Parasite director Bong Joon-ho and several other South Korean creatives have known as for a probe into the circumstances behind famend actor Lee Solar-kyun’s loss of life.
Final month, the 48-year-old actor was discovered lifeless in an obvious suicide. On the time of his loss of life, Lee had been present process a extremely publicised investigation by South Korean police on suspicions of drug use.
Earlier this week, the newly established Affiliation of Solidarity of Cultural Artists launched an announcement calling for an investigation into Lee’s loss of life, per The Korea Herald. It additionally urged authorities to “revise the regulation to guard the human rights of artists” to stop comparable deaths from occurring sooner or later.
The affiliation held a press convention earlier in the present day (January 12), led by Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, who labored with the actor on the award-winning movie. Different distinguished creatives who spoke on the occasion embody singer-songwriter and Mystic Story CEO Yoon Jong-shin, veteran actor Choi Deok-moon and Choi Jeong-hwa, the top of the Producers Guild of Korea.
“I demand that the authorities examine. We demand that the police examine whether or not there was any lapse within the safety of the investigation from the second the main points of the deceased’s investigation have been first uncovered till two months later,” stated Bong, as reported by Selection. “We need to know if there was no particular person media contact through the investigation, and we wish the outcomes to be made public in order that there isn’t a doubt,”
“His three police appearances, from the straightforward reagent check to the unfavorable check, have been broadcast stay to the media,” the director added. “Recordings of his incriminating statements have been launched to the media and public, and he made the tragic alternative to finish his life after a 3rd 19-hour police summons.”
In the meantime, Yoon stated: “We hope that such a tragedy is not going to occur once more within the strategy of investigating popular culture artists. That is the demand of the cultural and inventive neighborhood going through the loss of life of the late Lee Solar-kyun.”
Investigations into Lee’s alleged drug use started in October 2023, and rapidly grew to become the topic of media and on-line commentary within the months main as much as his passing. Days previous to his loss of life, the actor was noticed returning house after present process a 19-hour spherical of police questioning.
Lee was reportedly discovered lifeless in a automobile on December 27 with a charcoal briquette within the passenger seat and had allegedly written a memo “akin to a suicide observe” previous to the invention. He was not taken to a hospital as he was “pronounced lifeless” on the scene, per Yonhap Information Company.
