/Photo = Hong Young-ki Instagram
Contrary to the fact that Hong Young-ki said, “I will try to solve it,” after revealing his father’s’debts’ following 500 million won in arrears of tax, claims that he has not paid a penny for the fifth year were raised.
On the 31st, Hong Young-ki said on his instagram on the 31st, “I will tell you about my father’s debt,” and he has a debt of about 3 billion won in principal, and “I think that my father’s debt is a problem that I can’t handle anymore, so I decided not to cover that part. And decided to live each other’s lives,” he declared’isolated’.
Hong Young-ki shared the experience of having to inherit clothes and shoes that were not suitable for poverty as a child. He said, “After going to high school, I heard that your father will be in debt and you may be more difficult in the future,” he said. “Since then, people have come home and have been so afraid and painful.”
He explained that the reason why he started a fitting model in middle school and a shopping mall business in high school was due to the debt of the family. “The mother who managed the money for the family who made profits paid off the living expenses of the family and the debt of the father.” “Having a child at a young age “I was unable to pay my father’s debts for several months due to difficulties in economic activities, and then he came back home, came to my office, went through everything, and even had financial resources for 100 days to pay my father’s debts and made me suffer.”
This is an explanation of the report through a media outlet that “Hong Young-ki has not paid off a penny since his father’s’debts’ in 2015.”
/Photo = Hong Young-ki Instagram
When Hong Young-ki was exposed to his father’s debt in 2015, he said, “Because it’s too big a debt, I can’t definitely promise to pay back to the victims forever. But even if it takes time, I try to settle my father’s debts. I will do it.”
Victim A, who responded to the interview, claimed, “It has been more than five years since the case has risen to the surface, but unlike Hong Young-ki’s explanation, there is no money paid so far. Mr. A was Hong Young-gi’s father and a high school alumni. It is known that while running a loan business, Hong Young-gi’s father wrote a loan document stating, “If you lend 200 million won, you will pay 2% interest per month, and if you ask for the principal back, you will always pay it back.”
However, Hong Young-gi’s father didn’t pay back the money, and in the end, he won a civil lawsuit in April 2015, and was ruled to pay 20% of the delayed interest when he was unable to pay 200 million won. He won the criminal case and was sentenced to 8 months in prison for Hong Young-gi’s father.
Hong Young-ki said, “The principal borrowed by my father was 200 million, and my father and I repaid 110 million,” he said. “But this is only interest, and it is said that the principal did not pay even 1 won.” It was said that it was over a billion.”
He said, “My father owes 3 billion won, and I don’t have one or two like this. It’s too much to pay back all the debts my father owes.”
“Since the pressure on my father’s debt has lasted for more than 10 years since I was a child, I have come to a situation where even my mind is not intact.” “It’s been a long time since I couldn’t sleep enough to attend a psychiatric department. Situation”.
Since 2009, Hong Young-ki has appeared on the comedy TV series’The Age of Ulzzang’ and made her face public. She married Lee Se-yong, a 17-year-old high school student due to premarital pregnancy at the age of 20, and has been active since running a shopping mall.
Until recently, he maintained his influence as an influencer and YouTuber.
However, from 2013 to 2015, taxes were delinquent, and a total of 500 million won was collected in 2018. In response, Hong Young-ki said, “This is something I didn’t know well, and I’m paying off every month.”
The following is the full text of Hong Young-ki’s father clarifying the allegations of debt.
Hi everyone. This is Youngki Hong.
In 2020, as you all know, there were many incidents and accidents against me. It was a year when I received a lot of criticism and gave clarifications and apologies.
Today I want to explain why those things happened to me. First, I got a call from a reporter this morning. I learned that my father’s debt issue was going to be reissued, and after a few hours, I saw articles and videos.
Let me tell you about my father’s debt.
When I was young, I lived in a really poor environment. When I was in the 6th grade of elementary school, I ran a part-time job on a leaflet and didn’t have the money to match the school uniform, so my friend used to change the school uniform. I couldn’t pay for the meals, so I packed my own lunch for a while, and I really wanted a pretty bag the day I went up to middle school, but I also wore the Sailor Moon backpack that I had for the first time in my first grade in elementary school.
I couldn’t buy a single shoe, so I wore size 215, and I took over and wore 240 size shoes.
When I was young, I moved almost every 2-3 years, but I really hated breaking up with my friends, so I pretended to be unaware of the circumstances of moving and complained all the time.
I lived in such a life and started to become famous little by little from my third year in middle school. That led me to start making money with fitting models. I was happy to think that I could be a boon to my family, and I was so happy that I could buy shoes that fit my feet with the money I received from a fitting model for the first time.
And I went to high school. After going to high school, my dad called us all and talked it hard. Dad said I’m sorry that people could come home to school because Dad is in big debt and that you may be harder in the future.
Since then, people have come home and have been so afraid and painful.
Every day I prayed to God when I could be happy. I prayed for my father’s debt to be paid off.
And I was a fitting model and thought that I had to set up a clothing shopping mall to pay off, and when I was a high school student, I started a shopping mall.
My mom, who managed the money for my family, paid off my dad’s debts and living expenses.
Then I had a child at a young age, which made it difficult for me to work financially, and after several months of not being able to pay my father’s debts, I came back home, came to my office, went through everything, and even had a hundred days of finance to pay my father’s debts. And made me painful.
It was really hard to imagine because there were not one or two people who owed my father, but the principal amount was only 3 billion.
In the meantime, I had another second, and I saw the daughter of the person who lent money to my dad shortly after giving birth to Jet in 2015, and I explained it in front of many people and said that I would definitely pay for it.
Since then, I’ve worked really hard and pledged to make a lot of money with the heart that I must pay my dad’s debts. He told me not to be sorry for my dad to do my best to repay him too.
Since then, in 2018, about 500 million won of tax I told you a while ago has dropped on me.
The business I started to pay my dad’s debts made me more painful because I had nothing to do with my debts.
Why do I have these trials? I complained a lot about my parents, why I should have been so hard for what Dad and Mom did.
Nevertheless. Still, it’s a family affair… I thought that I would definitely succeed and repay everything.
In the meantime, the pressure from my father’s creditors continued, and I had no choice but to give back. The pressure has been repeated until recently.
I want to tell you about the person who was reporting my father’s debts five years ago and even now…
The principal borrowed by my father was 200 million, and my father and I paid back 110 million. However, it is said that this is only interest and the principal has not paid off even 1 won… Then, when they asked how much they had to pay, they said that the interest continued to be attached and it was over 400 million.
My father owes 3 billion and I don’t have one or two like this. I owe my father… It’s too hard to pay off the principal, but my father borrowed 200 million, and even though he paid back 110 million, 400 million remains.
I have been in charge of a family of six from high school to now, and now I am in charge of two families, husband and children.
In fact, it was very difficult and painful for me to handle it alone, but I tried to take responsibility without saying anything difficult to my mother, to my father, to my sister, to my younger siblings, to my husband, to my children, to no one, and not expressing myself to anyone.
But it’s too hard anymore. I also want to breathe.
The pressure on my father’s debts has continued for more than 10 years since I was a child, and now even my mind has come to an incomplete situation.
It’s been a long time since I couldn’t sleep enough to attend a psychiatry. Everything is a tough situation.
I, who was the representative at the time, was right that I was responsible for my mother’s poor tax management. Taxes will be paid in full, as promised to everyone.
But I thought that my father’s debt was a problem that I could no longer handle, so I decided not to cover it, and I decided to live each other’s lives.
I sincerely apologize to those who have been hurt for a long time by my father.
Reporter Kim So-yeon, Hankyung.com [email protected]
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