Both Taiwan and Korea were shocked by the sudden death of Taiwanese top actress Hsu Si-yuan (Suh Hee-won), wife of Clon‘s Koo Jun-yeop. The sad news came just 3 years after their wedding in 2022.

On the 3rd, local media outlets such as Taiwan Central News Agency (CNA) cited a statement from Hsu Si-yuan’s younger sister Hsu Shi-di (Suh Hee-jie) and reported that Hsu Si-yuan passed away on the 2nd from acute pneumonia while traveling in Japan with her family during the Lunar New Year holiday. It is reported that the family is discussing whether to hold a separate funeral in Taiwan.

According to the report, Hsu Shi-di said in a statement, “My most beloved and kind sister has sadly left us due to complications of pneumonia caused by the flu.” “It was a great blessing for me to be with her as her younger sister in this life and to be able to care for and rely on each other. I will be forever grateful to her and will miss her deeply,” he said in a statement. He also added, “Sister, please rest in peace. I will love you and remember you forever.”
Goo Jun-yeop, who is currently deeply shocked by his wife’s sudden death, expressed his uncontrollable sadness in a brief phone call with a media outlet, saying, “(Her death) is not fake news. (I) am not okay.” His agency said, “Goo Jun-yeop is currently in Japan and is in great sorrow. He revealed that he is discussing funeral arrangements with his family.

Xu Xiyuan is a top Taiwanese actress who has appeared in the dramas ‘A Chinese Ghost Story’, ‘The Marriage Courtyard’, ‘Mars’, and the movies ‘Connect’, ‘The Longfeng Store’, ‘Million Evils’, ‘Future Police X’, ‘The Great Wusheng’. In 2010, she appeared in director John Woo‘s film ‘Sword Fight’, acting alongside Jung Woo-sung. She also formed the duo ‘ASOS’ with her younger sister Xu Shidi, and they gained huge popularity.

In particular, she played the female lead in ‘Meteor Garden’, the Taiwanese version of ‘Boys Over Flowers’, which aired in 2001, and received explosive responses not only in Taiwan but throughout Asia. In Korea, she was nicknamed ‘Taiwan’s Golden Grass’ after the name of the female protagonist (Ku Hye-sun) in the Korean version of ‘Boys Over Flowers’.
In 2011, she married Chinese food tycoon Wang Xiaofei (Wang So-bi) and had a son and a daughter, but divorced in 2021 after 10 years and remarried the following year in 2022 to Clone‘s Koo Jun-yeop. Xu Si-yuan and Koo Jun-yeop met in the late 1990s and dated for two years before breaking up, but they reunited after 23 years and got married, drawing attention for their movie-like love story.


Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com

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