Rapper Sean realizes 23-year dream with Korea’s 1st ALS care facility

A nursing dwelling designed for ALS sufferers / Captured from Sean’s YouTube channel

This undated photograph exhibits Sean and Park Seung-il. Captured from Sean’s YouTube channel

Sean, 52, rose to fame within the late Nineties as a part of the rap duo Jinusean. After marrying actor Jung Hye-young in 2004, Sean gained extra admiration as a loyal husband, father and philanthropist.

On Sunday, Sean fulfilled a 23-year dream by unveiling a nursing dwelling designed particularly for sufferers with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). He launched the power, situated in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province, on his YouTube channel.

„That is the primary care facility devoted to ALS sufferers in Korea, and doubtless the world’s first,“ Sean acknowledged.

ALS, also called Lou Gehrig’s illness, is a terminal neurodegenerative dysfunction that impairs voluntary muscle motion, ultimately resulting in lack of mobility.

The nursing dwelling options spacious rooms with massive, low-set home windows, a big remedy room, threshold-free doorways and sizable gardens accessible even to bedridden sufferers.

Sean’s journey for this undertaking started along with his late good friend Park Seung-il, a former basketball participant and ALS affected person, whom he met in 2000. In 2011, Sean and Park co-founded an affiliation to lift funds for the power. Sean promoted quite a few fundraising campaigns, together with the well-known Ice Bucket Problem. Over 350,000 donors contributed to the undertaking, which value practically 24 billion gained ($16.2 million).

Celebrating the completion of the power, Sean paid tribute to his late good friend. „I want you have been right here with me,“ he stated. „However I’m certain you’d be simply as comfortable as I’m to see the power prepared.“

The nursing dwelling is about to open to sufferers in March.

A remedy room within the newly constructed nursing dwelling / Captured from Sean’s YouTube channel