According to Xports News, Ham So Won recently appeared as a guest on MBN’s Dongchimi, where she candidly discussed her life after divorce. Although the couple officially went their separate ways around three years ago, they still live together under the same roof, a decision that has drawn mixed reactions from the public.
Footage shown on the program captured Jin Hua spending time with their daughter, Hye Jung. Expressing his affection, he said, “I see Hye Jung once every one or two weeks. I want to do everything she enjoys.” When asked what she wanted to eat most, Hye Jung chose fried chicken and soda, prompting Jin Hua to immediately take her to a fast-food restaurant and indulge her request.
Watching the scene from the studio, Ham So Won reacted sharply, saying, “That’s exactly the food I forbid her from eating.” Her frustration grew when Jin Hua prepaid 50,000 won for meals at the restaurant and told their daughter, “Next time, bring your friends here to eat together.”
In a separate interview segment, Jin Hua explained his reasoning: “I want my daughter to be able to eat what she likes after school without worrying. I usually preload 50,000 to 100,000 won at the restaurant.” Ham So Won, however, expressed concern, saying, “If she only ate what I cooked, she wouldn’t gain weight this fast. I wondered why she’d been gaining so much lately. This isn’t just about food—his approach could cause her to lose a sense of money and its value.”
Since publicly revealing that they divorced yet continue living together, Ham So Won and Jin Hua have faced polarized opinions in South Korea. Many critics argue that inconsistent parenting styles and blurred boundaries between divorced parents could negatively affect a child’s psychological well-being and development.
Born in 1976, Ham So Won won the Miss Korea Pacific title in 1997. She entered the Korean entertainment industry in 2008 and appeared in projects such as Ameera, Golbangi, and Great Great, though her career remained relatively low-profile.
Ham So Won married Jin Hua, a Chinese businessman 18 years her junior, in 2018. They welcomed their daughter the same year and gained widespread attention by sharing their marriage and parenting journey on the reality show Taste of Wife.
In August 2024, the couple announced their divorce through a live broadcast, revealing that they had actually signed divorce papers back in December 2022 but waited nearly two years before making the news public.