Lee Sun-kyun

Lee Sun-kyun (; March 2, 1975 – December 27, 2023) was a South Korean actor. He played Park Dong-ik in Bong Joon-ho's Academy Award-winning movie Parasite (2019). He won a Screen Actors Guild Award for his acting in that movie. Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea.

In 2009, Lee married actress Jeon Hye-jin. They had two children. 

In October 2023, it was revealed that Lee was being investigated for drug use. At the end of the month he was charged for drug use.

Lee was found dead on December 27, 2023 at the age of 48 inside his car near a park in central Seoul. In the passenger seat was a charcoal briquette, commonly used in suicides by carbon monoxide poisoning in South Korea.

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Category:1975 births
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Category:Screen Actors Guild Award winners
Category:South Korean movie actors
Category:South Korean television actors
Category:Actors from Seoul
Category:Suicides by gas