Cambodia (Wiracle)

By Wooju, Lee

Oct 18, 2025

Seo Dong-ju becomes a different person after going to a detention center referring to Seo Se-won who died in Cambodia (Wiracle)



"'Wiracle' Seo Dong-ju recalled Seo Se-won's sad news.

On the 17th, on YouTube channel 'Wiracle'Daddy's death, Mom's cancer battle..A video titled "How She Loves Life amid Failure and Frustration" was posted, featuring U.S. attorney and broadcaster Seo Dong-ju as a guest.

On this day, Seo Dong-ju revealed his life history. Seo Dong-ju, who was studying art in the U.S. while playing arts and sports as a child, said he felt limited and transferred to MIT, his sister school, while taking math classes.




Seo Dong-ju said, `The 2002 World Cup was a very difficult time for my family. As various situations occurred, there was no living expenses, so I did school cleaning and washing dishes part-time, and how much I was scolded at the restaurant. I was scolded and cried and mopped every day..." he recalled.

On the other hand, Park Wi carefully mentioned to Seo Dong-ju the case of the late Seo Se-won's domestic violence. In response to the question "What was that period?" Seo Dong-ju "When he was a child, he was in a very good family environment. I was well-off and my parents didn't get along well. I'm sure you have a lot of good memories. But since 2002, my father went to the detention center, so I felt a lot of things have changed, and he just came back as a completely different person. "

Seo Dong-ju "I think that's when the crisis began in my family. Then my father passed away, and the shock was so great that I don't know what to feel. I don't know what to do because I usually live by suppressing my emotions a lot."




Seo Dong-ju becomes a different person after going to a detention center referring to Seo Se-won who died in Cambodia (Wiracle)
Seo Dong-ju said, `At that time, my heart was empty. A person can disappear from the world in one moment. Before that, my father and I were not on good terms, so there was hate and love-hate relationship. These feelings are lost because the person who provided the cause that made me feel that way disappears from the world. I have to head somewhere, but it's gone. That's why I'm in vain," he confessed. "It was a time when I cried a lot and had a hard time even though I didn't cry a lot."

Seo Dong-ju's father and comedian Seo Se-won was sentenced to six months in prison and two years of probation for assaulting his wife Seo Jeong-hee in 2015 and divorced from the agreement. Seo Se-won, who remarried to a Haegeum performer 23 years his junior in 2016, left for Cambodia to do business. However, Seo Se-won died of cardiac arrest while receiving an IV at the Phnom Penh Korean Hospital in 2023. Seo Dong-ju visited Cambodia in person, attended the funeral, and sent Seo Se-won off for the last time.

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