Death
He died in Seoul, South Korea in August 2010 due to pneumonia and colorectal cancer at age 74. His wake service was held at Seoul National University Hospital on 12 August. The Korean press described his death as a loss of a Korean fashion icon.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.”
—Eugène Ionesco (b. 1912)
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In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman’s Woe!”
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