Police found the body of Lee Kye-Hwa, 27, a former disc jockey in a Seoul bar, hanging from a ferry dock on the Han river in Seoul early on Tuesday.
His family reported him missing on Sunday when he posted a short Twitter message in Korean.
"I'm going to commit suicide. To all of you, even those who shared the slightest friendship with me, I love you," he wrote.
"Investigators concluded he had committed suicide," a spokesman for Seoul's Mapo police station said, confirming the wording of the Twitter posting.
Access to Lee's account was not possible by Wednesday morning.
The Korea Times said Lee had also left separate written suicide notes for his family and friends, complaining of financial troubles.
It said some of his Twitter followers had tried in vain to trace his whereabouts after reading the suicide message.
News of Lee's death was spreading fast through Twitter on Wednesday as his former followers expressed condolences, shock and regret. "I wish he may rest in peace in Heaven, my heart is deeply hurt," one wrote.
He never got to pop the question.
Richard Butler was hiking up a North Carolina mountain with girlfriend Bethany Lott - and an engagement ring in his pocket - when lightning struck.
"God, baby, look how beautiful it is," Lott said of the mountain vista just before the bolt hit her.
Those turned out to be her last words.
Butler, who was also hit, said "everything went black" and when he opened his eyes again "she was laying a few feet away."
"I crawled to her," he told the Asheville Citizen Times newspaper. "I did CPR for probably 15 minutes, and the whole time was trying her cell phone, but I couldn't get anything out."
Later, when the paramedics arrived, a badly burned Butler used what remained of his strength to perform one last act of love.
"I put the ring on her finger while the EMTs were working on her," he told the newspaper. "They are listing me as her fiancé in the obituaries."
Butler, 30, and Lott, 25, both of Knoxville, Tenn., had set off for the summit of Max Patch Bald on Friday when it started to rain.
"I picked that spot because she actually said she would like to get married there," Butler told a local TV station. "She absolutely loved the outdoors."
And Lott was not deterred by the stormy weather.
"She hiked thousands of miles and spent a couple of years in Utah just hiking," Butler's mother, Janet Delaney, said.
Then lightning bolts creased the sky, and one of them hit the lovebirds.
"I was spun 180 degrees and thrown several feet back," Butler said. "My legs turned to Jell-o, my shoes were smoking, and the bottom of my feet felt like they were on fire."
Another Knoxville couple raced over and also tried to revive the doomed hiker.
"They stood on the top of the hill doing what they could for probably 20 minutes until the rescuers got there," said Butler, who suffered third-degree burns.
But there was no saving Lott, who was to be buried at a Tennessee cemetery on Tuesday with a view of the mountains she loved in the distance.
On his blog, Butler called himself "the luckiest man alive."
"I was given a life with the most amazing woman in the world," he wrote Tuesday. "I was loved more completely than I ever dreamed possible."
Lott may be gone, the grieving would-be groom wrote, but "I have gained a constant companion in the wind."
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In what the Post is calling a "High-stakes croaker," Long Islandpoker star Paul "Smalls" Kitsos died on a flight to the World Series of Poker from an apparent heart attack. The 5' 11", 350-pound man was "sweating profusely and breathing heavily" about 20 minutes after takeoff when he called a flight attendant over for help. The attendant was soon not able to detect Kitsos' pulse, and a doctor on board pronounced him dead. The flight was forced to return to JFK Airport, and it apparently took four cops to lift Kitsos from his seat.
Kitsos became a professional card player after 9/11, ranking 320th in the 2008 World Series of Poker. His wife said, "He was a character. He lived large and that’s the way he went out — Frank Sinatra, ‘My Way.’ And that’s the way he did it." Poker news site Pokerati has some of his playing stats, and questions why the Post insisted on referring to him as "obese" in their lede. "In poker worlds, 350 pounds is hardly all that big — doesn’t even require a scooter!"
As well as poker, Kitsos owned KB Studio, a clothing line for plus size women. Just after he left for the flight, he texted his 18-year-old autistic son "Daddy misses you already."
