7 Idols/actors/actress who decide to end their lives because of the pressure as a Kpop idols:
1. Jonghyun SHINee (1990-2017)
Jonghyun remained musically active as main vocalist of Shinee and as a solo artist until his death on December 18, 2017, when he committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. He was found to have burned a coal briquette on a frying pan. Charcoal briquettes can cause carbon monoxide poisoning in closed rooms.
2. Park Yong Ha (1977-2010)
n established Korean actor and singer, Park committed suicide at the age of 32.Before his death, he had split up with his manager and was under a lot of stress from managing his own affairs, reported South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo.He faced more pressure after his father was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, according to his acquaintances.Police said that Park suffocated after hanging himself on his bedpost with an electrical cord. His mother found his body in his room in Seoul at around 5.30am on June 30, 2010.
3. Lee Eun Joo (1980-2005)
Studying piano so much at her young age, little Eun-joo (22 December 1980 – February 22, 2005) didn’t expect to become the hottest female celebrity in South Korea and even Asia. She was working as a uniform model in a mid-1990s, and then was offered the chance to take roles in various TV dramas, such as Start and KAIST. Her first appearance in a leading role was in a movie directed by Hong Sang-soo, titled Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors (2000).
She was the rising star of the time, full of beauty and acting talent. “I’m called a new generation star, but I don’t want to be the kind of person who achieves instant fame and then is quickly forgotten. I want to learn step-by-step how to become a good actress, and gradually work my way up. A star achieves brilliance, but is soon forgotten; to become an actress takes more time.”, she said in an interview. Such a hard worker and humble woman.
Lee Eun-joo later starred in some big hit movies and dramas, like the Korean War movie Taegukgi. The last movie she took on was The Scarlet Letter, directed by Daniel H. Byun. This movie was scandalous, yet so good. It’s been speculated it was the main source of the sorrow that leads her to death. What happened?
The D(eath)-Day
On the night of February 22, 2005, Lee Eun-joo was found dead at her apartment in Bundang, Seongnam. She had slit her wrists and then hanged herself. She left some suicide notes scrawled in blood, “Mom, I am sorry and I love you.” A separate note said, “I wanted to do too much. Even though I live, I’m not really alive. I don’t want anyone to be disappointed. It’s nice having money… I wanted to make money.”
She also wrote a regretful note, “I want to return to the days one year ago” and then a note addressed to someone, “The last call… Thank you. You told me that today is the right day.” Reading the notes full of her sorrow is chilling.
It was so sad to know that the lovely Lee Eun-joo chose to end her life at the very young age of 25, just as her career was taking off. She had just graduated from Dankook University a few days earlier. The news of her death was the hottest headline of the time.
4. Choi Jin Shil (1968-2008)
Choi a popular actress who stared in several Korean box-office hits, including My Love, My Bridge (1990) and How To Top My Wife (1994), was found dead in her Seoul apartment on Oct 2, 2008.She was found with an elastic band around her neck tied to a shower stall, Yonhap news agency reported, quoting the police.
5. Jang Ja Yeon (1982-2009)
Jang Ja Yeon was a Korean actress who stared in the popular KBS television drama series Boys Over Flowers.The 29-year-old wrote a series of suicide letters explaining how her former agency head Kim Sung Hun had forced her to meet influential figures at parties where she was expected to provide sexual favours for some of them."I was called to a bar and pressured to accept a request for a sexual relationship," she reportedly wrote.Police said Jang's older sister found her hanging on the banister of a staircase in their house in South Korea's Gyeonggi province on March 7, 2009, and told police that her sister suffered from depression.
6. Ahn Jae Hwan (1972-2008)
Actor Ahn Jae-hwan (Secret Lovers, Entertainment News), 36, was found dead on the morning of September 8 in his car. The death has been tentatively ruled a suicide.
Apparently, the body was found to have been “severely decomposed,” indicating that the suicide occurred prior to the 8th, although the actual time of death has yet to be determined. Preliminary speculation ranges from one week to a month prior. Charcoal briquettes were found burned inside the vehicle, possibly contributing to cause of death.
Still a newlywed, Ahn married comedienne-actress Jung Sun-hee in November of 2007. A suicide note expressing his love for his wife was found at the site of his death.
Netizens are speculating on what drove Ahn to suicide. Some blame the failure of his new cosmetics brand, which Ahn had launched via home shopping television earlier this year. As a result of wife Jung speaking out about the mad-cow vigils back in April, sales dropped. Further broadcasts were canceled and the brand experienced drastic sales drops, with some viewers boycotting the channel. (As a result, the current internet response is heated, with some netizens lashing out at others, asking, “Do you feel better now, you hateful netizens?”)
There were also rumors that Ahn, because of money issues, had been in discord with his wife for several months.
7. Choi Sulli (1994-2019)
Sulli reportedly continuously asked SM Entertainment to take legal action against malicious commenters. An entertainment official said the malicious comments really gave her a hard time, and she let SM know through her manager, but SM was too passive. This result turn into too late and regret for letting another kind soul left this world too early.
