THE EIGHTH | BTS 8th member

Before the fame

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Parents and Jeju

🦀 It all began when Kim Eun and Kang Si-u met as teenagers

🩰 Kang Si-u, hailing from the Jeju Islands, and Kim Eun, originally from Busan

🦀 The two met at the Busan Sea Festival, where Kang Si-u participated alongside his mother

🩰 Kang Si-u and his mother had permission to set up a small stand, specializing in a small bowl of Jeju Haemul Jeongol, a typical Jeju seafood soup, seasoned with a secret and special ingredient that made it particularly delicious

🦀 It didn't take long before Si-u's gentle and charismatic ways caught Eun's attention, who had gone there with her group of dancer friends

🩰 It was love at first sight for both of them and when she approached his stand to buy a bowl, he couldn't help but offer it to her

🦀 Her smile had enchanted him

🩰 And so they began calling each other every day, and the calls turned into dates and the dates into a marriage where a life was already growing inside the woman

🦀 After marriage, Kim Eun and Kang Si-u decided to settle in Jeju, in a cozy little house near his mother's, where they could build their new life together

🩰 Kim Eun showed a natural talent for ballet and cultivated a passion for the art since childhood. Her life had been an uninterrupted ballet, dancing with grace and fluidity as if the tips of her toes were her only contact with the world.

🦀 Her talent did not go unnoticed, and after the birth of their first child, Kang Dal, Kim Eun was chosen to join the prestigious Korean National Ballet, a dream come true that allowed her to express her art daily

🩰 Meanwhile, Kang Si-u worked tirelessly to realize his dream of opening a successful chain of restaurants specializing in seafood dishes that reflected the culinary richness of the Jeju Islands

🦀 Since they were just two teenage lovers, the couple had big dreams for the future

🩰 With all of the challenges that came with it, Kang Si-u had opened a small restaurant on the coast of Jeju Island, facing the difficulties of running a small business, but determined to overcome them in order to achieve the success that they both desired

🦀 But this success did not seem to come for him as his wife climbed higher and higher in the ranks of ballet

🩰 As Kim Eun's career in ballet progressed, Kang Siu's lacking success began to put a strain on their marriage. Her love for social status and her career became more important than her feelings for her husband

🦀 The discovery of an unplanned second pregnancy added to Kim Eun's sense of unhappiness. The thought of having to put her career on hold for another child was a source of great pain to her

🩰 Every day, Kang Si-u would bring his wife fresh cherries to satisfy the craving she had developed during her pregnancy in order to ease her frustration

🦀 At the birth of the baby girl, they decided to name her 'Chaeri', which means 'cherry' in Korean

🩰 Eun's total dedication to her ballet career led her to spend a lot of time away from home, leaving her toddler son and newborn daughter to be raised mainly by her husband and their grandmother

🦀 The tension in the marriage reached its peak when Kim Eun was offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: to become a prima ballerina at the Paris Opera, a proposal made by the Opera's dance director, with whom she had also begun a secret romantic relationship