K-Pop star Park Boram found dead at 30

Park Boram was found dead in a friend’s apartment, cutting short a successful career of almost 15 years (Credits: Youtube/CJ E&M Music)

The K-pop industry is in mourning after the death of Park Boram. The outstanding artist who emerged from the television singing competition Super Star K2, managed to consolidate a brilliant decade-long career in this music industry. According to confirmations from her record label in Korea, she died on Tuesday, April 11, and the police are currently investigating the causes of her death. She was 30 years old.

Xanadu Entertainment, Park’s agency, announced the unexpected death on Friday, April 12 in Korea, indicating that the relevant investigations are already underway. Before his death, the star had two new songs this year and was working on new music.

“It is with great sadness and a heavy heart that we announce this tragic news. Late on the 11th, Park Boram suddenly passed away,” reads the agency’s brief statement.

According to reports from the Namnyangju Nambu police station, Park Boram died due to cardiac arrest (Credits: YouTube/Stone Music Entertainment)

Although the agency did not provide further details about Park’s death, the Nambu police station in Namnyangju provided a report on the circumstances in which Boram was found. Around 9:55 p.m., the singer-songwriter was found passed out in the bathroom of a friend who lived in Gyeonggi-do. According to testimonies from those present, the young woman was with a group of nearby people when she went to the bathroom, and as soon as everyone realized that she had already taken too long, they went to the place and discovered her “unconscious on the sink.”

They immediately contacted the authorities and the police and the ambulance soon appeared. Paramedics tried to revive her on the way to the hospital, but the woman had collapsed from the beginning due to cardiac arrest. She officially died at 11:17 p.m. that day.

Park Boram burst onto the small screen at the age of 17, when she participated in the Super Star K2 singing competition in 2010. Back then, she was a high school student with a great passion for R&B music and managed to become one of the youngest finalists. of the successful program, ranking eighth. Her official debut occurred on August 7, 2014 with the single “Beautiful,” which featured the collaboration of popular rapper Zico. The song peaked at No. 2 on Korea’s Gaon Chart and earned her recognition as Artist of the Year for August’s Top Song at the 2014 Gaon Chart Music Awards. The music video was semi-autobiographical in detailing Park’s efforts. for becoming a “beautiful” woman before her first performance as an artist, which included exercise and extreme diets to lose more than 30 kilos.

Park Boram debuted on a singing show in 2010, winning the public’s affection at just 17 years old.

“I think a lot of people, after listening to this song, felt motivated to exercise more, lose weight and diet,” he expressed with satisfaction in 2016 in an interview with NPR. She also mentioned how her agency supported her numerous physical changes before the release of the single. Her first EP, “Celepretty,” released in April 2015, included “Beautiful” and she managed to secure another top 10 hit with her lead single.

Park is best remembered for her contributions to Korean drama soundtracks, especially for performing the theme song for the most-watched K-dramas on South Korean cable television, Reply 1988, “Hyehwa-dong” (or “Ssangmun-dong”). . Other popular OSTs include “Palpitations” for Wicked Kiss, “Always” for 49 Days, “Falling” for Hyde, Jekyll, Me, “Please Say Something, Even Though It’s A Lie” for W, among others.

In 2017, her two-year relationship with popular actor Seo In-guk was confirmed, until both artists’ agencies announced their breakup in 2018. They had

His latest musical work was the single “I Miss You,” released on April 3 as part of a musical covers project, and he had announced that he was working on an album to celebrate his 10th anniversary in the industry this summer.