Singer and actor Yoo Seung Joon (Steve Yoo) has revealed that he still loves South Korea, but sees no point in stepping foot on Korean soil anymore.
On April 4, Yoo posted a video on his YouTube channel titled, "I've had enough, and I'm done.
In response to the question, "Why does Mr. Yoo miss Korea even though he has settled down in a developed country like the United States?" Yoo said, "Korea is where I was born. It's like a mother to my heart. I don't know how to put it into words, but if you live abroad, you will understand it better. I think everyone misses and loves Korea more when they are overseas."
He added, "I am an immigrant. An overseas Korean. My family immigrated to the United States in 1989 when I was 13 years old. We settled in the U.S. and went to Korea to work. And that's where the bad stuff happened, and that's the part that a lot of people don't know."
"I think there are some people who think that all these things that I'm doing, like getting citizenship and all these things, are easy, like getting a license, but it's very hard. It's not something that you can get because you want to," he said, adding that he faced a lot of racism in the United States as a child.
He said, "I didn't come to America as a doctor. They just followed him because he was my son. I was born in 1976 in Jamsil. Then I moved to Munjeong-dong, Songpa-gu, and went to Munjeong Elementary School. I have a junior, Heejun Moon. I immigrated to Korea when I was in second grade after completing my first year of middle school in Oju. It was so hard to adapt to the new environment. "I was good at sports, manly, and popular even if I didn't take the initiative, and I was vice class president even if I wasn't class president, but I disappeared when I came to the United States," he recalled.
"My first tattoo was 'Korean pride' on my arm," he said, adding, "I love Korea so much. I still do. Some people ask me, 'What treasures do you have hidden in Korea,' but honestly, I don't see much point in going in now, because even though I've talked about the truth and explained all the false and true situations, I don't think my sincerity or my heart is being conveyed well," he said.
Yoo Seung Joon added, "Even though I vomited out what was in my heart when I broadcasted back then, and showed everything that was in my heart with that kind of emotion, there are still people who believe that I am someone who swears after the broadcast. They kept telling me to apologize and say I was wrong in a sincere way, but I was sincere and explained why I made the decision I did and why I had to do it because of the situation, but after that, only rumors came out," he said bitterly. "It didn't get through, it didn't get reflected. It's the media's fault," he adds.
"You want to enter the country for a tax portal? I don't care. Everything is double taxed. After the broadcast, he cursed at me, saying that there were a lot of irregularities and benefits of military service, and why I made that decision, and I also talked about the beginning of the show where I said I was going to the military, but they didn't care. He said, "It's okay now, I'm going to Korea.
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