Lee Sun-kyun, a South Korean actor of the Oscar-winning movie “Parasite”, was discovered lifeless, Yonhap information company reported on Wednesday, citing police.

Lee had been underneath investigation over unlawful drug use allegations amid an ongoing authorities crackdown on unlawful medicine. Lee was discovered unconscious subsequent to briquettes inside a automobile at a park in Seoul on Wednesday morning, after his spouse reported to police that Lee had left house and he or she had discovered what seemed to be a suicide word, Yonhap mentioned.

South Korea has powerful drug legal guidelines, and drug crimes are sometimes punishable by at the very least six months in jail or as much as 14 years for repeat offenders and sellers. Born in 1975, Lee starred as a wealthy household’s father in “Parasite”, and likewise performed main roles in South Korean motion pictures together with the 2012 thriller “Helpless” and 2014’s “All About My Wife”, amongst others.

Lee had the lead position in Apple TV+’s first Korean-language authentic collection, which rolled out in 2021. “Dr. Brain”, a six-episode sci-fi thriller, was a few cold-hearted neurologist, Koh Se-won, who tries to search out clues to a mysterious household accident by mind experiments.

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