Kim Jong-Hyun Of SHINee Has Died

The lead singer of South Korea's top K-pop boy band Shinee has died after being taken to a hospital unconscious.

Twenty-seven-year-old Kim Jong-hyun was found unconscious at a rented apartment studio in Cheongdam-dong on Monday evening, the Yonhap News Agency reported, quoting police.

Police arrived at Kim's apartment in southern Seoul after receiving an emergency call from his sister, who received a text message from his brother shortly before his death.

The singer was moved to a nearby hospital but was later pronounced dead, police said.

Kim arrived at the hospital under cardiac arrest and received emergency CPR treatment but failed to regain consciousness.

He was 27.