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Choi Jin-shil’s brother Choi Jin-young commits suicide
by javabeans
OH NO. Only a year and a half after his older sister committed suicide, now actor-singer Choi Jin-young has been discovered dead after taking his own life on the morning...
Tags: Choi Jin-shil, Choi Jin-young, deaths
Choi Jin-sil’s slanderer given lighter punishment on appeal
by javabeans
Deceased actress Choi Jin-shil's netizen tormentor (identified only as Baek, female) has been penalized with 40 million won fine ($35,000) in an appeal trial, which reverses her earlier sentencing. Baek is the...
Tags: bad behavior, Choi Jin-shil, Jo Sung-min, lawsuits, netizens
2008 MBC Acting Awards
by javabeans
MBC hosted its awards ceremony for the 2008 Acting Awards on December 30. Let me first reiterate that I think these end-of-year broadcast-station awards are mostly meaningless. That said, this year's Daesangs...
Tags: awards, Bae Yong-joon, Beethoven Virus, Choi Jin-shil, Dennis Oh, East of Eden, Han Ji-hye, Han Ji-min, Jang Geun-seok, Ji Sung, Jung Il-woo, Jung Jun-ho, Kim Min-jung, Kim Myung-min, Lee Dong-gun, Lee Hana, Lee Jia, Lee Jun-ki, Lee Jung-jin, Lee Mi-sook, Lee Yeon-hee, Moon Sori, New Heart, Seo Shin-ae, Shin Sung-rok, Song Seung-heon, The Last Scandal of My Life, Yoon Eun-hye, Yoon Jin-seo
Choi Jin-shil up for posthumous Daesang award
by javabeans
MBC won't be awarding its end-of-year winners until December 30, but it has revealed its acting award nominees, and the name of deceased actress Choi Jin-shil has been included as a...
Tags: awards, Beethoven Virus, Choi Jin-shil, East of Eden, Kim Myung-min, Song Seung-heon, The Last Scandal of My Life
Jo Sung-min concedes in the custody war
by javabeans
Jo Sung-min is officially ending the ugly custody battle for his and Choi Jin-shil's children. He gave a press conference to announce that he is giving up all claims to...
Tags: Choi Jin-shil, Jo Sung-min, lawsuits
Jo Sung-min tells his side of the story
by javabeans
Deceased actress Choi Jin-shil’s ex-husband Jo Sung-min is changing his mind regarding the fight for child custody and inheritance rights (perhaps after the continued public outcry). We’ve mostly...
Tags: Choi Jin-shil, Jo Sung-min
Jo Sung-min faces opposition from a citizens’ campaign
by javabeans
Jo Sung-min is a baseball player and sports commentator, but he's probably most famous for being ex-husband to the deceased Choi Jin-shil, who is now causing a stir as he...
Tags: Choi Jin-shil, Jo Sung-min, lawsuits
News bites: November 3, 2008
by javabeans
Actor Go Soo, above, held his first Japanese fanmeeting on Saturday, and apparently the only news agency sent to cover it was Yonhap News, whose pictures uniformly suck. [Yonhap News]...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, 200 Pound Beauty, Bada, Choi Jin-shil, fanmeetings, Go Soo, Jo Sung-min, Kim Rae-won, musicals, news bites, overworking, Rain, Shinji
Choi Jin-shil’s death spurs talk of cyber slander laws
by javabeans
"Last Scandal" co-star Jung Jun-ho, actress Choi Ji-woo If there's something to take away from the overwhelming attention and the number of entertainers who came to pay their final respects...
Tags: Choi Jin-shil, deaths, netizens
More on Choi Jin-shil’s suicide
by javabeans
This is all very sad, particularly because Choi Jin-shil seems to have been very depressed, but not to the extent that anybody around her could have foreseen such dire actions. (...
Tags: Choi Jin-shil, deaths