{"id":184888,"date":"2025-08-05T00:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T00:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/song-young-kyu-dead-korean-actor-passes-away-at-55\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T00:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T00:50:46","slug":"song-young-kyu-dead-korean-actor-passes-away-at-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/05\/song-young-kyu-dead-korean-actor-passes-away-at-55\/","title":{"rendered":"Song Young-kyu Dead \u2013 Korean Actor Passes Away at 55"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p>South Korean actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/song-young-kyu\/\" title=\"Song Young Kyu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Song Young-kyu<\/strong><\/a> has sadly passed away.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Extreme Job<\/em> actor was found unresponsive inside a parked car on Monday (August 4) in a city near Seoul at around 8am local time, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/obituaries-people-news\/song-young-kyu-dead-korean-actor-extreme-job-1236477620\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/obituaries-people-news\/song-young-kyu-dead-korean-actor-extreme-job-1236477620\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety <\/a><\/em>reports.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities reported that an acquaintance found his body and there were \u201cno signs of foul play and no suicide note was found.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tragic loss comes just a couple months after <strong>Song <\/strong>was involved in a DUI incident and was awaiting indictment. It has been reported that he drove for around three miles with a blood-alcohol level that was enough to have his South Korea driver\u2019s license revoked. After the incident, he lost several jobs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Song<\/strong> was best known for starring in the 2019 action-comedy <em>Extreme Job<\/em> as Chief Choi and he also appeared in Disney+\u2019s <em>Big Bet<\/em> and Netflix\u2019s<em> Narco-Saints<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/08\/04\/song-young-kyu-dead-korean-actor-passes-away-at-55\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korean actor Song Young-kyu has sadly passed away. The Extreme Job actor was found unresponsive inside a parked car on Monday (August 4) in a city near Seoul at around 8am local time, Variety reports. Local authorities reported that an acquaintance found his body and there were \u201cno signs of foul play and no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-184888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}