the late Lee Sang-bo \/ Photo = YouTube channel ‘Yeonye Dwitongryeong Lee Jin-ho’<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n[Sports Today reporter Kim Tae-hyung] Actor Lee Sang-bo has been laid to rest. His death has drawn sorrow and renewed attention to the wrongful accusation he endured while alive.<\/p>\n
On the morning of the 29th, at around 10:30 a.m., a farewell ceremony for Lee Sang-bo was held at Pyeongtaek Central Funeral Hall. He will be interred at Cheonan Memorial Park and the Pyeongtaek City Memorial Hall. <\/p>\n
Lee was found dead at his home on the 26th. He was 45. Family members discovered his body and reported the death to police. At the family’s request, authorities have not released the cause of death. <\/p>\n
In 2022, Lee was briefly detained and questioned on suspicion of drug use, but prosecutors ultimately did not indict him. The incident began with a misunderstanding: medication he had been prescribed for depression was mistaken for illegal narcotics. <\/p>\n
On the 28th, the YouTube channel ‘Yeonye Dwitongryeong Lee Jin-ho’ published a 2022 conversation with Lee. In the video, Lee acknowledged that if investigators had treated the case as a major drug offense, he could understand their actions, saying, \u201cI get angry, but I can see why they did it.\u201d He went on to describe the ordeal: he was suddenly arrested, transferred to Hanyang University Hospital and subjected to continuous testing for four to six hours, repeatedly undergoing the same tests. <\/p>\n
He recalled being released around midnight and said he had been taken into custody without warning and had no idea he would be taken to Hanyang University Hospital for tests. He added that, incredulously, he was asked to make a payment during the final administrative process. <\/p>\n
Lee said he expected an official agency or government office to step in after payment was made. \u201cI was only able to get out after I signed a paper promising to pay the remaining balance by Sept. 30, like a loan agreement,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
He also said the story circulated almost immediately after he arrived at the detention center. \u201cAt first the reports said, \u2018A man in his 40s, Actor A, used drugs in Gangnam.\u2019 Then it changed to, \u2018Actor Lee Sang-bo used drugs near his Gangnam home,\u2019\u201d he recalled. \u201cIt spread quickly, so I submitted everything I could to limit the damage.\u201d <\/p>\n
Lee had been undergoing treatment for depression after the successive deaths of his sister, father and mother. \u201cMy sister, my father and my mother each passed in different ways\u2014an accident, a sudden death, and an illness. Those losses kept happening for about a decade and left me in a very difficult emotional state. I needed formal treatment to get by,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Lee made his acting debut in 2006 in the drama Invisible Man Choi Jang-soo. His credits include TV series such as Daughter-in-Law\u2019s Heyday, Evil Love, Rugal, Miss Montecristo and Elegant Empire, and films such as Secretly, Greatly and Mephisto. <\/p>\n
\u203b If you are experiencing depression or other difficult thoughts, or if someone close to you is struggling, 24-hour professional counseling is available via the suicide prevention hotline \u260e109 or through social media counseling Madlan (www.129.go.kr\/etc\/madlan).<\/p>\n
[Sports Today reporter Kim Tae-hyung ent@stoo.com<\/font><\/span>]
\u300cYour closest, most entertaining news \u2014 \u24d2 Sports Today\u300d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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