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“I will go anywhere, provided it be forward.”
- David Livingstone (1813-1873), a Scottish medical missionary

Wonder Girls’ Sun-ye will leave for Haiti with her husband in July to conduct missionary outreach projects there for about five years. The K-pop singer’s plan was disclosed on a website run by her fan club on Mar. 18. Haiti is a French-speaking Caribbean country. After a devastating earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, more than 200,000 Haitians were killed. Some 350,000 displaced people still live in squalid tent camps there.

“I want to live a second life for my husband and for missionary work,” Sun-ye said. “Over the past seven years as a member of Wonder Girls, I have been loved by many fans. While traveling with the group around the globe, I’ve had many amazing experiences.”
Watching Haitians dying, she felt ashamed about herself for having tried hard only to succeed. She added, “So I’ve made up my mind to participate in projects to spread the Gospel to those who haven’t heard it before.”

“Now I’m going to start my second life after launching a missionary NGO with my husband. I’ll try to come back in my best form,” she said. Many years from now, some traveling journalists will surely encounter her in Haiti, and say, “Sun-ye, I presume?” just as Welsh journalist and explorer Sir Henry M. Stanley found Dr. Livingstone near Lake Tanganyika in 1871, and said, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”