Posted on 11/24/2019 11:33:44 AM PST by BenLurkin
Kara, her former band, were one of the first K-Pop groups to break through on the international stage. Goo's first solo EP, released in 2015, peaked at number four in the Korean music charts.
She had signed with a talent management agency in Japan earlier this year and released a song named Midnight Queen earlier this month.
Over the last year her career was overshadowed by events in her life off the stage. In September 2018 Goo filed a lawsuit against an ex-boyfriend after he threatened to damage her career by exposing an illicit video of her.
Her former partner was given a suspended jail term in August for physically assaulting and blackmailing the star.
Goo's death comes just over a month since another former K-Pop girl band member, Sulli, was also found dead in a suspected suicide after struggling with online bullying. The two celebrities were close friends and after Sulli's death, Goo described their relationship as being "like sisters".
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Goo Hara is dead!!!??!?!
OH GOD!!!
Young Asians and suicide...
Can’t grasp it.
Seems like over the past few years a lot of pop/rap performers are meeting an early demise.
Seems like over the past few years a lot of pop/rap performers are meeting an early demise.
Lot of early death in K-Pop. It seems to chew people up.
I thought 27 was the age for pop figures to check out.
Lady Kajagoogoo?
POSTED in breaking news!
Not.
Math is hard for musicians
Aw man!
I liked her...
She missed it.
Very pretty! Sad to see someone die so young! K-Pop is an acquired taste but I’m a fan of Korean drama and rom-com.
I remember going to a Goo Goo Dolls concert some time ago. I didn’t think I knew the band so much but pretty much every song they played, I heard on the radio. So they, in a deceiving kind of way, actually had a lot of hits.
Goo Hara is so big that Sonic Youth released a song about her.
They have extremely hard lives and almost neeeever get rich.
Long hours, low pay, zeeero privacy, weird contracts.
A very normal condition is to have no boyfriend during the contract period.
I’m liking Iqiyi’s Lucky’s First Love. Chinese Netflix on YT. Hilarious.
I am so uninformed I thought this was about Joe Biden’s nemesis.
Very inspiring song..."Because tonight's the night the world begins again..." Very positive message.
I'm going to miss Goo.
With a name like Goo, I’m surprised she lasted this long.
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