Super Junior‘s Yesung made a tearful confession about his father on the most recent broadcast of SBS‘s ‘Strong Heart‘. He stated, “To be honest, I didn’t like my father when I was a child. He was always strict, and we rarely talked. Our relationship was so distant that I sometimes wondered if I had any attachment towards my father.”
Yesung went on, “Our relationship is really similar to the relationship Choi Minsoo‘s character had with his father in the drama, ‘Sandglass‘. That’s how scary my father was, and because both my parents worked, our time together was scarce. When I came to Seoul to become a singer, they were against it, and they didn’t even like the fact that I listened to music.”
The singer felt very choked up as he expressed his emotions, and he stopped to gain composure. He went on to say, “Three years ago, I suddenly had 50 missed calls. My father was badly hurt… and he needed a blood transfusion. I left during a recording, and I thought about a lot of things as I went over to my father. Three of his fingers had gotten caught in a machine, and it began to suck my father in. It happened during a night shift so no one could hear him, and he said he was unable to scream. That’s when I kept thinking how frustrating it must’ve been.”

“After that incident, I decided that I should go try to connect with my father first. I thought that our family should have time together. Because of this, I moved my family to Seoul, and I set up a coffee shop for my father.”
When the hosts asked him how his father was currently, Yesung answered, “He doesn’t have much balance. I think it’s because he was badly hurt. He can’t close his fingers or use his left hand.” Yesung also expressed how happy he was with their relationship now, stating,  “Now, my father is like an older brother to me. I never knew how innocent and cute my father was. I’m really happy now.”