Overview
- The Korea Organ Donation Agency confirmed her death and said her heart, lungs, liver and both kidneys were transplanted to five recipients.
- A KODA spokesperson said she died at Goyang Hospital, west of Seoul, as public tributes from readers and colleagues poured in.
- Authorities have not specified the medical cause, and reports noting a brain-death determination before donation have not been accompanied by detailed clinical findings.
- Her sister, Baek Da-hee, issued a statement through KODA remembering her kindness and expressing hope that she rests in peace.
- Baek’s 2018 memoir, later translated into English in 2022, became a bestseller featured by the Sunday Times and recommended by the New York Times, with a 2019 follow-up on living with dysthymia.