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2005/05/23 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

The late Korean actress Lee Eun-joo's posthumous cinema 'The Scarlet Letter' is invited to the 7th Taipei Film Festival, scheduled to raise a curtain on June 25.

The Taipei Film Festival is an annual multi-cultural event containing film festival and other film culture-related activities held by the Taipei City Government and mapped out by the Department of Cultural Affairs.

In the past three years, the Taipei Film Festival is executed by Taiwan Film & Culture Association, a newly established non-profit film culture organization conducted by the world-acclaimed director HOU Hsiao-Hsien (Millennium Mambo, Flowers of Shanghai, City of Sadness).

And the General Director of the Taipei Film Festival, Edmond Wong, is the former Director of the Chinese Taipei Film Archive.

Cinema 'The Scarlet Letter', in which Lee Eun-joo starred, shows a plot that Ki-hoon is an elite detective, a graduate of the Police Academy and in charge of the Violent Crimes Department. He married to Soo-...

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2005/02/22 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

By Lee Yong-sung
Staff Reporter

Popular television and film actress Lee Eun-joo was found dead on Tuesday, apparently having committed suicide. She was 24.

Lee, the star of such hit films as "TaeGukGi" (2004) and "The Scarlet Letter" (2004) as well as the recent MBC television drama "Firebird" ("Phoenix", Pulsae), was found by her elder brother in the walk-in closet of her apartment in Pundang, Kyonggi Province, where she is said to have hung herself.

Lee's mother and elder brother were with her until early in the morning, he said, and he returned to the apartment in the afternoon when she failed to answer her phone.

A note written in blood that included the words, "Mother, I'm sorry, I love you" was discovered at the scene.

While the police said the death is believed to be suicide, investigations were not formally completed by the time this newspaper went to print.

Born Nov. 16, 1980, Lee lived in Kunsan, North Cholla Province, until graduating from high school and ...

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