Actor Song Seung-hwan reflected calmly on life after receiving a level-4 visual impairment diagnosis. Rather than amplifying tragedy, he spoke candidly about the attitude he has adopted to continue living forward.

Song will appear on MBN’s talk show Kim Ju-ha’s Day & Night, airing on the 10th, where he recounts how his eyesight deteriorated rapidly after completing his role as general director of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Within six months, his vision worsened dramatically, and despite seeking treatment in Korea and the United States, he was told there was “no cure” and that he “could lose his sight within six months.”

He was eventually classified as having a level-4 visual disability. Looking back, Song said, “I cried just once, all night.” That moment, he explained, was not repeated despair but a final release before accepting reality. “After that, I picked myself up and focused on what I could still do.”

Today, he can barely distinguish shapes, yet he refuses to dwell on pessimism. “There are good sides to losing vision,” he remarked. “You don’t have to see what you don’t need to see.” The comment reflects his resolve not to let loss define his entire life.

His story is less about “overcoming” than about “acceptance”—reordering life under changed conditions and continuing to ask what is possible as an actor, a creator, and a person.