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  • 2020-11-06 (xsd:date)
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  • Fake suicide note attributed to late South Korean comedian Park Ji-sun circulates online (en)
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  • An image purporting to show the genuine suicide note of late South Korean comedian Park Ji-sun’s mother has been shared multiple times across social media platforms. These posts circulated online just a day after the comedian and her mother were found dead at their home in Seoul. However, this claim is false; the image actually shows a note featured in a scene in the 2018 South Korean television series Children of a Lesser God. The image was published here on a Naver page with more than 35,000 followers on November 3, 2020. Screenshot of the misleading post taken on November 5, 2020 The post is titled: ‘Park Ji-sun’s suicide note’ The genuine note left by her mother, and reads, in part: The tear jerking details of the suicide note left by the mother of comedian Park Ji-sun, who left this life with her, have been revealed. Park Ji-sun is a prominent South Korean comedian who was found dead at her home in Seoul on November 2, 2020 with her mother, according to this AFP report. A police offer is cited as saying there were no signs of outside intrusion or murder. South Korea's Yonhap News Agency also reported here on the same day that police found a page-long suicide note written by Park’s mother at the scene, but details of the note will not be made public as per the family's request. The image was also shared here on Facebook, here on Naver and here on the South Korean blog Tistory. However, the claim is false. A reverse image search found the note featured in the misleading posts in this video published on the YouTube account of South Korean broadcaster OCN , on March 25, 2018. The video title suggests the clip shows a scene from Episode 8 of the South Korean television series Children of a Lesser God , which aired in 2018. Below is a screenshot of the note which appears at the video’s 33-second mark: Screenshot of the scene in Children of a Lesser God that shows the same note in the misleading posts The Korean-language text in the note featured in the YouTube clip matches the text in the image shared in the misleading posts. Below is a screenshot comparison of the image in the misleading posts and the scene from the Children of a Lesser God series: (en)
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