Lead singer of SHINee, Kim Jong-Hyun, one of South Korea\u2019s top K-pop boybands, died on Monday, police said, in what appears to be a suicide.The singer was 27 when he was found unconscious at a Seoul hotel by police after sending his older sister several text messages suggesting suicide, police said. The messages read \u201cThis is my last farewell,\u201d \u201cThings have been so difficult,\u201d \u201cPlease let me go and say I did a good job,\u201d prompting his sister to make an emergency call to the police.<\/p>\n
Kim was pronounced dead shortly after being moved to a hospital, police said, adding a coal briquette was found burning on a frying pan in the room.<\/p>\n
Burning coal briquettes, which release carbon monoxide, is a common method of suicide in South Korea, which has one of the world\u2019s highest suicide rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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