RIP Daul Kim - 1989-2009

[WerbowyStegner]

Last batch. Daul

dancing
[star news]

model2007

 

[muffy]

What will happen to her blog now? I don't want it to just disappear off the web. It should be preserved somehow.

Rest in peace, beautiful girl.

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

She didn't have to die. I mean it wasn't her fate. Plenty of times she wrote about how happy she felt. We shouldn't see every thing she said, did and wrote as some kind of trail leading to the suicide - that simplifies who she was. Tragically she did die, but people who suffer what she did can get better in the right environment with the right help.

thank you for these words.

 

[sethii]

Police Say Daul Kim Left A Suicide Note

The blog penned by model Daul Kim, who died last Thursday, apparently by her own hand, has been made invitation-only — probably because the news media have been trawling it for evidence of the 20-year-old's mental state.

Details of Kim's death are still emerging. This morning, Paris Match wrote that sources inside the police investigation say the model left a suicide note. Fellow gossip title Le Parisien stated that "multiple sources" are saying that Kim's father, a Samsung executive, does not believe his daughter killed herself. Kim's mother flew to Paris on Friday, and her father arrived in the city today. An autopsy is to be performed tomorrow — standard police procedure for violent deaths — and the pathologist's findings may be known as soon as the end of this week.

jezebel

 

[foreverandnone]

i wonder what it said...

 

[sethii]

All the videos she filmed have been removed from her youtube channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/daulism

She wouldn't have wanted this to happen, it's so sad. Maybe it's due to the investigation...but really how can those things be uploaded again?! Now all you can see are 2 videos she added to her favourites list.

Its as if someone is trying to make us forget her

edit: this is so creepy

Last Sign In: 50 minutes ago

 

[sethii]

Daul was a tFS member. She never posted, just read.

Here's her profile...

First Name: Daul

Last Name: Kim

Gender: femme

Your Location: seoul. but i want to move to lundun.

Do you work in the fashion industry?: Yes

Role In The Fashion Industry?: Model

interested in: designer womenswear, designer menswear, trends, models

Company or School: elite & storm

your favorite designers?: Bernhard Wilhelm, Comme des garcons, Yohji, Antwerp 6, Martin Marigella, RAF, Viv westwood

Resume/Bio: i like to draw paintings. collect knives/forks, listen to 80's feely electro.... watch lots and lots of B movies. and look for weird new /old strange avantgarde designers...
check out my blog
www.iliketoforkmyself.blogspot.com

interests: take care of my guineapigs, forks, knives, watch B movies, paint... -

Date of Birth: 31-05-1990
- Age: 19
- Home Page: Click Here

[tfs]

 

[angel222]

I wonder what will happen to the Chanel campaign she was pegged to do before her passing. It seems weird to see them. I'm saying this because I was in Border's book store and saw Sonoma magazine with Ruslana on it I swear it was her for the month of December, it seems macabre.

 

[sethii]

The only thing left on her youtube channel, a song she added to her favourite list 4 months ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH_Y9uglqZg

 

[haksare]

I knew about her youtube channel, but I never knew she was a tFS member

Edit: where'd all her videos go?!

 

[WerbowyStegner]

Bernhard Wilhelm, Comme des garcons, Yohji, Antwerp 6, Martin Marigella, RAF, Viv westwood

Thats funny how before she died she walked both Viv westwood and Bernhard.. hmm..

anyways sethii what was her TFS username? I cant seem to find it

 

[chip45]

I find it creepy that someone has her password to all her accounts on the internet, or that someone looked over everything that she ever uploaded, or that someone just able to get the host site to remove contents etc.

 

[WerbowyStegner]

Taos official blog:

R.I.P.November 20, 2009 テーマ：ブログ
今日突然、悲しい知らせが入ってきました。

私がこの仕事で海外に出始めた頃からのモデル仲間である、Daul Kimという韓国人モデルの訃報でした。


２年前ＮＹで同じエージェンシーに所属していた私たちは、しょっちゅうつるんでお互いを支え合っていました。




写真はお互いのコンポジットに落書きをして遊んでいたとき。
とても明るく、人なつっこい子でした。


同じアジア人として共感し、励まし合いながらも、
強いライバル心があった彼女。

この仕事に本当に真剣で、自分よりも４歳も年下なのにしっかりしているなあと感心させられながら、酷いプレッシャーで苦しんでいることも私は気付いていました。



未だに信じ難いし、これからもっともっと色んなことができたと思うし、
ただただ早すぎる死に悔く、とても悲しいです。



何を書きたいのか、何を書いていいのかわからず、
文章がまとまりませんが、

私と同じ世代に、この仕事に大きな情熱を燃やし生きていた、素敵なモデルが存在したことを、

何らかの形で残せたらなと思って文字にしてみました。





ご冥福をお祈りいたします。







I'll miss you Daul.

Rest in peace.

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

wow that Singles cover is beautiful.

 

[WerbowyStegner]

Can someone translate? ? Thank you..

 

[sethii]

Thats funny how before she died she walked both Viv westwood and Bernhard.. hmm..

anyways sethii what was her TFS username? I cant seem to find it

Her username is simply 'daul'

I find it creepy that someone has her password to all her accounts on the internet, or that someone looked over everything that she ever uploaded, or that someone just able to get the host site to remove contents etc.

Yea I really don't like this! Someone must have authority to get the passwords from youtube, blogger, cyworld - or she had shared them with people Thank god that she was famous enough for her pictures to be spread over the whole internet so they can't remove everything.

Here is one of my favourite things she posted on iliketoforkmyself, a photobooth shoot she did on her birthday in 2008

[iliketoforkmyself.blogspot.com]

 

[sethii]

Here's a translation of Tao's tribute. I used an online translator...so it might not represent what Tao said properly.

The today suddenly, sad news entered. It is the model companion from the time where I with this work start in the foreign country, it was 訃 information of the South Korean model, Daul Kim. We who in 2 years ago NY have belonged to the same agency often the chord are with were to support each other. As for the photograph each other scribbling compositely, when playing. Very, it was bright, the person it was the [tsu] dense child. Her who has the rival heart which sympathizes as the same Asian person, although to encourage, is strong. Being truly serious in this work, although by my also 4 are years old junior, while it will have been secure after being made to admire, suffering with terrible pressure I became aware. Still, it is difficult to believe you think that and, color it is it could do thing more and more from this, and, indeed be too quick the dying 悔 [ku], it is very sad, is. You do not know whether we would like to writing what, whether it is possible to write what composition is not settled, but In the same generation as me, you burnt big passion in this work and had lived, the cute model existing, When it can leave in a some way, with thinking, it tried making letter. We pray happiness in the other world.

Daul and Tao on a plane together after they shot Moschino Fall 2007 campaign

iliketoforkmyself.blogspot.com

 

[WerbowyStegner]

^Thank you sethii so much really xx <3

Larger:

 

[Leeroi]

I think perhaps the police is going through her computer records to find more evidence of the situation. It isn't unusual really, just standard proceedings. So it isn't that odd that an investigator may have tweaked with some of her public profiles, such as YouTube and Blogger.

I just hope they'll upload them back, because there were only a few videos we could look at to remember her.

 

[sethii]

^^ please don't forget to write the source

^ I hope you're right. Maybe the videos haven't been deleted - just set to be 'private'. Eventhough she isn't here, I feel like its a crime against her if her stuff is deleted.