Singer Gu Jun-yeob's wife and well-known Taiwanese actress Shih Yi-yuan has died.
On the 3rd, the Central News Agency (CNA) reported that Shih Yi-yuan passed away from pneumonia while on a family trip to Japan. She was 48 years old.
Shih Yi-yuan's younger sister, broadcaster Shih Hsieh-chi, noted through her agent, "My most precious and kind older sister regrettably left us due to pneumonia caused by influenza."
Shih Yi-yuan rose to fame as the lead actress in the Taiwanese drama "Boys Over Flowers." In Korea, she is well-known as "Taiwan's Geum Jan-di," named after the lead character in a domestic drama.
Shih Yi-yuan married a Chinese businessman in 2011 and gave birth to a daughter and a son, but divorced in 2021. She later remarried Gu Jun-yeob in 2022, attracting significant attention in the entertainment industry of both Korea and Taiwan.