On the 42nd day after Shirley's death, the same story happened to her good friend Gu Hora. They are all pampered, and they are all overwhelmed by depression. Looking back on their lives, it is more than a sigh.
At 6 p.m. on November 24, 2019, former kara group member, 28-year-old Gu Hola, was found dead in his home. The cause of death is still under investigation, but the media has speculated that it is related to the depression he has been suffering from.
1. Her highlight moment
South Korea's DSP company launched KARA in 2007, and in 2008, the 17-year-old façade director Gu Hola joined. Released in 2009, "Mr." became popular throughout East Asia, and hip dance became a classic. KARA has also officially become the mainstay of the second generation of K-pop girl groups.
Because of her resemblance to Namie Amuro, Ku hora has been extremely popular in Japan since her debut, and KARA became the first Korean girl group to perform at the Japanese Dome. The participation in "City Hunter" further consolidated the popularity of Gu Hola.
The top company that launched Crystal Boy and Fin.K.L was once on par with SM, but years ago it had been mushed through the center of the earth. But fortunately, the whole KARA group is hard-working and can make money, and the members have made a fortune one by one.
It is said that when Gu Hola was 20 years old, his annual income was as high as nearly 500 million yuan. At the age of 21, he bought his first property in Cheongdam-dong, Seoul's prime region. Over the years, they have been sold and re-purchased, and there are two villas in Cheongdam-dong alone, which does not include deposits in the bank.
The appearance of the mansion has been shown in variety shows.
Gu Hola is rich and generous, especially taking care of the younger generations. In 2014, Xu Yingzhi joined KARA and participated in the second season of the variety show "Roommate". Gu Hola went to visit Yingzhi as a flying guest, and carried four large boxes of high-level Han niu as souvenirs that night.
The two performed the title song "Mamma Mia" from their sixth mini-album, DAY & NIGHT, on the show. However, Mang Mama, who watched the show at the time, did not realize that the song was KARA's last highlight moment, and eventually stumbled into the group's dissolution in January 2016.
2. A twist of fate
Over there, Shirley just left the group not long ago, from the top girl group to solo artists, similar experiences have made this Shirley and Gu Hola almost stick together almost except for work.
At the end of the year, a group of photos co-taken by Shirley and Gu Hora circulated on the Internet, but the photographer was found by South Korean netizens to be "pedophile".
This incident became an important node in the turning of the fate of Shirley and Guhola, and since then, the news about these two people on the Internet has almost always been negative news about unrelated careers. The "violence" surrounding Guhola continues to this day.
On a variety show, Gu Hola met the hair stylist's ex-boyfriend Cui Jong-fan, who called himself "Liu Yaren of Cheongdam-dong". In September 2018, the friend accused Hera of violence, exposed a series of photos of injuries, and gave interviews with hanging bottles.
In this "fact", people point the finger at Guhola. The reason is that Gu Hola herself is very aggressive, and it is inseparable from the "delirious" Shirley.
Soon, Gu Hola responded, exposing photos of her injuries, including her legs, hands, knees and other parts. The test report provided showed that her uterus was bleeding.
Just when people thought that Gu Hola was going to formally file a lawsuit to legally protect her rights and interests, something strange happened. Gu Hola, who has always been very rigid, suddenly softened and said that she hoped to reconcile with her boyfriend, "after all, we once fell in love."
A few months later, through the public truth of Gu Hola, people learned that Cui Zhongfan had a 38-second "indecent video" of Gu Hola in his hands, and repeatedly threatened Gu Hola to destroy her, and also sent a leaky email to well-known media. From the later surveillance video, it can be seen that Gu Hola even chased to the elevator entrance, knelt down and begged to let her go.
The complete timeline of domestic violence, threats, kneeling, and calling the police is as follows.
So, the truth is that the ex-boyfriend with the video tries to threaten, but Gu Hola suffers a beating without agreeing to the man's conditions.
Gu Hola's deeds have inspired Korean women to resist, and we also learned that the "indecent videos" that were secretly filmed are widely circulated in South Korea as a way of revenge. South Korean women launched a march called "Inconvenient Courage" to demand that the South Korean government strengthen penalties for sexual violence crimes such as illegal filming.
"Don't cry alone, we'll be your strength"
My life is not your
"All Korean men are criminals, people who shoot, people who upload, people who watch videos, people who watch bystanders"
Amid these powerful slogans, the Blue House petition website soon poured into nearly 300,000 people, demanding severe punishment for Choi Jong-fan and retaliating against women with sexual video threats. (South Korean law provides for petitions signed by more than 200,000 people to be accepted.)
Magic happened again. On one side were countless women gathered in Seoul Plaza, and on the other side Choi Jong-bum was sentenced to probation.
It turned out that the privacy video-related complaints were not accepted by the courts. The official statement is that "as a result of the comprehensive incident, although the sexual relationship video did not get the consent of the victim (Gu Hola), it could not be considered to be a candid film considered to be a secret film considered to be a victim of the relationship at that time." ”
Aside from being speechless, Korean women, including Gu Ho-la, did nothing.
3. She tried to be strong in the rain of bullets
Justice was not served, and Guhola was overwhelmed and even fainted in cooperation with the investigation. But that didn't break Guhola. Soon she was engaged in intensive work. In late September, Kuhola released a new Japanese single ,Midnight Queen, which looks very healthy.
Fans said that in fact, Gu Hola has been plagued by depression, but she once promised to let everyone see her strong appearance, so even if she was not satisfied with the outcome of the trial, she was not crushed.
This involves the suicide of Gu Hola on May 26 this year. Her agent could not contact her that day, so he rushed to Gu hora's house while calling the police, and eventually rescued her. Afterwards, Gu hola apologized on Instagram.
"Because a lot of things happened, the mood is painful, I am really sorry, I will try to make my heart stronger, so that everyone can see my healthy appearance again." 」
Since then, Guhola has only a sunny side on the ins. This state of affairs continued until October 14, when news of Shirley's death came shortly after.
That night, the strong Gu Hora collapsed, and she cried and swollen her eyes during the live broadcast, "Shirley, my sister is really sorry because she can't get over in Japan, I can only greet you like this, I'm really sorry." Shirley, I will live your share seriously. ”
Yet people still didn't let her go, which boiled down to hype.
Before the trial was announced, she quickly sorted out her mood, which should have been seen as a positive response to depression, but people said that she did not care about the outcome at all, and that the resort to the law was hype; the bandeau skirt slipped off during the Japanese performance, and she found that she quickly sorted it out, which should have been praised for the level of professionalism, but people said that she was selling records.
In short, in the case of Guhola, all actions have a purpose. In their mean eyes, Guhola is not a simple person. Why didn't people let her go?
Discussions on South Korea's well-known ILbe forum seem to have exposed the mentality of this part of the malicious speculation.
"29-year-old gu hola with hundreds of millions of assets committed suicide VS 28-year-old all assets of 5 million won, whose life is more miserable?"
So, Gu Hola made a lot of money at a young age, and her encounter was what she deserved?
If this argument holds, then all acts of hatred of the rich are legitimate and reasonable. Celebrity status is not a legitimate explanation for their attacks, yet there are those who believe that verbal violence and mental stress are necessities of the profession.
Even after Shirley's death, some people interviewed bad critics, and they still insisted that "if you commit suicide because of bad reviews, then don't be an artist at all."
So all the thought that their departure would bring justice, or at least attenuate online violence, seems so naïve. A lot of people's thinking is that you have the wealth that I don't have, and you enjoy the life I don't have, so you should be so miserable.
It is precisely because of this logic that we can see that the real perpetrators are still at large, and the victims of domestic violence who are threatened to take their lives are helpless. They are young, rich and famous, but fragile is a characteristic of all human beings. No one is born to be attacked.
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