eugene park's story comes out

[trajectory.livejournal.com]

For a moment, let us turn away from the pop-culture scene in Korea and look towards an unfortunate situation with a violin prodigy.

Eugene Park is a well-known electric violinist known for his passionate and charismatic performances. He is U.S-born, and entered the highly prestigious Julliard School at the age of 8. Since then, he has been noted as one of the best violinists of the decade and even performed at the Super Bowl in the 1990s. He was invited to play at Michael Jackson's concert in Seoul, and even played for the Presidential Inauguration in 1999. In 1998, he went to Korea, where he was accepted as a national hero and the pride of Koreans. However, people have been noticing a dramatic change in his physical appearance and the quality of his performances recently.

Korean fans found out that he has been exploited and abused by his agents in Korea, and even imprisoned for several years. The condition of Eugene Park, who suffers from bipolar disorder and light autism, worsened due to his agents forcing him to take drugs. There are rumors that the CEO of Eugene's management company has connections with the police and the mafia which explains why the police have not done anything to help the musical prodigy.

In these next two videos, you see Eugene Park performing the same piece, "Tequila".

The first video is a passionate performance from his first concert in Korea.

Here is the shocking video of his most recent performance of the same song. You can immediately notice his drastic weight loss as well as hear and see the change in his musical quality.

This performance was supposedly right after the manager beat up Eugene Park and locked him up in a secluded room. Eugene Park's already unstable condition became steadily worse by the constant abuse. There are speculations that Park is slowly recovering and taking medication to help with his instability.

Here is a video taken in either 2008 or 2009. Eugene Park was playing at a buffet... In this video, you can see his fake smile and his robot-like, emotionless playing. I have never gotten so angry and tearful from a 17 second video before.

Here is another video where you clearly see the disturbed and mentally unstable Eugene Park. Although the person recording kept saying "It's a video", Eugene Park helplessly holds his "V" up like a little child unable to understand.

source
another report

i honestly have no words. everyone on twitter, #saveeugenepark, help spread the word. everyone needs to know.

Comments

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

:/ that's terrible. god i hope he'll recover and the authorities do something about this.

[freepureangel.livejournal.com]

D:
that really ... is unimaginable.
DDDDDDD8

it's shocking how people can do things like that, /sadface

[girl-vsmachine.livejournal.com]

what the hell? why are korean entertainment companies so shitty?

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

They dont think anyone is watching!

[piffleprincess.livejournal.com]

I feel the same way.

[beebz-x.livejournal.com]

I can't believe no one will help him.

[trajectory.livejournal.com]

according to another source netizens are working hard to raise money for him, and my faith in the world is going to be completely shattered if no one attempts to help him. no one deserves that.

[iheartomntd.livejournal.com]

damn korea. He's a US citizen. why won't his family help him out. Someone should report this to the US embassy

[devourlove.livejournal.com]

that's awful. So far, korea is really not getting any points in the entertainment industries. The only decent stories I've heard are of YG Entertainment, and there are plenty more than that.


I hope he gets the help he deserves and that something is done about his agents asap.

[ashiva.livejournal.com]

YG Entertainment is quite crazy too:
http://community.livejournal.com/omonatheydidnt/664916.html

[kayleen-san.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, that's horrible! How do companies get away with stuff like this?!?!

[xradiostatic.livejournal.com]

omg that is just terrifying and horrible. i hope he gets help and the company gets a proper reprimanding.

[akaich0u.livejournal.com]

Do they lock him up to prevent him from going to the US Embassy? I know the US has a bad rap, but we still wouldn't let shit like this fly.

[cakedomination.livejournal.com]

...and I thought LSM abused his clients D:

Someone must help him already D:

[ex-decenniu.livejournal.com]

this is disgusting.

[siis.livejournal.com]

i start ed to te ar up when it read this

[siis.livejournal.com]

typo overload! my keyboard is kind of wet now D:

[hater-traitor.livejournal.com]

ITA. Thank god for the netizens for once.

Some questions...

[akaich0u.livejournal.com]

How is this even possible? This is SOUTH Korea we're talking about. Not PRC or North Korea. I know that the inner workings of the entertainment industry are shadier and more cruel than revealed to the public, but shit like this isn't just illegal, it's borderline inhumane.

How fragile is his condition that these people were able to proceed with this mistreatment for so long? Does he not have any friends or family who wonder what happens when he gets locked up? Why has this not made international news yet? Or a reputable newspaper? I'm not trying to be disrespectful; I'm just wondering why something like this (if all details reported are true) remains a netizen matter and not a national news issue.

[aitotchideto.livejournal.com]

sick.

[summercello.livejournal.com]

Poor thing. I really hope people can help him; that's completely disgusting.

[hater-traitor.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely horrible. I can't believe Korea can allow this kind of abuse to go on. I really hope someone will step up and be a hero. Somebody needs to do the right thing.

[missklutz16.livejournal.com]

the difference between the first and second videos is ridiculous. this is so sad. :(

[trajectory.livejournal.com]

i haven't been able to find anything else :( i think the best thing to do right now is spread awareness, because holy shit, this cannot stay isolated.

[shanny-w.livejournal.com]

It's absolutely disgusting what humans do to each other at times. This is incredibly sad. Something must be done to his perpetrators.

[princessspeach.livejournal.com]

its so sad that ppl r willing to hurt others for money ;___;

[krispy-bacon.livejournal.com]

Watching the videos really broke my heart. T_T His company should be arrested.

[anticss.livejournal.com]

The third video made me teary. This is just crazy, I don't get how nothing has apparently been done when there's articles like these that have details about his mistreatment.

[polysweet.livejournal.com]

Ridiculous. Just... completely ridiculous.