SEOUL, January 27 (AJP) - President Lee Jae Myung plans to pay his condolences to the late former Prime Minister Lee Hae-chan, Cheong Wa Dae said on Tuesday.
According to senior presidential aide Cho Jung-sik, Lee is scheduled to visit a memorial altar at Seoul National University Hospital in central Seoul later in the day, after wrapping up his official duties for the day.
The seven-term lawmaker collapsed during his business trip to Viet Nam last Saturday and died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City the following day.
Mourning his death, the president earlier said, "South Korea has lost a great teacher in the history of democracy."
According to senior presidential aide Cho Jung-sik, Lee is scheduled to visit a memorial altar at Seoul National University Hospital in central Seoul later in the day, after wrapping up his official duties for the day.
The seven-term lawmaker collapsed during his business trip to Viet Nam last Saturday and died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City the following day.
Mourning his death, the president earlier said, "South Korea has lost a great teacher in the history of democracy."
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