She was also forced to serve and consume drinks and to act as an escort at golf matches, she wrote. Jang reportedly claimed Kim had regularly beaten her and forced her to have sex with a string of VIPs, including directors, media executives and CEOs. The villain of the piece, according to South Korean reports, is her agent, Kim Sung-hoon, who is now in Japan following accusations he molested a male model.
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In a seven-page letter, written a week before her death, the star of Boys Over Flowers, South Korea's most avidly watched soap opera, chronicled the sexual and other favours she was expected to extend to progress in the cutthroat "Korean Wave" of TV and film.Ī 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 Korean Government Agency tries to cover it up with false claims of fabrication New 500 pages of documents revealed which detail 31 high power Koreans that used her for sexual favors over 110 times, including the producer of Boys over Flowers. They receive 2 years probation sentence (same as Mae Jae Yoon for Match Fixing) Her Agent and CEO of her company abused her for years. Leaves a letter detailing how she was coerced to give sexual and other favors by her agency. Young Actress from Boys over flowers commits suicide. Since the death of her parents in a traffic accident in 1999, Jang had been living with her older sister and younger brother and helped support them with her acting. #1 Jang Ja-yeon (26) was found hanged to death at her home in the Bundang district of Seongnam, Gyeonggi province, on 7 March 2009.