Webtoon writer Joo Ho-min confessed that his eldest son had a developmental disability in an online broadcast.
On the 14th, Joo Ho-min posted a video titled “The Night of Pearl Shining: The Story of Seonjae (Ju Ho-min’s first son)” through his YouTube channel.
In the broadcast, Joo Ho-min said, “Our first one has a developmental disability, that is, autism. I should have entered elementary school last year, but I wasn’t ready, so I went to school this year when I was 9 years old.”
“The reason I moved often was that I matched it with the first one,” he said. It was because of)” he confessed.
He also talked about the reason why he could not disclose his family history. Joo Ho-min said, “Although all of my acquaintances already knew it, I was cautious about notifying the unspecified number of people.”
It was Oh Yoona’s influence that gave me courage. Oh Yoon-ah received support and applause from viewers by revealing her life with her son with a developmental disability on the entertainment program’Pyeon Restaurant’ last year.
Joo Ho-min said, “I was thinking that it should be revealed someday, but recently, when I saw Oh Yoon-ah appearing with a child with a developmental disability on the broadcast, I started to think a lot.”
“I will often tell you the first story from now on. There are a lot of difficult things, but there are many interesting episodes.” “What I learned while raising a child with a developmental disability was that there are a lot of children with a developmental disability. Developmental disabilities were an unknown world, but I plan to slowly unravel these stories through cartoons and videos.”
Netizens responded with words of encouragement to Joo Ho-min’s confession that would not have been easy. “You talked calmly, but I can’t dare imagine how many worries there would have been. I’ll be proud that Sunjae and Sunyoul have such a wonderful dad”, “Please upload a lot of Sonjae videos in the future”, “I will always support you” Comments were poured out to cheer on the back.
Ho-min Jo, who made the name of Naver webtoon’With God’, is actively communicating with readers through YouTube with fellow webtoon writers. Married in 2010 and has two sons.
(SBS Entertainment News reporter Kim Ji-hye)