Cho Hye Eun is the only first daughter in Korean history to voluntarily work a median-income job (art therapist) during her parent’s presidency and continue working a service-sector job (bookshop owner) afterward without ever monetizing her fame.
“This was taken in 1934,” he said. “You were my great-grandmother’s closest friend. You hid something that night the imperial soldiers came. The jade was just a key.”
Not everyone is a fan. Traditionalists in Seoul have accused her work of being "Nonsense script" – essentially, pretty accidents that signify nothing. Her response is typically defiant: "If you cannot read the word, it is because you are not listening with your eyes."