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[HanCinema's News] Actress Yoon Jung-hee's Alzheimer's Disease Has Worsened

Yoon Jung-hee in "Poetry" by Lee Chang-dong

Recent comments by family members have confirmed that the condition of actress Yoon Jung-hee has degraded in recent years. The actress was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease back in 2009, which was also the year of her last film, the internationally acclaimed drama "Poetry".

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Yoon Jung-hee has in fact been a long-term presence in the South Korean film industry, though not quite as much following the country's international popularization during the Korean New Wave of the late nineties. Yoon Jung-hee had appeared in such classic South Korean films as "The General's Moustache" and "Legend of Ssarigol".

According to Yoon Jung-hee's husband, any time he tries to take her anywhere she repeatedly asks him where they are going, apparently unable to remember answers he had only recently given her. Additionally, Yoon Jung-hee is now struggling to identify her own family members, confusing her daughter for her youngest sister. Yoon Jung-hee's daughter has come back to South Korea to help take care of her ailing mother as she worsens, having maintained residence in Paris.

Written by William Schwartz

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