Best-selling South Korean author Baek Se Hee of “I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki” fame has sadly passed away after being declared brain-dead at National Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hospital. Korean Organ Donation Agency announced the devastating news on October 17 KST. She was just 35 years old.

Although the agency didn’t highlight a cause of death, it divulged that the viral self-help memoir’s writer saved multiple lives by donating her heart, both kidneys, lungs and liver. Her sister, Baek Da Hee, also shared in a statement, “She wanted to share her heart with others through her work, and to inspire hope. Knowing her kind heart that loved so much and could not hate anyone, I hope she can now rest peacefully.”

Who was Baek Se Hee?

To her family, Se Hee was loved as one

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