
Korea: A celeb death 08.09.08
A famous entertainer in Korea Ahn Jae Hwan killed himself by inhaling gas in his own car.
The woman in the photo is the wife, which is very popular entertainer too.
The couple used to be loved very much by the public.
When they got married a year ago, really a lot of people celebrated them and wished the best,
as they had been good friends in the entertainment world for a long time.
Many people were very upset to hear this news.
I was websurfing in the morning and realized about this tragedy.
The reason for his death is explained to be financial obligation of 4.000.000.000 won (4 million dollars)
which got multiplied by ? which was taken from private moneyland companies.
Besides the tragedy itself, Korean netizens are feeling shame and sorry, they think they have part of things to be blamed for recent issue about them when his wife Jung Sun Hee commented about the whole national candlelight assembly against ‘import of ‘mad-cow-disease’ beef from U.S.A’ in Korea.
(I hope I’ll have a chance to explain this candlelight assembly later via post…)
It was about 2 months ago, when FTA between Korea and America was about to settled.
There has been acute disscusion on FTA between pros and cons for a long time in Korea.
However, the matter of import of beef that is ‘ MADE IN U.S.A. ‘, which was decided by new government (President Lee Myung Bak, 2008~), the object of standing against only,
as many of the nation felt the issue as a matter of dead/alive according to so called ‘mad cow disease’ infection.
(I’m not sure if it’s scientifically established theory, but there was a saying that 95% of all Koreans’ gene has got a character that is EXTREMELY vulnerable to mad cow disease cell (hmm… I read that mad cow disease is not a virus as it’s a protein), while only about 30% of Americans were so. And that might have played its role, too, to move people to the street with candle as a sign that he/she is standing against it in peaceful way.)
The national atmosphere was very hot. Government constantly tried to make excuses. It seemed to be a little civil war against nation and government. if 95% of us definitely dies when they will be exposed to this disease, or not, it was not important. Even if one person will definitely a crucial result, than the government shouldn’t do this. And It’s clear that this disease is dangerous than any disease else ever. THEN WHY? This was many of nation’s point of view.
And the criticism was extremely hot on-line.
It was then that the couple got serious attack from the public.
She had a radio programme named after her name and was DJ herself, then.
And once, at the end of the programme, she has made a big mistake.
She made a comment: “Recently candlelight assemblies have been held very largely in the country.
I read the news that the someone simply did crazy things like opening manhole, throwing away trashes on the street there. But isn’t it more important than mad cow disease import to take care of our public services, first of all?”
And that was all. The public life of the couple, has almostly ended.
The heated-up nation, especially netizens indiscriminately attacked them, as if they were mad. Her radio programme closed and she publicly apoligized on ‘so brainless’ utterance. Ahn Jae Hwan was also apologizing for her and he even wrote in his ’mini hompy’ (a famous blog-homepage system provided by the enterprise ‘Cyworld’ in Korea now…) that they are heartily taking all the criticisms and regretting.
But the nation didn’t excused her. Except for refusing to see her on media anymore, some people even suggested to boycott the cosmetic brand, which was launched by the husband taking her as a model, and even his bar, which was opened not a long time ago, too.
And it was yesterday that the husband’s dead body was found.
According to the news, she cannot say even a word now and she couldn’t have got contacted with him for a month already.
I was very shocked. Why? Is it really because of the financial obligation?
It might be. The private moneylend companies intensity is a big issue now in Korea. There’s no limit for them from government and they even do their advertisement on TV. It’s crazy.
But the biggest reason for his death is, I suppose, the mop netizens.
Netizens are the very objects to be blamed anyways for their mad behaviors for individuals, in this case.
In democratic country they simply ignored her everything. Netizens, using the priority that they shouldn’t necessarily put their real names everywhere, they have already killed these people mentally, then.
This tragedy is much sadder because we know that we killed him, but not he himself.
To end up a person’s happy family and the life itself, we simply need some brainless journalsts whose interest is merely drawing attention to his news, and a group of people who are eager to slander someone else using anonymity, even when they’re not doing quite well, neither.
We know how they loved each other, too. That’s why we feel so sorry…aren’t we?
Democracy is the first indicator of journalism in one society, and vice versa.
I’m very sorry beyond his death that our society has far more to achieve real democracy
and find out where our journalism is standing now for this tragedy, also, which is very sad for one who has just decided to specialize journalism.
Who is to be blamed to lead them to such a crisis? The reason at all?
It is the result on-line mob psychology, a death of one person.
written by Ji sun
+ This is not the first case of celeb death (suicide) due to calumny of netizens in Korea.
++ Besides netizens’ thoughtless critisism and behavior,
I want to mention about the thoughtless journalist who took this damn photo, too.
Can he really even try to take a photo of a wife, who has just lost her husband?
I think we should remove from him/her journalist’s title.
I’m really irritated that I should mention the rights anyway to the photo.
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source : http://cynews.cyworld.com/service/news/ShellView.asp?ArticleID=2008090900575498105&LinkID=2&lv=0
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