Last week we reported that the stunning 20-year-old super model, Daul Kim, was discovered hanged in her Paris apartment. Later, it emerged that the Paris prosecutor's office ruled her death as a probable suicide, sadly making her the ninth South Korean celebrity to commit suicide this year.
However, it seems additional details of Kim's death are still surfacing. This Monday, French weekly magazine, Paris Match, revealed that sources involved with the investigation said the Seoul-born model left a suicide note. Furthermore, French daily newspaper, Le Parisien, has reported that “multiple sources” have said Kim's father, a Samsung Executive, does not believe she took her own life.
Last week, many read – and reported on – Kim’s blog, speculating that she felt depressed and pressured over the stresses of high fashion modeling. Kim’s blog has now been blocked from public view in an attempt to dampen interest. However, it is clear that blogging was an important part of Kim and was a means to see her life as she wanted it to be understood.
I'm so sad that her blog was blocked. I'd read it all the time, and I enjoyed surfing through her older entries. They were so philosophical that in a sense, literati please hold you fire, it was much the same as reading Kierkegaard or studying up on Sartre. Modern day philosophy isn't bound to books, but rather it breathes through the lives of a certain few people.
I respect and understand the decision to try to ward off any post-mortum interests though, and wish her family all the best.