ITZY member ITZY Chaeryeong recently drew attention by revealing that she paid for her younger sister’s university tuition.
On November 9, a video titled ‘Blood Relative Penitence Camp (w. ITZY Chaeryeong)’ was uploaded to comedian Yoo Byung-jae’s YouTube channel. In the video, Yoo met with Chaeryeong to host a sibling trial content.
Chaeryeong shared, “I have an older sister and a 5-years-younger younger sister. We bickered a lot during our childhood, and since we even trained at the same agency, we had more things to fight about. There were even times when we rode in different subway cars to get here.”
She added, “We really fight over nonsense. Sometimes we fight over clothes.” Hearing this, Yoo Byung-jae chimed in, “I have three siblings.”
Yoo explained, “My eldest sister is someone I love so much that I can still shed tears within 10 minutes if someone tells me to ‘think of your eldest sister,’ and she still calls me a baby.”
He continued with a laugh, “While I have an older sister who is like a mother, my younger sister was a bit more casual. To put it in a single word, she felt like a sister who would give me a ‘barley-threshing beating’ today. But our relationship isn’t bad or anything.”
Later, Yoo Byung-jae asked Chaeryeong, “I saw in the comments that you paid for your sister’s tuition?” Chaeryeong acknowledged it, saying, “Since I started my social career early and have my own earnings, I paid for my sister’s university tuition,” evoking surprise.
Chaeryeong added her own disciplinary philosophy, saying, “So she wouldn’t take money lightly or think of it as a given, I don’t give her allowance very often,” bringing more laughter.
Meanwhile, ITZY members previously explained on a broadcast that they receive education about once every two weeks, adding, “During our time as JYP trainees, every curriculum has a penalty system. At the same time, they evaluate singing scores, dancing scores, and character scores together.”
