Sulli

Sulli

Choi Jin-ri was a South Korean actress, singer, and model. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group f formed in 2009. She died in a car crash on October 13 or 14, 2019, aged 48. Her funeral will be held in Seoul, South Korea, on October 16, 2019. She is survived by her mother, her sister, and two brothers.

About Sulli in brief

Summary SulliChoi Jin-ri was a South Korean actress, singer, and model. She rose to prominence as a member of the girl group f formed in 2009. Sulli was recognised as a prominent figure in Korean popular culture for her outspoken persona. She was the most Googled person in South Korea in 2017, ahead of the current President of South Korea Moon Jae-in. In 2018, she released her debut solo single, which was her last musical project prior to her death. She is survived by her mother, her sister, and two brothers. She died in a car crash on October 13 or 14, 2019, aged 48. Her funeral will be held in Seoul, South Korea, on October 16, 2019. She will be buried in a private ceremony at the Seoul National Cemetery. She left the entertainment industry in August 2015, following a year long absence from promoting with f, and became a global brand ambassador for Estée Lauder between 2015 and 2017. In August 2012, she starred as the lead role in To the Beautiful You, based on the famous Japanese shōjo manga series Hanazakari no Kimitachie. She also starred in the fantasy swashbuckler The Pirates and the coming-of-age drama Fashion King. In 2013, she and group mate Krystal Jung became the new faces of the makeup brand, Etude House. In the midst of Red Light promotions, on July 24, 2014, SM Entertainment announced that she decided to take a break from the South Korean entertainment industry due to being mentally exhausted from malicious comments and rumors of her dating Dynamic Duo rapper Choiza.

She did not participate in the promotion of the 2014 adventure film The Pirates alongside Son Ye-gil and Kim Nam-gil. She resumed her acting career by attending the 2014 promotion of Fashion King, where she played a young girl who became a pirate after being saved by the female captain. She later won the New Star Award at the SBS Drama Awards for her performance in the drama. She appeared in the independent films Punch Lady and BA: BO, the former being her first time cast in a substantial dramatic role. She made a guest appearance on Dean’s single ‘Dayfly’ and released her solo single ‘Goblin’ in June 2019, which she called her last solo project before her death in October 2019. Her last role was in the romantic comedy series ‘To The Beautiful You’ in which she played Gu Jae-hee, a boy who disguises as a boy in order to attend the same school as her crush. She continued to take on minor roles in television dramas and movies such as Vacation, Punch Lady, The Flower Girl is Here and BABO. In 2005, she attended an SM Entertainment audition, during which she sang the S. E. S. song titled Chingu. After the audition she was officially cast as an S. M. trainee and during the same year, moved into a dormitory with Taeyeon and Tiffany of Girls’ Generation.