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SEOUL (AFP) – A prominent South Korean comedian was found dead at her home in Seoul on Monday (November 2) along with her mother, according to various reports.
The bodies of Park Ji-sun, 36, and her mother were found by police, the Yonhap news agency reported.
Park was reportedly being treated for an unspecified illness and Seoul’s Shinmun newspaper quoted a police officer as saying that “there were no signs of outside intrusion or murder.”
Suicide is a chronic social problem in highly competitive South Korea and the leading cause of death for people between the ages of 10 and 39, according to government data.
More than 13,700 people took their own lives last year.
Park graduated from the elite of Korea University, where she studied education, but wowed audiences with her down-to-earth and self-deprecating humor, often gleefully playing the role of a woman repeatedly rejected on a date.
“I am lucky as a comedian to be able to use my face to make people laugh,” he said in an interview with the Hankyoreh newspaper.
Several South Korean celebrities have committed suicide in recent years, including K-pop singers Goo Hara and Sulli, who had been subjected to cyberbullying, and Kim Jong-hyun of the boy band Shinee.
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