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| Kim Sung-min |
By Ko Dong-hwan
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| / Korea Times |
Police said they found Kim hanging by a necktie and unconscious in a bathroom at his home in Seocho-gu, Seoul, about 2 a.m.
They called an emergency rescue team that took him to the Catholic University of Korea Seoul St. Mary Hospital.
About 1 a.m., Kim's son told police his father was physically harassing his mother, surnamed Lee. Police visited the star's apartment but Lee asked them to leave, saying the matter was only minor. She then left with her son, telling Kim, who was drunk, they would stay the night at a nearby relative's home.
Ten minutes after leaving, Lee called police and asked them to check on Kim. She told them that when Kim was drunk he would tell her he was going to kill himself. Police returned to the apartment and found Kim, 43, hanging.
Hospital medical staff said Kim is in a "grave situation," according to online news outlet Star News.
Kim tried to kill himself in October 2014 after he argued with Lee, who he married a year before. A month after the suicide attempt, he was arrested for allegedly taking philopon, a methamphetamine, and sentenced to 10 months' prison. He was released last January.
Lee filed a petition around the time of the indictment that said Kim was "out of his mind as he tried to kill himself and committed irrational behavior by taking the drug."
In 2011, Kim was sentenced two years and six months in prison, suspended for four years, for taking philopon and smoking cannabis.
