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Park Won-sook Reveals She Married at 20 After Premarital Pregnancy

From Dong-A Ilbo · () Korean

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  • Actress Park Won-sook said she married her first husband at age 20 after an unplanned premarital pregnancy.
  • She recalled meeting him while preparing props for a play during her university years.
  • Park later divorced after her husband’s business failure, reunited with him, divorced again, and subsequently remarried and separated.

Actress Park Won-sook has revealed that she married at 20 after becoming pregnant before marriage while studying theater and film at Chung-Ang University.

She shared the story in a video released on the YouTube channel Song Seung-hwan’s Wonderful Life. Recalling her university days, Park said she met her first husband while preparing props for a play, then quickly found herself getting married.

Something happened in a hurry, so I got married first.

· Park Won-sookShe described how a premarital pregnancy led to her first marriage.

“Something happened in a hurry, so I got married first,” Park said. Song Seung-hwan asked whether her first marriage had taken place when she was 20, and she confirmed it.

Park said she had never cooked a meal or washed dishes before marrying. She married the man she met during university in 1969 and had a son. They divorced in 1981 after his business failed, then reunited three years later, only to separate again six months afterward. She later remarried a man who ran a business in Argentina, but that marriage also ended in separation. In 2003, she lost her only son in a traffic accident.

I had never even cooked a meal or washed dishes once. I went from carrying a bag around to getting married.

· Park Won-sookShe recalled how unprepared she felt for married life at age 20.
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