--- title: Daughter Takes Cardboard Cutout of Dad around World description: A moving tribute for a man who always wanted to travel the globe canonical: https://time.com/2900933/grieving-daughter-takes-life-size-cardboard-cutout-of-deceased-father-around-the-world/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-19T17:06:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:56.182Z og:title: Grieving Daughter Takes Life-Size Cardboard Cutout of Deceased Dad Around the World og:description: A moving tribute for a man who always wanted to travel the globe og:url: https://time.com/2900933/grieving-daughter-takes-life-size-cardboard-cutout-of-deceased-father-around-the-world/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Grieving Daughter Takes Life-Size Cardboard Cutout of Deceased Dad Around the World twitter:description: A moving tribute for a man who always wanted to travel the globe twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Grieving Daughter Takes Life-Size Cardboard Cutout of Deceased Father Around the World  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 19, 2014 5:06 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Jun 19, 2014 5:06 PM UTC A Virginia dad died from stomach cancer at 52 before fulfilling his lifelong dream of traveling the world. Now, CNN [reports](http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/18/travel/cutout-dad-travel-jinna-yang/index.html?hpt=hp%5Fc4) his daughter, New York-based artist Jinna Yang, 25, made it come true by going around Europe in April with a life-size cutout of her dad Jay Kwon Yang, taking photos of it in front of landmarks. “Most of the time when you see a life-sized cutout, it’s of Justin Bieber or One Direction, and it’s usually in a nine-year-old’s room,” Yang [told CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/18/travel/cutout-dad-travel-jinna-yang/index.html?hpt=hp%5Fc4). Plus, the six-foot-tall cardboard figure folded up, so in terms of transportation, she joked, “I didn’t have to pay for an extra seat for dad!” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2900933/grieving-daughter-takes-life-size-cardboard-cutout-of-deceased-father-around-the-world/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2900933/grieving-daughter-takes-life-size-cardboard-cutout-of-deceased-father-around-the-world/"},"headline":"Grieving Daughter Takes Life-Size Cardboard Cutout of Deceased Father Around the World","datePublished":"2014-06-19T17:06:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:56.182Z","description":"A moving tribute to a man who always wanted to travel the globe","url":"https://time.com/2900933/grieving-daughter-takes-life-size-cardboard-cutout-of-deceased-father-around-the-world/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Family"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2900933/grieving-daughter-takes-life-size-cardboard-cutout-of-deceased-father-around-the-world/","name":"Grieving Daughter Takes Life-Size Cardboard Cutout of Deceased Father Around the World"}}]}] ```