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Song Jae-lim, South Korean Actor, Dies at 39


South Korean actor Song Jae-lim was found dead at his home in Seoul on Tuesday. He was 39.

Police sources said that Song’s body was found in Seoul’s Seongdong Ward at around 12:30 p.m. by a friend who had plans to have lunch with the actor, according to Korean media reports. While currently enjoying global impact through K-pop music and TV drama series, South Korea also has a long record of untimely deaths by celebrities, performers and musicians. In other instances, both conventional and social media have intruded into celebrities’ private lives and kept even minor misdemeanors alive in the news cycle for weeks or months.

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