Jang's funeral was held there on 9 March, and was attended by family, friends and fellow actors, including Boys Over Flowers lead Ku Hye-sun. Īpproximately 250,000 fans visited Jang's website on the day of her death to express their condolences, with a further 700,000 visiting the site the following day, while the entire cast of Boys Over Flowers paid their last respects at the mourning hall set up at the Seoul National University Hospital in Bundang. Kim was sentenced to one year in jail, two years of probation and 160 hours of community service. Twenty figures were investigated by the police, resulting in seven prosecutions. At the time of his arrest, Kim stated that he "committed a crime in South Korea and overstayed in Japan to avoid being arrested". Korean police requested Kim's extradition on a warrant related to Jang's death. The former manager of Jang's management agency, Kim Sung-hoon, was arrested in Tokyo, Japan in June 2009 for overstaying his visa. Later on, it was also reported that the 7-page note might not be written by Jang herself.
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South Korean police have suppressed the full list. It was unconfirmed that Jang wrote a 7-page note listing at least 31 names of media executives, CEOs, and directors that she claimed she was forced into having sex with. Kim Sung-hoon, who was in Japan, denied the accusations.
Īccording to widespread South Korean entertainment news reports, it was believed that Jang claimed that her agent Kim Sung-hoon had regularly beaten her and forced her to sleep with a string of VIPs, including directors, media executives and CEOs. Jang is believed to have killed herself at around 4:30 pm. Ī police investigation concluded that her death was a suicide, and found no evidence of foul play. to find her body hanging from the stairway banister. Having later been unable to reach her on the phone, Jang's sister returned to their shared home at 7:42 p.m. that afternoon, Jang had complained to her sister about the "overwhelming stress" she was under, saying that she "wanted to die". She was found hanging in her home in the Bundang district of Seongnam, Gyeonggi province, on 7 March 2009.
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