Chung, Ju-Yung hospitalized

In the morning on August 3, Chung, Ju-Yung, former honorary chairman of Hyundai, urgently got hospitalized due to health problems.

According to close associates, former chairman Chung showed extreme lack of appetite and could not eat, continuing his life with nutrition injections, after he came back from Pyongyang in the end of June. And, recently the symptoms got even more worsened, thereby becoming hospitalized. Former chairman Chung had been hospitalized and released from hospital right after his visit to North Korea. Also, the fact has become known belatedly that, on July 31, he got hospitalized one more time.

A related source at Hyundai premised, "Former chairman Chung is not in an emergency situation in which he is in danger or can not converse," while saying, "He was hospitalized under the judgement that if the state of lack of appetite continues, it could reach a dangerous state." It is that the decision to get hospitalized was made after thinking that 24-hour treatment by clinicians and nurses can be received instead of staying at his home in Cheongwun-dong, and it is better to be hospitalized in preparation for emergency states. The Hyundai side and clinicians plan to have former chairman Chung continue staying in hospital unless former chairman Chung strongly states that he would like to return to his home in Cheongwun-dong. The government is also carefully watching former chairman Chung's state after confirming the fact that his health has considerably worsened since the end of July.