The Late Jang Ja-yeon's 13th Year Memorial

13 years have passed since the late actor Jang Ja-yeon passed away.

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The late Jang Ja-yeon made her debut as a commercial model in 2006 and made her face known in the KBS2 drama "Boys over Flowers", but died at her home in Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, on March 7th, 2009, when she was appearing in a drama. She was turning thirty years old the next year.

The late Jang Ja-yeon was forced to sell sex to influential figures by her agency and was assaulted several times, which ended up in her death, leaving a suicide note and a list. The 'Jang Ja-yeon List', is known to have the real names of media representatives, broadcaster PDs and corporate representatives, drawing public outrage from netizens.

In May 2018, the prosecution's past investigation committee under the Ministry of Justice recommended the prosecution to re-investigate the case and the Supreme Prosecutors' Office's fact-finding team launched a re-investigation of the 'Jang Ja-yeon List' case, nine years after the incident. In the process, the prosecution handed over a former reporter A, who was listed on the list to trial, but A was acquitted by the Supreme Court.

Regarding the Jang Ja-yeon incident, actor Yoon Ji-oh, a colleague of the deceased, appeared as the only witness, drawing attention from netizens. However, Yoon Ji-oh was intensively sued and accused in 2019 as she was embroiled in allegations related to defamation and donations against those suspected of being involved in the case.

Yoon Ji-oh left for Canada in April 2019 and was embroiled in suspicion of fleeing. The police asked Interpol for a red warrant for Yoon Ji-oh and completed measures to invalidate her passport. The Ministry of Justice also suspended the prosecution, saying it was difficult to identify Yoon Ji-oh's location.

In May 2019, the Past History Committee concluded that 'Jang Ja-yeon's document is likely to be true, but we have not confirmed the substance of the so-called list'.

Meanwhile, the body of the late Jang Ja-yeon was sprayed near the grave of Soseong-myeon, Jeongeup-si, Jeollabuk-do, the hometown where her parents' graves are located.