The Cinderella son-in-law love story of Korea’s leading tycoon family has attracted public attention for a long time.
Topics related to tycoon families have long been no longer strange in Korean dramas. Here, the dark side of the lives of the Korean super-rich has been partly recreated and even taken from real-life characters.
The recent movie Queen of Tears also exposed the life of talented lady Hong Hae In (Kim Ji Won) and her love affair with her husband from a humble background Baek Hyun Woo (Kim Soo Hyun). ). After the movie aired the first 2 episodes, the image of the bridegroom Beak Hyun Woo immediately attracted the attention of many Korean netizens, who thought that this character’s story was somewhat based on Lim Woo. Jae, ex-husband of Samsung’s “big lady” – Lee Boo-jin.
The employee caught the eye of the tycoon lady
In Queen of Tears, Baek Hyun Woo is described as a good lawyer who graduated from Seoul National University (Korea). However, his starting point was just being the son of an ordinary farming family in Korea. Meanwhile, Hong Hae In is the daughter of Queens Group with a luxurious “golden spoon” life since childhood. After returning from studying abroad, this young lady returned to work as an intern at her family company and met Baek Hyun Woo.
Like the couple in the movie, Lim Woo Jae also had a normal starting point and started working at Samsung C&T Group in 1995. It is known that Lim and Lee Boo-jin met each other by chance when he participated in an activity. Volunteer activity organized by Samsung. At that time, the “golden lady” of the Samsung family was an intern at the family company and Lim Woo Jae was just a normal IT employee of the group.
After many interactions, Lim Woo Jae and Lee Boo-jin fell in love with each other. Of course, like other tycoon-Cinderella couples, their love was also strongly opposed by the bride’s family because of their disproportionate backgrounds. However, there are rumors that, to fight for her love, the eldest lady of the Samsung family went on a hunger strike to convince her parents to let her marry Lim.
After a long time, finally, the wedding of Lim Woo Jae and Samsung’s daughter Lee Boo-jin was officially held in August 1999. The wedding of the daughter of the richest family in Korea immediately became a hot topic for the media. Lim Woo Jae was later called by the public with the nickname “Cinderella” because of his marriage. The wife is both beautiful and has an admirable family background.
However, no one could have expected that the real trouble would officially begin for Lim. Korean media said that immediately after the wedding, Lim Woo Jae was sent to study abroad in the US for 7 consecutive years under the coordination of his wife’s family.
“The time of preparing to study abroad was the most difficult time in my life. I was so depressed that I thought of committing suicide. I hugged my wife and cried like a child” – Mr. Lim Woo Jae shared.
As for Beak Hyun-woo, he was no better when his wife’s family arranged for him to go to Boston (USA) to study for an MBA. Even though he refused, he was always pressured by his wife’s family and decided everything for him.
Is the ending the same?
After a long time of being separated by the bride’s family, for a long time, Lee Boo-jin and her husband had to live apart and only met on special occasions. The remaining time, both are forced to focus on work. The long distance and not much time spent together afterward caused the couple’s relationship to gradually cool.
At the end of 2014, Lee Boo-jin filed for divorce, many rumors said that the couple had actually separated 2 years ago. After that, the two’s divorce trial also received a lot of attention, although the victory and defeat were predicted before Lee Boo-jin won custody of the children and compensated her ex-husband with a sum of money.
The failed marriage of the daughter of Samsung Group with a boy from an ordinary background has shown that the story of princes and princesses marrying “commoners” and living happily ever after still seems to only exist. in fairy tales. For the couple in Queen of Tears, although the movie has many different details from the love story of the Samsung couple, can they have a happy ending?
