Kpop Idols Who Died In 2017. Another K-pop idol who passed away young is Sung In Kyu of the band Ast1. Grief-stricken music fans have lined the streets in Seoul to farewell Kim Jong-hyun the lead singer of the top South Korean K-pop band SHINee who died this week in a suspected suicide.
A harrowing note left by the K-pop singer Kim Jong-hyun who has died in a suspected suicide has highlighted the pressures facing young people in South Koreas intensely competitive entertainment. UTC An apparent suicide note left by K-pop star Kim Jong-hyun the SHINee singer best known by his stage name Jonghyun revealed the depth of his struggles with. But hey it happened like three years ago.
The lead singer of the popular boy band SHINee and soloist Jonghyuns suicide note only gave us a tiny glimpse of how depressed he really was as he spoke of how he was broken inside and that he couldnt fight it anymore.
He was 24 when he took his last breath due to thymus cancer in 2013. Han Ji Sung died on May 6 due to a car accident. Nobody can tell whether it will be good or bad long or short. The scandal was in 2017 that Siwons family dog bit a neighbor who then died from an infection.