79-year-old Yoon Bok-hee's blindness is shocking. I can't see one eye

Apr 01, 2025

79-year-old Yoon Bok-hee's blindness is shocking. I can't see one eye
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Singer Yoon Bok-hee (79) reported the sad news that she lost her sight in one eye. He revealed this in an interview conducted by Professor Kim Jeong-seop of Sungshin Women's University in his recently published new book 「Artist Care in the Age of K-culture」 (Hanul).

Yoon Bok-hee said in an interview, `Due to genetic factors, one eye is completely blind, and the vision in the other eye is getting worse", he confessed. He was then diagnosed with macular degeneration and treated with injections six times, but it was not effective," he said, expressing his current health status.

He also expressed his honest feelings about his end. Yoon Bok-hee "I don't want to die and be buried anywhere" he wrote in his will to his juniors. When I die, I ask them to make up and share the powder little by little and spread it across the sea," he said. "At the last moment, I want to go back to the wide blue sea that I love." revealed the wind.




In this interview, Yoon shared her philosophy as an actress and self-management. "When you get a script, you become the character in the role as soon as you read it," he said. "I've never memorized lines in my life." He also explained that he maintains two meals a day for health care. "The first meal is around 3-4 p.m., lightly eaten with toast, two egg pancakes, ham, and coffee," he said. "After the performance, I eat rice and steak around 11 p.m."

79-year-old Yoon Bok-hee's blindness is shocking. I can't see one eye
Yoon Bok-hee introduced the habit of swimming in the sea for a month in Guam, the U.S., every January as her own way to relieve stress. "Only swimming in the sea relieves stress and heals.", he explained how to separate acting and living space.

Meanwhile, Yoon Bok-hee has been active for 73 years since her debut as a musical at the age of six in 1952. He is the main character who caused the mini-skirt craze in Korea in the 1960s and the original artist of the immortal masterpiece 'Everyone' that is still covered by numerous singers, and is also the first Hallyu idol that formed a girl group and sang a Beatles song on the BBC in 1964 to decorate a local newspaper. In 1979, he won the Seoul International Music Awards for his song "Guys".




He started singing and dancing at the age of 5 at a theater company created by his father Yoon Boo-gil and pioneered barren land starting with the first commercial musical 'PadamPadam'PadamPadam', and he was an active actor until last year.



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