

– The NPA stated that the letter was made up of four sheets of A4 paper. – The National Police Agency (NPA) stated that Jang had named eleven prominent public and media officials in South Korea, with accusations of sexual coercion, rape and battery. In the very early days of the story breaking, the following points were presented as fact: A number of awkward turns in coverage and the proceeding events were then very difficult to keep track of. The case initially caused wide-spread sensation, particularly online amongst the many bloggers of South Korea, due to the content of her suicide note. She also starred in two cinematic productions, ‘They Are Coming’ and ‘Penthouse Elephant’. Jang, who was believed to have taken her own life at approximately 1630 on March 7, was a relatively well known actress on the widely popular KBS television soap, ‘ Kkotboda Namja’ ( Boys Over Flowers / Boys Before Flowers). It was believed that Jang had been residing with her older sister and younger brother in Bundang, Seong-nam, Gyeonggi-do since the death of both her mother and father in a road accident in 1999.


The suicide-abuse case of South Korean actress Jang Ja-Yeon, who was found hanged from a stairway banister by her older sister on Maat 1942, has recently come back into the public, private and government spotlight.īorn on December 8, 1982, the actress was 27 years of age at the time of her death. Editors’ Note: This is the first installment of several looking into the circumstances surrounding actress Jang Ja-yeon’s suicide which has been buried for nearly two years due to the clout of some powerful people who were related to the case.
