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Parasite actor Lee Sun-kyun dies by suicide, drug scandal sweeps entertainment scene (koreajoongangdaily.joins.com)

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[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 126 points 8 months ago

Police questioned him for 19 fucking hours over his personal recreational drug use — yet another victim of the war on drugs, created a century ago by conservatism to persecute minorities and the poor.

The police, the state, and Korean culture killed this man through bullying and harassment, because of what he chose to do with his own body — which should be nobody's business but his own.

[-] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 34 points 8 months ago

A lot of people with mental health issues self-medicate with illegal drugs. This guy was probably suffering from depression, and the police pushed him too far. So ridiculous and tragic.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 50 points 8 months ago

Seems like the dude was run through the media ringer for some weed and coke.

[-] mancy@lemmy.ca 41 points 8 months ago

Well he was also caught cheating on his wife with a prostitute which is a big deal in SK and especially so for someone like him that capitalized on his squeaky clean family man image.

Not saying it’s okay, but it’s not just the drugs.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

To be fair coke and hookers go together better then love and marriage.

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

That's better than a horse and carriage.

[-] GentlemanLoser@ttrpg.network 9 points 8 months ago

This i tell ya, brother

[-] peter@deddit.petersanchez.com 5 points 8 months ago

You can't have one without the.... other.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I’ve met some pretty sexy horses before.

[-] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Well a horse is a horse.

[-] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Some are sexier than others.

[-] jopepa@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

I hope he’s relieved, at peace and his loved ones can recover theirs, too.

How severe are the drug laws in SK? A drug scandal pushing a celebrity to suicide feels surprising these days.

[-] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago

He smoked weed at someone’s house a few times this year and was under multiple hours long interrogations

[-] jopepa@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Seems like he was starting to get black listed from Korean studios and sentencing for drug use/distribution is between 6 months and 14 years.

NY Post article I found about this and the Korean War on Drugs.

[-] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 5 points 8 months ago

I've been following kpop for the better part of a decade. This isn't the first celebrity I know of with a drug scandal that pushes them to suicide or attempted suicide. I'm sure it won't be the last either. It's basically career suicide, even if it's just weed.

[-] bus_factor@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The way I read this, the suicide looks unrelated to the drug allegations? The guy who ended up taking his own life tested negative for drugs, while everyone else in the story is in trouble. Really weird article. Did they just mash all that stuff together in the same article to get enough length?

[-] KinNectar@kbin.run 2 points 8 months ago

Once again forgetting to use quotation marks around movie titles delivers a memorable and misconstrued headline.

[-] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 8 months ago

not really

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