Choi Jin-sil found dead in apparent suicide

South Korea actress, Choi Jin-sil, was found dead Thursday in an apparent suicide after suffering from post-divorce depression and harassment by online rumors about her allegedly irregular financial dealings. She is believed to have hanged herself in the bathroom of her Seoul home, said Yang Jae-ho, chief investigator at Seoul’s Seocho Police Station.

No formal suicide note has been found, but Choi sent her makeup assistant cell phone text messages twice Wednesday night asking her to “take care of (my) children no matter what happens”, the investigator said.

Choi made her debut in the late 1980s and quickly becoming one of South Korea’s best-loved actresses. She starred in a number of box-office hits, including “My Love, My Bride” of 1990 and “How to Top My Wife” of 1994.