Actress Jeong Da-bin Dead in Suspected Suicide

[Golden Monkey]

The National Statistical Office said South Korea had the highest suicide rate among OECD members, as 24.7 in every 100,000 South Koreans committed suicide in 2005.

It was followed by Hungary with 22.6 and Japan with 20.3 people.

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nati...6125511950.htm

Actress Jeong Da-bin Dead in Suspected Suicide



Korean actress Jeong Da-bin was found dead at her boyfriend's home on Saturday, according to police.

Investigators said Jeong, 27, apparently hanged herself at her boyfriend's house in southern Seoul at around 8 a.m.

The boyfriend, who was only identified by his last name Lee, told the police that he discovered the body.

He was quoted as saying that she was found dead with a white towel around her neck.

The police suspect that Jeong committed suicide considering there was no sign that it was a murder. They are trying to determine the exact cause of her death.

Jeong, who also became a Korean pop culture star in Taiwan in 2005, acted in television dramas and movies.

If her death is confirmed to have been a suicide, it would be the latest case of a well-known Korean actress or pop star taking her own life.

On Jan. 21, a female singer Yuni committed suicide, while movie actress Lee Eun-joo killed herself in February 2005, which shocked many Koreans.

Her last internet posting ...

"[I thought] I was going to die because of the confusion. It felt like I would go crazy because I became angry for no reason...I cried because my head hurt so much... I almost became a slave of you, who would be angry from [my] irritability. I thought I would go mad from laughing and crying. I thought I lost myself, and I began to lose a part of my identity. As if something struck me, boom... Everything became serene. The Lord came...[He] silently makes me rise. [He] says that I am now fine. I am fine."

[sandra]

from her last post, it sounds like she may have been suffering from depression or bipolar disorder. how accessible is counseling and mental health care in korea?

very tragic.

[Golden Monkey]

Originally Posted by kasia

from her last post, it sounds like she may have been suffering from depression or bipolar disorder. how accessible is counseling and mental health care in korea?

very tragic.

Not accessible enough if they have the highest suicide rate in the world.

[Craig]

I wonder how many of these "suicides" in Korea / Japan are like the recently ruled "suicide" of that Stanford EE Postgraduate who was considered to have locked herself in the trunk of some community college parking lot a couple of hours away.