Marriage and Controversy
On July 4, 2006, Yoon announced that she got engaged to a Korean entrepreneur who lives in Seoul. and she moved her base of operation to South Korea. Afterwards, she shocked her Japanese fans and dimmed her star in the country by making statements that could be construed as being anti-Japanese. For instance, she said that Japanese food was a lacking cuisine and that Japanese people do not eat enough Kimchi, which she attributes to Korean people having good skin and high thinking processes, implying that Japanese people do not have as good skin or intelligence as Koreans. She also said about her marriage that she wanted to marry a Korean man and live in South Korea, alienating her Japanese male fans.
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