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A model who featured in a high-profile Topshop campaign has been found dead at her Paris apartment. Daul Kim, who was a fixture on the international catwalk circuit, was discovered by police. It appears she had committed suicide.
The 20-year-old South Korean was known for her thick mane of hair - sometimes dyed blonde - and her quirky look. She was featured recently in a commercial for designer Christopher Kane's line of clothing for Topshop.
Raised in Seoul and Singapore, Kim modeled in Asia before making her fashion week debut in Paris in 2007, modeling for Chanel, Dries van Noten and Maison Martin Margiela. She became a fashion week regular in New York, Milan, Paris and London and most recently appeared during Seoul fashion week in October, according to her agency Esteem. Kim was also an accomplished painter and video filmmaker who had a solo show of her artwork in Seoul. She often listed 'collecting forks' as a hobby. Bloggers in South Korea mourned her death, speculating she felt the pressure of high-fashion modeling and a loss of identity.
In an October 30 entry on her blog, Kim wrote she was 'mad depressed and overworked,' and in another entry said 'the more i gain the more lonely it is ... i know i'm like a ghost.'
The last entry on her blog, dated November 18, was titled 'say hi to forever' and carried a video of the song 'I Go Deep' by British singer Jim Rivers.
South Korea - which has the highest suicide rate among the 30 nations in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development - has had a string of high-profile suicides over the past year. Former President Roh Moo-hyun jumped to his death in May while embroiled in a widening corruption scandal, and the ex-chairman of South Korea's oldest conglomerate killed himself earlier this month. In 2008, top actress Choi Jin-sil committed suicide, following in the footsteps of a fellow actor. A young actress in one of South Korea's popular soap operas also died by suicide.


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