Starlet’s suicide highlights plight of women in Korea
October 7, 2008 | 3:00 pm | Internerd | Below The 38th Parallel, Girly, Reading | 0
But since her body was found on Oct. 2, an apparent suicide, she has become a symbol of the difficulties women face in this deeply conservative yet technologically savvy society. Incessant online gossip appears to have been largely to blame for her death. But it’s also clear that public life as a single, working, divorced mom — still a pariah status in South Korea — was one role she had a lot of trouble with.
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