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Late Choi Jin Young Planned to Be Singer and Actor

"He said that he would work as both a singer and actor", the late Choi Jin Young's agency, Mcloud Entertainment, said in a statement on March 30 regarding what the entertainer had said before his death. The company spokesman spoke as if Choi's death was still unbelievable even after a day had passed since he died.


The director of the agency, Kim Jin Soo, talked on the phone with Yonhap News and said, "Choi Jin Young signed an agreement with our agency on January 1, and the agreement included conditions that he would become a 'multiplayer', which is industry parlance for an actor and a singer".

He continued, "Any specific work had not yet been decided, but there were some offers from dramas, movies, and musicals, and we were discussing it. Even though he agonized over a role because he did not like it, it is not true that he did not receive any work offers".

He added, "Whenever we were talking about work, he was serious and showed enthusiasm, so I could not imagine that he would create a disturbance by attempting suicide last year, and by actually committing suicide like this. Rather, he seemed to be preparing to start working, as he had said that he would try hard to be a good actor and had even made an appointment to see a dentist before he start working".

The late actor's mother has collapsed from the shock and now lies in a bed prepared in a room immediately beside the mortuary while receiving an IV injection. The late Choi Jin-sil's best friend, Lee Young Ja, is looking after her. Choi's uncle and a nephew surnamed Choi have been named chief mourners.

On March 29, many visitors, such as Cha Tae-tyeon, Hong Kyung-min, Lee Hwi-jae, Kim Jong Kook, Yoon Yoo-sun, Kim Hyo-jin, and Kim Jung Min, came to offer their condolences.

Kim announced that no will has been found yet and that the late actor would be cremated on March 31 in a crematorium in Sung Nam and then placed in the same charnel house where his sister Choi Jin-sil was placed in Gabsan Park Tombs in Yangpyung-gun, Geonggi-do.

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