Los Angeles, California May 1, 2023 (Issuewire.com) - 22-year-old Canadian-Portuguese actor, singer, and songwriter Saint Von Colucci died early on Sunday at a hospital located in Seoul due to an infection caused by a jaw implant after spending over USD 200.000 in plastic surgeries to play a BTS JIMIN lookalike character on an upcoming Korean TV show.
Throughout his four years working in South Korea, the singer and actor reportedly got paid only $25.000 USD and was required to sign multiple NDAs for writing songs for other artists while in anonymity under different pseudonyms.
Colucci received a monthly allowance of USD 200 per month from the Korean entertainment agency he was signed with and lived in a small dorm-style room along with ten other Korean and Thai artists in the district of Gangnam, in Seoul, South Korea.
While the singer was exercising his 7-year contract with the Korean entertainment agency, he wasn’t allowed to fly outside the country or meet his parents and friends until his music project was launched, which had been rescheduled over and over again up until his passing.
The singer’s Korean and American managements often got into arguments due to conflicts of interests, as both wanted to take the artist’s career in different directions. While the Korean entertainment agency wanted to follow the traditional K-pop route, the American management tried to go through the viral TikTok marketing, while taking over the singer’s social media account and building a consistent following by posting different pictures and videos to the artist's Instagram and TikTok accounts. At the same time, the Korean agency was still fighting to keep anything about him, along with his Instagram and TikTok content, removed from the internet as they believed it was detrimental to his career in traditional South Korea. Still, his TikTok and Instagram accounts were kept active under management by his American agency. As time went by, the conflicts between the agencies only aggravated, and projects already announced to the public were pulled off at the last minute over execution disputes.
The production company behind the show “Cogimar” (English: Pretty Lies) is placing the show on indefinite hold until it decides if it will be aired or not.
Colucci’s parents are coming back to South Korea after the funeral in order to initiate legal proceedings against the Korean entertainment agency. The parents have also decided to take legal action against the journalists for making false claims about their son’s death and existence while senselessly calling it a hoax while having no proof to support such claims.
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