Go Ah-sung recounts funeral chief mourner dispute

Actor Go Ah-sung said her family once placed her uncle in the chief mourner role at her mother's funeral and removed him after one day, Newsis reported.

According to Newsis, Go spoke on a YouTube channel on the 5th with the program's hosts during a discussion about daughters. She introduced a listener's story framed around the question of whether the chief mourner at a funeral should be a man.

The story, as described in the report, involved a person whose father had died and whose only family member was an older sister. The account said the sister, influenced by people around her, seated a man she had met on a blind date as chief mourner and asked whether that made sense.

When one host questioned whether a man from a blind date fit that role, Newsis quoted Go as replying, 'It is real. I have been through it.'

Go said her mother had died, there was no father, and the family consisted of three sisters, according to the report. She said there was turmoil when her mother died because there was no man to sit in the chief mourner position.

According to Newsis, Go said she had an uncle but was not very close to him. She said people around them said a man had to be seated as chief mourner at the funeral hall, so the family thought that was what they had to do.

Go said the family eventually seated the uncle, but he stepped down after one day, the report said. She added that the three sisters ultimately handled the funeral on their own, saying, 'Fine, we do not need one.'