Actress Go Ah-sung shared her experience of the three sisters personally serving as mourners during their mother’s funeral.
Actress Go Ah-sung appeared on the YouTube channel “Yeouido Yuktoe Club” and revealed the conflict she faced at the funeral home regarding the role of chief mourner during her mother’s funeral, as well as how she personally resolved the issue. Go Ah-sung explained that despite the funeral home’s insistence that a male serve as chief mourner, the three sisters ultimately took on the role themselves and conducted the funeral.
Go Ah-sung recalled that when her mother passed away, she was pressured to follow the funeral home’s custom of appointing an uncle—with whom she had no close relationship—as the chief mourner due to her father’s absence. She explained that, amid the chaos, she initially appointed her uncle as the chief mourner but soon corrected the situation and decided that the three sisters would take on the role themselves.
She emphasized that the funeral proceedings could be carried out perfectly well without a male chief mourner. She also expressed her honest discomfort at the sight of relatives who were not close to her mother carrying the portrait and the coffin, noting that her experience of serving as the chief mourner herself proved that it was indeed possible.
Go Ah-sung Reflects on Challenging Funeral Traditions
Actress Go Ah-sung recently shared her experience of navigating funeral customs after the passing of her mother. Despite pressure from the funeral home to appoint a male relative as chief mourner, Go and her two sisters ultimately took on the role themselves, proving that traditional gender requirements were unnecessary.