Veteran actress Yeo Woon-kye passes away

[djclazzi.livejournal.com]

Oh, sad. Veteran actress Yeo Woon-kye passed away on May 22 after battling cancer. She had initially been diagnosed with cancer of the kidneys in 2007, and had seemed to make a full recovery. However, it was not long ago that she found out that the disease had traveled to her lungs.

Yeo was 69 years old and enjoyed a career spanning 47 years; she had been seen in numerous dramas and films over the years — if you’ve been watching dramas for a while, chances are you’ve seen her more than a few times (she was my favorite cranky granny and a great comic as well as dramatic actress).

Yeo Woon-kye began acting in the late 1950s as a university student, although her bona fide debut came when she joined a theater company following graduation in 1962. She had said in an interview of her early days, “My family strongly opposed my becoming an actor, so I had to give it up and decided to go to school to go into teaching, but even after waiting, there was no space available at school. So that’s how I started acting. It was like fate.”

Some of her more recent roles came in dramas like Dae Jang Geum in 2003, My Name Is Kim Sam-soon in 2005, Bad Family in 2006, and Golden Age of the Daughter-in-Law in 2007.

She is survived by her husband, Cha Sang-hoon (72), a former university professor, and two children (one son, one daughter).

Dramabeans

This is sad, I loved her as the grandma in Bad Family. RIP.

Comments

[polyurethane.livejournal.com]

I thought she looked familiar. And it was because of Bad Family. She was crazy good in that.

RIP.

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

:( I didn't know she was battling cancer. I liked her acting in Dae Jang Geum.

RIP halmon.

[invisibelle.livejournal.com]

ahh I caught the very end of something about this at the jjimjilbang a couple of nights ago. I was wondering if she died but figured I would've heard about it already if she had. Sad :(

[sojufever.livejournal.com]

I remember her from Dae Jang Geum and My Name Is Kim Sam-soon.

I hope she rests in peace and I wish well for her family and friends.

[xradiostatic.livejournal.com]

RIP yeo woon-kye.

[duckseverywhere.livejournal.com]

so sad, i really liked her acting in Bad Family. :(

RIP.

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

aw thats sad. do you still have to pay for your own cancer treatment in korea? i remember my friend told me his mom got cancer twice and they had no money left after to send his brother to college so he paid for it.

[sukitego.livejournal.com]

that's so sweet but sad at the same time D: so how's his mom's condition?

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

His mom was recovering last I talked to him. I haven't talked to him in a while cause he went into the army.

[avec-ai.livejournal.com]

RIP. I liked MNiKSS

[ic70492.livejournal.com]

:(

RIP

[deazaskia.livejournal.com]

OMG she was in Dae Jang Geum?? that drama was good.

RIP

:(

[gingerloop.livejournal.com]

rest in peace. :(

[sukitego.livejournal.com]

so that's why she's been absent from the acting life ;_;

REST IN PEACE grandma T_T

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

RIP :( she was awesome in bad family