Love of Korea lives on

This story is somewhat close to my heart since my children are half Korean...


Linda Freel, a teacher in a school in Uijeongbu who lived in Korea for 14 years, donated organs on her death. (Yonhap News)

An American woman who died after a brain hemorrhage has given new life to three Koreans through life-saving organ donations, a local hospital said Tuesday.

Linda Freel, 52, who was a teacher at the International Christian School of Euijeongbu, became the first American to donate organs in Korea.

Fourteen years ago she settled here to teach students with her husband Rex Freel, who is principal of the school in Uijeongbu, some 20 kilometers north of Seoul.

On Jan. 20, Linda fell down from cerebral hemorrhaging in a classroom and was declared brain-dead the next day. She suffered no chronic illness.

As she had already expressed her willingness to give her organs, her husband immediately agreed that they be harvested for transplant.

By Lee Ji-yoon (jylee@heraldm.com) & taken from the Korea Herald
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