Choi Jin Shil Suicide

[image via: dramawiki]

I haven't been updated this blog in awhile due to other commitments (please forgive me) and I'm incredibly late on reporting this. I can't believe that I didn't hear about this sooner.

Korean celebrity Choi Jin Shil committed suicide in October 2008. She is most recently known for having starred in Last Scandal of My Life alongside Jung Joon Ho.

Although there's no proof, many people believe Choi committed suicide as a result of media reports that said she lent a hefty sum of money to another celeb who had recently killed himself as well as depression over her divorce from Cho Sung Min.

I think this is so, so sad. I just finished watching Last Scandal and a huge reason I enjoyed it was because of her acting; she was just so charismatic. In fact, her acting was so superb that it helped to coin a new word "Jumarella", a combination of the words ajuma (aunt, middle aged woman) and Cinderella. She is survived by her two young children and brother Choi Jin Young.

After her death Korea passed a cyber bullying law nicknamed "Choi Jin Shil Law".