{"id":59579,"date":"2023-04-20T03:58:41","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/20\/moonbin-k-pop-star-dies-at-age-of-25-in-suspected-suicide\/"},"modified":"2023-04-20T03:58:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T03:58:41","slug":"moonbin-k-pop-star-dies-at-age-of-25-in-suspected-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/20\/moonbin-k-pop-star-dies-at-age-of-25-in-suspected-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Moonbin: K-pop star dies at age of 25 in suspected suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>K-pop star Moonbin has died at the age of 25, his record label has announced.<\/p>\n<p>He was found unresponsive by his manager at his apartment in Seoul on Wednesday night, South Korean media quoted police as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe appears to have taken his own life but an autopsy is being reviewed to determine the exact cause of death,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>Moonbin \u201cunexpectedly left our world and became a star in the sky\u201d, a tribute from his label Fantiago said.<\/p>\n<p>Moonbin had been an actor and model before joining the boy band Astro in 2016, a well-established K-pop group. He also performed with a sub-group called Moonbin &amp; Sanha.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from Fantagio asked that everyone \u201crefrain from speculative and malicious reports\u201d so that his family could pay their respects in peace.<\/p>\n<p>Moonbin joined the Fantagio\u2019s trainee program as a child before eventually joining Astro. The group was originally six performers, but one member left in February 2023.<\/p>\n<p>His sister Moon Sua is also a K-pop singer, performing as part of the girl group Billlie.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img class=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/_129418245_mediaitem129418244.jpg\" alt=\"Moonbin, left, and Sanha of Astro last year\" title=\"Moonbin: K-pop star dies at age of 25 in suspected suicide\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Image caption,Moonbin, left, and Sanha of Astro last year<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Moonbin is the latest K-pop star to lose their life in recent years:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2018, Minwoo of boy band 100% died at home, with his label only saying he had suffered cardiac arrest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Korea has the highest rate of youth suicide of all developed countries and while the country\u2019s overall suicide rate is falling, deaths of those in their 20s are rising.<\/p>\n<p>The government is trying to substantially reduce the number of suicides, which plague Korea\u2019s hyper-competitive society.<\/p>\n<p>Moonbin\u2019s fans have been mourning his death, while praising him for introducing them to the hugely popular K-Pop genre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K-pop star Moonbin has died at the age of 25, his record label has announced. He was found unresponsive by his manager at his apartment in Seoul on Wednesday night, South Korean media quoted police as saying. \u201cHe appears to have taken his own life but an autopsy is being reviewed to determine the exact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Moonbin: K-pop star dies at age of 25 in suspected suicide - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/04\/20\/moonbin-k-pop-star-dies-at-age-of-25-in-suspected-suicide\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Moonbin: K-pop star dies at age of 25 in suspected suicide - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"K-pop star Moonbin has died at the age of 25, his record label has announced. 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