Twenty-year-old South Korean supermodel Daul Kim was found hanged in her central Paris apartment after an apparent suicide, the South Korean embassy said yesterday, citing French police officials.
Kim - a regular on the catwalks of London, Milan, New York, and Paris - most recently modelled clothes from leading designers Chanel, Dries Van Noten and Alexander McQueen.
The last entry on her popular blog “I Like To Fork Myself” - posted on Wednesday - was headlined “say hi to forever” and had a link to a video of the song “I Go Deep” by British singer Jim Rivers.
South Korean embassy spokesman Lee Seung Yoo said that French police “have informed us that Korean citizen Kim Daul committed suicide in her apartment yesterday afternoon.”
“One of her friends found her body hanging in her apartment,” he added. “Her family are coming to Paris from Seoul and will be arriving this evening or tomorrow morning.”
Kim’s death had been announced earlier yesterday by agencies she worked for, with her Paris representatives saying: “She was a top model and a great friend of all of us at Next.”
Her agency in South Korea, Esteem, said in a statement: “We express deep condolences to Daul Kim’s family,” it said, asking everyone to respect her family’s privacy at this time of mourning.
In a blog entry on October 30 she complained after a modelling stint in Seoul that she was “getting mad depressed and overworked”.
The 178-centimetre (five foot ten inch) model debuted on the runway for Chanel, Dries Van Noten, and Maison Martin Margiela in 2007 and recently appeared in a commercial for Christopher Kane’s Topshop line. AFP
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