The crossroads one producer faced before meeting 'Infinite Challenge'

This producer was deep in doubt over whether he could survive in this job. Then he read a piece about Jo Ju Halmeoni, who learned fashion at age 31. The story inspired him, and it became the trigger for his resolve to settle on a clear career direction before turning 31.

The question was no longer just whether to keep his current job, but that an important point of change in his life was approaching.

Having lived to meet family and social expectations, his passion for fashion, rooted deep inside him, was pulling him in another direction.

He wrote an essay and sent it to the school, and when the results were due, he began explaining the situation he was in.

That period coincided with the time he experienced the limits of his body and mind and had to make an important decision.

Buckling under excessive work stress, he began experiencing serious health problems one day.

One day he suddenly felt a hot, throbbing pain in his right brain. When he endured it and moved on, the next day the left side of his brain began to ache as well.

By the third day the pain had grown worse. While working on editing with two monitors, both sides of his brain throbbed and he experienced a visual disturbance in which two monitors looked like four. In the end he could not possibly continue editing and went to a hospital.

Because of the throbbing on both sides of his brain and the symptom of seeing four monitors, he could no longer continue editing. This serious situation meant he could endure no more, and it led to his hospital visit.

This was a situation that suggested a serious neurological disease.

The test showed that he had contracted meningitis. The doctor stressed that he must begin treatment with at least two weeks of hospitalization, starting that very day.

Despite the meningitis diagnosis and the advice to be admitted, he said he had editing he had to finish that very day, and told the doctor, "I'll just go finish the editing and come back." But the doctor firmly told him not to even think about contacting the company and to stay in the hospital no matter what.

He was finally admitted to a hospital room in mid-December. With his body so broken and in pain, he fell into deep thought about whether he should keep doing this work.

It became an important turning point that deepened his career doubts even further.

After much thought, he resolved to do this work once more until five years, since next year would mark five years since he started in broadcasting. He also decided that if he still had the same doubts after five years, he would reconsider changing careers then.

That was the Christmas of the year he turned 30. After that decision, the program he came to work on was 'Infinite Challenge'. This choice completely changed the course of his life.

From the moment he encountered 'Infinite Challenge', he steadily continued working in broadcasting, and that work continues to this day.

Since 'Infinite Challenge', he has worked in broadcasting for a long time, and this can be seen as the result of the resolve he made at Christmas when he turned 30.