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Model and actress Jang Yoon-joo \/ Captured from YouTube<\/p>\n
Model and actress Jang Yoon-joo has moved to the United Kingdom with her family after her husband decided to pursue graduate studies there. After years of deliberation, Jang decided to accompany him, saying she hopes to find something she can devote herself to in her new surroundings.<\/p>\n
A video titled \u201cJang Yoon-joo\u2019s Family Comes to the U.K. After Three Years of Deliberation. Please Take Good Care of Us\u201d was posted on Jang\u2019s YouTube channel, Yoonjure Jang Yoon-joo, on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The family\u2019s move to the U.K. began about three years ago, when Jang\u2019s husband, Jung Seung-min, expressed a desire to return to school. Jung, who wanted to study design more seriously, spent the past year preparing to study abroad by taking online classes after work and studying for an English proficiency test on his own. He was eventually accepted to the school he most wanted to attend.<\/p>\n
Jang proudly told their daughter, Lisa, about her father\u2019s acceptance, saying, \u201cThat\u2019s amazing. You\u2019re so capable.\u201d As they prepared to leave Korea, Jang told her husband, \u201cHoney, congratulations,\u201d before breaking down in tears. Jung also hugged his wife and cried with her as they shared their emotions ahead of their new beginning.<\/p>\n
Despite wanting to support her husband, it took Jang time to decide whether to uproot her own life. \u201cFor the past two or three years, I kept saying, \u2018I\u2019m not going. You go by yourself,\u2019\u201d she said, revealing that she had spent a long time weighing the decision to accompany him.<\/p>\n
In the end, it was the prospect of a new experience that changed her mind. Jang said she decided to go because she thought, \u201cIf I don\u2019t do it now, I may never get to have an experience like this.\u201d She added that she was not leaving Korea permanently and planned to travel back and forth whenever she had work commitments.<\/p>\n
As their departure approached, however, her excitement was accompanied by growing anxiety. When Jang asked Jung, \u201cAren\u2019t you nervous?\u201d he replied, \u201cOf course I am. But I\u2019m also looking forward to it.\u201d For Jung, who will pursue a master\u2019s degree in English, the move also represents a departure from his familiar routine.<\/p>\n
Jung reassured his wife, saying, \u201cOnce we get there, I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll adjust quickly.\u201d Jang laughed and acknowledged that \u201clanguage is also a major barrier,\u201d while admitting that she felt strange now that they were actually leaving.<\/p>\n
The move has also given Jang an opportunity to reflect on her own future. She said that when she meets friends, she often hears them say, \u201cI have no energy\u201d or \u201cThere\u2019s nothing I want to do,\u201d adding, \u201cI think I\u2019ve reached that age too.\u201d She also opened up about her complicated feelings about taking a break, saying, \u201cI wondered, \u2018Why can\u2019t I rest? What am I so anxious about?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
When encouraged to take on another challenge as a model, Jang admitted, \u201cHonestly, I\u2019m not confident.\u201d Rather than immediately setting a new goal, she said she wants to learn English in the U.K. and experience what it is like to actually live there, rather than simply staying as a traveler.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe as I live there, something inside me will start stirring again and I\u2019ll feel like I want to take on a challenge,\u201d Jang said. \u201cWhen that happens, I want to give it a try.\u201d<\/p>\n
This article from the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Times, is translated by a generative AI system and edited by The Korea Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Model and actress Jang Yoon-joo \/ Captured from YouTube Model and actress Jang Yoon-joo has moved to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-792398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}