TV Chosun ‘Dad and I Season 3’

On TV Chosun’s ‘Dad and I Season 3’, the ‘97-year-old’ father of Jeon Su-kyung, who has declared his entry into the ‘National Singing Contest’, meets Oh Yu-jin, the ‘trot princess’ who is 80 years his junior, coming to help as a ‘one-day teacher’.

Airing on the 22nd, ‘Dad and I Season 3’ will feature the challenge of the father of Jeon Su-kyung, a ‘national merit honoree’, as he takes on the National Singing Contest. Born in 1930, he is a figure whose life itself mirrors modern and contemporary Korean history, spanning Japanese colonial rule, liberation, service in the Korean War, and deployment to the Vietnam War.

Now 97 years old and nearly a century in age, he once surprised everyone with youthful energy, playing music on a smartphone and singing and dancing with remarkable verve. For such a father, Jeon Su-kyung proposed entering the ‘National Singing Contest’. Having already seized the grand prize at the ‘Silver Song Festival’, he declared his entry, saying, “Be it three thousand or four thousand people, the more people there are, the better I feel”.

Worried because her father insisted practice was unnecessary, Jeon Su-kyung said, “We cannot risk a ‘buzz’ for a mistake, so I brought in a teacher,” and headed to the practice room with him. The person to become the teacher for the ‘97-year-old’ father was the ‘trot princess’ Oh Yu-jin. At 15, Oh swept aside formidable adults to take the runner-up title on ‘Miss Trot 3’, and at 17 she is now in her sixth year since debut.

TV Chosun ‘Dad and I Season 3’

Stunned that the one-day teacher was only 17, the father of Jeon Su-kyung was left speechless. Jeon quipped, “The age gap between the two is a full 80 years”. Upon hearing the age of ‘teacher’ Oh Yu-jin, the father said, “When I was 17, liberation had just come, and I roamed around shouting hurrah. When adults raised their flagpoles, we jumped around along with them and expressed it through excitement. A little later, the Korean War broke out,” revealing a 17-year-old time of a different order that stunned the studio.

For the lesson, the father first attempted a skills test. True to his genius for rhythm, he lifted the mood from the very intro with razor-sharp timing. Yet as the song went on, Oh Yu-jin looked increasingly stiff, even biting her lips tightly. Watching the VCR, Jeon Hyun-moo let out a groan, while Han Hye-jin sided with the father, saying, “Perhaps he was nervous in front of the teacher”. It sparks curiosity about what the ‘97-year-old’ father, once known for a tune or two, experienced in the skills test before the ‘17-year-old’ teacher Oh Yu-jin.

In the end, audition veteran Oh Yu-jin unveiled a secret lesson featuring a special technique to sweep the contest. Jeon Hyun-moo exclaimed, “A class like this for a 97-year-old?”

Meanwhile, on the 20th, Oh Yu-jin appeared on KBS1 ‘Gayo Stage’ and drew attention by performing the hit ‘That Person from Sinsa-dong’ by Joo Hyun-mi, among various ongoing broadcast activities.

What special secret method the formidable teen from ‘Miss Trot 3’, Oh Yu-jin, passed on to the 97-year-old father will be revealed on ‘Dad and I Season 3’, airing at 10 p.m. on Wednesday the 22nd.