Lee Soon-jae pushed ahead with acupuncture and injections, but eventually stopped the performance due to poor health.

Oct 12, 2024

Lee Soon-jae, the 'oldest actor in the active role', has stopped performing the previous time for health reasons. Many members of the public are sweeping their hearts due to health problems that have continued since last year.

On the 11th, the production company Park Company decided to cancel the performance due to the health reasons of Mr. Lee Soon-jae"We have decided to cancel the performance due to the doctor's opinion that we need more rest due to our physical deterioration" he said.

While waiting for a doctor's opinion later, announcing the cancellation of the performance on the 10th, Lee Soon-jae was forced to stop the performance.

Through the production company, he said, "We sincerely apologize for the disappointment of the audience who booked the performance early and waited for the day to see the performance, and we will focus on recovery so that we can return to the stage in good health." he said.

Waiting for Godot opened the play 'Waiting for Godot' with an homage comedy last month. Lee Soon-jae played the main character, Ester, but he couldn't make it to the stage in the remaining 6th episode.

In the meantime, attention is also being paid to whether KBS2's current Wednesday-Thursday drama 'GaeSori' will be filmed. In the middle of the drama, Lee Soon-jae's performance in the sixth episode, which aired on the 10th, recorded the highest viewership rating of 4.6% based on households nationwide.

Earlier, at the production presentation of 'Gae-sori', Kim Yong-gun "Not only us, but also the director and staff were very worried because Lee Soon-jae was in poor health in the second half of the shooting. You've overcome that. I couldn't see the script, so I wrote it on a large piece of paper, and it was an example of the stubbornness that you really had to do it through 'Dogsori'"We want to give a big round of applause for the success of this work" he once said.

In response, Lee Soon-jae calmly "You have to memorize all the scripts. It's not an actor who can't memorize lines properly. There is a variation in memorization, but of course, you have to memorize it all. It's something I've done all my life, so I'm mastered. He added, "I was in poor health, so I wrote big and worked well together."

In addition, Lee Soon-jae also delivered a dizzying moment beyond his health on Channel A '4 Table', which aired in July. Last year, he lost 10kg while working on your work and collapsed in the bath, and he said, `I've been on the whole schedule while getting acupuncture. He endured well without collapsing, but he collapsed in the bath the day after the performance was successfully completed. I thought my life was over at that moment. When I went to the hospital's emergency room, he said his head was okay. However, he filmed a drama less than a month later, and eventually had cataract surgery due to poor eyes, but he finished filming in consideration of the production company's circumstances even when his vision was less recovered after surgery.

Meanwhile, Lee Soon-jae, born in 1935, is the oldest active actor this year, turning 90 years old and 69 years after his debut. As a result, his deteriorating health has caused many people to feel sorry for him.

olzllovely@sportschosun.com

Lee Soon-jae pushed ahead with acupuncture and injections, but eventually stopped the performance due to poor health.

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