Lee Sun-kyun is latest to fall to South Korea’s celebrity death curse: As Parasite star becomes latest to die, how the nation’s K-pop and acting world has been rocked by tragedies in recent years

An well-known South Korean star that fired to globally popularity adhering to the launch of the Oscar- winning movie Parasite has end up being the latest celebrity catastrophe to shock the country.

Lee Sun- kyun was located dead in his vehicle in a presumed self-destruction at the age of 48 on Wednesday early morning, after it was exposed he was being checked out for his substance abuse.

His partner, Jeon Hye- jin, a starlet and previous Miss Korea entrant, called authorities after locating a self-destruction note. His body was located in a Seoul parking lot.

Lee was being checked out by authorities over accusations of taking cannabis and a powder which his accuser, a person hosting at a high-end bar, claimed was ketamine. The medicines, she declared, were taken at her home.

His death is the latest in a lengthy string of early, and typically terrible, fatalities that have actually haunted the top tiers of South Korea, as the nation comes to grips with a string of harmful bad luck …