A funeral service for Leo Park '97 was held in the Edward Jamie Funeral Home in Queens, N.Y. Sunday evening, and a burial service took place yesterday morning on Long Island.
However, according to the New York City Police Department, the case is still open and no confirmed identification of the body found in the rear of Pier 17 last week has been made.
According to Thomas Reynolds '99, a Theta Delta Chi fraternity brother of Park's, about 200 friends and family attended the service, many of whom were Dartmouth students and alumni.
Reynolds described part of a speech Jason Fisher '97 gave at the service.
"He asked the congregation to close their eyes and imagine [Park]," Reynolds said. "After a few moments he said that he bet the one thing all the people imagined was that he was smiling."
"He was one of the friendliest people I have ever met," Eben Darling '99, also a brother in Theta Delta Chi, said. "He loved to talk about the Yankees and New York sports."
The NYPD has not released any further information regarding Park's death, and it is not clear under what circumstances Park died.
"The thing is, no one knew what happened; it could have been anything," Margaret Chu '98, Park's coworker at Salomon Smith Barney, said. "I was walking around and there were missing posters plastered all over the city."
It was made clear during the funeral that the service would not focus on the circumstances of Park's death, but rather the importance of his life.
"For us, it was not really how he died, as much as the fact that he is gone. He was obviously taken much too soon," Darling said.
Reynolds said, "He bridged so many communities and he was kind of a leader in all of them. A lot of his Korean friends, high school friends, and Dartmouth friends came. ... So many people came out to show support for him."
Park had only been working at Salomon Smith Barney for two weeks before he disappeared.
Sally Kates, a public relations employee at Salomon Smith Barney, declined to comment extensively on Park's disappearance. "We notified the police that he was missing and then it became a police matter," she said.
Park was reported missing on March 19 when he failed to arrive at work.
According to the Office of the Deputy Commissioner, a body was found at 10:30 p.m. on April 20 in the rear of Pier 17 that might have been Park, but the NYPD have not yet released an official confirmation of the body's identification.