It was belatedly revealed that voice actor Yoo Ho-han, who voiced characters in popular animations and foreign films such as ‘Crayon Shin-chan’ ‘Avengers’, passed away on the 7th. He was 52 years old.

According to the Korean Broadcasting Actors‘ Union on the 9th, Yoo Ho-han passed away that night from a myocardial infarction.

The deceased joined KBS’s voice actor troupe in 2002 and played the androgynous witch Macao in ‘Crayon Shin-chan the Movie’. He also appeared in animations such as ‘Detective Conan’, ‘One Piece’, ‘Yu-Gi-Oh! GX’, and ‘Inuyasha’.

The funeral home has been set up in a special room at the funeral hall at Chung-Ang University Gwangmyeong Hospital in Gwangmyeong-si, Gyeonggi-do. The funeral will be held on the 11th, and the burial site will be Hwaseong Hambaksan Memorial Park.


Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com