Actor Ko A Sung confessed she was in a difficult situation because there were no male family members when her mother died.
Ko A Sung mentioned an anecdote about her mother's death on the May 5 episode of the YouTube channel 'Yeouido Yooktoe Club' titled 'Infinite empathy and laughing until suddenly bursting into tears: city women's daughter empathy talk. City women's shelter.'
On that day Ko A Sung, editor Kim Min-kyung, and YouTuber Charles Enter talked around the keyword "daughter." Then editor Kim Min-kyung introduced an online story, saying, "So far we've talked about daughters. We asked the question 'what kind of daughter were you,' but the most prominent events are ceremonies like weddings and funerals. Is there an event that made you feel 'I'm really a daughter'?"
The person in that story said a female acquaintance who used to work part-time with her experienced her father's death, and because there were no men among the family, the man the acquaintance had been set up with on a blind date ended up being listed as a chief mourner. Charles Enter was surprised by this.
By contrast, Ko A Sung said calmly, "It's true. I'm a person who experienced it," and added, "My mother passed away, I have no father, and we are three sisters. When mom died it was chaos. There was no place for a chief mourner. Because there was no man." Ko A Sung lost her mother in July 2021.
Ko A Sung said, "I had an uncle, but we weren't that close. Still, because people around us said 'you have to put a man as the chief mourner at the funeral,' we thought we had to do that, and because we were so flustered we seated the uncle, but he was dismissed after one day," recounting what she experienced.
She added, "We said, 'It's fine. It doesn't have to be,' and in the end the three sisters took care of it themselves," saying the three sisters held their mother's funeral, which drew attention.
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