Comic and TV persona Kim Soo-yong is recovering in intensive care after dropping consciousness throughout a YouTube shoot final week.
“Kim Soo-yong collapsed throughout a YouTube content material shoot on Thursday and was taken to the emergency room. He has regained consciousness and is at the moment resting whereas present process checks and remedy. We’ll do our greatest to help his full restoration,” his company, Media Lab Siso, mentioned Sunday.
Kim, 53, collapsed all of the sudden on Thursday afternoon whereas filming in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province. Emergency medical personnel carried out CPR earlier than transporting him to Hanyang College Guri Hospital.
He was initially in important situation however later regained respiration and consciousness and was transferred to the intensive care unit.
His situation sparked concern amongst followers and colleagues as information of the medical emergency unfold on-line.
Kim made his debut as a part of the seventh class of KBS comedians after successful a prize on the first KBS School Comedy Contest in 1991. Identified for his dry humor and deadpan supply, he grew to become some of the acknowledged faces in Korean sketch comedy.
Lately, he has been lively totally on YouTube, showing on standard channels and his company’s personal platform, VIVO TV.
This text from the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Instances, is translated by generative AI and edited by The Korea Instances.
