Zhang Ziyan, a girl who once had a beautiful appearance and a happy family, encountered endless darkness and humiliation in the entertainment industry, and finally chose suicide to end her painful life.
Her death has triggered the attention and questions of Korean society on the unspoken rules of the entertainment industry, sexual exploitation, power and money trading, etc.,
But the justice she had hoped for was delayed.
The 230-page suicide note she left behind,
recorded her tragic experience of being forced by an agency to provide sexual services to 31 bigwigs in business, politics, media, and entertainment.
and her accusations and curses against those who have hurt her.
however
The evidence is found to be forged or insufficient,
Those she accuses have also escaped justice.
Her case has been retried several times and still has not been found to be true and just.
Her death also implicated many people related to her,
Some of them have also committed suicide or died unexpectedly.
More speculation and intrigue were triggered.
Zhang Ziyan was born on November 28, 1980,
The youngest daughter of a wealthy, happy family.
She has had a dream of stardom since she was a child,
At the age of 16, he filmed a cookie commercial, was discovered by scouts and signed into the entertainment industry.
however
She soon found out,
This circle is not as beautiful and glamorous as she imagined.
She had to face relentless competition, demanding evaluations, rigorous training and management, and endless work.
In the same year,
Both of her parents died in a car accident.
Leaving her and her sister to rely on each other.
Zhang Ziyan, who lost her parents' protection, had to face the cruel and cold reality of the storm.
She once said in an interview: "I never had a real childhood and adolescence,
I only know work.
I don't have time to make friends, fall in love, travel, or do what I love.
I was always worried that I would be eliminated or forgotten. ”
Zhang Ziyan also admitted that he has a serious sense of inferiority and anxiety,
She felt she wasn't beautiful enough, talented enough, popular enough.
She used to take medicines, injections, have surgery to lose weight, and even had anorexia and binge eating disorder.
She also used to take classes, read books, and practice in order to improve her acting skills,
But I always feel like I'm not doing well enough.
Zhang Ziyan said: "I am always very myself,
I always felt like I wasn't living up to other people's expectations.
I was always worried that I would lose everything. ”
however
Zhang Ziyan's efforts have not been respected and supported by peers and fans in the entertainment industry,
Instead, it is often viciously attacked and slandered.
She has been accused of having had affairs with multiple male stars,
Including Lee Byung-heon, Kim Jae-jung, Lee Jun-ki, etc.,
It was even rumored to have had an affair with a married male star.
These rumors seriously damaged her reputation,
It also put her love life in trouble.
She once said in an interview: "I don't know why these rumors appeared,
I don't know why these people do this to me.
I've never done anything to be sorry for others,
I just want to do my job.
But
Every time I appear in public,
Some people will say that I am a bad woman, a vixen, a third person.
I was really sad and helpless. ”
Zhang Ziyan has also been ostracized and bullied by peers,
She mentioned an actress surnamed Jin in her suicide note,
said that she once made various difficulties and insults to her during the filming of "Love Story",
Even slapped her in front of the crew.
Zhang Ziyan said: "She made me feel very humble and useless.
She made me feel like I didn't deserve to be an actress. ”
Zhang Ziyan once signed a bully contract under the company's lure,
If one party defaults, it has to pay liquidated damages of up to 1 billion won (equivalent to 6 million yuan).
After signing the contract, Zhang Ziyan found out,
Filming is not something that can be filmed by your own efforts and acting skills,
You need to constantly accompany directors, producers, and investors under the arrangement of the company
Wait for a large number of people who control the fate of actors to drink, eat and sleep,
in order to barely get a small supporting role.
Initially
The young and simple Zhang Ziyan, like other artists, thought that she would accompany these "customers" to eat a few more times.
Sleep a few times to get more opportunities to film and receive advertisements,
But they were wrong.
Companies use them as tools to hold powerful customers hostage.
They forced young artists to sleep with drinks, and then filmed videos with tiny cameras.
In this way, you can not only blackmail these little girls, but also blackmail these customers with heads and faces.
According to Zhang Ziyan's suicide note,
Between 2005 and 2009,
The company forced her to sleep with 31 men including corporate executives, media executives, and powerful figures in the entertainment industry hundreds of times.
An average of five people a day,
At most one time, she slept with four guests at the same time,
Even on the day of her parents' death, she was forced to do something that made her extremely disgusted and disgusting.
Every time the company told her to change her clothes, she was terrified,
Every time she thinks of those lewd and hideous faces, she wants to vomit disgustingly,
She has been trying her best to escape,
But it has never escaped the clutches of the company.
As long as she resists,
The company's thugs added punches and kicks in front of the whole company,
She was then put under house arrest in a black house.
Zhang Ziyan said: "They treated me as a plaything, a tool, a piece of garbage.
They did many, many disgusting things to me.
Makes me feel dirty, disgusting, and miserable.
They said if I disobeyed,
The video will be made public.
Leave me in disrepute, leave me with nothing. ”
In March 2009,
Before Zhang Ziyan committed suicide,
The company forced her to undergo sterilization,
It means that she will not be able to have children for the rest of her life,
A lifetime of being a slave driven and humiliated by the company at will.
In recent years,
Zhang Ziyan has repeatedly wanted to escape the shackles of the company,
But company owner Kim Seung-hoon has too many videos of her,
Together with liquidated damages of up to 1 billion won,
A little girl in her twenties can't say bitterly,
I can only break my teeth and swallow it in my stomach.
She called the police several times,
But the South Korean police actually used a very obscene interrogation method,
Let her tell every detail of sleeping with,
Such a vicious secondary injury made her miserable.
"They have money, they have power, they have connections, they can manipulate evidence and witnesses at will," she said.
They can get both the police and the judge to point at them.
They can convince everyone that they are innocent,
And I deserved it. ”
One is only in his twenties,
A child without a father and no mother is tortured by this group of scum to survive and die.
On the eve of Zhang Ziyan's suicide,
Lee Mei-suk, an artist from the same company, told her,
As long as she writes down the identification material,
He will help her escape the control of the company.
Zhang Ziyan, who was simple-hearted, was overjoyed and immediately agreed,
When she gave the list to Lee Mi-suk,
Lee Mi-sook took the list she provided to blackmail the company boss into getting out.
At this time, Zhang Ziyan woke up like a dream,
What awaits you will not be a good life that starts again after escaping,
It's a darker, more unbearable and more humiliating life,
Coupled with being forcibly sterilized, Zhang Ziyan was completely desperate.
After the company arranged for her to meet with one of the big guys on the list,
I don't know what kind of intimidation, what kind of humiliation, what kind of torture she was subjected to,
At the age of 29, she went home and hanged herself. and left a seven-page suicide note.
In her suicide note, she expressed her despair about her life and dissatisfaction with the world.
"I don't have the strength to live anymore," she said.
I have no hope of seeing tomorrow again.
I don't have the courage to face the world anymore.
The world is too cruel, too dark, too cold.
There is no love, no justice, no fairness in this world. ”
Zhang Ziyan also said goodbye to his family and friends,
She said: "I'm sorry I disappointed you.
I am thankful that you have always supported me.
I love you so much, you are my only dependency.
However, I was so tired and bitter.
I can't stand it anymore.
Please forgive me,
Don't feel sorry for me, don't hold grudges for me. ”
She wrote in her suicide note that she would not let those people go even if she became a ghost.
It is a pity that the world is so bleak,
Black and white are wantonly turned upside down,
The justice she paid with her life and wanted to get back did not come,
Her suicide note, written in blood and tears, was identified as a forgery,
She has more than 950 records of funds in her account and dozens of millions of won checks
was identified as some wealthy businessmen, directors, and business executives who saw that she did not have parents to pity her for the handouts she gave her,
Kim Seung-hoon, the boss of her company, and her agent, Yoo Chang-ho, were sentenced to one year in prison for violent assault alone.
suspended for two years,
The cases she accused of sleeping with and sexual assault were not filed due to insufficient evidence,
The 31 bigwigs on her reporting list landed safely and unharmed.
Instead, Yoon Ji-wu, who came forward as a witness for her, faced a serious threat to her life,
13 testimonies were never admitted,
In the end, he became a wanted criminal and lived in hiding.
Since 2011,
People with a sense of justice constantly propose to retry Zhang Ziyan's case,
But the results were all gone.
Until the outbreak of the Li Shengli nightclub incident in 2019,
Li Shengli installed miniature cameras in his nightclub,
secretly filming videos of female artists and bigwigs,
To threaten female artists and bigwigs,
As a result, the East Window incident occurred.
The 600,000 people who were agitated and angry petitioned one after another,
South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered a thorough investigation of Jang Zi-yeon's case,
After 13 months of investigation, the South Korean Ministry of Justice and the procuratorate released the final findings.
It can only be confirmed that Zhang Ziyan was indeed forced to accompany alcohol,
But sleeping with sleep, sexual assault, etc. cannot be confirmed,
The authenticity of the list of 31 people she left behind is in doubt.
What do you think!
In South Korea, it is so difficult for the president to thoroughly investigate the case of a third-rate star,
The truth of Zhang Ziyan's case could only sink into the sea under the intervention of the powerful dark forces behind it.
What is even more strange is that several South Korean police officers with a sense of justice who participated in the handling of Zhang Ziyan's case committed suicide one after another,
A South Korean criminal police officer investigating the case accidentally drowned,
And the water of the accident pond can only reach the chest of an adult,
Zhang Ziyan and his senior sisters Zheng Duobin and Cui Zhen hanged themselves one after another,
Among them, after Cui Zhenzhen's death, her ex-husband, brother, and agent all committed suicide one after another,
The reason is a mystery.
Is there such a coincidence in the world?
The forces behind this are powerful, darkly suffocating and desperate.
South Korea adapted a movie "Plaything" based on the real case of Zhang Ziyan,
exposed the ongoing scandals in the Korean entertainment industry,
In the movie, the righteous South Korean police and journalists braved their lives to break through layers of barriers,
But the ending is as desperate as reality,
Justice has not been done,
Many dirty and ugly things are easily erased by the powerful forces behind the scenes.
Those who are interested can go and see this movie.
Zhang Ziyan's suicide case is only the tip of the iceberg of shady scenes such as sexual reception, sexual assault, and sexual bribery in the Korean entertainment industry.
Recently
Various scandals continue to break out in the Korean entertainment industry,
Such as the Burning Sun door incident, Jung Joon-young gate incident, Seungri gate incident, etc.
It exposed the criminal acts of power trading, sexual violence, pornographic extortion, drug abuse and other criminal acts in the Korean entertainment industry.
These events have greatly reduced the image of the Korean entertainment industry,
It also makes people doubt the fairness and justice of Korean justice and society.
It has been 13 years since Zhang Ziyan committed suicide,
But those charged in her suicide note remain at large,
The justice she had hoped for still had not come.
Her tragedy may be just a microcosm of the countless tragedies in the Korean entertainment industry,
But her courage and sacrifice may be able to arouse more people's attention and reflection,
Reaching out to more victims and solidarity,
Let more criminals be punished and liquidated.
Zhang Ziyan is a tragic figure,
She should have had a good and happy life,
but was consumed by the darkness and sin of the entertainment industry.
She spoke out with her life for herself and other victims,
but not with the respect and sympathy it deserves.
Her death may evoke conscience and justice for some,
But perhaps more effort and attention is needed.
to make the world fairer and brighter.
Her story may give us some inspiration and caution.
Let us cherish our lives and dignity even more,
Don't give up your dreams and hopes easily,
And do not be deceived and deceived by those interests and temptations,
Be brave enough to fight for the rights of yourself and others.
Her name may be forgotten,
But her spirit and courage deserve to be remembered forever.