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Regarding the allegations that pianist Paik Kun-woo had neglected his wife Yoon Jeong-hee in Paris, France, he expressed his position as “the contents are false and unfounded.” On the 7th, Paik Geon-woo announced a statement containing this information through Vinchero, a performance agency in charge of Korean performances during the day. It is a refutation to the post of the Cheong Wa Dae national petition on the 5th, which claimed that’Paek Kun-woo and daughter are neglecting actor Yoon Jeong-hee’. In an article titled,’Please save the movie star Yoon Jung-hee who is falling apart from the outside,’ the petitioner said, “Jung-hee Yoon is separated from her husband, not being cared for by her spouse. I am fighting the disease. “I can’t even get in because my husband, who avoids Hansako’s wife, lives at my house in Vincennes, a suburb of Paris that has lived for decades.” Petitioner also said, “There is a Frenchman on the raw noodle site as a tenant, who has his own full-time job and goes to work in the morning. During the day, Jeong-hee Yoon, a patient with Alzheimer’s disease, does not tell her if she is taking prescription drugs such as diabetes or who helps her, even if she asks her daughter. “I live near my daughter, but my life is busy with work and family life, so I do not take proper care of my mother. can not do it. Most of the time alone, neglected by her spouse and daughter, she has struggled with illness. There is no caregiver. Communication with the brothers is very difficult, and I am almost living in a solitary prison, disconnected from the outside world.”

Actor Yoon Jung-hee is the wife of pianist Paik Kun-woo. Hankyoreh material photo

In response, Paik Geon-woo said in a statement released on the day, “Geon-woo Paik and Jeong-hee Yoon went on a concert tour together for the rest of their lives. That’s it.” As for the reason for taking him to Paris, he explained, “It was not to be a nursing hospital where he had to live far from his family, but to allow him to live in the house right next to his daughter’s apartment under the care of the family and a caregiver appointed by the court.” Mr. Baek also emphasized, “Unlike the contents of the postings, we are living a comfortable and stable life with periodic doctor visits and treatments.” “All the limited phone calls and appointments mentioned in the posts were decided under the judgment of the court.” . In a phone call with an official from the performance industry, “It is true that you went on a tour together until 2018. When Paik Kun-woo was rehearsing at the concert hall, his wife Yoon Jeong-hee would disappear. So, I witnessed officials go to find Yoon Jeong-hee. After that, as the condition got worse, I know that he took him to Paris, a familiar space for Yoon Jeong-hee.” The side represented by the petitioner and Paik Kun-woo seems to have held a court battle over Yoon Jeong-hee’s move. “On May 1, 2019, Jung-hee Yoon returned to Paris, and the dispute began.” It was concluded with the appeal of the appellant with the final ruling of the Paris High Court in November 2020.” The petitioner also wrote, “Since the brothers and sisters waited patiently, begging for proper care and treatment and requesting a conversation, there was no response at all, and since they spread only the baseless brothers around, they petitioned as a last resort.” Actor Yoon Jeong-hee married Paik Kun-woo in 1976 and has a daughter. In the 1960s, along with Moon Hee and Nam Jung-im, he gained great popularity, such as being called’Actress Troika’. In 2010, she stopped her activities after director Lee Chang-dong’s film. Through an interview with Paik Kun-woo at the end of 2019, it was known that he was fighting Alzheimer’s, which made many people sad. By Nam Ji-eun, staff reporter [email protected]