Yoon Ki-joong, professor emeritus at Yonsei토토사이트 University and father of President Seok-yeol Yoon and a prominent statistician, passed away today at the age of 92.
His funeral will be held over three days at the funeral of his family.
A reporter is out at the mortuary.
Correspondent Hansol Wu, funerals are held as family heads?
[Reporter]
Yes, it is.
The mortuary of Yoon Ki-joong, professor emeritus at Yonsei University, the father of President Yoon Seok-yeol, was prepared at Severance Hospital about two hours ago.
President Yoon also arrived about 30 minutes ago to receive condolences.
The President’s office announced that it had decided to hold the president’s father’s funeral as a “family chief” so that there would be no vacuum in state affairs.
I asked for your understanding of the refusal to offer condolences and harmony to the general public.
As for government personnel, Prime Minister Han Deok-soo and Deputy Prime Ministers visited the mortuary and paid condolences.
In the political world, the power of the people Kim Ki-hyun, the party representative, and Yoon Jae-ok, the floor leader, paid condolences.
This evening, Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung and floor leader Park Kwang-on will pay condolences, and the Justice Party leadership will pay condolences tomorrow.
Representatives of the seven major religious groups will also offer their condolences.
[Anchor]
There was an Liberation Day celebration this morning. When did the news of the obituary arrive?
[Reporter]
President Yoon attended the Liberation Day celebration held in the auditorium of Ewha Womans University this morning.
Afterwards, it was known that he guarded his father’s deathbed at Seoul National University Hospital, where his father, Professor Yoon Ki-joong, was hospitalized.
His funeral will be held on the 3rd, and his departure for the Korea-US-Japan Summit to be held at Camp David, the US presidential villa, is scheduled the day after tomorrow.
The Office of the President said that although there may be some changes in the time of President Yoon’s departure, there will be no change in the schedule of the summit. This is KBS News Woo Han-sol