A funeral Mass for the late Ahn Sung-ki will be held at Myeongdong Cathedral.
A funeral Mass for the late Ahn Sung-ki will be held at Myeongdong Cathedral in Jung-gu, Seoul at 8 a.m. on the 9th. A memorial service for people in the film industry will then be held at the same location. At the memorial service, director Bae Chang-ho and actor Jung Woosung, joint funeral committee members, will deliver eulogies.
Ahn Sung-ki passed away at age 74 on the morning of the 5th at 9 a.m. while receiving treatment in the intensive care unit of Soonchunhyang University Hospital in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, with his family by his side. It was six days after he was taken to the hospital on the 30th of last month after collapsing at home with food stuck in his throat and had been treated in an unconscious state.
The funeral will be conducted as a film industry funeral organized by the Shin Young-kyun Arts and Culture Foundation and The Korea Film Actors Association. Honorary chairman Shin Young-kyun, director Bae Chang-ho, Lee Gap-seong, chairman of The Korea Film Actors Association, Shin Eon-sik, acting head of the Shin Young-kyun Arts and Culture Foundation, and Yang Yun-ho, chairman of the Korean Filmmakers Association, will serve as four joint funeral chairmen.
The wake has been set up in room 31 of the funeral hall at Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, and the primary mourners are listed as his wife, Oh So-young, and their two sons. After formal condolences began, Jung Woosung and Lee Jung-jae were seen greeting mourners alongside the primary mourners. The two are founders of Ahn Sung-ki's agency, Artist Company, and, along with Lee Byung-hun and Park Cheol-min, are scheduled to carry the deceased's bier.
However, in keeping with the deceased's wishes as a devout Catholic, the funeral will conclude with Catholic rites. After the memorial service, the deceased will be laid to rest at Byeolgeurida in Yangpyeong, Gyeonggi.
Additionally, a separate memorial space for the general public has been prepared since the 6th. The memorial space set up inside the Seoul Film Center in Chungmuro, Seoul, is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and will be available for visits until the 9th.
Actor Ahn Sung-ki debuted at age 5 in director Kim Ki-young's 1957 film 'Twilight Train' and stood out from his child actor days through films such as 'Teenage Rebellion' and 'The Housemaid.' After a break in adulthood, he made a comeback with 'The Night of Memory' and 'The Third Agent,' and in the 1980s and 1990s he established himself as a national actor with films such as 'A Windy Day,' 'Whale Hunting,' 'The South Korean Partisans,' 'White War,' and the 'Two Cops' series.
He later appeared in major works such as 'Silmido,' 'Radio Star,' 'Broken Arrow,' and 'Hansan: Rising Dragon,' and is a triple crown winner who has won the Blue Dragon Film Awards, Baeksang Arts Awards, and Grand Bell Awards for best actor, and the only actor to have won lead acting awards from the 1980s through the 2010s.
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