![Photo from actor Yoo Joo Eun's Instagram. [SCREEN CAPTURE]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2022/08/29/36cc5d32-5d2c-4956-99df-a08d97f372b6.jpg)
Photo from actor Yoo Joo Eun’s Instagram. [SCREEN CAPTURE]
Actor Yoo Joo Eun passed away at the age of 27 by his family on Monday.
Yoo’s brother wrote on Instagram on Monday, “Joo Eun left us where she could rest comfortably on August 29, 2022.”
A note written by the actor shortly before his death was also uploaded by the family as per her wishes.
“I wanted to be an actor,” reads part of Yoo’s notes. [as an actor] It wasn’t easy. I didn’t want to do anything else, and it gave me so much despair.
Born in 1995, Yoo Jung-eun made his debut as a supporting actor in the 2018 tvN drama ‘Big Forest’. After that, she had another small role in the TV Chosun series “Joseon Survival” (2019).
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Hailey Yang [yang.hyunjoo@joongang.co.kr]
