韓国大使「遺志継ぎ関係改善」　李秀賢さん犠牲の事故から２０年

　東京都新宿区のＪＲ新大久保駅で２００１年、線路に落ちた見知らぬ日本人を助けようとして犠牲になった韓国人留学生の故李秀賢さん＝当時（２６）＝の事故から丸２０年となる２６日、駅近くで追悼式が催された。姜昌一駐日韓国大使は「関係改善に向けた私たちの心と、韓日の架け橋となった故人の崇高な生きざまが合わさり、より良い韓日関係につながってほしい」と映像メッセージを寄せた。
　赴任直後で新型コロナウイルス対応のため隔離中の姜大使は、「（現在の日韓関係は）故人の思い描いていた姿とはかけ離れている。２６歳の若者が投げ掛けたメッセージを私たちは忘れていたのではないか」と訴えた。
　これに先立ち、韓国公使が駅で献花。会場には韓国の丁世均首相、与党「共に民主党」の李洛淵代表の花輪が置かれた。
　寄せられた見舞金を基に、李さんの両親が０２年に奨学金を設立。新型コロナの影響で来日できなかった母の辛潤賛さんは「日本を身近に感じながら秀賢の夢をつなげていく事業ができ本当にうれしい」と感謝の言葉を寄せた。（2021/01/26-20:31）

A memorial service for a student from South Korea was held in Tokyo on Tuesday, 20 years after the brave man died as he tried to rescue a Japanese man who fell onto the tracks at a train station in the Japanese capital.
   In the incident, which occurred on Jan. 26, 2001, Lee Soo-hyun, then 26, was hit by a train and killed at Shin-Okubo Station of East Japan Railway Co.'s Yamanote Line in Shinjuku Ward. Lee and the Japanese man were not acquainted with each other.
   In a video message sent for the ceremony, held near the station, South Korean Ambassador to Japan Kang Chang-il expressed his hopes that people's wishes for improved ties and lessons learned from the noble way of life of Lee, who served as a bridge between the two neighboring countries, "will lead to a better South Korea-Japan relationship."
   The current relations between Japan and South Korea are "far from what the deceased man had imagined," said the new ambassador, who is now quarantining himself against the new coronavirus after he arrived in Japan last Friday. "We may have forgotten the message the 26-year-old young man sent," Kang added.
   Ahead of the memorial service, a South Korean diplomat laid flowers for Lee at Shin-Okubo Station. Flower wreaths from South Korean Prime Minister Chung Sye-kyun and Lee Nak-yon, leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea. were displayed at the venue of the memorial service.