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The late Ahn Sung-ki attended a funeral mass and funeral ceremony at Myeong-dong Cathedral on the 9th..JEONG WOO SUNG's eulogy

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A portrait of the deceased is placed at the altar while the mortuary of the late "national actor" Ahn Sung-ki, who died at the age of 74 after battling blood cancer, is set up at the funeral hall of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital on the 5th. /Photo Joint Photo Foundation 2026.01.05 / Photo = Lee Dong-hoon Photoguy@
A portrait of the deceased is placed at the altar while the mortuary of the late "national actor" Ahn Sung-ki, who died at the age of 74 after battling blood cancer, is set up at the funeral hall of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital on the 5th. /Photo Joint Photo Foundation 2026.01.05 / Photo = Lee Dong-hoon Photoguy@
The mortuary of the late "national actor" Ahn Sung-ki, who died at the age of 74 after battling blood cancer, was set up at the funeral hall of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital on the 5th, while junior actors Jung Woo-sung and Lee Jung-jae are guarding the mortuary. /Photo Joint Photo Foundation 2026.01.05 / Photo = Lee Dong-hoon Photoguy@
The mortuary of the late "national actor" Ahn Sung-ki, who died at the age of 74 after battling blood cancer, was set up at the funeral hall of Seoul St. Mary's Hospital on the 5th, while junior actors Jung Woo-sung and Lee Jung-jae are guarding the mortuary. /Photo Joint Photo Foundation 2026.01.05 / Photo = Lee Dong-hoon Photoguy@

On the last day of the funeral of the late "national actor" Ahn Sung-ki, a funeral mass will be held at Myeongdong Cathedral in Seoul to honor the will of the deceased, a devout Catholic.

After the funeral mass of the late Ahn Sung-ki will be held at 8 a.m. on the 9th at Myeong-dong Cathedral in Jung-gu, Seoul, the movie funeral ceremony will be strictly observed at the same place.

Actors Lee Jung-jae and Jung Woo-sung, who are guarding the mortuary during the funeral, as well as Lee Byung-hun and Park Chul-min, will take charge of the funeral and see off the last path of the deceased.

At the funeral ceremony, co-funeral committee member Bae Chang-ho and actor Jung Woo-sung will be in charge of the memorial service, and fellow filmmakers will say their final farewell to the deceased with flowers. After that, the deceased will go to sleep in Yangpyeong Byeolgrida, Gyeonggi Province.

Meanwhile, the late Ahn Sung-ki died at Soonchunhyang University Hospital in Seoul on the morning of the 5th. 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 government awarded Ahn the late Ahn Sung-ki the Order of Merit (Grade 1). "The deceased has been regarded as a 'national actor' who has lived with Korean films by showing acting that encompasses generations," the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said. "As a person who symbolizes the popular leap and industrial growth of Korean films in the 1990s and 2000s, he contributed to the social and cultural expansion of Korean films."

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