{"id":364,"date":"2025-07-14T13:13:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T13:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T13:13:05","slug":"south-korean-k-drama-star-kang-seo-ha-dies-aged-31-after-cancer-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/364\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korean K-drama star Kang Seo Ha dies aged 31 after cancer battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-263\/james-clark-reynolds.html\" class=\"author\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JAMES REYNOLDS<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/follow?screen_name=JimReynoldsUK&amp;tw_p=followbutton\" class=\"twitter-follow-author\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  11:30 BST, 14 July 2025   |  Updated:  11:30 BST, 14 July 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">South Korean drama star Kang Seo Ha has died from <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/cancer\/index.html\" id=\"mol-437f5840-6098-11f0-abe5-d54914fa7f2d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cancer<\/a> at the age of 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The popular actress, known for her roles in\u00a0Heart Surgeons (2018) and Nobody Knows (2020), died early on Monday morning, local time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She was reportedly battling\u00a0stage 4 acute stomach cancer at the time of her death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Friends wrote on <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/instagram\/index.html\" id=\"mol-0ecfc460-609b-11f0-abe5-d54914fa7f2d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram<\/a> that she had continued caring for others even in ill health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I still can&#8217;t believe it,&#8217; one friend wrote. &#8216;While enduring such great pain, she worried about the people around her, and about me.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Even though you couldn&#8217;t eat for months, you insisted on paying for my meals with your own card and never let me skip a meal. My angel, who left us far too soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Even as you endured everything with painkillers, you said you were grateful that it wasn&#8217;t worse, and I felt truly ashamed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;My dear sister, you went through so much. I hope you are only happy and free from pain where you are now!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-1b3f599ecbb5399b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100289127-14903397-image-a-2_1752488191819.jpg\" height=\"847\" width=\"634\" alt=\"South Korean drama star Kang Seo Ha died from cancer at the age of 31\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">South Korean drama star Kang Seo Ha died from cancer at the age of 31<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-1f019245e4e60c8e\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100289131-14903397-image-a-4_1752488210252.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The actress would have marked her 31st birthday on June 13, a month before her death\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The actress would have marked her 31st birthday on June 13, a month before her death<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A memorial post appeared on her Instagram page on Monday with a montage of photos of the late actress in happier times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Fans from around the world shared their condolences and warm messages for the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">syhc.k5 wrote: &#8216;Rest in peace. When I sit by the Han River, I remember the day I met you. I watched the drama&#8230; it was great to see it in person. Thank you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;Even if you are in heaven, you will always be in my memories.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A funeral has been organised for Wednesday at the Catholic University Seoul St. Mary&#8217;s Hospital funeral hall in the capital, local media reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She will be buried in the town of Haman,\u00a0in South Gyeongsang Province, with family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The star had recently started working again and just finished filming &#8216;In the Net&#8217;, or &#8216;Mangnaein&#8217;, according to Korean outlet Sports Khan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Her final project is expected to be released posthumously.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d3519745ba01a5f0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/100289129-14903397-image-a-3_1752488200288.jpg\" height=\"473\" width=\"634\" alt=\"She was reportedly battling stage 4 acute stomach cancer at the time of her death\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">She was reportedly battling stage 4 acute stomach cancer at the time of her death<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Kang Seo Ha graduated from the Korea National University of Arts and made her professional debut in a &#8216;Brave Guys&#8217; music video in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She went on to have roles in &#8216;Schoolgirl Detectives&#8217;, &#8216;Assembly&#8217;, Through the Waves&#8217;, and &#8216;Flowers of the Prison&#8217;, among other titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The actress would have marked her 31st birthday a month ago, on June 13, according to IMDb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She was born Kang Ye Won in 1994.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        South Korean K-drama star Kang Seo Ha dies aged 31 after cancer battle<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By JAMES REYNOLDS Published: 11:30 BST, 14 July 2025 | Updated: 11:30 BST, 14 July 2025 South Korean&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[97,96,59,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-364","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}