SEOUL – South Korean actress Kim Mi-soo, most just lately seen within the Nineteen Eighties interval Okay-drama Snowdrop, has died on the age of 29.
Her company, Panorama Leisure, stated “Kim instantly left us on Jan 5… Please chorus from reporting false rumours or hypothesis in order that the household can mourn in peace,” in keeping with a translation posted by leisure commerce journal Deadline.
The reason for her dying was not revealed.
In Snowdrop, Kim performed a fellow scholar of protagonist Younger-ro, who’s portrayed by Jisoo from Okay-pop woman group Blackpink.
The drama collection, out there on Disney+, is ready towards the backdrop of South Korea’s 1987 Democracy Motion. It was criticised for historic inaccuracies as early as April final yr (2021), even earlier than it started airing.
After the primary two episodes aired in December, some claimed that it brought on “harm to the (South Korean) pro-democracy motion’s historic worth” in a petition to cancel the present, which garnered 200,000 signatures in someday.
Kim’s different credit embody small appearances in movies like occult thriller The Cursed: Lifeless Man’s Prey (2021) and tv collection Yumi’s Cells (2021).
South Korea’s SPOTVNews reported that Kim was within the midst of filming one other Disney+ collection, Kiss Six Sense, when she died.