"Seungil Park, a former basketball player, dies after battling Lou Gehrig's disease for 23 years."

Sep 25, 2024

Park Seung-il, co-chairman of the Seung-il Hope Foundation. Sports Chosun DB

Park Seung-il, co-chairman of the Seungil Hope Foundation, who has been pushing for the construction of Korea's first Lou Gehrig nursing hospital with singer Sean, passed away on the 25th. He was 53.

The Seungil Hope Foundation announced on its official account on the 25th that Park Seung-il, co-chairman of the Seungil Hope Foundation, who informed Korea of a rare disease called Lou Gehrig's disease, and worked hard for the construction of the Lou Gehrig's Nursing Hospital and many patients and their families, has left behind a 23-year long illness. Then "I will remember the life of the deceased. I pray for the repose of the deceased."

After graduating from Yonsei University, the deceased joined Kia Motors' basketball team in 1994 and has been a basketball player. Since then, he was appointed as the youngest professional basketball coach ever in 2002, but was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease shortly after taking office and has been battling it for 23 years.

Singer Sean (left), co-representative of Seungil Hope Foundation Park. Photo courtesy =YG Entertainment

In 2011, he established the Seungil Hope Foundation, a non-profit foundation with singer Sean, and has been raising funds for the Ice Bucket Challenge and the construction of the Lou Gehrig Nursing Hospital. Construction of the Lou Gehrig Nursing Hospital began last year and is expected to be completed in December. The deceased attended the groundbreaking ceremony by ambulance in December last year, adding significance.

Meanwhile, the mortuary was set up in Room 10 on the third floor of the funeral hall of Bundang Seoul National University Hospital. The stamping date is 7 a.m. on the 27th.

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"Seungil Park, a former basketball player, dies after battling Lou Gehrig's disease for 23 years."

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