This is a review article written after watching the broadcast.
"What's the point of leaving it?" Lee Kyung-kyu honestly confessed that he was so seriously distressed and deeply traumatized by a recent hardship he experienced (alleged drugged driving) that he even thought about death.
On the 15th episode of tvN STORY "What's the point of leaving it?" Kim Sook appeared as a special MC to celebrate the format revamp, and "entertainment lend" Lee Kyung-kyu grants.
That day Lee Young-ja said to Lee Kyung-kyu "Our juniors were so shocked and thought something bad happened to you. They were afraid you'd collapse. They were afraid you'd collapse from pain," conveying deep concern at the time.
In response to his juniors' concern, Lee Kyung-kyu said, "But that made me realize I could think about death while living (I thought)," making the scene solemn. He explained the magnitude of the pain he experienced, saying, "It was very serious. It's okay now after time passed, but the trauma lasted a very long time."
When Kim Sook asked whether he communicated with those around him at the time, Lee Kyung-kyu answered, "I didn't." Still, he defused the situation with self-deprecating jokes about his circumstances. "I made a lot of jokes like '(If you avoid the police box, you end up at the police station).' I went to a police box and to a police station. I'm someone who stood on a photo line," he added with a wry smile.
Lee Kyung-kyu said, "There is nothing you can do about suddenly striking misfortune," and recounted how his past advice to a junior felt hollow. When a junior once asked, 'Do you also suffer when you see malicious comments, senior?' he said he advised, 'Most people care about others less than you think. Don't hold it in your heart.'
But when he himself went through hardship, he candidly revealed, "But when it happens to me, it wasn't like that. It felt like everyone in the world was staring only at me." He confessed how heavy the public's gaze toward him felt, saying, "I did a lot of programs. I did all the news programs."
[Photo] Screenshot of "What's the point of leaving it?" broadcast
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