{"id":656691,"date":"2025-03-11T06:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T03:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/korean-singer-wheesung-dies-at-43\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T06:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T03:20:17","slug":"korean-singer-wheesung-dies-at-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/korean-singer-wheesung-dies-at-43\/","title":{"rendered":"#Korean Singer Wheesung Dies at 43\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tPopular K-pop singer and songwriter Choi Whee-sung, better known by his stage name Wheesung, was found dead in his home in Seoul, South Korea Monday night, according to local police.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe cause of death has not yet been determined. Seoul police said a substantial amount of time had passed before his body was discovered and there were no signs of foul play at the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe artist\u2019s agency, Tajoy Entertainment, issued a statement Monday night saying, \u201cThe artist Wheesung has left us. He was found in cardiac arrest at his residence and was later pronounced dead.\u201d The company said that its fellow artists and staff were \u201cin deep sorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKnown for his powerful vocals and emotional ballads, Wheesung debuted in 2002 with the hit r&b album Like a Movie<\/em>. His fame rose over the years that followed as he worked across genres, blending r&b, pop and hip-hop. But his career took a devastating hit in 2021 when he was convicted of regular, unprescribed use of the powerful anesthetic propofol. He received a one-year prison sentence, suspended from two years. He continued to perform in the wake of the incident, but no longer commanded the same crowds or music sales.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to local news<\/a>paper The Korea Times,<\/em> Wheesung was discovered unconscious in his apartment in Seoul\u2019s northern Gwangjin-gu district at 6:29 p.m. Emergency responders entered his home after responding to an emergency call from his mother.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe singer had been scheduled to meet his manager earlier in the day, but didn\u2019t show up and couldn\u2019t be reached. His mother, who lives in the same apartment building, went to check on him and found him unresponsive.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Popular K-pop singer and songwriter Choi Whee-sung, better known by his stage name Wheesung, was found dead in his home in Seoul, South Korea Monday night, according to local police.\u00a0 The cause of death has not yet been determined. Seoul police said a substantial amount of time had passed before his body was discovered and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":656692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-495196553.jpg?w=1296&h=731&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[25196,124783],"class_list":["post-656691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social-mediaa","tag-asia","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}