It was also earlier reported that three unidentified South Korean “plain clothed police officers” entered his room and stated “If you have something to say, then say it now”. Yoo was then questioned on the subject of the origin of the now infamous documents at his hospital bedside at 1630 on March 14, 2009. Yoo’s disclosure of the letter, he then made a failed suicide attempt. Police sources at the time claimed that Jang produced the notes with the aim of creating “evidence of the truth”.įollowing Mr. KBS then claimed to be sitting on their original copy, provided to them by Mr. The note was then passed to the police by a member of KBS. KBS aired ‘Boys Over Flowers’ and two Chosun’ staff members were allegedly identified as being on the list. Yoo then copied the list, sending one copy to KBS ‘News at 9’ and another to the Chosun Ilbo. Three months later, a source at the Bundang Police Department agreed with this theory and claimed to be in possession of a much longer, seven page suicide note.įollowing the death, early reports suggested that Jang’s sister handed the letter to a Yoo Jang-ho, Jang’s manager at the time. It was then speculated that an unidentified source at The Korea Times had been reliably informed that the list was in fact made up of seven pages of A4. – The NPA stated that the letter was made up of four sheets of A4 paper. – The National Police Agency (NPA) stated that Jang had named eleven prominent public and media officials in South Korea, with accusations of sexual coercion, rape and battery. In the very early days of the story breaking, the following points were presented as fact: A number of awkward turns in coverage and the proceeding events were then very difficult to keep track of. The case initially caused wide-spread sensation, particularly online amongst the many bloggers of South Korea, due to the content of her suicide note. She also starred in two cinematic productions, ‘They Are Coming’ and ‘Penthouse Elephant’. Jang, who was believed to have taken her own life at approximately 1630 on March 7, was a relatively well known actress on the widely popular KBS television soap, ‘ Kkotboda Namja’ ( Boys Over Flowers / Boys Before Flowers). It was believed that Jang had been residing with her older sister and younger brother in Bundang, Seong-nam, Gyeonggi-do since the death of both her mother and father in a road accident in 1999. The suicide-abuse case of South Korean actress Jang Ja-Yeon, who was found hanged from a stairway banister by her older sister on Maat 1942, has recently come back into the public, private and government spotlight.īorn on December 8, 1982, the actress was 27 years of age at the time of her death. Editors’ Note: This is the first installment of several looking into the circumstances surrounding actress Jang Ja-yeon’s suicide which has been buried for nearly two years due to the clout of some powerful people who were related to the case.
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