Oscar award winning actor Lee Sun-kyun of the movie "Parasite" was found dead in an apparent suicide Wednesday while facing an investigation over suspected drug use.
In a police investigation, A man in his 40's was found unconscious in a car at a park in Central Seoul at 10:30 a.m., and later identified him as Lee. The police earlier received a report that Lee left home after writing a memo akin to a suicide note.
Lee has gone through three rounds of police questioning on suspicions of using marijuana and other illegal drugs at the home of a hostess working at a high-end bar in Seoul's Gangnam district on multiple occasions since early this year, including last Saturday.
The actor claimed he was tricked by the hostess into taking the drugs and that he did not know what he was taking. Lee tested negative in both the brief re-agent test conducted during police investigations and the lab-based drug test by the National Forensic Service last month.
Actor Lee Sun-kyun arrives at an office of the Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency in Incheon, about 30 kilometers west of Seoul, on Dec. 23, 2023, for the third round of questioning on suspicions of drug use.
source: Yonhap News
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