'Drunk driving No. 2' Cho Won-seok "After being kicked out as a comedian, I made the second extreme choice"

The current status of Cho Won-seok, who was kicked out of the comedy industry for two drunk driving offenses, was revealed.

On the 16th, Jo Won-seok, who played the role of 'Guin Min-su', appeared as a guest on Lee Seong-mi's YouTube channel 'Everyday with the Lord'.

In the past, Jo Won-seok passed first place in the MBC comedian recruitment exam, but quit because he could not adapt. The following year, he passed the SBS recruitment exam and started his career as a comedian again. However, at the time, my mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and had 3 months to live, so I had no choice but to take a break from comedy. After a year of fighting the disease, my mother passed away and I started doing comedy again in 2005. He rose to stardom in 2007 with the character 'Guin Min-su', a parody of movie actor Choi Min-soo.

Jo Won-seok said, "(At the time) I was an alcoholic. I created a problem due to alcohol. I drove drunk twice. My brain was already damaged. Thinking about it now, I am a person who should not be a comedian. I am too timid. I used alcohol to do this." “It has been resolved,” he said.

After falling into the abyss due to drunk driving, he went to extreme lengths due to his deepening depression. He said, "I thought I was going to die, so I tried twice. The first time, I swallowed a lot of sleeping pills and took 10 pills. What was really surprising was that I got a call from my aunt. I hung up and said that nothing was wrong, and I came to my senses and lived. The second time, I was about to jump, but I called an acquaintance. “I came,” he said.

Jo Won-seok said that he is currently living as a trot singer. He said that a manager whom he barely knew contacted him and suggested that he release an album. “Usually it goes nowhere, but within a month the album came out and I became a singer. For the second half of my life, I am living a second life as a trot singer.”

Taeyuna, Ten Asia Reporter youyou@tenasia.co.kr