FTISLAND’s Lee Hong-gi Opens Up About 20-Year Battle with Rare Disease

By Jeeyoung, Jo

Jun 16, 2025

FTISLAND’s Lee Hong-gi Opens Up About 20-Year Battle with Rare Disease



FT Island Lee Hong-gi confessed to a rare disease that he has suffered for 20 years.

Lee Hong-gi, who is in his 40s, is concerned about his health in the SBS entertainment show 'My Ugly Baby', which aired on the 15th.

Lee Hong-gi has revealed his past fighting against the disease for 20 years. Hidrosis suppurativa is a disease that continuously causes inflammation in areas with a lot of sweat glands, such as hips and armpits.




FTISLAND’s Lee Hong-gi Opens Up About 20-Year Battle with Rare Disease
Lee Hong-ki has suffered from the disease since he was a junior high school student. It's hard to get down and it's hard to get up. It's been around since middle school, and I sat with only half of my hips on my chair. One time, an abscess burst in class, so my school uniform was all wet and I even left early. I had to go to the hospital, but I didn't know this disease well at the time."

He said "The scars left him, so his hips were a complex. I couldn't go to the public bath and it was hard," he said, explaining the difficult process of performing eight surgeries so far and inserting a tube to remove pus.

Lee Hong-ki's mother, who watched this, expressed regret, saying, `I thought it was a pimple, so I thought it would be better to have it on my buttocks rather than my face, but it got worse.'




The doctor who treated Lee Hong-ki said, "'When you're in your 40s, you'll get better as your hormone secretion decreases. Currently, the inflammation remains in part of the armpit, and the buttocks have recovered well.'








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