Taiwanese star Barbie Hsu, left, together with her husband, Korean singer DJ Koo / Courtesy of Vogue Taiwan
Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese actor and spouse of Korean singer DJ Koo, has died of influenza-triggered pneumonia. She was 48.
Her sister, Dee Hsu, confirmed the surprising information in a press release launched Monday by way of her supervisor.
“In the course of the Lunar New Yr vacation, our household traveled to Japan. My dearest sister Barbie tragically handed away on account of influenza-triggered pneumonia,” she wrote.
“I’m grateful to have been her sister on this lifetime — to have cared for and accompanied one another. I’ll at all times be grateful for her and miss her perpetually.”
Hsu first stepped into the highlight at 17, debuting as a singer alongside her sister in 1994. The duo later grew to become a beloved pair of tv hosts. In 2001, she skyrocketed to fame throughout the Mandarin-speaking world together with her position within the hit drama “Meteor Backyard,” the Taiwanese adaptation of the favored Japanese manga sequence. The story was additionally reimagined in Korea because the drama “Boys Over Flowers” in 2009.
In Korea, the Taiwanese star’s title grabbed headlines in 2022 when it was introduced that she would marry singer Koo Jun-yup, higher referred to as DJ Koo of the male duo Clon.
The couple’s love story started twenty years earlier once they first met at Hsu’s live performance. They dated for a yr within the late Nineties earlier than parting methods, and in 2011, Hsu married Chinese language businessman Wang Xiaofei.
Following her divorce from Wang in 2021, Koo, who nonetheless held onto the identical telephone quantity from years earlier than, determined to achieve out to Hsu — and that single name is what rekindled their connection, resulting in their eventual reunion and marriage.
Hsu is survived by Koo and her two kids from her earlier marriage to Wang.
