President Roh Moo Hyun

Twenty-year-old South Korean supermodel Daul Kim was found hanged in her central Paris apartment after an apparent suicide, the South Korean embassy said on Friday. Kim -- a regular on the catwalks of London, Milan, New York, and Paris -- most recently modelled clothes from leading designers Chanel, Dries Van Noten and Alexander McQueen. She was known for her thick mane of dark hair -- which she sometimes dyed blond -- and for her quirky look. The last entry on her popular blog "I Like To Fork Myself" -- posted Wednesday, a day before her death -- was headlined "say hi to forever" and ... Read Full Story

A 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular in New York, Milan and Paris has been found hanged in her Paris apartment, a police official said Friday. Daul Kim was found dead Thursday by her boyfriend, who alerted French police, the official said. He declined to be named in accordance with policy. Paris police were working under the hypothesis that Kim committed suicide, he said. Kim's agent, Alessandra Bertoldini of the Next modeling agency, said the model's mother was arriving in Paris later Friday. She declined to elaborate. Raised in Seoul and Singapore, Kim modeled in Asia before making her ... Read Full Story

A top South Korean model who was a fixture at fashion week in Paris and London was found dead at her apartment in Paris, an official said Friday. Daul Kim, 20, was found dead Thursday by French police, a Foreign Ministry official in Seoul said. The official declined to provide further details and asked not to be named, citing ministry policy. Media reports called it an apparent suicide, but officials have not confirmed the cause of death. Her Seoul agency, Esteem, said her family and agency officials were heading to Paris. Raised in Seoul and Singapore, Kim modeled in Asia before making her fashion ... Read Full Story

One of Asia's top film festivals opened Thursday by taking a lighthearted look at the South Korean presidency. Jang Jin's "Good Morning President" playfully examines the personal lives of three successive heads of state — a former dissident conflicted by what to do with a winning lottery ticket; a dashing young politician who juggles a kidney transplant and a standoff with North Korea, and the country's first female leader whose husband's real-estate investments beget a scandal that threatens the presidency and her marriage. The director told reporters on the opening day of the 14th Pusan International Film Festival that he wanted to show the ... Read Full Story

A South Korean court Wednesday upheld the conviction of the older brother of the late President Roh Moo-hyun for influence-peddling, but reduced the sentence he had received just days before the former leader's suicide. Roh Gun-pyeong was convicted and sentenced in May shortly before his brother — who also was under investigation in a separate bribery scandal — jumped to his death in a suicide that sparked an outpouring of sympathy for the family and accusations that prosecutors had hounded the former leader. The Seoul High Court said in its ruling Wednesday that the lower court had given the elder Roh an overly stiff ... Read Full Story