Who is Yoo Jung-ho? Millions of’neighbors’ donation escalation

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As the news that popular YouTuber Yoo Jung-ho tried to make an extreme choice is known, his deeds in the past are re-examined, and messages of support from netizens are flooding.

In the early morning of the 22nd, Yoo Jung-ho posted a post titled’Wills’ on his social network service (SNS), which contains content that implies extreme choices.

Subscribers who checked Mr. Yoo’s post filed a report to the police, and afterwards, Yoo Jung-ho’s wife, Yang Jae-eun, posted a post saying, “Fortunately, with the help of paramedics and police officers, we found it and are in the emergency room.”

Yoo made her debut as singer Enters in 2009. Since then, through the online community’Funny University’, it has gained popularity by posting content for volunteer activities that help neighbors in need without condition. In 2013, he became the protagonist of the so-called ‘neighbor donation crisis,’ in which millions of netizens participated in donations to receive treatment while notifying that he was fighting a rare cancer.

Yoo, who turned to a YouTuber in 2015, gained great popularity by constantly posting volunteer content. Mr. Yoo helped students suffering from school violence or remitted 1 million won to a woman who was crying because there was no child treatment fee in the hospital, and gained nicknames such as “Mr. It has been greatly loved.

In 2019, he posted content stating that a past elementary school teacher asked for money, but was handed over to trial for defamation and sentenced to two years in prison. In response to the news of Mr. Yoo’s punishment, a petition for commuting the sentence was posted on the Blue House National Petition Bulletin, and more than 110,000 people agreed.

During the trial, Mr. Yoo revealed the sad life of a middle school boy with leukemia, and was praised for carrying out a donation campaign for the ‘1000 Won Challenge’.

Netizens who heard the news of Mr. Yoo’s extreme attempts to make a lot of good deeds are sending messages of encouragement, such as “Live for you now”, “Thank you for those who have bought so many people”, and “Please come back safely and healthy.”