Korean sports star's suicide echoes death of actress-wife
- Published: 6 Jan 2013 at 09.45
- Online news: Asia
Police confirmed on Monday that a former baseball star and ex-husband of a top South Korean actress, whose 2008 suicide shocked the country, took his own life over the weekend.
This file photo, taken in August 2000, shows South Korean baseball player Cho Sung-Min playing as a pitcher for Japanese baseball team, the Yomiuri Giants, in Hiroshima. Cho has been found dead at his home in Seoul in an apparent suicide.
Cho Sung-Min, a former pitcher for Japanese baseball team Yomiuri Giants, was found dead early Sunday with a belt around his neck by his girlfriend in the bathroom of her Seoul apartment.
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