South Korea links Web slander to celebrity suicides

Iria · Oct 13, 2008, 05:41 AM

Choi Jin Sil, a movie star who shed maudlin tears on screen but fought like a tigress in a messy real-life divorce from her baseball-player husband, was the closest thing South Korea had to a national sweetheart.

So when the actress was found dead in her apartment on Oct. 2 in what the police later concluded was a suicide, her grief-stricken homeland sought an answer to what drove its "national actress" to suicide.
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Source: IHT

Oct 13, 2008, 05:41 AM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	South Korea links Web slander to celebrity suicides Choi Jin Sil, a movie star who shed maudlin tears on screen but fought like a tigress in a messy real-life divorce from her baseball-player husband, was the closest thing South Korea had to a national sweetheart. So when the actress was found dead in her apartment on Oct. 2 in what the police later concluded was a suicide, her grief-stricken homeland sought an answer to what drove its "national actress" to suicide. _______ Source: IHT