Felix Was NOT Ready for What's in Lee Na-young's Fridge
Korea's most private celebrity couple gets a rare spotlight — over beondegi

For over a decade, Won Bin and Lee Na-young have kept the world at arm's length — no reality shows, no social media feeds, no red carpet appearances together, no public statements about their home life. That carefully maintained wall came down, in the most unexpected way, when Lee Na-young agreed to open her refrigerator for the world to see.
On May 1, a teaser video from YouTube channel "일일칠" (Daily Seven, or "117") dropped featuring Stray Kids' Felix and actress Lee Na-young in a segment called "Felix's Fridge Interview." The clip became an instant talking point: not just because of Lee Na-young's rare public appearance, but because of what was inside her fridge — and the completely unpredictable late-night snack that left Felix at an absolute loss for words.
Korea's Most Private Celebrity Couple Steps Into the Light
To understand why this episode matters, you need to understand who Lee Na-young and Won Bin are as a couple. Won Bin is one of Korea's most iconic actors — the star of beloved films including Taegukgi, Mother, and the 2010 action thriller The Man from Nowhere, which became a massive box office hit across Asia. After that film, he effectively stepped away from acting. No new projects. No press tours. No Instagram account. For fifteen years, Won Bin has existed in Korean pop culture more as a legend than a living presence.
Lee Na-young, who made her name in films and dramas including Romance Is a Bonus Book, returned to screens in 2026 with the ENA drama Honour — her first major comeback after years of near-absence. Even then, her public appearances were measured and controlled.
The couple married in May 2015 in a ceremony that has since become the stuff of Korean celebrity legend: a small, private gathering of roughly 50 close family members and friends, held at a wheat field in Jeongseon, Gangwon-do. No press. No livestream. No official photos released to the public. It was described at the time as a "fairy-tale wedding," and the couple has lived up to that sense of magic ever since — by refusing to let anyone see behind the curtain. They welcomed a son later that same year, now around 10 years old. Their home, a custom-built standalone residence in Samseong-dong, Seoul, estimated to be worth approximately 7 billion Korean won (around USD 5 million), had never been shown publicly.
Until now — or at least, until the refrigerator.
Felix Meets His Match: "I'm Sweating"
The setup for "Felix's Fridge Interview" is simple: Stray Kids' Felix visits a celebrity at home, opens their refrigerator, and the conversation flows from there. It sounds low-key. It is not, when your guest is Lee Na-young.
Felix, who has built a reputation for his warmth and his ability to put guests at ease, was visibly nervous from the first moment she walked in. "I'm sweating," he admitted, confessing that he had assumed small talk would come naturally — until he was actually standing in front of her. Lee Na-young, ever graceful, responded with a playful wit that immediately put the room at ease: "Should I bring you a fan?"
Felix recovered quickly enough to offer a string of compliments — "You're so beautiful, nuna. Your eyes are so big, and your face is so small" — and Lee Na-young received them with the quiet charm of someone accustomed to being noticed but not entirely comfortable being fussed over. She gestured for him to relax and just call her "nuna" (the Korean term for an older sister or senior woman, used informally between close acquaintances of different ages).
The two also addressed one of the internet's long-running observations: that Felix and Lee Na-young bear a striking visual resemblance to each other. The sibling-comparison meme has circulated for years in K-pop and K-drama fan spaces. "We do look a bit alike," both agreed, laughing off what has essentially become a beloved piece of online lore. The moment of connection hit its peak when the two danced together to Stray Kids' "Maniac" — Lee Na-young moving with a casualness that made clear she had spent real time learning the choreography. "This is so embarrassing," she said afterward, laughing. She did not look embarrassed at all.
The Fridge That Broke the Internet
When Lee Na-young's refrigerator was finally opened, Felix's jaw dropped. Packed from end to end with fresh vegetables, ingredients, condiments, and food supplies, it was the refrigerator of someone who cooks — seriously and regularly. "You eat a lot!" Felix exclaimed. Then, catching himself, he added: "Oh, but you don't live alone, right?" The reference to Won Bin was indirect, but unmistakable. The crowd, the camera, and the entire Korean internet understood immediately. For fans who have spent years wondering what life in that Samseong-dong house looks like, the fully stocked fridge of a very domestic Lee Na-young was its own kind of revelation.
But the real moment of the night — the one that sent clips circling through social media within hours — was Lee Na-young's late-night snack reveal. Her go-to after-midnight craving, she announced, is beondegi: silkworm chrysalis, a traditional Korean street food that has been sold from street carts and convenience stores for decades. With its distinctive earthy, nutty flavor and soft, slightly chewy texture, beondegi tends to divide opinion sharply — even among Koreans.
Felix, who had never eaten beondegi before in his life, was handed one. The footage that followed — him staring at it, picking it up with deliberate care, biting into it slowly while his face went through approximately seven emotions at once — is now the kind of clip that gets embedded in every entertainment roundup of the week. "Do you want to spit it out?" Lee Na-young offered, helpfully, while doing nothing whatsoever to conceal her delight. He did not spit it out. He made it through. It was a triumph, of sorts.
A Glimpse at the Real Lee Na-young
What made the episode genuinely moving, beyond the entertainment value, was the version of Lee Na-young it presented: not the actress, not the celebrity wife, not the public figure who has carefully maintained distance for years — but a person who cooks with a large wok because "I have big hands," who casually tells a Stray Kids idol to cut the vegetables a bit thicker, who eats silkworm chrysalis at night and finds the whole thing completely normal.
That ordinariness — that ease with her own domestic reality — coming from someone who has spent over a decade being discussed more as a myth than a human being, is its own kind of disarming. Lee Na-young did not try to be glamorous in this video. She was simply herself, in a context that most fans had never seen before.
The reveal also arrived at a notable moment in her career. With Honour marking her return to drama after years away, Lee Na-young has been in the public conversation more than she has been in years. The "Felix's Fridge Interview" appearance reads less like a calculated PR move and more like a gradual, reluctant willingness to let people in — slightly, briefly, on her own terms.
Why Fans Can't Stop Talking About This
Within hours of the teaser dropping, "이나영" and "원빈" trended across Korean social media platforms. The response on international fan forums was equally immediate: threads filled with clips of the Maniac dance, the beondegi moment, Felix's awed compliments, and — most of all — any fragment of the video that offered a hint about life in the Won Bin and Lee Na-young household.
For fans of Won Bin in particular, even an indirect reference to his existence — "Oh, but you don't live alone" — was enough to send discussions spiraling. Won Bin has not appeared publicly in years. His rare sightings, when they occur, generate immediate coverage. The idea that he is somewhere in that very stocked, beondegi-containing household, married to a woman who laughs easily and dances to Stray Kids in front of a camera, is both comforting and genuinely fascinating to a fanbase that has held onto his memory for a long time.
For Felix and the broader Stray Kids universe, the episode further cements the "Felix's Fridge Interview" format as something genuinely special — a show that earns trust from guests who don't normally give it, and delivers moments that land because they feel unscripted.
The full episode, beyond the teaser, has yet to be released. Given what the teaser alone produced, the anticipation for the complete interview is considerable. Whether or not Lee Na-young and Won Bin ever step fully into the public eye remains an open question — one they have answered consistently, for over a decade, with silence. But for one afternoon, with a refrigerator and a very nervous Felix, Korea got a little bit closer.
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