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Goo Hara. HeyDay. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
Died
24 November 2019
Place
Seoul, South Korea
Field
K-pop (KARA)
Legal tradition
Korean civil law (Civil Act) · Civil law · Chinese and East Asian law
Historical event
Wave of K-pop idol deaths, 2017 to 2019
Music and sportBrothers and sisters in courtNowEast AsiaSouth Korea

Goo Hara's mother left when she was a child and claimed half her estate; Korea changed its inheritance law

Goo Hara, a member of the girl group KARA, died at her Seoul home at 28. She had no spouse or children, so under Korean law her parents were her heirs. Her mother had left the family when Goo and her brother were children, given up custody, and been absent for about 20 years†. The mother claimed half the estate. Goo's brother, Goo Ho-in, sued to block her. In December 2020 the Gwangju Family Court split the estate 60 percent to the father's side and 40 percent to the mother. The court gave the father a 20 percent contribution credit for raising the children. Goo Ho-in petitioned the National Assembly for a law to bar parents who abandoned their children from inheriting. The "Goo Hara Act" died in two assemblies. It passed in August 2024 and takes effect in 2026. Under it, a parent who failed in the duty to support a child can lose the right to inherit.

What the law took from it

Without a will, intestacy rules can hand a fortune to a parent who did nothing to raise the child who earned it.

Sources
  1. soompi.comPress
  2. malaymail.comPress
  3. asiae.co.krPress
  4. v.daum.netPress

Cite as: celebrity.estate, “Goo Hara's mother left when she was a child and claimed half her estate; Korea changed its inheritance law,” story s515, https://www.celebrity.estate/goo-hara-2019, updated 30 October 2026.

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