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[itaewonguy]

man whatever!!! now korea actually wants to care about the guy!!
It really amazes me me how two faced koreans are!
they dont give the guy anything which he is entitled to! and pretty much slam the door in this face,.. and now trying to act like they care!
give it a rest!!!!

The body of Yi Gu, the last heir to the throne of Korea's former Chosun dynasty, arrived in Seoul from Japan for a royal funeral.

Yi, 74, was found dead in a hotel in Nagasaki on Saturday of an apparent heart attack. He had no children.

"Funeral services are set for July 24. We will follow our traditional royal funeral," said Lee Byong-Chang, a spokesman for the Yi Royal Family Members Foundation.

A dozen members of the foundation and their wives wearing white funeral clothes escorted the coffin, draped in a South Korean flag, from the airport to Changdeok Palace in central Seoul, where Yi once lived briefly with his parents.

The body will be put on display on Thursday. Yi will be buried in the cemetery of his late father, King Yi Eun, at Namyangju 30 kilometers (18 miles) east of Seoul.

The Chosun dynasty began in 1392 and ruled for more than 500 years until it was overthrown by Japanese colonial occupiers in 1910.

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Yi Gu was the product of a marriage of convenience forced by Japan on his father and a Japanese princess, Masako Nashimotomiya. He was born in Tokyo in 1931, educated in Japan and never learnt to speak Korean.

When he was 14 Japan's colonial rule over Korea ended but Yi could not return home because South Korea's first president Syngman Rhee had seized the dynasty's wealth and property.

With the help of US General Douglas MacArthur, the commander of Allied occupation forces in Japan, Yi studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

It was while working as an architect that he married an American woman, Julia Mullock, in 1958.

Yi Gu and his mother returned to South Korea in 1963 but he moved to Japan in 1979, after his private business in Seoul went bankrupt. In 1982 his wife divorced him.

Yi ended up living with a Japanese astrologer after his mother died in 1989 but he still visited Seoul every year to conduct memorial rites for ancestors.

[plokiju]

I always wondered what happened to the Korean royal family. A Korean co-worker told me after the occupation they were taken to Japan. That was all she really knew or bothered to share; the topic seemed to bore her.

[crazylemongirl]

he lived a sad life towards the end especially. And thus ends the end of the line.

[djsmnc]

Pretty sad considering he was a child of royalty. But be damn well aware, no half blooded man, especially half Japanese, is going to rule over Uri Nara.