Actor Lee Solar-kyun, finest identified for his function within the Academy Award-winning movie Parasite, was discovered lifeless inside his automobile in South Korea on Wednesday.
Solar-kyun was 48 on the time of his dying, and South Korean authorities have presumed his dying to be a suicide.
Within the months main as much as his tragic dying, Lee was questioned by Incheon police thrice over his alleged drug use.
His dying continues to be below investigation by forensic investigators, and no additional particulars have been launched concerning his dying.
Lee Solar-kyun, identified for the Oscar-winning movie Parasite, has died on the age of 48. https://t.co/mFMFzqXQcs pic.twitter.com/L6DaiZcoEL
— IGN (@IGN) December 27, 2023
Per AP:
Lee Solar-kyun, a preferred South Korean actor finest identified for his function within the Oscar-winning film “Parasite,” was discovered lifeless in a automobile in Seoul on Wednesday, authorities stated, after weeks of an intense police investigation into his alleged drug use.
Police and emergency officers initially discovered Lee in what they believed was an unconscious state within the automobile parked on a avenue in northern Seoul. Emergency officers later confirmed he was lifeless, in keeping with Seoul’s Seongbuk police station.
Police had been trying to find Lee, 48, after receiving a report that he was lacking.
They refused to supply additional particulars together with whether or not they had decided Lee killed himself. However South Korean media shops together with Yonhap information company stated that Lee’s household earlier Wednesday reported to police that he left residence after leaving a message just like a suicide notice.
Lee Solar-kyun, identified for his function in ‘Parasite’, has sadly handed away on the age of 48 in an obvious suicide. pic.twitter.com/ilbXWr9uim
— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) December 27, 2023
In 2019, Lee gained a Display Actors Guild Award for his function in Bong Joon-ho’s Academy Award-winning movie Parasite.
