Choi Jin-sil | 1968-2008
Choi Jin-sil, one of South Koreas most popular actresses, was found dead in a suspected suicide. The 39-year-old actress, shown in a May 2008 photo, is believed to have hanged herself in the bathroom of her Seoul home, police said. (Yonhap / Associated Press)
Photographers and police officers surround an ambulance carrying the body of top South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil as it leaves her Seoul home for a hospital. Choi, whose fame earned her the nickname The Nations Actress, was found dead in an apparent suicide after suffering from post-divorce depression and harassment by online rumors about her allegedly irregular financial dealings, police said. (Yonhap, Im Hun-jung / Associated Press)
South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil, who police said apparently committed suicide, poses in a December 2006 photo in Seoul. Choi made her debut in the late 1980s and quickly became one of South Koreas best-loved actresses. She starred in a number of box-office hits, including the films My Love, My Bride in 1990 and How to Top My Wife in 1994, as well as TV dramas such as Jealousy, My Rosy Life and last years Bad Woman, Good Woman. (AFP / Getty Images)
In addition to dealing with post-divorce depression, top South Korean actress Choi Jin-sil had been dogged by Internet rumors over the suicide of an actor. Choi, shown in a April 2006 photo in Seoul, has apparently taken her own life, police said. (AFP / Getty Images)
