Nam Bora Overcomes Grief of Younger Brother's Death Through Volunteering

On the 23rd, actress Nam Bora appeared on the YouTube channel 'CGN' and spoke about the most difficult period of her life.

Recalling her past, Nam Bora explained why she began attending church so diligently: "It was very difficult when I first started broadcasting. Since I wasn't a trained student, the broadcasting environment was unfamiliar and I didn't know how to stand in front of a camera, but I was immediately deployed to the field, which was very hard. I cried almost every day during filming. At that time, my mother said, 'Let's go to early morning prayer together,' so I went to early morning prayer every day while finishing a drama."

She confessed that as she established herself as an actress, she drifted away from the church for a while. "I was very young back then, and when things got hard, I ended up thinking only of myself. At some point, a great inner emptiness came over me. Nothing was enjoyable, and I felt depressed. Then, I experienced another major crisis in my life, and what I remembered was the early morning prayer I used to attend with my mother. At that time, I went to early morning prayer and did a lot of praying while asking, 'Why did You do this?' in resentment."

Since then, she has been consistently performing good deeds, starting with volunteering in slum areas. Regarding her motivation for volunteering, she revealed, "I was going through a difficult time when a certain sentence caught my eye in an alleyway. Seeing the phrase 'You must empty your heart to fill it with something new,' I wondered, 'How can I empty what is inside me?' Then I saw the volunteers. I decided I had to empty myself even if it meant using my body, so I started volunteering."

In various broadcasts, she has shared that the death of her younger brother in 2015 was the hardest event of her life. In 2022, on a YouTube channel, she shared, "My brother didn't come home, so I filed a missing person report and tracked his phone location, and I had a bad feeling. I wanted to believe it wasn't true, but it was. I think I suppressed my emotions. Because it was so painful to bring them out, I intentionally avoided thinking about it. I feel like this pain will last a lifetime, but it is important not to stay stuck in the pain and to overcome it well."