Memorial for ex-WHO chief

South Korean Health Minister Jeong Eun-kyeong (L); Reiko Kaburaki (C), widow of Lee Jong-wook, the late former director general of the World Health Organization (WHO); and WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attend a tape-cutting ceremony to reopen the Dr. J.W. Lee Strategic Situation Room at the headquarters of the WHO in Geneva on May 20, 2026, as part of a memorial service marking the 20th anniversary of his death. Lee, who died in 2006, was elected in 2003 to lead the U.N. organization, becoming the first South Korean to head an international agency. (Yonhap)

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