Actor Lee Yong-joo has died at the age 44.
South Korean media reported on Saturday (Aug 29) that his death was announced through social media by a friend.
They wrote: “Even as I write this, I still cannot believe it. Actor Lee Yong-joo, who brought laughter to many as the clumsy yet lovable new recruit Lee Yong-joo in Blue Tower (2013), passed away suddenly from cardiac arrest this morning.”
He had previously been exempted from military service due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which is an inherited genetic heart disease where the heart muscles thicken abnormally.
Yong-joo revealed his condition during a press conference for Blue Tower in 2013 and explained in a separate interview that his mother was hospitalised with the same disease and…