Obituaries: Mother of Rep. Park Soo-young and Others

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Oh Bok-il passed away on January 26. She was the mother of Rep. Park Soo-young of the People Power Party, and mother-in-law of Jeong Soo-young and Jeon Young-mi. The funeral will be held at 8:30 a.m. on January 29 at Ajou University Hospital. Contact: (031) 219-6654.

Kim Doo-hyun passed away on January 26. He was the father of Kim Young-jin, Kim In-soon, and Kim In-jung, and father-in-law of Kim Jung-ho and Hong Soon-jun, a senior reporter at SBS News Division. The funeral will be held at 7 a.m. on January 28 at Busan Veterans Hospital. Contact: (051) 601-6785.

Song Jeong-hee passed away on January 26. She was the mother of Lee Jong-hun (Korean medicine doctor, Goeun Rehabilitation Nursing Hospital), Lee Ki-ok, Lee Myung-hee, Lee Eun-bok, Lee Sun-myung (professor at Masan University), and Lee Beop-yeon. She was also the mother-in-law of Song Gwang-su, Kim Dong-heup, and Chae Young-taek, editor-in-chief of Daegu Shinmun. The funeral will be held at 8 a.m. on January 28 at Keimyung University Dongsan Hospital in Daegu. Contact: (053) 250-8451.

Jo Gil-soon passed away on January 26. She was the mother of Kim Maeng-soon, Kim Jae-man, Kim Kyung-ja, Kim Jae-chun, Kim Maeng-ran, and Kim Jong-nam. She was the grandmother of Kim Ga-ae, deputy chief of the political desk at Shin-A Ilbo, and Kim Bong-hyun, and the maternal grandmother of Yoo Jin-woo, a manager at Coupang Fulfillment Services. The funeral will be held at noon on January 28 at Hwasun Korea Hospital. Contact: (061) 375-4500.

Original reporting by Staff Reporter for Seoul Economic Daily.

AI-translated from Korean. Quotes from foreign sources are based on Korean-language reports and may not reflect exact original wording.

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