LO QUE FUE LA PRESENTACIÓN DE BODY TO BODY AQUI EN LIMA PERÚ 🇵🇪, EL PÚBLICO CANTANDO DE PRINCIPIO A FIN Y ALZANDO LAS BANDERAS COREANAS EN LA PARTE DE ARIRANG 😭💜
oh my god…. heeseung said he had cancer when he was a kid
🦌: i haven’t brought this up since i became a singer, but in fourth grade, i was diagnosed with malignant lymphoma. i kept coughing, and at first i just figured it was a cold and didn’t think much of it, but then when i was playing soccer, o took four or five steps and suddenly couldn’t breathe. i found out at the hospital later that it was cancer
and even after surviving all of that, coming back to normal life wasn’t easy either. his hair was just starting to grow back from chemo, and instead of being welcomed with open arms, he got teased by his friends... but he just took it all in silence because all he wanted was to fit in.
it actually hurts so much knowing how much quiet pain he carried at such a young age. HEESEUNG really went through so much just to be here with us today :(
this little boy was only in fourth grade when he was diagnosed with cancer… he was going through treatment while watching the friends he met in the hospital pass away, and all he could think about was, “I want to live so badly. I want to go home.”
He was just a child, yet he already knew what it felt like to be afraid that he might not get to grow up. and somehow, through all of that, he still tried to smile, put on a brave face for his mom, play guitar at hospital events, and hold onto the hope that he would make it home :(
oh God HEESEUNG truly deserves all the love, peace, and gentleness in this world 😭🫳🏻
Evan talks about being diagnosed with cancer when he was younger:
"The treatment process wasn’t easy, but when I saw how my mom took care of me nonstop, I wanted to put on a brave face for her. When the hospital held events like talent shows for the patients, I’d play guitar and even host them.
I dreamed of being a singer ever since I was six, but to be honest, back then I didn’t really have the mental bandwidth to even think about that. I’d watch my friends pass away and kept thinking, “I want to live so badly, I want to go home.”
Thankfully I made it through treatment and got to go on with my life, but fitting back in with my friends wasn’t easy.
I had a lot less energy, and since my hair was still growing back from chemo, I got teased a lot for it. My friends would be like, “What is that, grass? You’re like a monk.” But I just took it because I wanted to fit in. Once I got to middle school, I had some good friends, but I wasn’t as outgoing as before.
I became more of an introvert. I haven’t thought about that in a long time. It hurts to bring it back up."