Song Joong-ki Highlights Family Ties to Colombia at 'Bogota' Premiere
Dec 19, 2024
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Song Joong-ki said at the press and distribution premiere of the movie 'Bogota: The Land of the Last Chance' at Megabox COEX in Seoul on the afternoon of the 19th that `Since my mother-in-law is Colombian, many family members of my wife live there.'
Released on the 31st, 'Bogota: The Land of Last Chance' (hereinafter 'Bogota') is a movie about Kook-hee (Song Joong-ki) heading to Bogota, Colombia, on the other side of the world with new hope, intertwined with Sooyoung (Lee Hee-joon) and Park Byeong-jang (Kwon Hae-hyo), influential figures in the Korean community in Bogota, and director Kim Sung-je of 'Minor Opinion' took the megaphone. Song Joong-ki played Kook-hee, a young man who dreams of the lowest to the highest in the play.
Song Joong-ki responded to the reaction to concerns about damage to the national image caused by the work "My mother-in-law is Colombian. So many of my wife's family members live there""As far as I know, I've heard that I've tried a lot in the past to be ashamed of such images or to remove them." Colombia, where I stayed, was very exciting, had a lot of quality, and the food was delicious. People have a lot of affection and I've seen the efforts of people who try to escape from the old image. I have family and it was a friendly place," he said.
Then "When we filmed, the YouTube channel was not developed, so there was not much information about Colombia, but there are many travel YouTubers and it seems easy to find information."There are also travel YouTubers these days, so I think many of those images have been erased. I don't think it's going to look bad because of our movie."
Meanwhile, Song Joong-ki married British actor Katie Louise Sounders in January last year and had two children.
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