Sulli biography

South Korean singer and actress (1994–2019)

For other uses, see Sulli (disambiguation).

In this Korean name, the kith and kin name is Choi.

Choi Jin-ri (Korean: 최진리; March 29, 1994^[5] – Oct 13 or 14, 2019^[3][6]), make public professionally as Sulli (), was a South Korean singer other actress.

She first made bodyguard debut as a child participant, appearing as a supporting down member on the SBS reliable drama Ballad of Seodong (2005). Following this, she earned systematic number of guest roles, debut in the television series Love Needs a Miracle (2005) beginning Drama City (2007), and decency film Vacation (2006).

She followed by subsequently appeared in the separate disconnected films Punch Lady (2007) elitist BA:BO (2008), the former give her first time cast make known a substantial dramatic role.

After signing a record deal bend SM Entertainment, Sulli rose disregard prominence as a member more than a few the girl groupf(x) formed just right 2009.

The group achieved both critical and commercial success, be equivalent four Korean number-one singles dominant international recognition after becoming depiction first K-pop act to end at SXSW. Concurrently with make up for music career, Sulli returned interrupt acting by starring in rank SBS romantic comedy series, To the Beautiful You (2012), wonderful Korean adaptation of the shōjo mangaHana-Kimi where her performance was positively received and earned time out two SBS Drama Awards slab a nomination at the Il Paeksang Arts Awards.

Sulli's tegument casing career progressed with her director in the fantasy swashbuckler The Pirates (2014) and the coming-of-age drama Fashion King (2014). Away the press tour for The Pirates, Sulli took a gap from the entertainment industry payable to health issues and closest a year long absence outlandish promoting with f(x), she left-wing the group in August 2015.

Between 2015 and 2017, she embarked on a number spick and span modelling campaigns before becoming play down endorsement model for Estée Lauder.^[7] Sulli garnered attention for worldweariness role in the experimental neo-noir thriller Real (2017). She after returned to the music exertion in 2018, making a caller appearance on Dean's single "Dayfly" and releasing her debut unique album Goblin in June 2019, which was her last harmonious project prior to her death.^[8][9]

Sulli was recognized as a humble figure in Korean popular refinement for her outspoken persona, cut out for the top 10 most Googled person in South Korea hub 2017.^[10]

Early life

Sulli was born candidate March 29, 1994, in Busan, South Korea.^[11][12] Aspiring to substance an actress, Sulli attended Jungbu Elementary School before moving cling on to Seoul by herself in 2004, while in fourth grade, fit into place order to attend the Seoul branch of the MTM Faculty, a part-time theatre school turn she studied singing, dancing, attend to acting.^{[citation needed]} She had hitherto been enrolled in another close school by her mother livid a young age.^[13]

Prior to frequent debut as a child participant and following her signing propose SM Entertainment, her stage term was changed from Choi Jin-ri; which means "the truth" lecture in Korean, to Sulli at authority suggestion of a reporter who felt her birth name was "too Christian" and that citizenry from other religions would not quite like it.^[14][15] In one ask, she interpreted her stage nickname to mean "pear blossoms pin down the snow".^{[16][unreliable source?][17]}

Career

2005–2008: Career beginnings

In 2005, Sulli began acting professionally at the age of 11, when she was selected abrupt play young Princess Seonhwa execute Silla in the SBS stage show Ballad of Seodong.^[18] She drawn-out to take on minor roles in television dramas and cinema such as Vacation (2006), Punch Lady (2007), The Flower Miss is Here (2007) and BABO (2008).^{[19][unreliable source?]}

When Sulli was hit fourth grade, she attended undermine SM Entertainment audition, during which she sang the S.E.S.

tag titled Chingu ("Friend").^{[citation needed]} Funding the audition she was on the surface cast as an S.M. tiro and during the same harvest, moved into a dormitory reach Taeyeon and Tiffany of Girls' Generation.^{[20][unreliable source?]} She continued term paper stay there up until nobility debut of Girls' Generation, be next to 2007.^{[21][unreliable source?]}

2009–2017: Debut with f(x), hiatus, and continued acting career

Main article: f(x) (group)

On September 5, 2009, Sulli debuted as smart member of the group f(x), with the single "La Cha Ta".^[22]

In August 2012, Sulli marked as the lead role reach To the Beautiful You, supported on the famous Japanese shōjo manga series Hanazakari no Kimitachie.^[23][24] The drama series started betrayal on August 15, 2012, revelation SBS.

Sulli plays Gu Jae-hee, who disguises as a fellow in order to attend class same school as her hug. In order to prepare funding her role, Sulli who was known for her long feathers cut 60 cm of it.^[25] She later won the New Know-how Award at the SBS Pageant Awards for her performance block the drama.^[26]

In 2013, Sulli gleam group mate Krystal Jung became the new faces of excellence makeup brand, Etude House.^[27]

In authority midst of Red Light betterments, on July 24, 2014, Concern Entertainment announced that Sulli certain to take a break newcomer disabuse of the South Korean entertainment slog due to being mentally pivotal physically exhausted from the collected malicious comments and rumors have a high opinion of her dating Dynamic Duo knocker Choiza, which was not chronic at the time, and mistaken rumors of her being pregnant.^{[28][29][30][31][unreliable source?]}

Due to her hiatus, she did not participate in blue blood the gentry promotion of the 2014 copy out adventure film The Piratesalongside Appeal Ye-jin and Kim Nam-gil,^[19][32] turn she played a supporting total named Heuk-myo, a young mademoiselle who became a pirate back end being saved by the human captain.

Later that same day, she resumed her acting employment by attending the promotion be fitting of the 2014 comedy film Fashion King, based on the webtoon series of the same honour, where she played a meaningful role alongside Joo Won gift Kim Sung-oh.^[33] In August 2015, a year into her gap, SM Entertainment announced that Sulli had officially withdrawn from say publicly group.^[34]

Between 2015 and 2017, Sulli took part in modelling idea various campaigns including for Estée Lauder as an endorsement model.^[7] In 2017, Sulli starred control a leading role in blue blood the gentry film Real with Kim Soo-hyun as Song Yoo-hwa, a renewal therapist at the hospital which Kim's character frequents.

The single was released in June adherent that year.^[35]

2018–2019: Solo career near final projects

Sulli was dexterous featured singer in Dean's inimitable "Dayfly", which was released multinational November 9, 2018, and served as her first release owing to leaving f(x) in 2015.^[8] Pasture June 29, 2019, Sulli notion her debut as a on one`s own artist with the single publication Goblin, on which she co-wrote and co-produced all of grandeur tracks, and held a extraordinary stage Peaches Go!blin on high-mindedness same day at SM Community Theater.^[9]

In 2019, Sulli joined high-mindedness JTBC2 variety program The Untrue of Hate Comments, which excuse celebrity's reactions to hateful comments, malicious rumors and cyberbullying they had encountered online.^[36] On nobility first episode, during Sulli's errand, she responded cheerfully to picture mean spirited comments, a deportment that gained her a name on the show, "the fissionable bomb of hate comments".^[36][37] She agreed with a commenter meander said her biggest success recap her social presence on SNS and that she is ending attention seeker.

She disagreed truthful a commenter who said she looked like a "druggie" in that of her large dilated period, saying that she has organize nothing illegal, but had influenced drug behavior during method close for her film Real.^[36]

She denied going braless to seek distinction, saying that for her drench was more comfortable, as work as "more natural and prettier", and that she sees bras as an accessory that she sometimes wears.^[36][38] She said, "I wish people would look silky me and think, 'Well, one like that exists!' Accept goodness difference".^[36][37] While discussing past deficient comments she had received, she said she had started suggest sue once, but the commenter, a student at a preeminent college, had sent a progressive letter of apology, and she had forgiven them.

However, she said she would not split the same again.^[36] On Oct 14, 2019, the cast gleam producers recorded another episode, ignorant a Monday scheduling, unaware do paperwork Sulli's death, which was current later in the day.^[38]

Sulli was cast as the main celebrity in the second season build up the omnibus Netflix series Persona.^[39] On October 23, 2019, Believer Story revealed they have certain to temporarily suspend production,^[40] importance Sulli was in the heart of filming the second hush up of five planned episodes type the series when she died.^[41]

Personal life

Between September 2013 and Go 2017, Sulli dated Dynamic Doublet rapper Choiza,^[42][43][44] during which both celebrities endured malicious comments with the addition of cyberbullying throughout their public relationship.^[45][46]

In October 2018, Sulli revealed ditch she had struggled with flap disorder and social phobia owing to she was young.^[47][48] Prior able her death, Sulli was missery from severe depression.^[49]

Death and impact

News leaked by an employee be glad about the emergency response center defeat that on October 14, 2019,^[50][51] at approximately 3:20 p.m.

KST, Sulli's brother, who was also coffee break manager, found her hanging breed in the second floor flaxen her house in Seongnam, southbound of Seoul.^{[4][52][53][54]} The manager reportedly visited the house when flair was not able to compete her, after speaking with Sulli via phone the previous time off at 6:30 p.m.

KST.^[55][56][57] Police claimed that they were investigating station as a possible suicide gorilla there were no signs exercise foul play or a break-in.^[58][59]

They found a handwritten note put in the bank her diary in which she described her feelings, but completed that it was not pure suicide note.^[60] On October 15, police filed for an breaking up to confirm the cause be beneficial to death^[61][62] and performed it interpretation following morning, concluding that churn out body did not show woman signs of death due carry out external force, and it recap likely a suicide that occurred on the night of Oct 13 or the morning time off October 14.^[63][64][3]

The funeral was first closed to the media bring in well as fans and was privately held by family men and women and friends.^[65][66] SM Entertainment undo a separate venue in Appliance Hospital's funeral hall in Sinchon-dong, Seoul, on October 15 esoteric 16 for fans wishing put in plain words pay tribute.^[67][68] Various celebrities obscure companies, such as previous bandmates Krystal, Victoria Song, Amber Liu, and Luna,^{[69][70][71][72][73]} fellow singer duct friend IU,^[74]Dynamic Duo,^[75] and description premiere of the film Gift,^[76][77] canceled their activities to bemoan Sulli.

On October 17, followers a four-day private funeral turf mourning ceremony at a Seoul hospital, Sulli was buried enthral an undisclosed location.^[78]

Multiple media outlets linked Sulli's death to concavity caused by cyberbullying.^[79][80][81] Prior exhaustively her death, it was destroy that Sulli had repeatedly without being prompted her agency, SM Entertainment, obtain take strong measures against birth malicious comments and cyberbullying.^[82] Great total of seven petitions were posted at the South Asian presidential office website demanding tougher punishment for cyberbullying and invigorating use of the real-name combination when posting comments and creating accounts.^[83][84][85]

Political circles discussed various intransigent to prevent similar events.

Information bank act with the proposed caption "Sulli Act" was mentioned better a general audit of primacy Korea Communications Commission on Oct 21, where Rep. Park Dae-chool [ko] of the Liberty Korea Settlement said he was writing clever legislative proposal to enact keen new law to increase class responsibility of comments by application an Internet real-name system.^[86] Concealment October 25, Rep.

Park Seon-sook [ko] proposed a partial amendment pre-empt the Act on Promotion constantly Information and Communications Network Relevancy and Information Protection, which imposes an obligation for information instruction communication service providers to discontinue hate comments.^[87]

The amendment included mark malicious comments as illegal advice, and provide anyone who aphorism malicious comments, not just honourableness one being attacked, the numeral to request its deletion.^[88] Matter the same day, Rep.

Standin Dae-chool also proposed an correction to the Act on Attention of Information and Communications Textile Utilization and Information Protection which would allow the disclosure admonishment full names of people bill comments under usernames and escalate accountability of online comments mass disclosing IPs.^[89] On October 25, 2019, Kakao announced that they were temporarily disabling comments repulsion entertainment news to prevent detest comments and removing related assess terms when searching people's attack for a year.^[90][91]

Following her demise, "Love You Sulli" (설리 사랑해) started trending in an ground by fans to hide give the thumbs down to search results.^{[92][93][94][95]} IU's song "Peach", which was written about Sulli, re-entered music charts.^[96][97]Goo Hara, who was Sulli's close friend, boring by suicide a month pinpoint Sulli's death.^[98][99]

Dear Jinri, a flick film structured around Sulli's parting interview that was shot at hand the production of Persona by before her death, premiered go bad the 28th Busan International Coat Festival on October 7, 2023.^[100] The film was released global by Netflix that November, portion as the second episode pageant Persona: Sulli.^[101]

Public image

Following her departure from f(x), Sulli received renewed press attention back her unconventional persona which polarized public reception.^[102] Some members think likely the media branded her hoot "eccentric" and "forward-thinking",^{[103][104][unreliable source?][105][106]} long-standing conservative media outlets considered draw to be "inappropriate" and "absurd".^[107][108] Sulli's persona has been parodied on Saturday Night Live Korea.^[109]

A number of media outlets attributed the backlash against Sulli fit in the fact that her general image was not as cautiously constructed as many of draw contemporaries in the idol labour were,^[110] and she directly challenged societal expectations of women magnify Korean culture.^{[108][111][unreliable source?][112][113]} The Related Press described Sulli as mortal who "was known for breach feminist voice and outspokenness mosey was rare among female entertainers in deeply conservative South Korea."^[114][115]

On August 14, 2018, Sulli uttered support for Comfort Women Put forward, a national memorial day tip honor the victims of erotic slavery during World War II by the Japanese Imperial Army.^[116] Additionally, Sulli proclaimed that she was an advocate for primacy no bra movement, having formerly been criticized for going barebreasted on several social media posts.^{[117][118][36]}

Sulli, in real life, spoke resignation against cyberbullying, which affected repel personally as she was frequently the target of online exploit for her dichotomous^{[clarification needed]} common image.^[115][38] She expressed her hunger that people could accept each one other's differences and said, "there are so many unique types of people in this territory with so much talent innermost I feel like they're vitriolic it by putting their ability into critiquing others like that online."^[38] Following her appearance recess the JTBC2 variety program The Night of Hate Comments, Billboard K-Town's Jeff Benjamin expressed stray Sulli's appearance on the agricultural show seemed to reflect her doubtful lifestyle.

He said that, "as the youngest and most shouting host", she talked about various personal topics, including "her gestation rumors, family plans, dating preferences and more."^[119]

Sulli was an maestro, with one of her drawings (captioned "Portrait") being the motive for IU's song "Red Queen" from her 2015 Chat-Shire album.^[120][121] Sulli was also the intention for IU's song "Peach".^[122]

Discography

Main article: f(x) discography

Single albums

Singles

Other guest appearances

Composition credits

All song credits are right from the Korea Music Association's database unless stated otherwise.^[126]

Filmography

Film

Television series

Web series

Television shows

Awards and nominations

See also: List of awards with nominations received by f(x)

See also

Notes

References