{"id":69618,"date":"2025-02-22T09:05:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T00:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/22\/like-a-giant-squid-game-soul-searching-in-south-korea-after-latest-celebrity-suicide"},"modified":"2025-02-22T09:05:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T00:05:51","slug":"like-a-giant-squid-game-soul-searching-in-south-korea-after-latest-celebrity-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69618","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Like a giant Squid Game\u2019: soul searching in South Korea after latest celebrity suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death of actor Kim Sae-ron sparks renewed calls for changes to ease pressure on celebrities who face intense scrutiny from media and fans alike <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the South Korean columnist Yang Sung-hee <a href=\"https:\/\/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com\/news\/2025-02-21\/opinion\/columns\/Koreas-relentless-cycle-of-celebrity-tragedy\/2246373\">asked<\/a> a question to which no one appears to have an answer: \u201cWhen will this ever end? How many more lives must be lost before this tragic cycle is broken?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yang\u2019s question, asked in the Korea JoongAng Daily newspaper, is just one of many that has emerged since the actor Kim Sae-ron was found dead in her home in Seoul on Sunday in a case police are treating as suicide. She was 24.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/22\/like-a-giant-squid-game-soul-searching-in-south-korea-after-latest-celebrity-suicide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death of actor Kim Sae-ron sparks renewed calls for changes to ease pressure on celebrities who face intense scrutiny from media and fans alike On Friday, the South Korean columnist Yang Sung-hee asked a question to which no one appears to have an answ&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4110,"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":[41,1533,69,222,520],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-drama","category-film","category-south-korea","category-television"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69618","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\/4110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69619,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69618\/revisions\/69619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}