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| Photo: still from the film My Love, Don’t Cross That River |
[Sports Today reporter Kim Tae-hyung] Kang Gye-yeol, who appeared in the documentary My Love, Don’t Cross That River, has died. She was 101.
On the 10th, director Jin Mo-young, who directed My Love, Don’t Cross That River, announced on his social media that Kang Gye-yeol passed away this afternoon.
Jin wrote, \”We visited her on March 31 to say our goodbyes. Even as she grew frail, she remembered us clearly and greeted us with kind words. ‘Live well and look after one another,’ she said.\”
He added, \”When I first met her on Sept. 9, 2012, she seemed like a young girl. That girl crossed the river at 100 to join the man she loved, Jo Byung-man. Grandmother, rest in peace.\”
My Love, Don’t Cross That River is a documentary that opened in November 2014. The film chronicles the love between the late Jo Byung-man and Kang Gye-yeol, who appeared on KBS1’s Human Theater episode \”The White-Haired Lovers\” in November 2011.
Kang met and married Jo Byung-man in 1938 when she was 14; he was six years her senior. Jo died in December 2013, and 13 years later Kang also passed away at the age of 101.
Her wake is being held in Room 4 of the Wonju Medical Center funeral hall in Gangwon Province. The funeral service will begin at 7:45 a.m. on the 12th, and she will be buried at the family gravesite in Seonsan, Cheongil-myeon, Hoengseong County.
[Sports Today reporter Kim Tae-hyung ent@stoo.com]
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