South Korean actress Park Soo Ryun dies aged 29 after fall down stairs

A South Korean actress who starred in the Disney+ K-drama Snowdrop has died after falling down a set of stairs.

Park Soo Ryun, 29, fell down a set of stairs while returning home to South Korea on Sunday afternoon, according to local media.

She was taken to hospital for emergency treatment but was pronounced brain-dead despite attempts to revive her.

Her family has decided to donate her organs and said they would be ‘comforted’ her heart would go to someone who needed it.

Park’s mother told Soompi on Monday: ‘Only her brain is unconscious, and her heart is still beating.

Park Soo Ryun (pictured), 29, fell down a set of stairs while returning home to South Korea on Sunday afternoon, according to local media

She was taken to the hospital for emergency treatment but was pronounced brain-dead despite attempts to revive her

‘There must be someone who desperately needs [organs]. As her mother and father, we will be able to live comforted [by the thought that her heart] has gone to someone and is beating.’

But she has since passed away and her last rites took place on Monday with a funeral wake set up at Suwon Hospital of Gyeonggi Provincial Medical Center in Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do.

Park made her debut in 2018 with the musical Il Tenore, which also featured actors such as Lee Sang-yi and Jeon Mi-do.

She also featured in musicals and plays like The Cellar, Othello and The Day We Were In Love. 

She made her television debut in 2021, as a university student in the 1980s-set series Snowdrop, which starred Blackpink singer Jisoo and actor Jung Hae-in.

Another Snowdrop actress died in January 2022 at the age of 29. Kim Mi-soo played a history student on the show and the cause of her death was not revealed.

She made her television debut in 2021, as a university student in the 1980s-set series Snowdrop (pictured)