{"id":11719,"date":"2019-12-02T08:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T23:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/02\/deaths-of-k-pop-stars-put-focus-on-mental-health-taboos-in-south-korea"},"modified":"2019-12-02T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T23:30:53","slug":"deaths-of-k-pop-stars-put-focus-on-mental-health-taboos-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11719","title":{"rendered":"Deaths of K-pop stars put focus on mental health taboos in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toxic mix of misogyny and view of mental illness as a failure is ruining lives beyond music industry<\/p>\n<p>Only a few years ago, Sulli and Goo Hara were at the height of their powers, two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/k-pop\">K-pop<\/a> stars whose talents had brought them fame across Asia. But in the space of six weeks, both women died.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/oct\/14\/sulli-k-pop-star-former-fx-member-found-dead-aged-25\">Sulli<\/a>, 25, took her own life in October after years of online abuse. Her close friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2019\/nov\/24\/goo-hara-k-pop-singer-found-dead-aged-28\">Goo<\/a>, 28, had just completed a solo tour of Japan when her body was found at her home in Seoul last weekend alongside a note that police said indicated she had been feeling \u201cpessimistic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/02\/deaths-of-k-pop-stars-put-focus-on-mental-health-taboos-in-south-korea\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toxic mix of misogyny and view of mental illness as a failure is ruining lives beyond music industryOnly a few years ago, Sulli and Goo Hara were at the height of their powers, two K-pop stars whose talents had brought them fame across Asia. But in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,71,9,425,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-k-pop","category-music","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11721,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719\/revisions\/11721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}