Korean entertainer Jeong Da-bin was found dead in the bathroom of her boyfriend’s one-room apartment today in an apparent suicide. She was 27. Tragic. She’d even left what, at least in retrospect, seems like a suicide note on her Cyworld blog the day before.
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i dont understand why pretty and rich people commit suicide.
Thankful that I’m ugly and poor, and that I keep on keeping on.
Some people waste no time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jung_Da_Bin
I still have no idea who she was.
“I dont understand why pretty and rich people commit suicide.”
Yeah, me too.
How many female actors and singers have committed suicide in the last year? I can think of three. I can’t help but wonder if they are subject to undue pressure.
Could it be that they are pressured for sex by the men higher up the chain — managers, producers, network executives, chaebol scions?
Or does the nature of the entertainment system here prevent “talent” from having any freedom of choice about career decisions? And then the lack of control over their lives leads to depression for actors and singers?
I don’t mean to make those suggestions in an inflammatory way — but there’s got to be some reason why this is so common in Korea, and I can’t think of what else it might be.
Your thoughts?
they commit suicide, because all those things in life you pursue never satisfy some people. It’s a psychological/philosophical thing. Try downloading all the music you want. Did you really get all you want?
I don’t think it’s necessary to tie those girls to sex pressures.
US celebs overflowing with money out of their orifices find cowardly ways to die all the time. By overloading on drugs of course.
It’s interesting that people want to die, but they want to suffer the least when they die.
i think it may have to do with the fact that suicide seems more acceptable in asian culture.
http://spn.chosun.com/site/dat.....00280.html
this yonhap article is worth a look.
also, in many cultures, seeing a psychiatrist alone is stigma. Some could have been helped and treated.
“i think it may have to do with the fact that suicide seems more acceptable in asian culture.”
No, it isn’t.
“also, in many cultures, seeing a psychiatrist alone is stigma. Some could have been helped and treated.”
Exactly.
“i think it may have to do with the fact that suicide seems more acceptable in asian culture.”
I would agree that if shame is involved it is somewhat more acceptable that in the west. When Chung Mong-hun (Hyundai) jumped out of the 12th floor window, I thought, considering that guy was facing some pretty serious charges, that it was accepted. I think if Hwang woo Suk did it it would have been seen as acceptable.
But it they are just depressed, well then…
that should say “… more acceptable than in the west”
“I would agree that if shame is involved it is somewhat more acceptable that in the west. When Chung Mong-hun (Hyundai) jumped out of the 12th floor window, I thought, considering that guy was facing some pretty serious charges, that it was accepted. I think if Hwang woo Suk did it it would have been seen as acceptable.”
I don’t think it was/would have accepted for the reasons that you think.
Someguy
When kimchi2000 and I say, ‘more acceptable’, we are talking in relative terms here, aren’t we? I mean nobody anywhere thinks suicide is a good thing, just ‘understood’ a bit more here.
There’s a good post on suicide, and how schools respond to it (ie. they don’t) here.
a-lethia,
Read between the lines, you’ll understand my post.
The link says:
“일거리 없어 스트레스 많이 받아”
“매니저 구속 문제도 걱정 많이 해”
미니홈피에 “복잡해서 죽을 것 같다” 글 올려
She wasn’t getting any work and it probably stressed her out.
She was a hit after “Non Stop 3″ sitcom and the comedy drama “Cat on the roof” - all few years back, and since then, no work. She has been severely criticized as no talent with just average looks. That stressed her out and made her depressed. On top of that, after that singer Uni killed herself, it made her more depressed which lead to her drinking bout the night she died.
“with just average looks”
Oh, please. I see average looking girls everyday at work and most of them would probably be happy to look like her.
I meant “average looks” for a TV star.
Actually, change ‘acceptable’ to ‘desirable’ in that sentence.
I wonder if the Korean Times is going to run an editorial on this one as well, trying to ‘out’ her critics as murderers. Kind of a ‘we told you so’ from that brain-dead editorial they ran not a month back.
1. The Japanese taught Koreans about the Romance of “killing oneself”. Sickos breed sickos.
2. The entertainment people sold their souls. One day, they wake up and find out that they have been “rack dolls” for men. They cannot bear any difficulty in their career. They get angry and commit suicide.
3. I hope all entertainers to attend church regularly, read Bible and pray often. They in “dog-eat-dog” world. Yet, these girls dream about “Cinderella” life in the middle of gangsters and ruthless people. Dreams do not come true when too many people want the same prize.
What? Must we appoligize because of suicide in korea?? Is this also Japan’s fault???
Indredible mindset…
It’s all your fault!
paduk: The rest of the people on this blog can hate me, but sometimes you just make sense! We’re probably about the same age I would guess, if you go all the way back to Shin Chung Hyun and Music Power….
“I meant “average looks” for a TV star.”
Do you include the Korean male stars in there? It seems the aesthetic standards are somewhat lower for them. If the men were kept at the same standards as the women, you’d see more male stars that look like Daniel Enning and fewer that look like Bi and Bae Yong Jun. The double standards are even greater when you look at Korean male and female comics.
Drop dead gorgeous?
Hey, Japan wasn’t blamed until #21. That must be a new record.
I guess the couch-test casting didn’t work out too well recently. [ducks under desk]
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