Lee Sun-gyun died after being exposed to drug abuse and cheating, why did Korean entertainment make mistakes and love to apologize, and domestic entertainment made mistakes and wanted to make a comeback
South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun died, and the cause of death was suspected of being a suicide by burning charcoal.
According to reports, on December 27, the police received a report that a man was unconscious in a car in a park in Jongno-gu, Seoul.
Lee Sun-kyun is a national treasure actor of the Mesozoic era in South Korea, who has participated in "Pasta", "My Uncle", "Train", "Coming to the End", especially after "Parasite" won the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Cannes Palme d'Or, which established his status.
But since October this year, Lee Sun-kyun's drug use, frequent nightclubs and lovers have been exposed, and his identity as a good man and artist has also been revealed.
Prior to this, Lee Sun-kyun's character has always been a good actor and a good husband.
Lee Sun-kyun debuted in 2001, and in 2007 he came out of the circle for his outstanding performance in "The White Tower", and in July of the same year, he starred with Yoon Eun-hye, Kong Liu and others in the TV series "Coffee Prince No. 1 Shop" to let Chinese audiences know him.
In 2014, Lee Sun-gyun won the Best Actor Award in the Film category of the Baeksang Arts Awards for "Walking to the End".
In 2018, he starred in "My Uncle" and continued to become popular.
In 2019, he participated in the movie "Parasite" and became internationally famous.
In addition to their careers, the love story of Lee Sun-kyun and his wife Jun Hye-jin is also a Korean entertainment legend, and there is a feeling of "I am married to my idol".
Jun Hye-jin became famous earlier, and Lee Sun-kyun became obsessed with her after watching "Murder Story", but at that time, Lee Sun-kyun was not famous, and could only silently crush on each other for a long time by watching movies and following each other's performances as an audience, just like fans and idols.
Later, when he learns that a friend of his has joined the same troupe as Jun Hye-jin, he begs his friend to take him to meet the goddess.
Not long after the meeting, Jun Hye-jin had something to leave, and Lee Sun-kyun realized that if he missed this opportunity, he might not be able to see each other in the future, so he asked Jun Hye-jin to leave his contact information regardless of the disparity in status.
Under Lee Sun-kyun's pursuit, Jun Hye-jin finally agreed to fall in love with him.
After that, Li Shanjun's career went smoothly, but there were twists and turns in his feelings.
In the sixth year of their relationship, he publicly said on a show: "The two talked about me and I was 30 years old, but I began to think about whether I had to marry her." ”
After that, the two decided to get married, but he fell into anxiety, drank every day, and was full of rejection of the marriage, and the woman saw him so hesitant and left on her own.
Not long after the breakup, Lee Sun-kyun realized that he couldn't live without his wife, pursued his wife again, and seriously proposed.
During the preparation for the wedding, Jun Hye-jin was pregnant, so he held a press conference to directly announce the marriage news and the news of his wife's pregnancy, and when it came to the reason, he explained: "My wife needs to go to the hospital often, and I don't like her to go secretly." "It touched a lot of people.
Jun Hye-jin gave birth to two sons in 2009 and 2011 respectively, during which their career and life did not have any negative news.
Therefore, in October, Li Shanjun's suspected drug use was exposed, and many people thought it was a rumor.
But soon Li Shanjun admitted that he had taken drugs, but the strange thing is that his various test results were negative, which is subtly related to Quan Zhilong's revelation that he was taking drugs, but the tests were all negative, and Quan Zhilong's matter was reported by Li Shanjun's lover.
If you think about it again, Da S's husband Gu Junye has also been summoned by the police many times, but the test is also negative, which can't help but make people wonder whether the testing equipment is not good, or whether these artists have some unique skills.
Also involved at the same time as Lee Sun-kyun are 8 artists such as Han Seo-hee and Chaebol III Hwang Ha-na.
Compared with others, Lee Sun-kyun is in more trouble, because in addition to being exposed to a bar called "Ten Percent" to have a Y party, he also often goes to his lover's house, and her lover is one of the directors of this bar.
According to the confession, the main places where he took drugs were in these two places, starting with this "10%" bar.
10% of the bar's customers are mainly high-income groups, most of them are entertainers, athletes, and chaebols.
The inside of the bar is extremely tight, especially the super VIP room, if you want to enter, you have to go through two checks and two hidden transactions, even the manager of the private room can hardly know the specific situation inside.
Some bloggers who have been to the bar claim that the waiters at the bar are basically students from the Department of Broadcasting and Performing Arts and the Department of Drama and Film of a famous university in South Korea, and they are all required to be under the age of 25.
The bar also charges extremely high (10,000 won and 55 won balance), and even if there are no status restrictions, ordinary people cannot afford to spend it.
Lee Sun-kyun is a super VIP of the bar, and it was revealed that he had entered the private room of the bar many times.
It is said that Lee Sun-kyun and his lover were originally just a dewy couple, but as time went by, the lover slowly had a plan to make a fortune for the future, so he used the information about Lee Sun-kyun in his hand (several relationships and drug use) to extort a large amount of money.
But after repeated unsuccessful requests, Li Shanjun was unbearable, and when he was investigated for drug abuse, he sued his lover and sued him.
According to police information, Li Shanjun's lover did make blackmail calls to Li Shanjun many times, demanding an amount of about 350 million.
Li Shanjun said that he took drugs by mistake, and he said that he was deeply troubled by insomnia and other problems, so when he spent the night at his lover's house, he did not refuse the items handed over by the other party, but he said that he did not know that it was a drug, thinking it was a sleeping pill.
However, the woman's lawyer said that Li Shanjun knew exactly what it was, and would use bath gel and other items to remove possible residues on his body after taking drugs.
After Li Shan reported the case, her lover was controlled by the police, and she confessed to Quan Zhilong.
After the news was exposed, Li Shanjun publicly stated that he would take the accusations seriously and apologize to the public.
From the end of October to the revelation of drug abuse to the death of Lee Sun-kyun, Lee Sun-kyun's drug abuse case has been under investigation and has not yet been concluded.
On November 26, Li Shanjun also submitted an opinion to the court, saying that he only had a lover's confession for drug use, and hoped to conduct a polygraph test on himself and his lover to determine whether he was innocent, especially when all the tests were negative, he was said to be taking drugs, which made him feel very wronged.
He also said he was publicly summoned, but hoped that in the future the police would conduct polygraphs in the form of private summonses.
The police said they would consider his request before making a decision.
But a day later, he was found guilty of burning charcoal in his car.
There may be two reasons for Lee Sun-kyun's suicide, one is that the Korean entertainment industry has extremely high moral standards for such mainstream artists, no matter what they do in private, their public image must be good.
After Li Shanjun was exposed to cheating and promiscuous in his private life, his public image plummeted, and his wife couldn't stand the blow for a while, so she took her children to the United States for a while.
His career line and life line have basically been cut off.
The second is that he may face huge indemnities.
Affected by the scandal, almost all of his endorsements have been taken off the shelves, including educational advertisements with his wife, and new films with Xu Guanghan have also been suspended, and the losses of these businesses may be borne by him.
In addition, his wife Jun Huizhen was exposed to sell the previous property at a low price, and it was also pointed out by the outside world that she might have a relationship with him and prepare to live abroad.
For a while, his career collapsed, his wife was separated (although the relationship between husband and wife was not good before), facing huge compensation, coupled with intensive police inquiries and high public attention, it seems understandable that he can't bear it.
It should be pointed out that although the Korean entertainment industry seems to be glamorous, its income is very low, and it is not comparable with domestic entertainment at all, even if he is a top artist, the income from making a movie is about 2 million.
Song Hye Kyo's salary ranks first among Korean female artists, crushing most male artists, but when filming a drama like "Dark Glory", the salary for one episode only exceeded one million, and the previous salary ranged from 10 to hundreds of thousands.
After the filming of "Dark Glory", her salary is less than 20 million, and this is already the highest salary in her decades-long acting career.
Therefore, many stars of Korean entertainment seem to be very famous, but they don't have much money in their hands.
South Korea has high requirements for the public image of artists, although there is no ban on it, but once it is classified as a "problem artist" by the public, there is basically no way to live, and it is difficult to be accepted by the public even if he is engaged in other professions.
The accumulation when he was in the industry was not enough, and he had no way to survive after being abandoned by the market, which was probably the last straw that overwhelmed him.
But in domestic entertainment, it's different, not to mention an actor-level celebrity who has been popular for decades, or an eighteenth-tier young actor who has only acted in a few plays, and after filming a play, he has no worries for a lifetime.
In 2017, Mao Xiaotong was not very famous, and the salary of a "Painting the Bad People of Jianghu (Season 2)" was more than 12.5 million, plus others, a series was filmed, and one drama a year was tens of millions, the problem was that she would really be 18 lines.
When the Japanese entertainment industry learned in 2021 that domestic entertainment spent 3 million yuan to invite Takuya Kimura's daughter to do the show, it couldn't help but comment: It is too easy for the Chinese entertainment industry to make money, and it is bubbled.
Because Mitsuki Kimura and her father Takuki Kimura participated in the show in Japan, at most, the first episode was only 150,000.
Lin Chiling participated in "Extremely Picky", and the first issue is 2 million, and when it comes to one issue, it is basically 1 to 2 days, but in Korean entertainment, top artists have not earned much from making movies for a few months.
Wu Xiubo has been out of the circle for several years, and he can still be executed by the court for more than 400 million, and Shuangzi can still be easily executed for 100 million, but the problem is that after the execution, they have not hurt their muscles and bones.
Even for an actor like Jiang Yiyi, who has no works, the tax payment is more than 2 million, and the income in a few years is tens of millions.
Therefore, even if domestic entertainment stars retire from the circle for some reason, they don't have to worry at all.
What's more, there are still many fans who will never give up, Deng Mou, who has acted in "Xiangmi", and Zhang, who is partnered with Gong Jun, said that they have withdrawn from the circle, but the store on a certain treasure is still bought by fans and is extremely moisturized.
There are also many invisible singers in mainstream venues, shuttling through various large and small commercial performances, and still making a lot of money, avoiding the limelight if they are discovered, and continuing if they are not discovered.
With such a high income, such a tolerant market, and so loyal fans, there is naturally no pressure, and living so well, of course I don't want to apologize if I want to make a comeback.
Compared with domestic entertainment, the living environment of Korean entertainment is too harsh, with low income, more pay, fierce competition, low fault tolerance, there must be new works all the time, and the situation of wanting to rely on a song and a work to support the elderly does not exist at all, coupled with the traditional craftsmanship of various legendary chaebols to bully and manipulate artists, it is a high-risk job in Korean entertainment itself.
trembling for decades, once beaten back to its original shape, it is estimated that no one can stand it.
Of course, if you make a mistake, you have to admit it, especially this kind of mistake, and there is nothing wrong with public figures not being cautious in their words and deeds, deceiving the public, and paying for their actions.
It's just that I suddenly feel that the requirements of internal entertainment for artists can sometimes be higher.