Girls' Generation's Hyoyeon Opens Up About Solo Life on 'Save Me! Holmes'

Girls' Generation's Hyoyeon visited a set of homes belonging to single urban women on MBC's Save Me! Holmes, airing on the 16th, and wrapped the episode with a candid remark: she wants to lean further into living alone. The comment landed with a little extra texture given that her bandmate Tiffany recently filed a marriage registration with actor Byun Yo-han in what was widely characterized as a swift and quiet ceremony.

The episode's theme centered on women in their 40s and 50s who have built independent lives in the city, with financial and personal freedom as the connective thread. Joining Hyoyeon for the home tours were fromis_9 member Lee Chaeyoung, comedian Yang Se-chan, and actor Ahn Jae-hyun. The production described the homes as windows into a range of lifestyles, each shaped by the owner's own priorities rather than convention.

One of the standout visits took the group outside Seoul entirely. A former international makeup artist had settled in a small village in Gyeonggi Province, converting a roughly 20-square-meter modular house into a personal retreat. She has modified the interior herself, and the episode showed both the handcrafted decor and a camper van she uses for solo trips. "I get energy from nature and my cats," she told the cameras, a line that seemed to resonate with the studio panel.

The final stop was a townhouse-style apartment in Pangyo, notable for its architecture: the building was designed by Riken Yamamoto, the Japanese architect who received the Pritzker Prize in 2024. The complex sits at the foot of Cheonggyesan mountain, and each unit has a distinct structural layout. This owner's home featured a two-story private gym visible immediately from the entrance, along with a ground-floor courtyard and a self-care corner stocked with a foot massager, a high-frequency skin device, aromatherapy supplies, and health books.

The owner said she chose the apartment specifically for its vertical layout, which allows her to separate spaces and activities across floors. It's the kind of detail that Save Me! Holmes tends to use well: a single design choice that reveals something about how a person has organized their daily life.

After the tour, Hyoyeon told the panel she had come away wanting to enjoy her solo life more. The remark was brief, but given Tiffany's recent marriage news, it offered an unscripted glimpse at where two longtime group members currently stand on the same question.

Save Me! Holmes aired the single women's homes special at 10 p.m. on the 16th.