As actress Cha Jung-won prepares to marry Ha Jung-woo, the unusual family relationships she will gain after the wedding have become a hot topic. In particular, she is set to have a brother-in-law who is just five years old this year, drawing considerable attention.
Ha Jung-woo and Cha Jung-won will tie the knot on December 13 at a hotel in Seoul. Born in 1978 and 1989, respectively, the couple has overcome their 11-year age gap and will become husband and wife after dating for six years.
Alongside the news of their upcoming wedding, the family relationships of Ha Jung-woo’s father, actor Kim Yong-gun, have also come back into the spotlight.
Kim Yong-gun divorced his former wife in 1996. In 2021, he welcomed a late-in-life son with a woman identified as A, who is 39 years younger than him. A, reportedly born in 1985, is four years older than his future daughter-in-law, Cha Jung-won. However, details about whether Kim Yong-gun and A are legally married or what their current relationship status is have not been publicly disclosed.
After the wedding, Cha Jung-won will have two brothers-in-law: Ha Jung-woo’s younger brother, Cha Hyun-woo, and Kim Yong-gun’s youngest son, whom he welcomed in 2021. The latter is just five years old this year, making the age gap between him and Cha Jung-won particularly striking. In other words, she will become a sister-in-law to a young child as soon as she gets married.
Her family relationship with actress Hwang Bo-ra is also intriguing. Ha Jung-woo’s younger brother, Cha Hyun-woo, married Hwang Bo-ra in 2022, and the couple has a son. Born in 1983, Hwang Bo-ra is six years older than Cha Jung-won, who was born in 1989. However, once Ha Jung-woo and Cha Jung-won marry, Hwang Bo-ra will become Cha Jung-won’s younger sister-in-law in terms of family hierarchy. Although Hwang Bo-ra is older by age, Cha Jung-won will hold the senior position within the family.
In 2024, Kim Yong-gun appeared on Channel A’s variety show Dad Is a Middle-Aged Flower and admitted that he was concerned about how he would explain the family relationships to his youngest son when the boy grew up.
With Ha Jung-woo and Cha Jung-won’s upcoming marriage, the unusual family dynamics surrounding Kim Yong-gun have once again attracted public interest. Attention is focused not only on the couple, who are overcoming an 11-year age difference to become husband and wife, but also on the relationships Cha Jung-won will gain after the wedding, including a five-year-old brother-in-law and Hwang Bo-ra as her younger sister-in-law.
Sources: Nate