Actors Jung Woo-sung and Lee Jung-jae stood by with the bereaved family at the memorial altar for the late Ahn Sung-ki.

A memorial space for the late Ahn Sung-ki is set up at the Seoul Film Center in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 5th. Ahn Sung-ki dies at 9 a.m. in the intensive care unit of Soonchunhyang University Hospital in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, with his family by his side. He is 74. /Courtesy of News1

Ahn Sung-ki died on the morning of the 5th at age 74. That afternoon, a memorial altar was set up at the funeral hall of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital in Seocho-gu, Seoul. The funeral will be held for five days as a film community ceremony.

Actors Jung Woo-sung and Lee Jung-jae greet mourners at the wake of Ahn Sung-ki at the funeral hall of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the 5th. /Courtesy of News1

The chief mourners were Ahn Sung-ki's wife Oh So-young and sons Ahn Da-bin and Ahn Philip. Jung Woo-sung and Lee Jung-jae, actors and juniors from the same agency, Artist Company, greeted mourners with the bereaved family. Jung Woo-sung and Lee Jung-jae also watched the previous day as Minister Chae Hwi-young of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism visited the altar and posthumously conferred the "Order of Cultural Merit, Geumgwan" on the deceased.

The portrait photo was taken by photographer Koo Bohnchang during the filming of the movie "Our Joyful Young Days."

Soon after the memorial altar was arranged, figures from the entertainment industry paid their respects. Singer Cho Yong-pil and actor Park Joong-hoon, who had been friends with the deceased for 60 years, as well as Kim Dong-ho, former executive director of the Busan International Film Festival, Park Jeong-ja, Tae Jin-ah, Choi Soo-jong, Park Sang-won, Lee Ki-young, Kwon Sang Woo, Shin Hyun-joon, Song Seung-heon, Kim Dong-hyun, Georyong, director Lee Joon-ik, critic Lim Jin-mo, Cho Kuk, leader of the Rebuilding Korea Party, and Bae Hyun-jin, a lawmaker with the People Power Party, visited the altar.

Ahn Sung-ki's funeral will be held as a film community ceremony organized by the Shin Young-kyun Arts and Culture Foundation and The Korea Film Actors Association. Four people will serve as co-chairs of the funeral committee to conduct the proceedings: Honorary Funeral Committee Chair Shin Young-kyun, director Bae Chang-ho, Lee Gap-seong, chair of The Korea Film Actors Association, and Shin Eon-sik, acting head of the Shin Young-kyun Arts and Culture Foundation, and Yang Yoon-ho, chair of the Korea Film People's Association.

At the funeral procession on the 9th, film figures including Lee Jung-jae, Jung Woo-sung, and Lee Byung-hun will serve as pallbearers to see the deceased on the final journey. The burial site is Byeolgeurida in Yangpyeong.

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