Hwang Jung-eum links family grave relocation in 2020 to her first divorce in new YouTube video

Hwang Jung-eum uploaded a video titled 점집마다 거절당한 내 점사 보는 날 ("The day I finally get a reading after being turned away from every fortune teller") to her YouTube channel on June 24. It documented a visit to a mudang (shaman) in Yangju, Gyeonggi Province.

During the session, her father revealed something unexpected: the family had relocated their ancestral graves on May 29, 2020. The remains had been exhumed and cremated from an entire mountain burial site. The shaman told Hwang that "mountain energy disruption" had entered her fate, saying her reputation and fortune had been strong until a certain point and then broke.

Hwang connected the date immediately to her personal life. "It's too shocking," she said on camera. "2020 — that was my first divorce. Why did they do that to such a good mountain?" The dates lined up perfectly. "I'm going insane. I have goosebumps."

The shaman explained that people with strong spiritual sensitivity are the first to be hit by such disruptions. Hwang was warned to be careful of legal troubles. On her career, the shaman said she must continue as a public figure. "If you don't, a different kind of hardship comes." Hwang laughed. "I've lived as an attention-seeker. How could I ever live quietly?" She added that running her YouTube channel makes her "so happy."

Hwang married in 2016 and has two sons. She is raising them alone. Last September she was indicted on charges of embezzling approximately 4.3 billion won from her one-person agency and was sentenced to two years in prison with a four-year suspended sentence. She has since repaid the full amount.