Top Korean Model Daul Kim Is Found Dead!

Daul Kim, 20 years old model from Seoul, Korea, was found dead in her Paris apartment yesterday morning. The cause of her death remained unknown, but it was rumored as suicide.


As top model, Daul Kim was known for her gorgeous hair, incredible street style, and passion for telling a good story - a model with real personality. She started modeling in 2006 with impressive editorials for Korean Vogue, and was most noted for impersonating supermodel Linda Evangelista for Vogue editorial photographed by Oh Joong Seok in January 2009.

Although most of her modeling career was with Vogue, Daul Kim has also walked the runways for top designers like Dolce & Gabbana, Louis Vuitton, Salvatore Ferragamo, Alexander McQueen, and Chanel. Her recent work was with Christopher Kane for a Topshop TV commercial and a photo shoot for the fall issue of Dansk.

Daul Kim's death came as a shock, both for family, friends, and fans of the Korean model. No cause of death has been released yet, but her agents at Next has confirmed her death in a statement:

"She was a top model and a great friend to all of us at Next. Please respect her family's privacy at this time of sadness. We will all miss her very much."

Modeling aside, Daul Kim was also an active blogger. She maintained a blog called "I Like To Fork Myself." Intriguingly, she titled her last entry "say goodbye to forever." The body of the post was a video of the song "I Go Deep" by Jim Rivers. Underneath the song, she wrote "best track forever."

Daul Kim's story is just like one of those sad stories shared by not a few people who are working in the beauty industry - they started with beautiful ambition, lucky enough to enjoy success at a young age, and mysteriously ended their glamorous lives in tragic deaths.

"what i do is not a bad occupation
someone is always willing to pay.

+i would find it

tiring.

-oh no , its quite ________,
almost peaceful

no need to believe in either side

or any side

there is no courage.

theres only yourself.

the belief is your own precision"

- Daul Kim, I Like To Fork Myself, 2009/11/06

Another Fashion Model Dies From Falling!

After the tragic death of 20-year old Ruslana Korshunova who leaped from the 9th floor balcony of her Manhattan apartment, another fashion model by the name of Hayley Marie Kohle died after falling from a seventh floor window.

Canadian model Hayley Marie Kohle died last Saturday in Milan, Italy. While her family has only heard that she fell from a seventh floor window, Italian Police were investigating the incident whether it was suicide, someone pushed her, or she accidentally fell.

The model's family and close friends expressed doubt from the incident. Hayley Marie Kohle, 26, sent an e-mail to a friend about an hour before she died and nothing seemed to be out of the ordinary, a friend said. Kohle's friend, Quinn Adams, shared, “Just absolutely fabulous. She could light up a room. She was a model. She had everything going for her, she was ready to be a supermodel. And when somebody dies like that, it’s going to be suspicious, I think.”

One of Hayley Marie Kohle's first modeling coaches, Liz Crawford, agreed to Adams doubt: “How does a girl fall from the seventh floor window of a model apartment? I don’t know. I mean, you know, it’s a little unusual.”

Crawford believed that there should be more regulation in the modeling industry to avoid tragic deaths of models like what happened to Hayley Marie Kohle and that of Ruslana Kurshunova.

As a modeling coach, Crawford was behind the Worker Recruitment and Protection Act, which was passed in Manitoba last spring. The act required licenses for employment agencies, individuals recruiting foreign workers and anyone who recruits or represents models or entertainers. Crawford was always hopeful that other levels of government will help protect models from finding themselves in situations they are not prepared to handle.

“My concern for a lot of the girls that come in, is just, you know, how well educated are they before they go off and do this?” the protective modeling coach Liz Crawford expressed.

Meanwhile, Hayley Marie Kohle's funeral was already scheduled for next week.

Hayley Marie Kohle, originally from Beausejour, Winnipeg in Canada, was living and working in Milan. She was with Future Models, a Milan-based modeling agency. She used to be a model for Panache Agency back in Canada. As a model for several years, she had traveled around the globe for work, while supporting her parents and eight sisters and three brothers back home.