Actor Park Seo-joon’s donation gives new hope to child with brain tumor

Actor Park Seo-joon made a donation that helped cover the cost of life-saving surgery for a young boy battling a brain tumor, according to a heartfelt letter from the child’s parents. Park shared the handwritten letter on his Instagram on Tuesday, revealing the story of a family whose son was diagnosed with a brain tumor in January last year. The boy’s parent wrote, “We were devastated by the diagnosis, a condition we thought had nothing to do with us. Terms like surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and platelet transfusions, combined with the enormous medical costs, left us overwhelmed both emotionally and financially.” The boy required a hematopoietic stem cell transplant, a procedure in which stem cells, responsible for producing red and white blood cells and platelets, are transplanted from bone marrow. However, the cost of the surgery was daunting. “Even now, I shudder at how hopeless we felt when we first heard the treatment costs,” his parent wrote. Relief came when the family received assistance through Park Seo-joon’s donation to the hospital. “When we told our son tWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times