KPOP IDOLS WHO COME FROM BROKEN FAMILY OR POOR FAMILY

Not everyone have a perfect family with warm home and caring parents. We don't have the same luck and sometimes it looks like a luxury for other person with broken family. Below is several Kpop idols who come from broken family, that they want to hide yet got revealed due circumstance. Here we are!

Snsd Tiffany

While her mother is sicked till death when tiffany hwang is still a child, her father who is recklessly struggling financially made Tiffany's life harder. After college, Tiffany's didn't receive any cent /money from her father and live independently as kpop idols. Tiffany lost her mother when she was only 14 years old. She “was lost” because of this tremendous loss, and she “found music to be the only solution.” She had to convince her father, who opposed Tiffany’s pursuit of a singing career, for five days to let her fly over to Korea on her own to begin training. Tiffany had to take on side jobs, like tutoring English, after her training hours so that she could support herself while she survived alone in Korea. At first, Tiffany didn’t reveal this family history to her fans, but on Kim Jung Eun’s Chocolate in 2009, she shared her appreciation for her mother. Fans didn’t know Tiffany had such a painful family history hidden behind her smile, because she was one of the brightest members from the group.

Mamamoo wheein

Because of recent fraud Scandal from her father, mamamoo wheein ought to reveal about her broken family status. Currently, wheein only live with her mother and since child she was raised only by her grandmother because her mother are busy working to support the family financially.

Kang daniel wanna one

Kang Daniel revealed, “I entered my first agency at the age of 20, but it wasn’t in a good situation. The agency rented a house, and there was a practice room in the basement. There were no dancing lessons. Because the agency wasn’t in good circumstances, it got taken over by another agency.”

He continued, “I became a part of MMO, but even there, it didn’t seem like my preparations to debut were going well, so I made a passport. I was going to run away to Canada. I was then offered a chance to appear in ‘Produce 101 Season 2’, so I was going to use it as my last chance, and I ended up here today.” Kang Daniel also clarified the rumors surrounding himself. He explained, “There are many people who think I’m a foreigner. My name is Kang Daniel, but I was born in Busan. My real name is Kang Eui Geon, and I got my current name myself through the Bible.”

He added, “There are rumors that I was expelled from school and went around beating up other kids. Ever since middle school, I was into b-boying. I entered an art school based on my grades, but the tuition was so expensive that I dropped out. My mother raised me alone, so our financial situation was really horrible.”

Concerning his studies, Kang Daniel confessed, “I didn’t really study hard. However, compared to how much I studied, I got decent grades. Eventually, I left high school, went on the path to becoming a singer, and got an opportunity to become one at the age of 20. I took the high school qualification exam when I entered ‘Produce 101’ and entered a cyber university after that.”

Due to financial difficulties, Kang Daniel parents were divorced and now he live with his mother.

Lee Hyori

During a statement made on SBS’s Magic Eye, Lee Hyori admitted that she grew up in a poor family, and their financial state resulted in a lot of resentment in her young mind, particularly as it prevented her from getting access to things that most other children only take for granted.

Hyori said that she wasn’t even able to go to kindergarten, because her family can’t afford it. It was a huge disappointment for her because at such a young age, she already felt the desire to go to kindergarten and mingle with other kids, and learn how to play various musical instruments. At the time, she couldn’t understand why she had the poor fortune of being born poor and in squalor.

Snsd yoona

Yoona’s parents had a divorce when she was young, and she was left in the care of her father. She has no memory of her mother.

Yoona is a private person and didn’t want to talk about her past in public, making it difficult for her when things were revealed.

It is this same problem why she doesn’t look too happy when singing Dear Mom. It is also widely known that "mother" is a sensitive topic in SNSD. However, she hinted of her family situation when she thanked only her father when she got an award.

Jyj jae joong

Jaejoong got adopted when he was only 3 years old. He did not know that he had different biological parents. Jaejoong's real mother was interviewed by a magazine and explained that she had no other choice.

"My husband lost all his money to a fraud. We split up in 1989. I used to serve at a restaurant from 10 AM to 11 PM. I couldn't take care of Jaejoong. There weren't extended daycares or kindergarten back in the days. And I had to feed him leftovers from the restaurant. Things were not good. An acquaintance of mine suggested that I give him up for adoption. She had an older brother who had eight daughters and thought that family would take great care of Jaejoong as the youngest so", explained Jaejoong's biological mother.

By the year 2004, Jaejoong debuted with TVXQ and his biological mother knew where to locate him, so she tried to reach out. That was when Jaejoong learned about his family history. Jaejoong enlisted in the army to serve his military duty in the year 2005, but he had to fix his family register. Jaejoong belonged in his foster parents and also to his biological parents.

The biological mother of Jaejoong had to file a case in the court just to verify that she is Jaejoong's biological mother. And Jaejoong's foster parents responded to verify that they have been in custody for most of Jaejoong's life. The nature of the case was not hostile but it stirred up a lot of rumors about Jaejoong's different families. Jaejoong spoke up about the issue.

Tvxq yunho uknow

TVXQ's Yunho revealed a sad and moving story about the hardships that he and his family had to endure. On the show, Yunho stated,

"While I was in middle school, my family went through a tough period. One day, while I was in bed, my father left the house at 4 a.m. After some observation, I realized that this was quickly became a daily occurrence. He came home at 9 p.m. and left at 4 a.m. without fail. Misunderstanding the situation, I told my mother about it and she said that he wasn't that type of person. Thinking that I needed solid evidence, I followed him one day. I wore a hooded tee and sunglasses and even had a camera ready. I believed that I would have to reveal the truth no matter what. My father took a taxi instead of a car so I thought that maybe he really was doing what I had suspected. He went into a building that I had never seen before. I felt that it was a bit too risky to follow him in so I decided to wait for him outside. He came back out carrying a lot of newspapers. It turned out that he was delivering newspapers every morning.

Sunmi

When Sunmi was a mere fourth grader, she decided to become a celebrity. Not only because she had the passion for performing, but also because she believed becoming famous was the fastest way to make money. Sunmi’s father, who had been raising Sunmi and her two brothers as a single parent, fell sick with tuberculosis and complications and had to be hospitalized. To afford treatment payments, the young Sunmi wanted to make money.

While her teachers suggested that she become a teacher, Sunmi decided it will take too long to become successful and wealthy as a teacher. At only 12 years old, she began auditioning by herself. By age 14, Sunmi became a trainee at JYP Entertainment. Unfortunately, Sunmi’s father passed away three months before she debuted and became a national sensation. Sunmi and her brothers were taken in by another loving family that has been supportive of her endeavors ever since.

IU’s family was doing okay until a debt they had underwritten turned the table and drove them into extreme poverty. While IU’s parents fixed the situation, IU and her sibling went to live with their grandmother. At first, the three lived in a small room full of cockroaches. Then, they moved into a relative’s house, where IU had to put up with the relative’s verbal abuse. This male relative, upon returning home drunk and seeing IU, her brother, and her grandmother, started shouting that IU will never make it as a singer and so she should be studying instead of practicing. IU recalled pretending to be asleep as she endured this verbal abuse. She decided at this point she will try her best to become a successful singer.

Even after becoming a trainee, IU didn’t have it easy. While looking for auditions to enter, the young IU was conned into sending a large sum of money to an agency for training and appearing on TV programs. IU was completely heartbroken as the money came from her grandmother who saved up little by little from selling small accessories.

Eunhyuk

Eunhyuk was born in Goyang, South Korea, and raised by a family that had severe financial problems. He had no money for going to training schools so he learned how to perform just by self-training and performing in the streets.

It is said that his family is so poor that they can’t even afford proper housing, and that they have to go to the nearest subway station if they need to go to the restroom.

Taeyang bigbang

Taeyang is now one of the most famous K-Pop idols in the world, but to get to where he is today, he had to face some major heartbreak. When Taeyang was 13 years old, he decided to move out on his own to lessen the burden on his family that was struggling with the harsh economic crisis that hit Korea during his childhood. Taeyang decided to try and survive in Seoul, by auditioning for an entertainment agency.

Taeyang recalled, “The agency was casting the younger role for a rapper so I auditioned for that part. I was accepted and that’s when I encountered hiphop for the first time and it made me want to become a trainee.” From then on, Taeyang, though completely on his own, made his way to becoming a global superstar. Taeyang went from having nothing to being on the Forbes List in 2017, with money he earned from BIGBANG promotions alone.