Shin Gu Details Battle with Heart Failure
Sep 02, 2025
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Recently, actor Koo Sa-hwan's YouTube channel 'Last Goodbye! 'The play draws 100,000 viewers'Waiting for Godot! The last story...And the back story of the teacher's play!A video titled ' was posted.
Starting with the 2017 play `Grandfather Henri and I', Koo Sa-hwan, who has been connecting with Shingu for nine years through 'Waiting for Godot', which closed in August. Koo Sa-hwan is close enough to eat alone with Shingu on Christmas last year.
Last Christmas, Shingu was agonizing over whether to appear in 'Waiting for Godot' due to health problems. Shingu is exercising because he wants to keep his promise " ('Waiting for Godot' producer) but he can't recover quickly. If you are not confident in playing, don't you have to tell me in early February to prepare for production. I feel a little better walking."
Koo Sa-hwan said "When you walked earlier, you seemed to have strength." and Shingu confessed "I think it will get better if I exercise more steadily in the future, but don't you know what will happen?"
"After seeing Lee Soon-jae, who is older than Shin-gu, who was uncomfortable, I was worried about whether he could do well physically as well as waiting for Godot," Koo Sa-hwan said.
Shin-gu was diagnosed with heart failure in 2023 and wore an artificial pacemaker. Fortunately, my health has improved a lot, so I am continuing my daily life without difficulty.
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Shingu "Even when my mother passed away, I went down to Gwangju to perform. Again, I sent my wife and performed in Eumseong. I guess I was meant to live like this."
Shingu also suffered heart failure, and the doctor dissuaded him from performing, but he pushed ahead with the performance to keep his promise to the audience. When asked "I told you not to stand on stage, weren't you afraid?" Shingu "I lived without trusting the doctors." Before that, I wondered why there was a hospital. I lived with confidence in my health. He said, "I've never actually been in a hospital before."
The old and the old `cannot betray one's promise to the audience. If an actor breaks his promise, the ripple is indescribable. You have to keep it If you think about it, you've lived through other people's virtue. All I could do was memorize the script and work hard. There is nothing I can do in this world. I lived only with people's help."
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