Jeong Il-woo diagnosed brain aneurysm at age 27...Pilgrimage Road in the face of death (Train to Baekban)

Jun 08, 2025

Jeong Il-woo diagnosed brain aneurysm at age 27...Pilgrimage Road in the face of death (Train to Baekban)



Jeong Il-woo diagnosed brain aneurysm at age 27...Pilgrimage Road in the face of death (Train to Baekban)
Jeong Il-woo diagnosed brain aneurysm at age 27...Pilgrimage Road in the face of death (Train to Baekban)
Actor Jung Il-woo confessed his emotional moment on a pilgrimage to Santiago, where he left to look back on his life after being diagnosed with a brain aneurysm.

Jung Il-woo, who appeared on TV Chosun 'Hae Young-man's Baekban Travel', which aired on the 8th, delivered an honest story about not only his life as an actor but also his health, emotions, and turning points in his life.

On this day, Jung Il-woo was diagnosed with brain aneurysm while working in his twenties. It's really getting dark in front of me. So I went on a pilgrimage to Santiago with the feeling that I didn't know tomorrow."




He also shared the memory of crying hard while watching the pilgrim Mass at Santiago Cathedral.

Jeong Il-woo said, `I don't even know why I'm crying, but I ended up wailing loudly. My foreign friends asked me if I was okay, but after crying like that, my mind was cleared up."

Also "I went on the pilgrimage route a total of three times. Walking down that path, I took time to put down the confusion inside me and organize my life."






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