Kim Seonho Says Destiny Brought Him Face-to-Face with Someone He Knows on 'Love Against Time'

Can eight young people find love once again?

On the August 3 broadcast of the SBS program "Love Against Time", young individuals who have faced the end of life opened their hearts to reach out for love once again.

During the episode, the male and female cast members shared their personal medical diaries. Seo Robin confessed that when treating blood cancer, the fear of hair loss and the subsequent changes to his physical appearance was far more terrifying than the pain accompanying chemotherapy.

Han Do-gon shared his despair upon receiving a cancer diagnosis, feeling as though it was declaring that he had failed and everything was over. Kim Jong-eun read from the diary he kept during his battle with illness, detailing how even after a bone marrow transplant, graft-versus-host disease caused his fingers and joints to stiffen and left him unable to shed tears.

Kim Jong-eun particularly touched viewers by revealing that his illness forced him to give up his dream of becoming a firefighter. Jung Ye-ji, who battled the same illness, listened to his story and could not stop crying as she empathized with the identical process she had gone through.

After listening to their stories, Kim Seonho reflected on the past, saying, "Those were all emotions I had felt. So I found myself thinking, 'That's right, it really was like that.'"

Kim Ryun-gi revealed that he was diagnosed with stomach cancer in November of last year and underwent a total gastrectomy in December, shocking everyone by sharing that he still had to undergo chemotherapy even after appearing on the show.

Kim Na-young, who lost her hearing in her left ear while battling a vestibular schwannoma (a brain tumor), shared her experience with the side effects of steroid treatment that caused her weight to rapidly increase. "I gained 20kg in less than a month. At the time, I would eat an entire pizza by myself as if I were filming a mukbang," she confessed. In response, Kim Ryun-gi expressed his longing to eat whatever he wanted after his stomach removal surgery, saying, "That sounds so delicious. I want pizza so badly."

Kang Min-young, who faced the possibility of having her leg amputated due to osteosarcoma at the tender age of fourteen, recalled, "Whenever I asked why I got cancer, my mom would tell me it was because I was so special and strong enough to overcome it."

Having confessed their personal battles with illness, the cast members appeared noticeably closer and chatted naturally. They drew attention by sharing conversations unique to their experiences, asking one another which hospitals they had stayed in.

They also naturally opened up about how they had never thought about dating after fighting their illnesses. Kim Seonho shared that he had broken up with his partner during his illness, explaining, "It was the prettiest age, an age when you want to do so many things. Because of that, asking someone to take care of me through an illness felt selfish, and even when I thought about it the other way around, I wondered if I could do the same if I were in their shoes," showing understanding for his past partner. The other cast members remarked, "Even after overcoming illness, there are still barriers. It is so unfair."

As the conversation among the cast members deepened, the Room of Time opened. Each person could freely spend the 100 minutes given to them with the person they wanted to be with, and if the total time they wrote for each other added up to 100 minutes or more, they would go on a date.

Kim Seonho, who visited the Room of Time first, surprised everyone by saying, "As time goes on, I feel more and more convinced that the person I am thinking of is right," adding, "Is it okay to say this? Actually, I already know that person."

He continued, "Will she remember me? I could remember some of those memories, and I guess I leaned toward her because she felt like someone I knew. How can there be such a coincidence? It really feels like a movie. Since something I only half-believed could actually happen, I wonder if this is destiny," raising curiosity about who this destined person he pointed to might be.
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