Source: NYMag
Credit: allkpop


Daul at the fall 2009 Roberto Cavalli show.

International model Daul Kim found dead

Model Daul Kim was found dead in Paris this morning, her agents at Next confirm. "She was a top model and a great friend to all of us at Next. Please respect her family’s privacy at this time of sadness. We will all miss her very much," they said in a statement. The cause of death remains unknown at this time, but a source tells the Cut the 20-year-old committed suicide. She will be missed.

Daul Kim was a pretty famous international model from Korea, she was said to be good friends with Big Bang's G-Dragon. G-Dragon even stayed with her for a brief time during his short vacation to Europe earlier in the year. This is a very unfortunate event, my condolences to her family and friends.

> A Look Back at Daul Kim's Career Highlights
> Her blog: http://iliketoforkmyself.blogspot.com/


UPDATE:

Police Believe Daul Kim Committed Suicide
Source: The Cut

More details have emerged surrounding 20-year-old South Korean model Daul Kim, who was found dead yesterday. Kim's boyfriend, who declined to be named in the press, found her hanged in her Paris apartment and alerted police. Authorities are operating under the hypothesis that she committed suicide. Kim's agent tells the AP her mother is arriving in Paris today.

Bloggers in South Korea are speculating she felt the pressures of the fashion industry. On October 30, Kim wrote on her blog she was "mad depressed and overworked." On November 5, she wrote in another entry, "the more i gain the more lonely it is ... i know i'm like a ghost i have nothing but myself." In her last entry, on November 18, she posted a track by Jim Rivers, "I Go Deep," with the headline "say hi to forever."