Linda Freel, an American teacher at the International Christian Foreign Langauge High School in Uijeongbu, is being mourned after passing away in hospital after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage which left her brain dead.

Her husband, also an American and with whom she had lived in Korea for 14 years, quickly decided to donate her organs and five Korean patients will receive them. She is the first non-Korean to posthumously donate organs in South Korea, where the wait for an organ is typically much longer than in the US.