The funeral service for the late former Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan (senior vice chair of The Peaceful Unification Advisory Council (PUAC)) will be solemnly held on the 31st at the National Assembly Members' Office Building.
Lee Hae-sik, a Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker who serves as vice chair of the funeral committee's executive committee, met with reporters at the Seoul National University Hospital funeral hall on the afternoon of the 28th and stated accordingly. The Democratic Party decided to officially name the former prime minister's funeral "the late former Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan's social funeral."
The departure ceremony will be held at 6:30 a.m. on the 31st at Seoul National University Hospital, followed by memorial rites at 7:20 a.m. at the PUAC office and at the Democratic Party headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul. After that, a funeral service will be held from 9 a.m. in the main conference hall of the National Assembly Members' Office Building, and at 11 a.m. the procession will move to Seoul Memorial Park, the crematorium.
The interment ceremony will be a flat burial at 3:30 p.m. at Eunhasu Park in Sejong. On the way to the interment site, the procession will stop by the family home in Jeondong-myeon, Sejong.
Lee said, "The former prime minister was from Cheongyang, South Chungcheong, his grandfather and other family members' graves are there, and his wish was to go to 'Haneul Park,'" and added, "We were encouraged to use the national cemetery, but respecting the family's wishes, we decided to lay him to rest at Eunhasu Park."