Revisiting the Words Spoken While Taking a Portrait Photo on a Variety Show
"When the funeral bier is carried out, without any 'aigo aigo', just jingling bells jingling bells (dancing) and laughing as it goes. That's how we should send off Kim Sumi."
Actress Kim Sumi suddenly passed away on the 25th at the age of 75. Amid ongoing condolences, a scene from a broadcast where she requested to take a memorial photo and wished to face her final moments cheerfully is being revisited.
In August 2018, on SBS's 'Master in the House', Kim Sumi asked to have a memorial photo taken, requesting a picture unlike any seen at a funeral hall. She expressed her wish, "I hope that even if mourners joke about causing trouble until they die, after offering flowers and seeing the memorial photo, they would smile." She wanted mourners at her funeral to dance and laugh instead of crying. Stepping to the carol 'Jingle Bells', she laughed heartily saying, "She went out laughing, let's remember our Kim Sumi for a moment." She asked to be sent off like that.
Then Kim Sumi wore a splendid purple dress and took the memorial photo. She said, "There’s no need to wear black or dull clothes." She added, "For those who have lived their life and are going because of old age, this is good too. It’s about accepting death. Everyone dies. I was an actress, a bit eccentric, so let’s have the funeral like that. Until the very end." She continued, "I will have two memorial photos. One at the entrance of the funeral hall, and the other on the altar."
At 2 p.m. that day, Kim Sumi’s funeral parlor was set up in Special Room 6 at Hanyang University Hospital. Actors Jo In-sung, Shin Hyun-joon, Choi Ji-woo, Yeom Jung-ah, Park Eun-soo, and Kim Hyung-jun from the group SS501 visited the parlor. Tributes from colleagues in the broadcasting and film industries where the deceased was active continue to come.
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