Choi Jun-hee’s Touching Tribute: How a Childhood Video of Choi Jin-sil Shapes Her Wedding Journey

[JoyNews24 reporter Lee Ji-young] Choi Jun-hee posted a restored home video of her late mother, actress Choi Jin-sil, as she prepares for her wedding.

On the 11th, Choi shared the footage from her first birthday on her social media and wrote, “We finally restored the video of my first birthday that my grandmother had kept all this time.”

She said the timing felt surreal. In the clip, her mother smiles and tells the guests, “I’ll invite you again when our Soomin gets married — so please stay healthy for a long time.” Choi wrote that it was both astonishing and moving that the same people who attended her first birthday are now waiting for her wedding. At the same time, she said, what hurts most is that Mom and Dad are missing from every seat. She laughed softly, adding that the closer the wedding gets, the more emotions keep surfacing.

Choi wrote that family preparations had been difficult, marked by rumors and gossip that made the whole process trying for everyone. Still, she said, this one video felt like enough—there’s a record of the love she was raised in and the feelings that have shaped her. With the wedding so close, she’s excited and nervous and sometimes overcome by emotion. As a final tidbit, she revealed that her birth name was Jo Soo-min and joked, “Doesn’t Jun-hee suit me better?”

Meanwhile, Choi Jun-hee is set to marry a non-celebrity who is 11 years her senior on the 16th.