Earlier today, South Korea's top star Lee Sun-kyun was found to have committed suicide by burning charcoal in a car in a parking lot in Seoul. The reason why this Korean actor, who became world-famous for his role in "Parasite", chose to commit suicide at the age of 48 at the peak of his career was because he was caught in the double scandal of drug abuse and cheating.
In fact, just four days ago on December 23, Lee Sun Kyun accepted a police trial and was exposed to reporters. According to his lawyer, Lee Sun Kyun suffered a huge sense of humiliation due to the "double scandal". Turn judicial review into a moral and legal review focusing on the whole society.
And this may be the real reason why Lee Sun Kyun committed suicide.
Lee Sun Kyun is a top star and popular actor in South Korea. Since he became popular in Korea in 2007 with the TV series "Coffee Prince", his career has been going smoothly. He even married Korean actress Jeon Hye Jin and had a child.
But all this came to an abrupt end this year. In October, he was first exposed to be involved in a multi-person drug abuse case, involving as many as eight people. In addition to him, the Korean actor, there was also a third-generation chaebol son, and a A trainee singer.
Due to the police's "accurate and anonymous description", Li Shanjun quickly fell into the doubts of public opinion. But the drug addiction crisis has not subsided, and suspicions of cheating have arisen again. At that time, Lee Sun Kyun's agency claimed that Lee Sun Kyun had been extorted by suspicious persons for a high amount of money, amounting to 350 million won (approximately 2 million yuan).
However, as the situation developed, the public discovered that the blackmailer was a waiter at the entertainment venue where Li Shanjun and others used drugs. Moreover, according to police disclosures, Lee Sun Kyun also took drugs at the home of the 29-year-old waitress.
In South Korea, drug-related entertainment venues are often mixed with sex trade, not to mention that Li Sunkyun also visited the house of a waitress.
With two months of public opinion fermenting and three exposures and interrogations, Lee Sun-kyun finally couldn't bear the collapse of his "Mr. Perfect persona". Under the pressure of Korean public opinion, he chose to commit suicide by burning charcoal.
| South Korea has a notorious reputation for sex |
Lee Sun-kyun's character collapsed and he suffered huge moral pressure from public opinion. In fact, it was not because of "drug abuse", but because of "derailed sex trade", which led to the collapse of "Mr. Perfect"'s life. And now that Lee Sun Kyun has committed suicide due to unbearable moral pressure, why did he "make a mistake" and end up being ruined because of the sex trade with the waitress?
Because sex trafficking has become so common in South Korea, "whoring for prostitutes" has become a social activity among Korean men. They even go out of South Korea, and "group prostitution" has become a An "international business" of Korean travel agencies.
In October this year, the police in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, arrested a Korean man named Sun who was operating in Vietnam on suspicion of "intermediary sex trade" and other crimes. In addition to arresting Sun, the police also arrested four other Koreans and many local Vietnamese involved in the operation.
These people use business KTV as a guise, but in fact they open a "sex trading place" specifically for Koreans.
Sun, who was arrested, admitted: "He just let the waitresses (with the customers) conduct sex transactions." After
opened in 2020, the reputation of this ktv has gradually spread in Vietnam. It even has many recommendations on social networks. Many Koreans have formed groups to come here to "check in".
is so famous in Korean male social circles that the short-term turnover of this ktv can reach as high as 4 billion Vietnamese dong (approximately RMB 1.2 million).
Transnational prostitution groups have become commonplace in South Korea today.
Because of South Korea’s tradition of “transnational group prostitution,” it can be said that it has a long history.
Since the 1990s, Korean men have begun to travel to Japan, Southeast Asian countries, Russia, Ukraine and other places to travel to prostitutes. For example, Vietnam is still a "backward country" as a destination for Korean prostitutes, while Mongolia is the "pioneer" that suffers from Korean men.
Koreans who are crazy about whoring once made Mongolians suspect that Mongolia’s sexually open culture was brought by Koreans (actually not, Mongolia’s sexual culture itself is very open). In order to combat the "transnational prostitution" culture brought by South Korea, the Mongolian government even introduced laws.
|Spring on the Han River |
Since the new century, South Korea has been aging seriously and lacks sufficient labor force, so many factories have moved abroad. Now many Southeast Asian countries, including Vietnam, have become the destinations for Korean factories.
Since East and Southeast Asian countries and Russia and other countries lack sufficient employment opportunities and are economically very poor, a large number of local women have become the "sexual exploitation targets" of Korean pimps.
The United Nations pointed out in a 2010 report that "Korean men account for a high proportion of customers in the sex trade group tourism market in Southeast Asia."
The "social culture of prostitution" that has become popular has contributed to this. Because the first round of social activities in Korean overseas companies often involves eating, drinking, and singing, and the second round involves taking away female escorts from the business KTV for sex trade.
The proliferation of "transnational prostitution" is certainly not due to South Korea's strict control over sex trade.
In fact, although the pornographic industry was once strictly prohibited in South Korea, the relevant laws have long been on the shelf. The sex trade has long spread to every corner of South Korea.
In a survey report on male sex trafficking in South Korea, half of the respondents said that they had visited prostitutes.
The rampant sex trade has even made "aphrodisiacs" such as "Viagra" popular in South Korea, so much so that the content of "Viagra" in the Han River, South Korea's "mother river", seriously exceeds the standard.
It is precisely because sex trafficking has become a "social activity" in South Korea, so it is not surprising that even a top male star like Lee Sun-kyun, who has always maintained a "Mr. Perfect" persona, eventually made a mistake.
So, why did Ah Qiu say that Li Shanjun's suicide was due to "prostitution and cheating" rather than "drug abuse"?
| Sanctimonious |
In 2021, South Korea seized 1,272.5 kilograms of drugs and arrested 4,998 drug dealers. Behind this number is the terrible reality that drugs can be detected in all sewage treatment plants in South Korea. From sewage testing data, it can be concluded that about 39,000 people use drugs in South Korea every day.
Drug abuse chaos is emerging in the Korean entertainment industry. In addition to Lee Sun-kyun's involvement in drugs, Korean stars such as Yoo Ah-in have also repeatedly exposed related scandals.
However, compared to the relatively strict crackdown on drug addicts and drug dealers under Korean law, Korean public opinion is no longer as resolute in cracking down on drug addicts as it was in the early years - for example, Ju Ji-hoon, who starred in the male lead of "Kingdom", and participated in "With the Gods" Ha Jung-woo, the best actor in "We Go Together", has been exposed as using drugs or abusing controlled substances.
However, these Korean "drug-related artists" have all come back amidst the tolerance of public opinion, but it is difficult to make further progress in their careers.
South Korean society's tolerance for "drug-related artists" is largely due to the fact that due to the extreme involution of Korean society, drugs have become a choice to "relieve stress", so they are rampant in South Korea.
However, as a husband, Lee Sun-kyun's "whoring and cheating" is not in line with the moral values of Korean public opinion. This is largely because Koreans are still relatively traditional about "marriage". No matter men or women, they don’t want their partner to “cheat within marriage”.
Of course, at least half of the men in South Korea are just doing it as a gesture, because Korean men are so rampant about "whoring".
However, Korean men value "etiquette culture" the most and pay attention to "ethical principles, propriety, justice and integrity". It can be regarded as an explanation of what is meant by "sanctimonious" - in fact, Korean women are engaged in "sex practitioners" very widely, and some female high school students have even become "accompanied dating girls".
For Li Shanjun, although he has become famous. But if you want to continue to be involved in the Korean entertainment industry, you can't avoid social situations.The elite society in South Korea is already full of drugs and sex trade. Even Jeon Woo-won, the grandson of the former South Korean president, is not immune, let alone Lee Sun-kyun who relies on capital?
According to police disclosures, among the eight people arrested at the same time as Li Shanjun, there was a "third generation chaebol".
