Painter Lee Jung-seob’s wife Masako passes away

▲This photo shows Masako when she visited Jeju Island to donate Lee Jung-seob's palette. (Yonhap)

SEOUL, August 31 (Yonhap) -- S.Korean painter Lee Jung-seob’s wife Yamamoto Masako has passed away recently. She was 101 years old.

According to the world of art on Tuesday, Masako, who lived in Tokyo, Japan, died of old age.

Born in 1921, she met Lee Jung-seob in 1936 at Japanese Culture academy as senior-junior.

Masako barely rode a ship to Busan during the Pacific War in 1945 and got married with Lee Jung-seob in Wonsan.

Lee Jung-seob made Korean name “Lee Nam-duck,” meaning virtuous woman from South, for Masako.

Masako had been staying in Japan after her father’s death in 1952.

Masako has visited Jeju island in 2012 to donate her husband’s keepsake, palette.

(This article is translated from Korean to English by Jiwon Woo.)

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