Won Bin’s 16-Year Hiatus Brings Fans Back to His Younger Days
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- Actor Won Bin has remained away from acting for 16 years.
- Sports trainer Arnold Hong shared two older photos of Won Bin on social media while organizing his photo albums.
- Hong accompanied the images with reflections on youth, memories and changing priorities.
Actor Won Bin’s 16-year absence from the screen has brought renewed attention to photos from his earlier years.
Sports trainer Arnold Hong posted two images of Won Bin on social media on Aug. 31 while sorting through his photo albums. Hong wrote that they looked young at the time and reflected on the memories attached to the photographs.
I was really young then. Now...
He added that living on memories was not necessarily a bad thing, recalling a period when he had focused only on moving forward. Now, he said, he wanted to live while paying more attention to the people around him.
Living on memories is not a bad thing. Those were the days when I only looked ahead. Now I will live while looking around me.
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Originally published by Chosun Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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