On June 17, the Mukilteo police department reported that a diver had gone missing in the waters near Lighthouse Park in Mukilteo. Yesterday, the diver was identified as Hans Korompis, the director of Shubert Ho’s Market restaurants, a 33-year-old chef who Ho and co-workers say had a profound effect on the restaurant community in Seattle.
Though there is no funeral planned at the moment, Ho says the search and recovery effort for Korompis is no longer active, and family members have organized a GoFundMe to cover expenses his family has incurred. It raised over $19,000 in one day, just one sign of the outsized impact the chef has had
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