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Squid Game Actor Lee Joo-Sil Dies at 81, Just 3 Months After Stomach Cancer Diagnosis

Lee Joo-Sil, an actress who played Park Mal Soon in the second season of Squid Game on Netflix, has away. She was eighty-one.

According to the South Korean daily JoongAng Ilbo, Lee suffered a heart arrest at her family home early on February 2 and was declared dead after being taken to St. Mary’s Hospital in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi, according to her talent agency, 1230Culture.

According to the Korea Herald, three months prior to her passing, she was diagnosed with stomach cancer.

According to IMDB, her final part was in Squid Game, where she played the mother of undercover investigator Hwang Joon-Ho (Wi Ha Joon) and the stepmother of Hwang In Ho (Lee Byang Hun).

According to the Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo, Lee was previously given a one-year life prognosis after receiving a stage 4 breast cancer diagnosis in her fifties.

Nevertheless, according to the outlet, the actress acknowledged in a July 2023 broadcast that she had undergone 13 years of treatment for the illness, which had finally been successful.

toward the time, Lee stated, “I discovered it at the conclusion of stage 3, and it quickly progressed to stage 4.” “Because I have kids, I handled it well.”

She went on to say, “Everyone gets stronger when faced with a crisis.” “If you let everything go, you become helpless. When I was asked by a film firm to work with them, I said, ‘I’m sick,’ and they said, ‘That’s an illness, and we’re working.’ I was grateful for that kind of thinking.”

Having begun her acting career in 1964, Lee participated in major stage performances of Death of a Salesman and Macbeth, K-drama The Uncanny Counter, and the 2016 horror thriller Train to Busan.

According to JoongAng Ilbo, Lee also got a doctorate degree in Public Health at Wonkwang University in 2010.

According to The Korea Times, her funeral will take place on February 5 at Severance Hospital in Sinchon, Seoul.

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