Im sure a lot of people were curious about Hara's family. Maybe we knew some stuffs about her family, but they weren't enough specific info, clear photos or detailed stories.
Im curious about it too, and I did a research. In fact I was looking for all 6 girls' family. I wrote about Sunghee's family on her forum already. And I was planning to write about the rest of the girls' families following the order of GyulHamColeGoolJing. But Hara & her family is indeed a HOT ISSUE now, so I decided to write about her first.
Hara family has 4 members: her daddy, her mommy, her brother and Hara.
About Hara's father, I knew he was a strict father from Hara's stories about him. It doesn't mean that he is not close & nice to Hara or something like that, but he treated Hara so hard since he wanted she grew up as a responsible and mature person. He taught Hara a lot of things about how to be a nice / great person as well as how to be a person who always thinks of the others first instead of herself. He's also a busy father who rarely had time to take good care and talk to her. But Hara respectes her father.
About Hara's mother, she is a mystery. You know on gasoo's THANKS TO part of their albums, they often mention about all their family members. The only one they didn't mention is the one that they have some problems / difficulties talking about them. You can see Hara never mentioned about her mom on her Thanks to parts, the same with Nicole & her father. While in Sunghee's case, we just have her only one Thanks to but she talked about her passed away mommy there. I found some other gasoo did the same thing as Sunghee too. That meant that Hara had some difficulties mentioning about her mom.
I remember she talked about her mommy 3 times. The first time was on Shindong, Shinyoung' Shimshimtapa. There was a question about "did you ever imitate your mom such as using her cosmetics, high heels and all?". Jiyoung answered hers and Shinyoung asked "How about Hara?", then she did answer. The 2nd time was also on Shindong, Shinyoung' SSTP. This time was a question about "How do mother mean to you?". Hara told "Instead of mother, i want to talk about my grandma" while she was trying to not cry. At this point, I dont want to mean that Hara was sad when she thought of her mom or somthing like that, but Hara always cried whenever she mentioned about her grandma. I prefer thinking that she missed her grandma rather than the other things. The last time was on Strong Heart, when she revealed she got bullied at school by her high school's female seniors and she said that she missed her mom when she got bullied.
I couldn't find much about Hara's mother, that's all i know.
About Hara's brother, his name is GOO HO-IN (구호인), which mean SAVIOR. GOO.HO (구호) means SAVE and IN (인) means person / man. You can see how special Hara's siblings names are. He is older than Hara by 1 year, a 90-er. She had a lot of memories with her brother when she was a child. I remember she revealed some stories of them on SSTP. But she said she didn't meet, talk, call much to him after her debut, I guess she was too busy.
That's her little family. But she has a big family from her father's side as well.
The one Hara loved the most, her grandma. All I know is she still lives at Gwangju. Hara often sent tonic to her and her leg were not being well. Hara spent her childhood with her grandma and she loves her grandma by all love for her parents. Hara can cry easily when she thinks about her grandma.
Hara has 4 close aunts named Hyeja, Hyeshin, Eunhee, Eunsuk and Hara sees them as her closest friends. I think when Hara enrolled to secondary school, she left her home to come to one of her aunt's house to go to school there. Maybe the city where her aunt's house was at has the famous art school of Gwangju or something like that. Hara took a class at dance academy & studied acting at that time. I remember that she was sharing the room with her 2 cousins. And on one of fan account from Hara's DC Gallery that I have read before, one Kamilia said that her aunt came to KARA's practicing room to take her to school.
And she has a lot of counsins. There're some unnie (Hara called them by NOONA lollllll the way boys call their sister) & dongseng. Hara wrote her 10 dongseng name on her THANKS TO once as well: Dahyang, Yoosuk, Ahsung, Ahjin, Jinsoo, Minkyung, Jinchul, Jinsoo, Jinyoung, Naho.
Well, i think that's all. I can still remember how excited i was when i knew Hara's oppa name
I hope you guys enjoy reading this