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JYJ's Park Mourns Father's Passing After South American Tour

For Park Yu-chun (Park Yoo-chun), one of the highlights of his career was immediately followed by some distressing personal news as the singer's father passed away shortly after boy band JYJ's recent concert in Chile and Peru -- the first solo performance by a Korean group in South America.

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"Park Yu-chun's father, Park Hyun-geun, 51, passed away this morning after battling a chronic disease, and a memorial altar has been set up at Seoul St. Mary's Hospital", JYJ's agency C-JeS Entertainment said Wednesday. A hospital staffer said the deceased had suffered from cirrhosis of the liver.

Park and the other members of the group, Kim Jae-joong and Kim Jun-su, landed at Incheon International Airport at around 5:20 p.m. on Wednesday, after their South American tour in Santiago, Chile and Lima, Peru.

Park heard of his father's death just after arriving at the airport, and went straight to the hospital to see him one last time. Fans immediately began sending in their condolences online.

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