Ahn Jae-hwan Suicide

by Robert Koehler on September 9, 2008

I’m going to assume the controversy his wife sparked with comments about the anti-US beef protests had nothing to do with the apparent financial troubles that led to actor Ahn Jae-hwan’s suicide.

삼가 고인의 명복을 빕니다.

{ 11 comments… read them below or add one }

1 brent September 9, 2008 at 1:05 pm: I’m just glad it wasn’t Ahn Jung Hwan, the footballer, like I thought at first. I feel sorry for him if he didn’t rack up that debt on the usual vices.
2 foflappy September 9, 2008 at 4:17 pm: According the wife, they had not ‘officially’ registered their marriage at the Gu office.

Guess she is off the hook concerning his financial problems.
3 Andy Jackson September 9, 2008 at 4:25 pm: By killing himself (which was bound to be big news) he MIGHT have saved his wife from further run-ins with the loansharks and shamed the nutizens into allowing her to resume her career.

It is a perverse logic, but there is a logic to it.
4 Quixote84 September 9, 2008 at 6:58 pm: Meanwhile, the press is releasing photos of the scene where the suicide took place. The photos were shockingly vivid, including ‘stains,’ which they explain as “stains created by the coal burnt inside the car.” And they thought I would believe that.

I could have spared myself the guilt of unrightfully witnessing the scene. I wonder if I had ‘the right to know’ this.
5 redneck hickboy September 9, 2008 at 7:04 pm: This one hit close to home.. My wife, a former TV writer, used to work with his wife. She’s really depressed about this. The destructiveness of mindless protesters strikes again. Can you imagine how many people’s lives they’ve touched in a negative way?
6 Bipolar Mindscrew September 9, 2008 at 7:23 pm: 5/redneck – uh, the suicide was debt-related, so unless he was personally funding the protests with borrowed money…
7 Darth Babaganoosh September 9, 2008 at 8:49 pm: debt-related due to the boycotts from the protesters
8 redneck hickboy September 9, 2008 at 10:20 pm: Yeah , my understanding is that business for his wife fell through the floor after she spoke out against the protesters. I’m sure there were other reasons contributing to the fact of his business debts, which were apparently around $3 million US.
9 Mizar5 September 10, 2008 at 12:38 am: Wow.
10 josesiem September 10, 2008 at 9:41 am: “It is a perverse logic, but there is a logic to it.”

Is there any other kind of logic here?

Korea — the highest suicide rate in the OECD…
But what about DOKDO?
11 hardyandtiny September 10, 2008 at 10:53 am: if you’re going out it’s best to walk