TV personality Eun Ji-won announces remarriage after 13 years

Eun Ji-won / Courtesy of MBN

Singer and TV personality Eun Ji-won, a member of the first-generation K-pop group Sechs Kies, is getting remarried later this year.

YG Entertainment told the Hankook Ilbo Thursday that Eun recently took wedding photos and plans to hold a quiet ceremony with close family members sometime in 2025. “We would appreciate it if fans could watch over him with warm support,” the agency said.

Eun previously married a woman two years his senior in Hawaii in April 2010. However, the couple divorced in 2012. On the 2022 episode of MBN’s “Hi Bye,” he described his ex-wife as “my first love,” explaining that they had reunited after 13 years and eventually married. Reflecting on the breakup, he said, “We were stuck in the past. She was my first love, and people change — but we couldn’t accept that about each other.”

In a July 2024 episode of Lee Kyung-kyu’s YouTube channel, Eun expressed a change in attitude toward marriage. When asked to choose between getting married or not, he responded, “I used to say I wouldn’t, but now I feel like I should somehow. I’ve been married and divorced once. I used to think marriage wasn’t for me, but now I’m getting older and have lost my father.”

Eun Ji-won debuted with Sechs Kies in 1997. He is also well-known for his appearances on variety shows such as “2 Days & 1 Night” and “New Journey to the West.”

This article from the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Times, is translated by a generative AI system and edited by The Korea Times.