park yong ha found dead

South Korean Superstar and Pop Singer Park Yong Ha was found dead in his Seoul home on Wednesday. Local media has reported the death was an apparent suicide despite the lack of a suicide note.

Park was found by his mother hanging with an electrical cord around his neck.

According to Yahoo News:

Park, 32, had recently devoted himself to nursing his ailing father who was in the final stages of stomach cancer. He was reported to have been struggling with sleep problems as well.

Park made his acting debut in 1992 but rose to fame in 2002 in the television drama "Winter Sonata," winning a following in Japan and other nations in southeast Asia.

He also forged a career for himself as a singer in Japan where he put out 10 hit albums in the past five years and won four consecutive Japan Gold Disc Awards -- a first for a Korean pop singer.

He was due to start filming in July for a Korean television drama called "Comrades, Almost a Love Story," which is a remake of a popular 1996 Hong Kong film.

Park's death comes after a string of suicides by South Korean celebrities in recent years.