An alleged suicide note left by Jang describes how she was beaten and forced to entertain and have sex with several program directors, CEOs and media executives, causing considerable debate about relations in the entertainment industry, as well as a police probe into her management agency.Īccording to South Korean reports, Jang claimed that her agent Kim Sung-hoon had regularly beaten her and forced her to have sex with a string of VIPs, including directors, media executives and CEOs. Jang is believed to have killed herself at around 4:30 p.m. to find her body hanging from the stairway banister.Ī police investigation concluded that her death was a suicide, and found no evidence of foul play. Having later been unable to reach her on the phone, Jang's sister returned to their shared home at 7:42 p.m.
that afternoon, Jang had complained to her sister about the "overwhelming stress" she was under, saying that she "wanted to die". Jang Ja-yeon was found hung at her home in the Bundang district of Seongnam, Gyeonggi province, on 7 March 2009. Prior to her own death, Jang had been suffering from clinical depression and had received medical treatment for her illness during the past year. Since the death of her parents in a traffic accident in 1999, Jang had been living with her older sister and younger brother. In her seven-page suicide note, the actress alleged her management regularly beat her and demanded she submit to ongoing sexual exploitation with industry professionals and cultural elites, naming almost two dozen executives. Jang was known to have had difficulties with her management agency. At the time of her death, Jang was awaiting the release of her first two films, They Are Coming and Penthouse Elephant. Her big break came in Boys Over Flowers playing the role of Sunny, one of a trio of girls who antagonise the female lead played by Ku Hye-sun. Jang made her debut in 2006 in a television commercial.
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