K-pop isn’t just popular, it’s everywhere. Kwon Mina, a famous, former member of the girl group AOA, was found unconscious and bleeding profusely by a friend and rushed to the hospital recently, with her life at risk from an alleged suicide attempt. With a detailed account found in particular publishing named Hankook Ilbo, Korean newspapers report that the cause of Mina’s unconsciousness and the damage to her person was a suicide attempt.
Luckily, Mina was found by an acquaintance before she lost her life, but the former star still hasn’t retained her consciousness after multiple surgeries and operations to treat her injuries.
As for the cause of the alleged suicide attempt, most people suspect it was the follow-up to the singer’s apology note to her fans on Instagram. Written in Korean, the letter entails how sorry Mina is for “returning to the app over and over.” She apologized profusely and emotionally about giving her fans discomfort, even after “incidents such as the ones with Yoo and Shin Jimin.”
One of the most famous photo-sharing apps in countries worldwide, Instagram was an obsession with the singer’s life for years. However, her history with the app isn’t entirely rosy: there were many controversies about how she used the app and how Mina interacted with people on it.
The first was a complaint she had stated against Shin Jimin, the leader of her former group, of bullying her. While AOA was one of Korea’s favorite girl groups, things were apparently grisly inside: according to Kwon Mina, Jimin had bullied her relentlessly on several topics.
One of the only controversies about Mina’s personal life, the second controversy linking Mina with Instagram was that her boyfriend at the time was found to have another girlfriend when he started dating her. Not only did this erupt into a massive scandal capturing headlines in Korea for days, but the ex-girlfriend also stated that Mina had used very “extreme, strong” language and even bullied her on Instagram.
Fans of the 27-year-old singer that amazed hundreds of thousands of people worldwide with first her voice, and then her acting skills, remain fearful for her life. However, doctors at her hospital assure the public that they’ve done everything they can to save her life. Everybody from K-pop fans to casual movie watchers sends their prayers to Kwon Mina to hope that the nation doesn’t lose one of its brightest talents in only the 27th year of her life.