Korean veteran actress battling cancer while her drama aired

The story about Kim Young Ae,61-year-old veteran actress battling pancreatic cancer at the time she’s filming super hit MBC drama "The Moon That Embraces The Sun" in 2012 was revealed this week.
Kim Young Ae told that she was in deadly battle against cancer at the time she shot drama at SBS’ Morning talk show on 10th.
But she didn’t want to be burden to other drama’s actor and staff who’s working in hard schedule so she hide her illness and secretly visited hospital for 2 months.

She also told that it was hard to do yelling and shouting scene while filming for drama "The Moon That Embraces The Sun" since she had a illness so she had to tightened her waist with ties to squeeze every ounce of energy out of her sick body.
After the filming ended completely, Kim Young Ae took a 9 hours operation to remove the cancer and her weight was only 40Kg(80pounds) at that time.

Many korean netizens applaud Kim Young Ae for being strong, unselfish and her passion for acting.

Although the battle with cancer made her lost a lot of weight, now she’s in much better condition and she recently appeared in film "The Attorney" (2013)