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According to the police on the 9th, Lee Ji-eun was found dead at her home in Jung-gu, Seoul at 8 pm the previous day. The police were dispatched to the scene after receiving a report from an acquaintance stating that “Lee Ji-eun is not contacted.”
An official in charge of the case at the Central Police Station said in a phone call with Maeil Business Daily Star Today on the 9th, “I went to the field with 119 after receiving a report from an acquaintance. There was no will on site,” he said.
It is said that Lee Ji-eun was living alone until his death after his son joined the military.
The police said, “I got in touch with my son” when asked, “Did you have contact with the bereaved family?”
Lee Ji-eun, who debuted as a model on the SBS program’Good Morning’ in 1994, was loved by her boyish charm and exotic image as she appeared in the youth drama’Impression’ in the same year.
Since then, she expanded her field of activity to the screen and appeared in the movie’Kumhonga Kumhonga’ and received the New Best Actress Award at the 16th Blue Dragon Film Festival and the 34th Grand Bell Awards.
Then, in 1994, she appeared in the drama’Impression’ and in 1995 in the drama’Young People’s Yangji’, making her name and face known to the public.
Lee Ji-eun, who appeared in the movies’End of the Century’ and’Blue Daemun’, which were released in 1999, and showed various acting, left the entertainment world for the last time in the KBS drama’Haeshin’ in 2004.
Ji-eun Lee married a venture businessman in 2000 and lived the life of a businessman and housewife. It is known that he ran a children’s beauty salon before his death, and at one time there was a comeback in the entertainment industry.
It is known that the police are currently in discussions with the bereaved family to determine the exact cause of death of Lee Ji-eun.