At 8 p.m. on April 19, Moon Bin, a member of the South Korean boy group Astro, was found dead at home at the age of 25.
At that time, the agent kept contacting Wen Bin, but no one responded, and after going to his house, he found that Wen Bin had died. Later, the police arrived at the scene and found no traces of homicide, so the police speculated that Wen Bin committed suicide, and the cause of death is still under further investigation.
The Astro boy band consists of 6 members, but in February this year, member Park Min Hyuk announced his withdrawal from the group, the specific reason is unknown.
Among them, the most well-known member is Cha Yinyou, who played the leading role in the popular Korean drama "My ID is a Gangnam", so many Chinese audiences have become fans of Cha Yinyou.
The news of Wen Bin's death was that Cha Yinyou was preparing for upcoming activities in the United States, and when he heard the bad news, he canceled all activities and immediately flew back to South Korea from the United States.
Astro's captain, Kim Myung-joon, is on military service and is currently on leave to come to Moon Bin's memorial hall to mourn.
Wen Bin's sister Wen Xiuya is also an idol, and the brothers and sisters joined hands to break into the entertainment industry, learning of this bad news, Wen Xiuya's girl group announced the cancellation of all activities of the postponement group this week.
Wen Bin and her sister have a good relationship, Wen Xiuya has been a trainee for ten years, and once wanted to give up, but it was her brother Wen Bin who encouraged her, saying that she wanted to see her sister glowing on the stage, and Wen Xiuya persevered.
Not long ago, the brothers and sisters also participated in a reality show together. In the show, Wen Bin was arranged to bungee jump, and before bungee jumping, she made a wish for 2023: I hope that her sister can always be happy no matter what.
And this, too, Wen Bin's last wish before his death, he gave it to his sister.
There are also two collapse points, one is that Wen Bin died at 8 o'clock on April 19, when his sister Wen Xiuya did not know it. When it was close to 9 o'clock, Wen Xiuya also happily posted a dynamic, because their group had a singing activity that day.
The second is that April 20 is Wen Bin's mother's birthday, and he died the day before his mother's birthday, which was a serious blow to his mother. Maybe you won't be able to celebrate your birthday again for the rest of your life.
Originally scheduled to hold a fan meeting in Macau this weekend, many fans grabbed tickets early and booked hotels.
Netizens found that Wen Bin had said in a live broadcast with a friend before his death: his body is not very good, and his life is very hard, but now he is adjusting through exercise.
He also said that this is what you should bear as an artist, but his friend still shouted helplessly: "We are also people." ”
On April 11, South Korean actress Jung Chae-po was found dead at home at the age of 26. The specific cause of death, Zheng Cai's family chose not to make it public, and the outside world also defaulted to suicide.
At the time when Zheng Caiban died, she was filming a new drama, and the crew couldn't believe it when they learned the bad news.
Looking at Zheng Cai's social dynamics, she did not find anything unusual, she is still optimistic and cheerful to share her daily life with fans. In the eyes of fans, she is a "funny girl" character, who does not look depressed or abnormal.
But the death came so suddenly that it caught people off guard. Within a month, two Korean stars died one after another, which can't help but remind people of the sentence: Korean artists are really high-risk professions.
This sentence is not an exaggeration, combined with the Korean entertainment industry environment to analyze, you can know how much pressure these idols have.
As early as 2021, Korean media reported that the number of trainees in South Korea has exceeded 1 million.
The corresponding data is that Korean media reported that the number of new students in 131 elementary schools in South Korea is 0.
One premise that everyone needs to know is that Korean trainees are "grabbed from dolls", many children have been selected as trainees by entertainment companies since elementary school, and people who debuted at the age of sixteen or seven abound.
Children may not be seen in Korean schools, but children can be seen in the practice rooms of Korean entertainment companies.
According to statistics, more than 70% of primary and secondary school students in South Korea are eager to enter the entertainment industry.
South Korean idols generally have not gone to college, and now the very popular idols Zhang Yuanying issued an official notice last year: give up the college entrance examination.
Because of the huge group of trainees in Korean Entertainment, the update and iteration of the Korean boy group and the girl group are very fast, and if you temporarily disappear from the public eye, fans can quickly forget you.
Therefore, in order to be continuously loved by fans and gain the company's praise, idols can only redouble their efforts and efforts.
Since idou's career is all in the hands of Korean brokerage companies, they work hard, but they may not be able to get remuneration that matches their efforts, that is, the effort is not proportional to the income.
In this extremely depressive environment, psychological problems with idols have become almost inevitable. In 2021, the famous Korean group idol-idou Jiang Daniel revealed that he suffered from depression, and in 2020, the female idol-jumped the Han River Bridge and was fortunately rescued.
Korean idols committed suicide, presumably many melon-eating people who are not interested in Korean entertainment have heard of it, from Cui Zhenzhen, Zhang Ziyan, to Shirley and Gu Hara, and their lives are dying one after another.
Looking at the entire youth population in South Korea, South Korea announced in February that it would ban the production of honeycomb coal in order to reduce the suicide rate.
Due to the recent frequent suicides in South Korea, the Ministry of Health and Welfare of South Korea absolutely controls "suicide tools".
Carbon monoxide poisoning accounts for 15% of the cause in South Korea, of which 87% is the use of fast-burning honeycomb coal.
However, this approach has been strongly opposed by the South Korean people, because honeycomb coal is an important tool for heating the Korean people, and the source of people's suffering is not honeycomb coal, but people's livelihood problems.
Some Korean netizens commented: In that case, tear down the Han River Bridge.
The Korean entertainment industry is actually a microcosm of South Korea's young society. In addition to the group of actors at the top of the pyramid, they can live comfortably, and a large number of idols are in a state of deep water, which is not an exaggeration.
The pressure on young South Koreans will not only lead to an increase in the suicide rate, but also to a decline in the birth rate. The decline in the birth rate has affected the trainee pool of the Korean entertainment industry.
Since Korean children have begun to "break the line", in order to find suitable trainees, Korean entertainment companies have set their sights abroad, in addition to Thai idols such as Lisa, and now Indian idols have appeared.
In the Korean idol, which is dominated by the aesthetic of white and thin beauty, the appearance of a dark-skinned thick-skinned beauty is also a new attempt. However, this attempt is also a helpless move by Korean entertainment companies forced by the status quo.