The wife of expat TV persona Enes Kaya demanded Thursday that the news media stop intruding her family’s privacy for entertainment purposes.

Jang Mi-yoon, a Korea-born mother of a 2-year-old baby, wrote on her blog that she wants to handle allegations of Kaya’s adultery personally with him.

(Jang Mi-yoon's blog)

Jang’s posting came after Kaya was recently mired in adultery controversies and had to leave all of his television shows. The Turkish “Non-Summit” star came under fire after multiple women posted the Kakao Talk conversation dialogues that they had with Kaya.

“Enes Kaya has been a good husband, and I would not like him to lose his future because of this,” she wrote.

“We agreed to let everything down, start off again on a clean base, and become a happy family once again. But the current situation is forcing us to leave the country. It seems like that the situation will never end until I leave my husband, or leave the country. That makes the whole situation far more heartbreaking and excruciating.”

Enes Kaya (JTBC)

The desperate wife said that her family has become “the thorn in the eye in the neighborhood” because the production crew of television gossip show “Midnight TV Entertainment” have been bugging the neighbors with questions about Kaya. Because she dismissed all interview requests, she said, the interviewers turned to the neighbors instead, asking about her family’s private family life.

The embattled wife also alleged that she and the baby are both frightened by the strangers knocking on my door or trying to peep at the house through the windows. The baby is so distressed that it suffers from diarrhea, she added.

She said the television crew’s continued knocking on the door for 10 minutes had made the baby cry. Then the crew were sure that Jang was home, and began knocking on the door more aggressively, to her fright.

The frenzy stopped only when Kaya came back from outside and volunteered to interview with the gossip show’s crew.

Jang protested that “Midnight TV Entertainment” cut out the front and back of Kaya’s comment, only broadcasting the negative comments. She alleged the distortion was made merely to make the show more entertaining to the viewers.

“Are all of these for a higher audience rating for the show? Will you keep doing this to us unless you kick us out of Korea, or I become a divorcee, or make my daughter grow up without her father?

“The audience rating may be important for ‘Midnight TV Entertainment,’ but the family is above everything that I have. And that is why I beg you. I am scared of your cameras, and even more so of you strangers knocking on my door and looking into my windows.”

(khnews@heraldcorp.com)