"I'm going to follow you soon..." Director Lim Kwon-taek remembered the late Ahn Sung-ki [Star scene]

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Director Lim Kwon-taek paid tribute to the late Ahn Sung-ki as a "good man."

The mortuary of the late Ahn Sung-ki was set up in Room 31 of the funeral hall of Catholic University of Korea Seoul St. Mary's Hospital in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 5th. His wife Oh So-young and two sons were listed in Sangju.

On this day, director Lim Kwon-taek visited the mortuary after being helped by actor Park Joong-hoon. Director Lim continued his long-standing relationship with the deceased, including "Mandara" (1981), "Fog Village" (1983), "Festival" (1996), "Chihwaseon" (2002), and "Makeup" (2015).

Director Lim Kwon-taek carefully said, "I'm very sorry and disappointed" at the news of the late Ahn Sung-ki's death. "(When I saw the portrait), I thought, 'I'm going to follow you soon,'" he said.

As for the deceased, he said, "He was a good person. Also, it was not easy to live like that as an actor, but I lived such a life. He was an actor who was always comfortable when he met on the spot and had no anxiety at all as a director. He remembered, "A great person who lived as a good actor."

Meanwhile, Ahn Sung-ki died this morning. He was 74. On the afternoon of December 30 last year, the deceased lost consciousness at home and was transferred to the hospital emergency room, and was transferred to the intensive care unit for treatment, but failed to recover in the end. He died in the morning of the day, six days after being hospitalized, while his family watched him.

The funeral of the deceased will be held as a movie director under the auspices of the Shin Young-kyun Foundation for Arts and Culture and the Korea Film Actors Association. The stamping is at 6 a.m. on January 9, and the burial site is Yangpyeong Star Painting.

The government honors the late actor Ahn Sung-ki with the Geumgwan Order of Cultural Merit, the highest honor in the field of popular culture and arts. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism plans to deliver the medal to Minister Choi Hwi-young at 6:30 p.m. on the 5th at the funeral hall of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, where Ahn Sung-ki's mortuary was set up.

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