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Darcy Paquet
Tue Feb-22-05 02:09 AM
I feel just awful -- it's the first time since I launched this website in 1999 that I've had such tragic news to report. The reasons aren't clear at this point, but she had apparently been suffering from depression and had recently gone through a painful breakup. Perhaps there was no single reason.
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kerpan Tue
Feb-22-05 10:17 AM
I feel like crying. What a waste. A wonderful actress -- with a remarkable string of accomplishments for one so young. How sad that this young woman had no one to turn to.
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jakechong
Tue Feb-22-05 02:10 AM
i'm sad to report that this news is official and true...
i am very saddened by this news and cannot agree more with Darcy that we've lost a very talented Korean actress...
i'm still in shock...
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atom
Tue Feb-22-05 02:30 AM
This is truly awful. RAINBOW TROUT was one of my first Korean films, so she's very much a part of my introduction to Korean Cinema, so this is very sad to hear that she took her own life.
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hwang
Tue Feb-22-05 02:58 AM
>This is truly awful. RAINBOW TROUT was one of my first
>Korean films, so she's very much a part of my introduction to
>Korean Cinema, so this is very sad to hear that she took her
>own life.
>
Bungee Jumping Of Their Own was one of my first K films and I thought she was great in it. This news is very saddening indeed.
My condolences to her family and friends.
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Timigah
Tue Feb-22-05 03:16 AM
I am terribly saddened to hear this awful news. Lee Eun-joo is one of my personal favorite actresses, and I found that her performances have been getting better and she was certainly one of the most beautiful women in Korea. I will always remember her distinctive voice. I don't know what else to say..I am utterly stunned that she would commit suicide. She will be missed, to say the least.
I think it might be appropriate to repeat a quote from Ms. Eun-ju herself, as found on the Koreanfilm.org bio of her:
"I'm called a new generation star, but I don't want to be the kind of person who achieves instant fame and then is quickly forgotten. I want to learn step-by-step how to become a good actress, and gradually work my way up. A star achieves brilliance, but is soon forgotten; to become an actress takes more time."
Let us pray she is not quickly forgotten....
P.S. I hate to sound morbid or unsensitive at this time, but I mentioned to my friend a few weeks ago that I noticed in all the films I've seen with Lee Eun-joo, she happened to die in them (ex. Taegukgi, Lovers' Concerto, Bungee Jumping of Their Own, The Scarlet Letter), which I thought was odd then, but it takes on an extra meaning now after this tragic event. My heart felt good wishes and condolences to her family. R.I.P. LEJ.
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MikeK Tue Feb-22-05 03:28 AM
Member since Dec 13th 2001
113 posts
She made such a huge impression on me as one of the 2 female leads in Lee Han's excellent tear-jerker drama Lovers Concerto. This news is pretty shocking. Such a tragic loss, and a waste.
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Shintaro
Tue Feb-22-05 03:37 AM
What a shame, she was only 24.
RIP LEJ!
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ducati81
Tue Feb-22-05 04:17 AM
i was so upseted. she is the one of my best actress.
and i liked her movie "bungee jumping their own".
we'll miss her.
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fingercuffs
Tue Feb-22-05 04:38 AM
Her suicide note apparently read "I'm sorry, mom & dad". There was also stuff in it mentioning how she wanted work, and how she wanted money but didn't have any.
She was reportedly suffering from insominia since filming "Scarlet Letter". It's also been reported that her nude scene in the movie had been bothering her deeply.
Here's the only English link I've been able to find -
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/200502/kt2005022216371710220.htm
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vibfft
Tue Feb-22-05 05:58 AM
I was very surprised to learn of her suicide as well.
She was only 24. Unlike other countries, there are a lot of stigma attached to an actress baring herself in a movie or through any medium (long-standing Confucianism). She had done it to jump-start her career in filming Oh! Soojung (from what I remember, Park Jin Hee was casted over Lee Eun Ju when they competed for a main actress role in a drama. This has prompted her to take a risk in starring in Hong Sang Soo's movie) and she had done it again in Scarlet letter (thinking that a movie starred by Han Suk-kyu would have a high likelihood of success). However, the movie has fared miserably in box office. She took this very hard since she risked her whole career with nude scenes with Han Suk-kyu (reportedly she lost 9 lbs while filming for this movie). It is very frustrating to learn of a 24-year woman taking so much risk so early in her career, giving up her life such an impulsive manner because of her zeal for success. Why didn't she realize a career of an actress is not a 100-meter race but a marathon which will have to be endured through perseverance? For many, success comes early in a career. However, what matters at the end is not whether you were leading early in the race but whether you ran a successful race. Winning a race is not success in itself, but finishing the race of life is. She finished her race prematurely. Around this time next year she will be a distant memory largely forgotten by many who she so earnestly tried to please.
-Steve
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daniels
Tue Feb-22-05 06:51 AM
So depressed hearing this.She is one of my favourite K actresses ,too. I like Bungee Jumping of Their Own ,Love Concerto, and I've kept looking for Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors for sevaral months. Basically,I don't like any Korea TVdramas, But I watched FireBird for her.
I hope today is totally a dream.
Hope EJ will be happy in heaven.
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AdrienG
Tue Feb-22-05 07:54 AM
To me she will always remain as Soo-jeong. When I look at her career I think that she has been in a lot of good films but none of them reachs "O Soo-jeong". Probably one of the best character in Korean cinema. After that well... I think she never found such a profound character to play.
Many actors and actress commit suicide. There are many reasons why a person deceids to kill himself. But I always think that one of the reasons for talented persons to deceid that life doesn't worth it, is that they have very big potential and that people's expectations are too limited for them. Lets face it very few people take actress seriously (I must say specialy in Asia where they are most of the time just considered as cute faces).
Yet when you look at this short filmography you know that she had a lot of respect for her work... I am not sure she got the respect she deserved in return. Maybe she will now.
A.
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cirrus888
Tue Feb-22-05 12:19 PM
I will miss her quality performances.
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jocutus
Tue Feb-22-05 02:10 PM
This is really bad news and makes me sad. I will miss her smile.
Life isn't that complicated. One sweet memory will do...
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Bori-Cha
Tue Feb-22-05 02:19 PM
I had not been her fan, but I had enjoyed her performance in "Tae Guk Ki" because I could tell that she took her acting seriously and didn't try to look just pretty like so many of young Korean actresses today. So, when I heard the news of her death, I was quite shocked. I can only assume that her career had not gone the way she had hoped and had been pressured to compromise her principles, either by herself or by those managing her. Seeing no other way out, she chose death. I feel sad that such a young person had suffered too much to see any other way out. God grant her a peaceful rest.
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Timigah
Tue Feb-22-05 02:58 PM
>However, the movie has fared miserably in box office.
I'm not sure why people continue to believe this, but it's not entirely true. When "The Scarlet Letter" was first released, it was #1 at the box office (for at least two weeks I believe, if not more). In total, it received nearly 1.5 million admissions, and it's in the Top 20 box office hits of 2004, so I would hardly call that a miserable failure. Perhaps it failed to live up to expectations, but considering that the movie wasn't that great to begin with, I would say those are still pretty respectable numbers. Lee Eun-joo was also probably the best thing in that movie (I especially love the song that she sang for the film: "Only in My Dreams").
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mephisto71
Tue Feb-22-05 03:21 PM
"Talented ones are fated with short life."
My condolences.
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mkw8888
Tue Feb-22-05 06:29 PM
I am still in shock over this news. She was a good actress with tremendous potential. I liked her in The Virgin Stripped by Her Bachelors, Lovers Concerto and Bungee Jumping on Her Own and The Scarlett Letter.
My condolences to her family and friends. Rest in peace Lee Eun Joo.
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YiGiYeong
Wed Feb-23-05 12:17 AM
She was great in Taegeukki, I never get suicide. Such a wast
**San Nakji for President!**
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Q Wed
Feb-23-05 01:41 AM
Mourning Lee Eun-joo
In your sad lips/ around your wrist, white like eggshell/
In your black pearl eyes/ upon your forlorn shoulders/
As you smile shyly, still reluctant to tell/
"Me? I am still learning to be an actress.../
Sometimes I wish I could go back to a year before.../
Start my life again..."/
You were so young, so beautiful, so talented, you didn't have to end it this way/
Yammering voices/ Echoing hollow like a cracked bell
Haven't we all joined in/aren't we all guilty as spit/
The crime that robbed you of your life/
We the vampires, the consumers, the critics, the readers of sports news, the perpetrators of cyberbullshit/
Haven't we stolen joy and meaning from your life/
Till you had to end it all/
So that you could begin again, no longer split/
Now your black pearl eyes are gone/
Your forlorn shoulders too/And your shy smile/
And we/
We prostrate with our faces in the snow/
Beg for your return/
But only crisp sounds of snowflakes/
Dissolving on our backs/
Remain.
-Q-
* It is truly sad when talented young people take their own lives. I know it is not rational, but I keep imagining that this psychic maelstorm of media/entertainment that harbor over us like electronic parasites, in Korea, in the US, or frankly anywhere in the world, is responsible for her death, other than any combination of personal and biochemical reasons.
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Sang Wed
Feb-23-05 05:41 AM
http://movie.daum.net/jsp/viewer ... =8156&mid=39280
Her last song 'Only when I sleep'- From the movie "Scarlet Letter"
You're only just a dream boat
Sailing in my head
You swim my secret oceans
Of coral blue and red
Your smell is incense burning
Your touch is silken yet
It reaches through my skin
Moving from within
And clutches at my breast
But it's only when I sleep
See you in my dreams
Got me spinning round and round
Turning upside down
But I only hear you breathe
But it's only when I sleep
Up to the sky
Where angels fly
I'll never die
But it's Only when I sleep
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Shintaro
Wed Feb-23-05 06:05 AM
Don't mean to be morbid or anything.
But didn't her character in Bungee also die on the 22nd of Febuary?
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eliza bennet
Wed Feb-23-05 09:21 AM
God give her soul peace.
She is very young and suicide is a sad sad way to die. Never was a fan but thought she was talented.
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Bori-Cha
Wed Feb-23-05 01:12 PM
"Don't mean to be morbid or anything.
But didn't her character in Bungee also die on the 22nd of Febuary?"
I've also read and heard that it is the same date. Also, in the note she left behind, she thanked someone for telling her that it was the perfect day (to die, I guess). No doubt that she had suffered from manic depression. I hope that she has found her peace wherever she is.
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