Lee Kyung-eun, better known by her stage name Harisu, is a Korean pop singer, model, and actress. (Photo : Instagram/risu_ha)
It has been nine years since the world watched the famous transgender celebrity Harisu and rapper Micky Jung tie the knot at the Central City Millenium Hall in the Secoho-gu district, Seoul Korea.
On May 19, Thursday, the 41-year-old pop singer-actress took to Instagram and shared a selca of her and her significant other sitting in a car's back seat with a caption that reads, "Honey, thank you for being with me for nine years. After helping our dog to deliver puppies, we are heading to the airport to work in Yeosu. Working is the best way to celebrate our 9th."
A photo posted by Risu Ha (@risu_ha) on May 18, 2016 at 9:23pm PDT
Harisu started dating Jung, whose real name is Jung Yong Jin, after meeting online. From that point forward, the couple had been the target of numerous marriage speculations. On Feb. 2006, a date for the couple's wedding was announced, following several meetings between their respective families.
Further, the pair starred in a reality television show on Mnet, showing their everyday lives as a couple and as well as their preparations for the wedding. In light of that, the couple was subjected to numerous harsh criticism from netizens.
Nonetheless, Harisu and Jung officially tied the wedding knots on May 19, 2007, wherein it was presided by KBS anchor Shin Young-Il and administered by a Dong-A University professor, Kim Suk Kwon, who had performed Harisu's sex change surgery in the 1990s. The newlywed at that time honeymooned in Koh Samui, Thailand and started their wedded life at Harisu's family home in Nonhyun-dong, Gangnam-gu district of Seoul, South Korea.
Harisu first gained widespread fame in 2001 in the wake of showing up in a television commercial for DoDo cosmetics. Since making her debut in the entertainment industry, Harisu has reliably expressed her longing to marry and have a family of her own.
"I will become a wife who cooks well and is sweet, sexy and like a friend," Harisu told a news conference before the wedding. "We will adopt two boys and two girls."
The adaptation news, however, prompted a mixed response from the public. According to Mnet's poll, as cited by The Korea Times, 69 percent of around 1,300 respondents were in favor of her decision. However, 58 percent of 8,094 respondents disagreed, as per Daum.
Meanwhile, Harisu's last venture in South Korea was the 2009's historical action TV series called "The Return of Iljimae." Check out the video below:
