Sun-ye’s Departure From Wonder Girls
After Sun-ye got married to a Korean-Canadian man named James Park in 2013, she decided to take a long hiatus and focus on her married life. There wasn’t any news about her leaving the group from JYP Entertainment, instead, she just started being inactive and stopped getting involved in any promoting schedule since she moved to Toronto, Canada following her husband. At that time, Wonder Girls members were doing solo activities, such as singing and acting.
As she released the news about her pregnancy in April 2013, there was a rumor about her departure from Wonder Girls and speculations that Wonder Girls might disband because of this. However, JYP Entertainment denied the rumor about Sun-ye leaving the group and said that she will continue to be a part of Wonder Girls activity later, they also added that it was not true that Wonder Girls is going to disband.
But a year after that, more precisely in December 2014, Sun-ye officially left the company due to her expired contract and since she wanted to focus more on her family and doing missionary activities in Haiti with her husband, James Park. But the news of her leaving Wonder Girls and JYP Entertainment was officially released in 2015.
Sun-ye’s Marriage
The first time Sun-ye met James Park, the man that later on became her husband, was in Haiti, for missionary activity. In an episode of Stranger, a reality show program from JTBC, her husband, James, said that Sun-ye left a really good impression on him the first time they met.
As a volunteer that is also an artist, Sun-ye wanted to be treated just like anyone else, and she even helped patients with cholera by herself. Even for a normal volunteer, it was not that easy to help patients alone like that. It was the first time that he was sure he wanted to marry this girl. And after James told her his intention, Sun-ye felt told him that she felt the same as well.
An interesting fact is that James didn’t offer a ring at the time he proposed to Sun-ye since he couldn’t afford to buy one. But Sun-ye said that the ring was not eternal, the most important thing is their heart, thus they didn’t need a ring. It made James think that Sun-ye really has well-developed leadership abilities.
Later on, the couple got married, in January 2013. They held the wedding at the Lotte Hotel in Seoul and it was attended by various artists and celebrity friends. The wedding was MCed by Jo Kwon, a former member of 2AM that is also a friend of Sun-ye ever since they were trainees. In October 2013, Sun-ye gave birth to their first daughter.
Sun-ye said that after she met her husband, she became brighter. She used to have a bright personality when she was younger, but it faded away by the time she had met her husband, and then she became brighter again. The couple lives happily in Toronto and are now blessed with three children after more than six years of marriage.
Sun-ye’s Plastic Surgery Rumors
As a Korean celebrity, Sun-ye hasn’t been left out from a rumor about having done plastic surgery by the netizens. Is it true that she did plastic surgery? Has her face changed a lot from the first time she debuted to her recent appearance? Is there any official statement about this?
Well, honestly, Sun-ye hasn’t given an official statement regarding her plastic surgery, unlike her fellow member from Wonder Girls, Hye-lim, where JYP officially stated that she hasn’t done any plastic surgery. Some netizens have made speculations about her getting a double eyelid surgery since she was born with a single eyelid.
But still, since there hasn’t been an official statement released, we can’t conclude that she has actually done it. It could be because of her diet and losing weight, or even a filler. Then again, Korea is popular for beauty technology, and it is not always related to plastic surgery. So if you’re curious about whether she did it or not, let’s just compare her appearance from pre-debuting, the Wonder Girls era, and her looks now.
Sun-ye’s Latest News
After getting married in January 2013, Sun-ye has been officially inactive in the entertainment industry and focused on her personal life after the marriage. Even though there were many of her fans that really wanted her to come back, especially those who were hoping for her to join Wonder Girls again, there wasn’t any response from her about returning to the entertainment industry. She had her kids to take care of, and she also lived in Canada, so it was a bit hard for her to continue her career as an artist again.
This is why Sun-ye got a lot of anti-fans after she got married. They said that Sun-ye’s decision to get married and leave the group was very selfish. She and the group were at the top of their career at the time, and they even had a world tour in 2012. And the sudden leave of Sun-ye made some netizens criticize her because she chose her private life rather than her career and the group.
The hate for her continued even when she joined the new company, Polaris Entertainment, in August 2018. They wrote an official statement about her joining the company. Even though there wasn’t any scheduled activity for her at that time, Polaris Entertainment asked fans to wait for her comeback to the industry and asked fans to keep cheering on her.
This means that she is planning to make a comeback as an artist as well as a singer after 5 years of hiatus. But the netizens keep telling her that she was selfish, because she told the media that she wasn’t going to come back to the entertainment industry, yet she did. Netizens are angrier since Wonder Girls are now disbanded and have lost their popularity, while Sun-ye will debut as a solo singer now. When she was a guest in The Masked Singer, netizens were mocking her since she dared to show up after a long hiatus and didn’t even make a formal goodbye as the leader of Wonder Girls.
As if it wasn’t enough, when the news about her pregnancy of her third child came up, the netizens sent her a lot of hate comments again, mocking her for being inactive again since she was pregnant. But Sun-ye wrote a post on her Instagram account saying that she won’t be retired and will continue to promote as an artist. But netizens are still doing their job, hate comments are being thrown at her.
This is why her husband, James Park felt guilty after they got married. He knew from other people that Sun-ye was a Korean idol that didn’t have any anti-fans back then, but ever since they got married, a lot of netizens threw hate comments at her for being selfish and a lot of bad words. But Sun-ye herself has said that she made this decision for herself, and they had their own reason to think like that.
And even after all the hate, Sun-ye keeps going on with her work. As she said on her Instagram account, she wanted to show everyone the best side of her and give the public the best quality of her music, thus she will be able to proudly say that she is a professional singer.
Well, it must be hard for Sun-ye after all the hate comments she got. What are your thoughts? Do you think that she made the right decision, or do you think that she made a mistake? Whatever it is, please mind your words since everyone has their own struggles. Let’s just keep on giving her love and support her. Even if you don’t like her, don’t ever think of sending another hate comment since she already has a lot.
As a bonus, let’s see a heart-warming picture of Sun-ye with her long-time friends, Lim, Ye-eun, and also Jo Kwon!
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