According to the South Korean entertainment news website Soompi, Moonbin of the K-pop boy band ASTRO was discovered dead at his residence on Wednesday. He was 25 at the time.
Moonbin belonged to a select group of K-pop celebrities with a career that lasted his entire life. He started in show business in the 2000s as a young actor and model. In 2009, at the age of 11, he made his acting debut in the well-known Korean drama series Boys Over Flowers.
He joined Astro at the age of 18.
Although he is not as well-known outside as BTS or Blackpink, he is quite well-liked at home, according to Rob Schwartz, an Asia correspondent for Billboard Magazine, who spoke to the BBC.
He continued by saying that record producers expect K-pop celebrities to consistently release hits while they are under enormous pressure from followers on social media to look and sound ideal.
It’s incredible how they have these guys under the microscope, he said. Of course, Western superstars can mainly maintain the secrecy of their relationships. The K-pop industry makes it impossible to preserve privacy. Each action they take is covered in countless lines of tex
Additionally, he mentioned that Moonbin took breaks in 2019 and 2020 due to his health. “K-pop singers hardly lead lives apart from those of pop stars. They begin training while they are quite young. They don’t attend school or have consistent friendships. For them, observing life outside of the K-pop industry is quite difficult, he said.
