The head of South Korea’s Hyundai Group will visit North Korea this week to attend a memorial ceremony for her late husband and the company’s former chairman Chung Mong-hun.

The Ministry of Unification (MOU) on Wednesday said it had approved Hyun Jeong-eun and her 15-member delegation’s visit to Mount Kumgang on Friday – her first such trip in four years.

The event will commemorate the 15th anniversary of the death of Chung, which falls on August 4.

“We gave the permission on a humanitarian basis as this is an annual memorial event,” Lee Eugene, deputy spokesperson at the unification ministry, said