Suicide Actress Used as Sex Slave
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Mar 14, 2009 19:32 JST
- Tags: Actress, Celebrities, Crime, Hana Yori Dango, Idol, Korea, Raep, Suicide, TV
The recent suicide of popular Korean actress Jang Ja-yeon, known for her latest role in a Hana Yori Dango drama, is revealed to have been prompted by her shocking treatment at the hands of her agency; it emerges she was treated as little more than an indentured prostitute, being forced to have sex with the rich and powerful and being beaten if she displeased her masters.
As detailed in an earlier report, Jang was found dead hanging from a stairway railing recently.
It was later discovered that the actress had left a suicide note. The note is said to have named names and given sordid details of the unglamorous side of the Korean entertainment business.
The contents of the note, which remains in the hands of family, has not been made public. However, speculation of what caused her death soon focused on Jang’s management agency.
Rumors of the dark underside of the Korean entertainment industry had surfaced years before. Actresses, who are brought into the public spotlight through enormous investments made by their management agency, are often put into a contractual form of slavery.
In order to make back their investments, the firms often hire out the young women to politicians and powerful individuals in the corporate world to serve as escorts.
In private salons and bars, the actresses pour drinks, dance and are often coerced to sleep with their guests. Actresses who wish to be free from their contracts often have to pay back three to five times the amount of the initial investment.
In fact, a very similar institution is said to exist in Japan.
However, Jang Ja-yeon’s former manager spoke out against her agency in a statement to the press.
He alleged that Jang Ja-yeon had been forced to have sex with the management agency’s production director, and not only that: he also described an episode where the actress was physically beaten with water bottles and threatened via text messages.
The former manager also revealed that Jang had felt powerless, a newcomer with little money or leverage. He stated that he was revealing these details against the family’s wishes in accordance to the late actress’ desires to see her abusers brought to justice.
Jang’s former manager was cooperating with the police in their continuing investigation.
The agency’s production director was unavailable for comment having conveniently flown to Japan on an unscheduled business trip.
Shortly afterward, Jang’s former manager reportedly attempted suicide.
It is speculated that he attempted to kill himself to avoid the inevitable backlash for his statement. He remains hospitalized.
Via Chosun Ilbo.
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Dammit, I have to stop reading these posts when I've not gotten any sleep. I'm so emotionally unstable when I'm sleep-deprived.
The poor girl. D:
yeah, but it happens everywhere.
Its still sad that they do this kind of stuff to the girls
Still doesn't make it any less sad.
Stopped my fappage. :(
Heart goes to the poor girl...
What a corrupted world we are living in....
no wonder people said that the entertainment industry is as dark as the abyss... :/
Perhaps this is not only limited in Korea?
"In fact, a very similar institution is said to exist in Japan."
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/11/19/idol-prostitution-rife-says-fallen-idol-minako-komukai/
I'll never see them hot asian girls the same way again... Probably they'd all got fucked by them ugly old politicians...
Maybe we should try not to look at them this way whatever happen. It doesn't help their image and we don't if it's true or not for everyone.
Still, I'm really sad. Knowing what happen to this girl is cruel and unfair. Damned, we are not in the 40's and 50's anymore for god sake.
True... Its a sad fact how they're used... Its not fair how those rich old bastards get all the power... They're ruining people's lives... Those politicians and old men should die of heart attack...
I see what you did there.
what a fucken horrible thing to say!!! didnt u just read the article! how could you be so heartless as to say shit like that!!!
why not for a change, look at the men in power differently? why blame the girls for being exploited? because they have to fit a very narrow definition of pure, innocent Hot Asian Fantasy for you?
Does it mean that because these rich old geezers have power, which makes them have justice, while not having power is a crime, and exploiting the powerless is seen as dishing out justice? If so, you are deluded.
That's a nice jacket.
It is, isn't it?
Agreed.
"sordid details of the unglamorous side of the Korean entertainment business"
Don't have any illusion about this. These things are in western showbusiness too.
That sucks hard.
I hope you're not making any sexual innuendos...
But that poor girl... the industry is so screwed up.
Shortly afterward, Jang’s former manager reportedly attempted suicide.
maybe he is also gay sex slave for some bussinesman? :o
Or mostly felt powerless and intimidated that if they found out he was going to try anythign funny, both her and his contracts will be history
Those at the top are at fault! Excuse me while I geass Akumetsu for a special service.
He prolly tried to kill himself, instead of those bad politicians killing him.
Or prolly he got scared or sth. But good thing he told the truth.
Poor girl. Poor girl.. :(
People are terrible everywhere.
Man by nature is bad?
Pretty much, yes.
No wonder that some people(like us?) prefer a 2D world... Evil is everywhere!
This could be a plot for some random detective anime, srsly.
phoenix wright .....
i dont get it.. what's with asia and treating women like garbage?
It happans in north america too... well at least in canada :P well at least in WEST canada...
Although it could be the fact that alot of us are high and are only kidding... :P
If we had no drugs, we would be living in a (slightly) better north america.
It happens everywhere actually, just use common sense : what kind of agency makes a business of displaying hot girls ?
All those perfect bodies displayed in bikini, do you think they're only for the 2D ? The idol business is very close to the prostitution business whatever the country, even if it's not slavery. When you're a hot girl that discovers how much extra money she can make by having sex sometimes with the right person, or how she can boost her career, how long do you refuse ? How long do you keep looking at your career that doesn't evolve when the other girls in the agency get better jobs and more celebrity just because they are having sex with the right persons ?
sue them _before_ trying to kill yourself, i would like to say... but i know zero about how seriously abuse-related crime involving rich & powerful overlords is treated in korea. or japan, for that matter.
it's a sick business.
The very same things are happening to your IDOLM@STER girls, behind your back!
ph34r da TRUTH!
Poor girl being insulted like that. I guess that the entertainment world is dark as ever.
sounds like an episode of Jigoku Shoujo... reality is so twisted
When this story originally came out here I wrote that there could be an undercurrent of abuse that should be investigated. I guess I was correct in my assessment.
So sad...I'm sure this happens in Japan also (as well as US).
No matter where you go, there will always be people being oppressed by those flaunting power! Therefore, I shall break the chains of powerlessness. Stand with me, and you will not be alone any longer!
I wonder where all the jerks from the previous story about her suicide are to comment things like "oh well, people die every day" or "good riddance" again. It's apathetic and unsympathetic people like them that are the unsung dregs of society.
I was wondering that too...I knew the industry was bad, but I didn't know it was that bad...
that is really sad. she was so beautiful... /baw
that is *fucked up.
geez,showbusiness became a prostitution den nowadays...
poor girl, let hope her soul rest in peace.
<3 K-Drama
fuck whats that monster on the left? a massive tentacle microphone?
May the manager live so everyone around him can make his life a living hell.
Also, did I get things right? The family was planning to keep this quiet? If so, they also deserve to live in hell.
And the agency.
Hell.
Blame that insane obsession with "not losing face" so common among Asians. One aspect of their culture I will NEVER get to like.
Hell is too good for scum such as these. I, the 6th Code Breaker, shall judge these trash that have somehow managed to worm their way through the net of justice.
I hope her killer gets the justice they deserve. They forced a young lady to take her life and the forced sex slavery is absolutely horrid.
Maybe some of the more sick mangas are being drawn from real life happenings, manga artists who were there watching or partaking. This is the world over, girls become property for those who can. sick
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Just goes to show that no matter what country, government officials and those with power are corrupt. I can only hope the names get released publicly, I would bet my life savings most of those dipshits have wives if they are in politics.
Oh crap, I hope my favourite actress, newcomer Lee Ji-Ah, isn't in the same situation as her.
but...isn't this sort of universal?
And there are actually people who believe that those eroge plots are fictional...
i've been following this girls story from the day of her suicide... i hope you have a source to back this up on. i know the manager has said some things hinting towards it but i didn't hear of concrete evidence
oh my god
the news networks are reporting this
i feel sick
Saw a dokumentary this morning about an athletics school in North Korea. Every morning they had to sing a song (sounded like a national anthem or something) and in that song was a part about about sacrificing they're lives for Kim Jong II.
They also got brainwashed during one class to see America as an evil Imperialistic country.
Okay, what in the world? How can things like this still be happening in a world where we tell women on a DAILY BASIS that no one has the right to force them into sex?
I'm beginning to be VERY skeptical of things like this, in all honesty, because from what I have seen.... if a woman has truly been forced into sex, she is going to IMMEDIATELY go out and start wailing to the police.
No, this sounds hinky at the least, and there has to be more to this story and something wrong with this woman's family if what we are hearing is true.
Actually, when it comes to repeated sexual abuse, it is quite common for the victim to keep quiet about it.
I'm not sure what it's like in Korea, but it's especially true in Japan. The shame that would be brought on the family by reporting a rape case puts off a huge number of victims from reporting it.
Well, that's showing the stupidity of Korea and Japan and the whole of Asia. There is NO shame brought on a family by a woman reporting a rape, as long as that accusation is proven to be true.
The thing that might put them off more than the 'shame' of reporting the rape is the absolute impossibility of proving a rape if the man says "Yes, I had sex with that woman!" when it is being investigated, as the man who tried to rape my one cousin did.
The investigation stalled at that point because they were, in their own words, relying on the man saying that he DIDN'T have the woman in his house and catching him in a lie that way.
When he admits the woman was in his house, that they had sex, etc..... most people are going to assume that it's a case of 'fucker's remorse' as they and I all it and won't find the man guilty in court.
Just because you never felt this shame doesn't mean it doesn't exist. You can't understand the feelings of the victim without being in her place or extremely empathic. I don't wish you neither. Pricks live better.
Sorry, but no. I worked as a social worker for a short period, and the advice that the people with 20-30 years in social services was the EXACT opposite: if a woman does not come IMMEDIATELY to report a rape, it is most likely that she is making it up or trying to get a man in trouble for 'unsatisfying sex'. The 20-30 year in people were mostly women and feminist women at that, so I believe they know what they are talking about.
"were mostly women and feminist women at that"
"so I believe they know what they are talking about."
I can't believe you don't see the implication of these two statements. Hint: feminist women
Especially don't apply these believes to East Asia. Not only are there very few feminists over there, you're vastly underestimating the power of the fear "to lose face". You think women and their families don't lose face by reporting rape and other abuses and to think otherwise would be totally illogical? Well, good for you, and you're certainly right. Unfortunately, Asians (vast majority at any rate) disagree with you greatly.
"...the advice that the people with 20-30 years in social services was the EXACT opposite: if a woman does not come IMMEDIATELY to report a rape, it is most likely that she is making it up or trying to get a man in trouble for ‘unsatisfying sex’."
We're talking about two different things here:
1. Women reporting a supposed rape hours or days after the fact---which looks suspiciously like they stewed in their anger & came up with a hasty plan for revenge.
vs.
2. A woman being repeatedly raped & then forced into silence under the threat of death & at the same time shown the UTTER FUTILITY of trying to report it with a web of cover-ups by rich and powerful industry people.
Sex slavery rings exist all over the 3rd world. Occasionally they're able to infliltrate into a developed country, especially if there is a culture of unquestioned respect towards authority--i.e.,the Confucianism of Northeast Asia.
This guy is obviously unfriendly to Northeast Asia and Confucianism. Could be Caucasian or maybe somewhere closer. Watch out for guys like this throwing about unedifying statements about an entire region and the races there, they're up to no good.
If this is true, this is horrible.
Why is the industry like this?!
Well, I can guess why the family wouldn't want to published her suicide note. Fear of the bastard who's got power. I know that people with power can make someone's life a living hell.
Plus, people in power can always fabricate news or evidences.
Every time I read or hear rape or forced sex incident, I wish that the DEATH NOTE really exist.
I'm very sorry for her and may she rest in peace.
Me too..I wish i hv DeathNote..
ppl says suicide is a stupid way of life..
But anw in some circumstances ppl might think abt it..Even my self ever think abt it..
Iam really sad abt this incident ..
May she rest in peace..
Hahaha fucking gooks.
wow i can not believe there are such thing like this still in the world. i love watching kdrama, i give all the actors and actresses for bringing entertainment to us to watch, i didnt realize how bad it is behind the scenes or what they have to do to get to where they are. this is unfair, i wish those criminals be put in jail where they belong.
gee wiz stupid ladi! just tell the fucking police! dont fucking kill yourself! or better yet, kill those who hurt ur...even still a sad story.