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PARIS - TWENTY-YEAR-OLD top South Korean supermodel
raised in
Singapore, Daul Kim was found hanged in her central
Paris apartment, the Korean embassy said on Friday, citing police
officials here.
The 178-cm tall Kim was raised in Seoul and Singapore, before
making her fashion week debut in Paris in 2007.
The young model was known for her thick locks, which she
sometimes dyed blonde, and her sense of style.
'The French police have informed us that Korean citizen Kim Daul
committed suicide in her apartment yesterday afternoon,' embassy
spokesman Lee Seung Yoo told AFP. 'One of her friends found her
body hanging in her apartment. Her family are coming to Paris from
Seoul and will be arriving this evening or tomorrow morning.'
Ms Kim's death had been announced earlier on Friday by agencies
she worked for, with her Paris representatives saying: 'She was a
top model and a great friend of all of us at Next.' The last entry
on Thursday on Kim's popular blog 'I Like To Fork Myself' was
headlined 'say hi to forever' and had a link to a video of the song
I Go Deep by British singer Jim Rivers.
Ms Kim recently took to the catwalk to display clothes form
leading designers such as Chanel and Alexander McQueen.
She debuted on the runway for Chanel, Dries Van Noten, and
Maison Martin Margiela in 2007 and recently appeared in a
commercial for Christopher Kane's Topshop line.
She was also a painter and video filmmaker.
Officials confirm death of Korean model was suicide