Jung Da Bin passed away Feb 10, 2007

정다빈 / Jung Da-bin (Jeong Da-bin);

1980-Mar-04 to 2007-Feb-10

My good friend YuJin just told me yesterday that one of my fave Kdrama actresses passed away. I first caught her in "ROOFTOP CAT" with Kim Rae Won on Channel AZN two years ago. When they reshowed it last year in the spring I watched it again.

It is said she had depression and posted some messages on her personal blog/website her thoughts before her untimely death. Her boyfriend found her on FEB 10 dead. Some sources say she was depressed over lack of work since in a drama Sept 2005 and her former manager being imprisoned for not handing over money owed her. She was close to her 27th bday and this month 2 years ago Lee Eun Soo passed away (she was in "Firebird" and other Korean flicks). Just last month, Yumi (whom I do not know well) also committed suicide.

I was feeling shocked. I do think that mental health is so important. Having a strong network of friends and a good sense of self and awareness goes a long way. I know Da Bin had always a reputation for being sunny and happy. I loved her also in "My Sister in-law is 19 (2004)" and I even watched "Typhoon Summer" for her starpower (the drama was passable). I loved "He was Cool (2003)" when she partnered with Son Seung Hun.

Her funeral held recently this week had many famous faces there including a few of her co-stars of many dramas and films she was in.



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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jung_Da_Bin (source for article below)

Death-Jung Da Bin passed away
The actress Jeong Da-bin was found dead at a villa in Seoul’s affluent Gangnam district on Saturday. Jeong was found hanged with a towel in the bathroom at the home of a person only identified as Lee.

Lee, Jeong’s boyfriend and the first to call the police, testified that Jeong came to his house very drunk in the early hours of Saturday morning and that he found her dead when he woke up around 7:50 a.m. According to police, Jeong had been drinking with two friends at a bar in Cheongdam-dong and called Lee to come and pick her up since she was too drunk to go home. Lee joined Jeong for a drink and they arrived at his house in Samseong-dong at around 3:20 a.m.

Lee told police that Jeong had recently been depressed over her lack of work and the imprisonment of her previous manager. Police estimated Jeong died between 7:30 to 7:50 a.m., and though no note was found, police assume it was suicide since there were no immediate signs of foul play.

Jeong, whose real name was Jeong Hae-sun, posted a note on her personal blog around 5:04 a.m. on Friday expressing a complicated state of mind. “I am complicated, and I feel like I am going to die. I am angry without reason, and I might go mad…I feel like I have lost myself and my identity…The Lord came to me…I was about to collapse, and he quietly lifts me up.”

The exact cause of death will be revealed by the postmortem. A woman identified as Jang, who had been drinking with Jeong, said the actress was carefully choosing her next work and was eager to perform. “I can’t believe that she killed herself. Jeong invited us to her house the day before yesterday, and she showed great determination about her acting career,” police quoted Jang as saying. Jeong’s family opposed an autopsy at first but changed their minds after a gathering Sunday to discover whether it was really suicide.

Jeong’s new management agency claims there were some suggestions of foul play. It said a scar on Jeong’s wrist was not from a suicide attempt in October 2006, as Lee had suggested, but a scar she received in her first year in high school. It also said the actress showed strong determination to work when she talked about her future plans with close friends she contacted right before her death. The agency says the last posting on her website cannot be read as a suicide note.

A member of Jeong’s family said, “We can’t figure out why she wanted to commit suicide, and we decided to request the postmortem because we want to know for sure what happened.”