{"id":257153,"date":"2026-04-11T22:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/uncategorized\/2026\/04\/11\/remembering-101-year-old-star\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:54:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T07:54:42","slug":"remembering-101-year-old-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenbizt.com\/en\/news\/media\/2026\/04\/11\/remembering-101-year-old-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering \uac15\uacc4\uc5f4: The 101-Year-Old Star of &#8216;\ub2d8\uc544, \uadf8 \uac15\uc744 \uac74\ub108\uc9c0 \ub9c8\uc624&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Translation result. <\/p>\n<div class=\"view_article\">\n<div id=\"article\">\n<div>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\" class=\"news_photo\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/contents-cdn.viewus.co.kr\/image\/2026\/04\/CP-2023-0081\/image-c0215791-216d-4727-964f-8860b026c2cf.jpeg\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><font color=\"#3522A4\">Photo: still from the film My Love, Don&#8217;t Cross That River<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>[Sports Today reporter Kim Tae-hyung] Kang Gye-yeol, who appeared in the documentary My Love, Don&#8217;t Cross That River, has died. She was 101.<\/p>\n<p> On the 10th, director Jin Mo-young, who directed My Love, Don&#8217;t Cross That River, announced on his social media that Kang Gye-yeol passed away this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p> Jin wrote, \\&#8221;We visited her on March 31 to say our goodbyes. Even as she grew frail, she remembered us clearly and greeted us with kind words. &#8216;Live well and look after one another,&#8217; she said.\\&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> He added, \\&#8221;When I first met her on Sept. 9, 2012, she seemed like a young girl. That girl crossed the river at 100 to join the man she loved, Jo Byung-man. Grandmother, rest in peace.\\&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> My Love, Don&#8217;t Cross That River is a documentary that opened in November 2014. The film chronicles the love between the late Jo Byung-man and Kang Gye-yeol, who appeared on KBS1&#8217;s Human Theater episode \\&#8221;The White-Haired Lovers\\&#8221; in November 2011.<\/p>\n<p> Kang met and married Jo Byung-man in 1938 when she was 14; he was six years her senior. Jo died in December 2013, and 13 years later Kang also passed away at the age of 101.<\/p>\n<p> Her wake is being held in Room 4 of the Wonju Medical Center funeral hall in Gangwon Province. The funeral service will begin at 7:45 a.m. on the 12th, and she will be buried at the family gravesite in Seonsan, Cheongil-myeon, Hoengseong County.<\/p>\n<p> [Sports Today reporter Kim Tae-hyung <span><font color=\"blue\">ent@stoo.com<\/font><\/span>]<br \/>\u300cThe closest, most fun news \u24d2 Sports Today\u300d   <\/p>\n<div class=\"byeline\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- view_related --><!-- view_related\/\/ --><!-- \ubc14\uc774\ub77c\uc778 \ud558\ub2e8 2\uc904 \ud558\uc774\ub77c\uc774\ud2b8 --><!-- \ubc14\uc774\ub77c\uc778 \ud558\ub2e8 \ud558\uc774\ub77c\uc774\ud2b8 --><!-- next_article\/\/ --><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"50%\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandma Kang Gye-yeol, featured in the film &#8216;My Love, Don&#8217;t Cross That River,&#8217; passed away at 101. 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