[JTBC 'Knowing Bros']
[JTBC 'Knowing Bros']

Broadcaster Seo Jang-hoon cleared up a misconception about his sister's appearance.

The JTBC variety program "Knowing Bros" featured K-pop group Ateez as guests Saturday.

During the episode, Ateez member Yeosang shared an anecdote about his older sister. "Not to brag, but I was kind of pretty-looking in middle school," he said. "My friends assumed my sister must be pretty too, so they kept asking me to introduce them to her. Then, right at that moment, my sister happened to be walking toward us from across the street. Our eyes met. I went 'Oh?' and she gave me this look that said, 'If you acknowledge me, I'll kill you.'"

Seo then opened up about his own sister. "My younger sister was so annoyed that someone might say she looks like me that she went abroad to study and stayed for 10 years," he said. "When she came back to Korea, she got married and had kids — and since the kids could go around telling people their uncle is Seo Jang-hoon, she packed them up and went back to Canada."

Kim Shin-young chimed in with a similar story. "My older brother was in the military. He called and told me not to come visit. I never once went to see him. That was after he quit judo," she said, drawing laughs of recognition from the cast.

Seo then revisited the subject. "I mentioned this somewhere else and it was misreported — that she went abroad because she looks like me. She doesn't look like me. Everyone here has seen her," he said. Co-host Lee Su-geun backed him up: "I'm telling you, she's a real beauty. When you go from looking at Seo Jang-hoon to looking at his sister, there's absolutely no match. Not even 1 percent alike."

Seo flatly replied, "She's not a beauty," before adding, "The reason she left is that she was annoyed someone might say she looks like me even though she doesn't. The article last time got it wrong, and she normally doesn't say much to me, but she actually brought it up — 'Either say it right or don't say it at all.'" When Seo revealed his sister had scolded him over it, Lee Sang-min marveled, "You two have exactly the same personality."


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