Rabu 08 Jan 2014 18:45 WIB

Leader of Super Junior bids farewell to late dad and grandparents

Red: Yeyen Rostiyani
 Lee Teuk, a member of South Korean boy band Super Junior (file photo)
Foto: AP/Lee Jin-man
Lee Teuk, a member of South Korean boy band Super Junior (file photo)

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SEOUL - The leader of popular South Korean boy band Super Junior bade farewell Wednesday to his father and grandparents, who died in a suspected murder-suicide this week. Local TV footage showed LeeTeuk, dressed in a black suit and tie, crying when other Super Junior members moved a coffin to a black limousine at a Seoul hospital Wednesday before leaving for a crematorium.

South Korean media reports said LeeTeuk's grandparents were found dead in bed at their home Monday, while his father was hanging by a robe wrapped around his neck. The reports cited unidentified police officers as saying LeeTeuk's father left a note suggesting he committed suicide after strangling his parents.

"I will go to the heaven with my parents," LeeTeuk's father was quoted as saying in the note, according to the Chosun Ilbo newspaper.

According to the newspaper, the 30-year-old star's father had been suffering from depression and economic difficulties while living with his parents, both of whom were suffering from dementia. He divorced his wife in 1998.