I assure you that there is a lot of noise in Korea when celebrity suicide occurs. When f(x) Sulli passed away…
YES, Koreans ARE more private, and that's a big part of why they die by suicide in droves!
No one wants to appear vulnerable for fear of "losing face," so instead they kill themselves. It's not privacy they want; they aren't insistent on "privacy" when they want to show off fancy homes, cars, yachts, the perfect family, blah blah blah, all the stuff they spend their time pretending to be so happy behind.
It's only when it comes to anything that allows a sign of human weakness to show that they demand privacy.
I thank you for the valuable perspective in your comment above, but if it is as you say, then KOREAN CULTURE NEEDS TO CHANGE, AND FAST, starting with criminal investigations/police behavior and media coverage.
The time for "privacy" and these delicate, simpering approaches to covering the horrendous suicide issue in the press is long gone. Korean celebrities have been killing themselves, dropping right and left, for 25 years, at least and it's getting worse.
It's far more than 40 suicides in ten years as Maggi says above. Three K-Poppers killed themselves earlier in 2023 along with a lower-tier actor, but those are already basically out of the news already, and now that LSK is burnt and buried, we hold our breath for the next celebrity to be crucified and hounded to their death.
What's bizarre/creepy is that since LSK died I have been googling things like "celebrity suicides korea list 25 years," "korean celeb suicide comprehensive list," etc. and I can't find ANYTHING that simply lists all the celebs who have killed themselves over the last 25-30 years. That is insane in the internet age. Why don't lists like that pop up by the dozens?
I think I know why: Korean media/social media/police/society tells everyone, indirectly or directly, that "...it is rude and uncomfortable and mean to talk about such things because it will hurt the feelings of the family in their overwhelming, tearful grief as they usher their loved one along on their final journey, so please STFU, how dare you talk about our best creative people killing themselves like lemmings over a cliff, it makes us...nervous."
That is the gist of Korean post-celeb suicide coverage and it's bizarre. I don't give a shit about Eastern sensibilities, this particular one is killing people at an alarming rate and needs to be corrected.
Yes, yes, yes, there is a LOT of fucked up shit about Western culture too, but fear of discussing painful societal realities is generally not one of them.
Ahjussi. Rest wellLesson for everybody else here. If you have a bad day, dont ever drink the alcohol If alcohol…
omg. This is so naive and disgusting. Your comment illustrates the insanity that drove LSK to take his life. Rather than focus on police misconduct, false allegations, horrific behavior of social media, public judgment sans facts, you...
... imply LSK was an alcoholic. ...imply LSK knowingly took illegal drugs, which has been disproven by TWO forensics test.
Yeah, right, go cycling, that will keep you from being hounded to your destruction and death by Korean society. You and people who think like you are the problem.
I saw a video on YouTube by a K-media journalist that covered this unbiased and from an outside perspective. It…
BRAVO. Except, it's not just a shame, it's unprofessional and criminal, as far as the behavior of the police goes. People need to be prosecuted for misconduct. And I hope his widow hires an aggressive, creative lawyer to sue the shit out of some people.
Thank you for providing the link. All I've been able to find on Youtube is videos that exacerbate the problem by REPEATING all the false allegations, and obfuscating the complicity of the media and "netizens" in driving LSK to suicide.
I have never seen anything this actor was in but from reading the comments I think It was appalling the way this…
Check out LSK's filmography, Steven. He did great work and kept getting better. Also had one of the deepest, sexiest voices in all of Korea.
And you're right about how Korea's entertainment/media/"netizens"/police/public criticism mowed him under. But do a little research: The number of K-Film/K-Pop/K-Drama performer suicides over the last 25 years will blow your mind and it's just getting worse.
Korea as a whole has the highest suicide rate among developed nations by far. TWICE what it is in the U.S. Something very unhealthy is slithering around in Korean culture, but they're doing very little of any consequence to address the problem because no one wants to talk about mental health, of all things. They might "lose face" if they admit to wanting help.
The headline of the above article is emblematic of how Korean media, and MDL now, tiptoe around the subject: Lee Sun Kyung did NOT gently and quietly "pass away," he KILLED HIMSELF BY INHALING FUMES FROM BURNING CHARCOAL ALL ALONE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. AFTER MONTHS OF HOUNDING BY KOREAN LAW ENFORCEMENT, SOCIAL MEDIA, PRESS, AND THE PUBLIC.
Could you precisely explain what it is you find so appalling about my questions above?Is it that I "asked something…
"importance?" wtf are you babbling about now?
What sentence? The rape sentence? It wasn't deep at all. Do you know what a question mark is? oooh, "garbage," how can I go on after all your soul-ripping insults and name-calling? Hey, maybe I'll report YOU for name-calling and insulting me, which are definitely against the MDL rules. You're supposed to be polite to me. Again, your next sentence should read "survivors who HAVE to go through that," not HAS. I should be getting paid to teach you how to properly insult me in English. Some garbage DOES have a face. Like, if you throw out the front page of a newspaper with an article about the douchebag former president of the united states, that page would be in the garbage and its face would be Donald Trump.
Could you precisely explain what it is you find so appalling about my questions above?Is it that I "asked something…
oh, my bad. I did write "rape." So what? There's no rule against using the word "rape" on MDL or anywhere else that I'm aware of. Nor "molested" or lots of other words that would rock your world.
Is your argument that because some people have been raped, no one, anywhere should ever be allowed to speak or write the word "rape?" Trying to uncover some meaning beneath your spittle-spewing hysteria.
You hope my "family" doesn't get raped? Is that your meaning? Well, gosh, I hope so too.
Could you precisely explain what it is you find so appalling about my questions above?Is it that I "asked something…
oops, my bad. I did write "rape," and I'm glad I did, and I stand by that sentence as written. If you had any grasp of the nuances of English, you'd know that HOW a word is used is as important as the word itself in a sentence.
What am I doing, arguing with an English-illiterate Church Lady shrieking about how outraged they are at a word? Buzz off.
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No one wants to appear vulnerable for fear of "losing face," so instead they kill themselves. It's not privacy they want; they aren't insistent on "privacy" when they want to show off fancy homes, cars, yachts, the perfect family, blah blah blah, all the stuff they spend their time pretending to be so happy behind.
It's only when it comes to anything that allows a sign of human weakness to show that they demand privacy.
I thank you for the valuable perspective in your comment above, but if it is as you say, then KOREAN CULTURE NEEDS TO CHANGE, AND FAST, starting with criminal investigations/police behavior and media coverage.
The time for "privacy" and these delicate, simpering approaches to covering the horrendous suicide issue in the press is long gone. Korean celebrities have been killing themselves, dropping right and left, for 25 years, at least and it's getting worse.
It's far more than 40 suicides in ten years as Maggi says above. Three K-Poppers killed themselves earlier in 2023 along with a lower-tier actor, but those are already basically out of the news already, and now that LSK is burnt and buried, we hold our breath for the next celebrity to be crucified and hounded to their death.
What's bizarre/creepy is that since LSK died I have been googling things like "celebrity suicides korea list 25 years," "korean celeb suicide comprehensive list," etc. and I can't find ANYTHING that simply lists all the celebs who have killed themselves over the last 25-30 years. That is insane in the internet age. Why don't lists like that pop up by the dozens?
I think I know why: Korean media/social media/police/society tells everyone, indirectly or directly, that "...it is rude and uncomfortable and mean to talk about such things because it will hurt the feelings of the family in their overwhelming, tearful grief as they usher their loved one along on their final journey, so please STFU, how dare you talk about our best creative people killing themselves like lemmings over a cliff, it makes us...nervous."
That is the gist of Korean post-celeb suicide coverage and it's bizarre. I don't give a shit about Eastern sensibilities, this particular one is killing people at an alarming rate and needs to be corrected.
Yes, yes, yes, there is a LOT of fucked up shit about Western culture too, but fear of discussing painful societal realities is generally not one of them.
... imply LSK was an alcoholic.
...imply LSK knowingly took illegal drugs, which has been disproven by TWO forensics test.
Yeah, right, go cycling, that will keep you from being hounded to your destruction and death by Korean society. You and people who think like you are the problem.
Thank you for providing the link. All I've been able to find on Youtube is videos that exacerbate the problem by REPEATING all the false allegations, and obfuscating the complicity of the media and "netizens" in driving LSK to suicide.
Disgusting and appalling.
And you're right about how Korea's entertainment/media/"netizens"/police/public criticism mowed him under. But do a little research: The number of K-Film/K-Pop/K-Drama performer suicides over the last 25 years will blow your mind and it's just getting worse.
Korea as a whole has the highest suicide rate among developed nations by far. TWICE what it is in the U.S. Something very unhealthy is slithering around in Korean culture, but they're doing very little of any consequence to address the problem because no one wants to talk about mental health, of all things. They might "lose face" if they admit to wanting help.
The headline of the above article is emblematic of how Korean media, and MDL now, tiptoe around the subject: Lee Sun Kyung did NOT gently and quietly "pass away," he KILLED HIMSELF BY INHALING FUMES FROM BURNING CHARCOAL ALL ALONE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. AFTER MONTHS OF HOUNDING BY KOREAN LAW ENFORCEMENT, SOCIAL MEDIA, PRESS, AND THE PUBLIC.
That's the headline as it should be.
Spice makes life taste better!
Keep the nutjob comments coming...this is kind of fun.
What sentence? The rape sentence? It wasn't deep at all.
Do you know what a question mark is?
oooh, "garbage," how can I go on after all your soul-ripping insults and name-calling? Hey, maybe I'll report YOU for name-calling and insulting me, which are definitely against the MDL rules. You're supposed to be polite to me.
Again, your next sentence should read "survivors who HAVE to go through that," not HAS. I should be getting paid to teach you how to properly insult me in English.
Some garbage DOES have a face. Like, if you throw out the front page of a newspaper with an article about the douchebag former president of the united states, that page would be in the garbage and its face would be Donald Trump.
Are you taking notes?
No, I feel fine, actually. Thanks for caring.
Is your argument that because some people have been raped, no one, anywhere should ever be allowed to speak or write the word "rape?" Trying to uncover some meaning beneath your spittle-spewing hysteria.
You hope my "family" doesn't get raped? Is that your meaning? Well, gosh, I hope so too.
What am I doing, arguing with an English-illiterate Church Lady shrieking about how outraged they are at a word? Buzz off.
In addition to working on your written English, please also work on your reading comprehension.
Thanks.