Bae Yong Joon is still a millionaire even if he no longer acts, wife Park Soo Jin mentioned their “retirement rumors”
Viewers are paying attention to the recent status of actors Bae Yong Joon and Park Soo Jin.
On KBS2’s “Entertainment Weekly Plus,” which aired on Nov 17th, the team personally visited Park Soo Jin‘s agency KeyEast to hear about the retirement rumor. Park Soo Jin still remains an actress of KeyEast according to her profile. An official from Keyeast drew the line, saying, “Park Soo Jin is still our artist, and we have never heard of her retirement.”
On the other hand, a source in the entertainment industry said, “About Bae Yong Joon‘s retirement, there is an opinion that he had already cleared his career in the entertainment industry since he organized his company and left for the U.S.” Bae Yong Joon is currently active as an investor rather than acting. Even if he is no longer an actor, he seems to have already become a billionaire with his investment skills.
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In fact, he is emerging as a so-called “tech-celestor” by selling his stake in KeyEast to SM Entertainment to earn 40 billion won in profits and investing in various startups. Recently, the return on stake value of a figure company he invested in was estimated to be around 20 billion won.
Rumors of Bae Yong Joon’s retirement started to rise after his official fan website, which had been maintained for nearly 20 years, was reportedly put on sale. Bae Yong Joon’s last work as a lead was “The Legend” in 2007, and he stopped acting at all after “Dream High” in 2011.
On the other hand, Park Soo Jin is devoted to raising her children and taking care of her family. After marrying Bae Yong Joon in 2016, she had a child with him a year later, and two years later, the couple welcomed their second child. At the time of her first childbirth, she temporarily suspended her activities in the entertainment industry after posting a handwritten apology due to the “controversy over preferential treatment.” Last year, she took a photoshoot for a cosmetics brand, but her return as an actress remains unknown.
She was also absent at Sugar Lee Ahyumi’s recent wedding as she was residing in Hawaii.
Source: Wikitree
