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  Source: film ‘My Love, Don’t Cross That River’the late Jo Byung-man (left) and the late Kang Gye-yeol.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kang Gye-yeol, the central figure of the documentary ‘My Love, Don’t Cross That River,’ has died at the age of 101.<\/p>\n

On the 10th, director Jin Mo-young announced on his Facebook page that Kang passed away that afternoon.<\/p>\n

Jin said he visited her on the 31st of last month to say goodbye. Although her memory was fading, she clearly remembered them and offered a parting wish that everyone \\”take care of one another.\\”<\/p>\n

Jin recalled that when he first met her on Sept. 9, 2012, she struck him as youthful\u2014\\”like a girl\\”\u2014and that same woman, at 100, has now \\”crossed the river\\” to be reunited with the man she loved, Jo Byung-man.<\/p>\n

Kang was born in 1925 in Hoengseong, Gangwon Province. As a teenager, she married Jo Byung-man, who was nine years her senior.<\/p>\n

Their about 70-year marriage drew public attention after a local newspaper profile in 2010. The documentary ‘My Love, Don’t Cross That River,’ released in 2014, became a sleeper hit, attracting 4.8 million moviegoers.<\/p>\n

Jo Byung-man died in 2013, a year before the film’s release, and Kang lived alone for about a decade before passing away at 101.<\/p>\n

The wake has been set up in Room 4 of Wonju Medical Center’s funeral hall, and the funeral will be held at 7:45 a.m. on the 12th. She will be laid to rest at the family burial site in Cheongil-myeon, Hoengseong County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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