K-Pop Star Sulli Dead at 25, Officials Believe Suicide Was Manner of Death

South Korean pop star and actress Sulli poses during the K-Beauty Close-Up event in Seoul, South Korea on Sept. 30, 2015. News reports on Oct. 14, 2019, said she had been found dead at her home south of Seoul. (Jang Se-young/Newsis via AP)

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Sulli of the K-pop band f(x) was found dead inside her home, and reports suggest that suicide may have been the manner of death.

“So far, it seems she killed herself, but we will leave all possibilities open and investigate,” a South Korean police official told CNN.

The 25-year-old singer and actress, born Choi Jin-ri, was found dead by her manager on Monday, the report said.

The manager had spoken to her on Sunday evening but when he checked on her the next day, she was found dead. Officials said she was found in her home in Sujeong-gu, Seongnam, located near of South Korea’s capital city, Seoul.

Sulli had more than 6 million followers on Instagram. She left f(x) in 2015 to focus on acting.

The Associated Press reported Monday that a cause of death hasn’t been reported. Local officials don’t suspect foul play, and they didn’t find a suicide note.

“The investigation is ongoing and we won’t make presumptions about the cause of death,” Kim Seong-tae, spokesperson for Seongnam Sujeong Police Department, told AP. Meanwhile, Sulli’s management, SM Entertainment, said that her death was “very hard to believe and sorrowful.”

AP noted that she was known as a feminist in South Korea while also appearing on a TV show and in several movies after she left the group.

She was also friends with K-pop star Jonghyun, whose real name was Kim Jong-hyun, who killed himself in December 2017.

Singer and actress Goo Hara, formerly part of girl band Kara, was found unconscious in May 2019. She posted the word “Goodbye” on Instagram, suggesting that she attempted to kill herself.

Ambulances drive along a street in a file photo. (TVNZ via Reuters TV)

Other details about her death are not clear.

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