Critics claim that investigators have not been active in questioning big names in the media and corporations allegedly mentioned in the suicide note and the circulated list. Ahn Jae-hwan, a 36-year-old actor, was reportedly mired in debt. The police decided to suspend interrogating five suspects until Kim is extradited, as they have had difficulty confirming the allegations without questioning him.Ĭriticism has mounted that police have done little to uncover the truth during the month-long investigation. A tragic end Jang is one of seven South Korean celebrities to have killed themselves in the last six months.
Police officials have requested that Japanese authorities extradite Kim, as he has repeatedly defied summons by investigators. Police are also trying to track down the head of Jang's agency, the former agent, accused of coercing the actress into offering sexual favors.Ī court has issued an arrest warrant for the head of the agency, identified only by his family name Kim, who is now in Japan. In more document with more than 50+ pages, Jang Ja Yeon exposed 30 men that she was forced to have sex with.
Included are Yoo Jang-ho, Jang's most-recent agent who disclosed the letter, on charges of libel for making the letter public through the media. Jang Ja Yeon, famous for her role in the k-drama Boys Over Flowers, died in March 2009, leaving behind a document that revealed she was forced to perform sexual acts on business and media executives. In a press briefing on the progress of the investigation, Bundang Police Station in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, said that they have so far booked three entertainment agency officials, two directors, three financial industry officials and a private entrepreneur on charges of defamation, coercion and assault. Following her death, an anonymously-written list of names, later dubbed the " Jang Ja-yeon List", circulated over the Internet that included industry heavyweights to whom Jang was allegedly forced to provide favors. Jang's suicide shocked many as the young actress had just begun to win fame from her supporting role in KBS TV's popular drama " Boys over Flowers". The case snowballed a few days later when her agent disclosed a seven-page suicide note, supposedly written by Jang, which said that a former agent had forced her to provide sexual and other favors to several high-powered entertainment figures and journalists. Jang Ja-yeon, the 30-year-old actress, hanged herself at her house in Bundang, south of Seoul, on March 7. Police said Friday that they have booked nine people in an unfolding probe into the suicide of an actress amid allegations she was forced to provide sexual favors by her former agent.
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