Former President Kim Dae-jung, former Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Hong-il, died today (July 20) at the age of 71.

After falling from his home in Seogyo-dong, Seoul this afternoon, he was taken to the hospital, but he finally breathed.

In the 1980s, Kim was tortured by the Public Security Agency at the time of the Kim Dae - jung national conspiracy, and suffered a neck disc surgery and acquired Parkinson 's disease.