The professor at the center of the viral clip that has made waves around the world has spoken out about why his children gatecrashed his BBC interview.
Robert E. Kelly and his wife, Kim Jung-A, told the Wall Street Journal that their family had been inundated with calls and interview requests after the hilarious incident.
The interview went on to answer several much-wondered about questions about the video clip, including whether Kelly had been wearing pants – he says he was wearing jeans – and why his yellow sweater-wearing daughter bounced into the room so jubilantly.
“She was in a hippity-hoppity mood that day because of the school party,” Kelly told the Journal, in another video interview.
The professor also returned to the BCC Tuesday to shed light on the viral clip.
“We watched it multiple times, too, and our families have watched it as well. Everybody we know seems to think it's pretty hysterical,” Kelly said. “It was sort of catching a regular family off-guard and stuff. It's funny.”
He did add, however, that assumptions that his Korean wife was a nanny made them “pretty uncomfortable.”
According to Kim Jung-A, she didn’t realize the children had wandered into their father’s office until she saw them on the TV screen.
It was, Kelly told the Journal, “a comedy of errors.”
“I made this minor mistake that turned my family into YouTube stars,” Kelly said of forgetting to lock his office door. “It’s pretty ridiculous.”