Ji Yeon Soo says her mind has changed on remarriage
Ji Yeon Soo, the former wife of U-KISS member Eli, has said that she is now open to remarriage after previously believing she would not meet anyone again. Koreaboo reported on 19 October that she made the comments in a YouTube video titled “Achieving the Highest Sales in Shopping Live Thanks to Our Subscribers”.
According to the report, Ji Yeon Soo said she had never really thought about remarriage and had no intention of meeting anyone, but that her mind had changed. She said she had started meeting someone and had opened her mind to the possibility of marrying again.
She framed the decision around family life rather than a general change of heart. She said marriage could be a good idea if the person could create a good family and get along well with her son, Min Soo, and with her. She also said that would only be possible if she were healthy, and that a health checkup before a wedding would be sensible.
The criteria she listed
Ji Yeon Soo set out a list of qualities she would look for in a remarriage candidate. She described military service, high school graduation and not drinking alcohol as basic requirements. She also said the person should not act carelessly, should be thoughtful toward himself and his family, and should be cautious.
The list drew attention because it is unusually concrete. Some items are biographical details that can be checked easily; others describe temperament and conduct. That mix gave the remarks a checklist quality, which is likely why they travelled beyond the original video.
The source reporting presents the criteria as her own words rather than as advice for others. She was describing what she would want, not setting a standard for remarriage in general. That distinction matters when a personal preference is repeated online as a list.
Why the phrase basic requirements stands out
Calling military service, high school graduation and not drinking basic requirements positions them as a minimum rather than a wish list. The remaining traits — thoughtfulness, caution and not acting carelessly — describe how a person behaves. Together, the items give a clearer picture of what she means by a good family than a general statement about compatibility would.
The criteria are specific, but they are not exotic. They are the kind of practical considerations that can come up when someone is thinking about a second marriage and a blended family. The attention comes from the level of detail, not from any single item being shocking.
Public figures often describe an ideal type in broad terms, which makes it hard to disagree with them. Ji Yeon Soo’s list is more concrete, and that is what makes it easy to summarise. It also makes it easy to debate, because each item can be separated from the whole.
Eli, U-KISS and the attention that follows an idol’s ex-spouse
Eli, originally from the boy group U-KISS, married Ji Yeon Soo in 2014. They had a son and divorced in 2020, according to the source reporting. Those facts explain why her comments were treated as news rather than as a routine lifestyle video.
The group name anchors the story. A statement from an idol’s former partner can travel even when the idol is not involved in the video and has not commented. The source reporting does not include a response from Eli.
This is a familiar pattern in coverage of idol-adjacent figures: personal remarks become public material because of a connection to a known artist. The interest is in both the content and the connection. In this case, the connection is Eli’s U-KISS background, while the content is Ji Yeon Soo’s own view of a possible second marriage.
The practical side of remarriage after divorce
Her comments include two practical considerations that are easy to overlook in celebrity coverage: family compatibility and health. She said the person would need to get along with her son and with her, and she linked marriage to being healthy enough to go ahead. She did not present remarriage as a romantic ideal; she presented it as a decision with conditions.
That ordinariness is part of what makes the clip notable. A partner who gets along with a child, a health check before a wedding and a dislike of careless behaviour are domestic concerns rather than dramatic revelations. They suggest someone thinking through what a second marriage would require in daily life.
The source does not include a full transcript of the video, so the reported remarks should be read as an excerpt from a longer conversation. That limits how much can be drawn from the tone or the context. The verified points are the change of mind, the openness to meeting someone and the criteria she chose to list.
What the video setting adds
The video was framed around shopping livestream sales and subscribers, according to the source. That is a commercial YouTube setting rather than a formal interview or a documentary. The conversational format may explain why the remarriage comments came out in such a direct way.
It also shows how quickly a short segment from a longer video can become a standalone story. The source reports the remarks as part of the video but does not provide the full transcript or say how much of the video dealt with remarriage. Readers should keep that limitation in mind when judging the tone of the coverage.
The setting does not make the comments less real, but it does affect how they should be understood. A passing remark in a livestream-style video is different from a prepared statement. The report treats it as newsworthy because of who Ji Yeon Soo is connected to, not because the video was designed as a news event.
Takeaway: a personal comment with a public audience
The verified facts are straightforward. Ji Yeon Soo, the former wife of U-KISS’s Eli, has said she changed her mind about remarriage, has started meeting someone and would consider marriage if the family fit were right and her health allowed it. She also listed specific criteria, including military service, high school graduation and not drinking.
The attention around the story comes from the specificity of those criteria and from the enduring public interest in people connected to idol groups. The comments are personal, but they were made in a public video and have been reported by Koreaboo. That is enough to make them newsworthy without turning them into a larger claim about remarriage, divorce or idol culture.
The useful takeaway is to separate the statement from the spectacle. Ji Yeon Soo described what she would want in a second marriage, including practical family and health considerations. The list is detailed, but the underlying point is simple: she has changed her mind and has a clear sense of the conditions under which she would marry again.
