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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Catherine Shoard

Bong Joon-ho joins calls for investigation of Lee Sun-kyun’s death

Lee Sun-kyun at the Cannes film festival last year.
Lee Sun-kyun at the Cannes film festival last year. Photograph: Gisela Schober/Getty Images

Parasite director Bong Joon-ho is among a number of artists and arts organisations in South Korea who have called for an investigation into the circumstances of the death last month of actor Lee Sun-kyun.

Lee, who played the wealthy father in Bong’s Oscar-winning film, died last month in an apparent suicide, at the age of 48.

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