Kim Sung Min answers questions about his drug problems during past interview with Star News. (Photo : You Tube/Star News)
Kim Sung Min has been declared brain dead on June 26 as his condition did not improved. He remained in comatose state since he was found hanging in the bathroom of his own home on June 24, in an apparent suicide attempt.
He is still confined at the St. Mary's Hospital in Seoul but as the doctors relayed that he is unlikely to recover anymore, his family members decided to donate his organs. Kim's final diagnosis of being brain dead was announced after the hospital committee checked his case and carefully weighed in on his condition.
The "Three Musketeers" actor will get surgery in the afternoon of June 26 as the authorities sign up patients that need organ transplants. Organ matching and testings will be done immediately to save the recipients, Yonhap News Agency has learned.
On the night of June 23, Kim and his wife Lee Hanna had an argument which prompted their 18-year-old son to call the police. He told the officers that his father was attacking his mother so he called for help.
However, when the police arrived at the family's home, Lee told them that it was just a minor argument so they left without further checking the situation. Kim's wife and his son also left the home but after 10 minutes, Lee got in touch with the police again because she was worried about her husband.
She told the police that Kim always mentions about committing suicide whenever he is drunk so she asked them to please check on him again. The officers went back to the couple's house around 1:55 a.m. and they were shocked to find the actor unconscious in the bathroom.
He hanged himself using a necktie in an attempt to end his life. Kim was brought to the hospital and doctors said he had a cardiac arrest. As a result, he was comatose and was kept alive by a ventilator, Nate News reported.
Kim is great actor but his run-ins with the law, due to drugs ruined his career. In 2011, he was sentenced to 4-year jail term but he appealed his case and was released early.
In March 2015, he was put back in jail after he was caught using methamphetamine. Kim was freed in January 2016 but it seems that he fell into depression. The actor blamed troubles in his marriage and career slump as the reasons for going back to drugs again.
Watch the report on Kim's suicide attempt:
