Ok-Pop Star Wheesung
Suffered Cardiac Arrest ….
After Attainable Drug OD
Revealed
South Korean Ok-Pop star Wheesung was reportedly discovered lifeless inside his house on Monday — and police are investigating whether or not his dying was drug-related.
The physique of the singer-songwriter was found inside his condominium final night by Fireplace Division officers after he went into cardiac arrest, based on the New York Occasions.
The newspaper stated Wheesung — whose actual identify was Choi Whee-sung — had a historical past of drug abuse — and investigators with the Seoul Gwangjin Police Station had been wanting into the chance he overdosed.
Wheesung launched his music profession in 2002 with the discharge of his standard document, “Like a Movie,” which gained a number of awards that 12 months.
He went on to document over a dozen albums whereas penning songs for a few of South Korea’s largest Ok-Pop bands, specifically Twice and Tremendous Junior. He additionally landed components in musicals, enjoying the roles of Zorro and Elvis Presley.
However, his profession reportedly took a mistaken flip in 2021 after he was convicted of buying and utilizing the highly effective sedative often known as Propofol.
Wheesung was given a suspended, one-year jail sentence below the caveat he wouldn’t commit one other crime, based on the NYT. He was additionally ordered to pay a high quality of $41,000 and enter a drug remedy program.
Wheesung was 43.
RIP
