TW-star Barbie Hsu’s Ashes Brought Back to Taiwan and Sister Dee Hsu Announces There Will be No Memorial Service and to Remember Da S Fondly in One’s Heart
The media circus that was expected around the passing of TW-star Barbie Hsu (Da S) will not be happening, and thank goodness for that. Media camped out at the airport waiting for her sister Dee Hsu (Xiao S), their mother, and Da S’s South Korean musician husband DJ Koo to return from Japan with her cremated ashes, but the family avoided that but paying for a private jet and returning earlier that expected and exiting through the private star paid immigration and customs channels. Reportedly the family tried to bring her body back but Japanese law required immediate cremation so she was laid to rest there. Media also camped out at the most high end memorial center in Taipei expecting her altar to be set up there, but after her family returned her sister Xiao S released a statement that there will NOT be a memorial for Da S and for her to be remembered fondly in everyone’s hearts. There is also a lot of side chatter involving her ex-husband Wang Xiaofei and speculation about who gets custody of their two kids, where they will live (Taiwan or Beijing), and what happens to Da S’s assets. For me, her ashes returning to her home in Taiwan is the measure of comfort that her life has reached that final conclusion where I think she is laid to rest at peace and hopefully everything else will be for those remaining to sort out. But in her colorful life it feels like she lived it to the fullest and not everyone can say that.
According to Taiwan law, custody will automatically fall into surviving parent.
Jun can legally adopt the children and be their dad. he said he is going thru legal procedures to protect the kids.
Sad for the kids to live and grow up in China!
All the wealthy Chinese and Singaporeans I know don’t want their kids to live in China forever. They sent their kids to the US at very young ages while they continued to do businesses in China. None of them! None of them had kids grow up by their sides all the way through adulthood. Think about why?
Have you actually been to China, or is this just based on propaganda news? I’ve been there plenty of times, and trust me, it’s not what you think. Ever seen how their kindergartens and schools operate? The teaching, discipline, and innovation there are on another level. Maybe take a trip, stay for a while—who knows, you might actually learn something.
Not from news coverage, but actual observations from the wealthy around me who do business in China.
I volunteer weekly at a public elementary school to help kids with their reading. I recently started meeting with a new first grader that just moved from Beijing after the holidays. I asked her if she’s liking the US so far, and which school environment she prefers. She said the US because it was extremely strict at her school in Beijing. They’re not allowed to chit chat with friends or they get scolded and punished by standing outside the classroom, don’t get many breaks, and the academics are a lot more intense. Her English reading level was actually great because they did teach English. She just lacks confidence with pronunciation and how much faster people spoke English here. Discipline and rigor are great, but sometimes kids should also be allowed more time to just be kids. I admit that’s just anecdotal and I’m no expert on the school system in China. But many of my friends who grew up there have also said it’s extremely competitive to get into the good universities and subsequently get a job, so there’s always been an aggressive push by adults around them to do well in school.
On the flip side, I do think the US coddles kids to the other extreme where even mediocrity is celebrated in the name of building confidence and the curriculum often falls short of what most children are truly capable of. In an attempt to “leave no child behind”, the higher performing kids aren’t always challenged to push their abilities. Highly capable/advanced programs have limited availability. There are good school districts, but they are also harder to get into for an average US citizen because home prices are often much higher in those areas. US (public) school system definitely has a lot of problems as well.
That is very true…many sent their young kids to UK boarding schools.
While the US education system has a lot of issues, it’s more diverse compared with the counterparts in the Asian countries. Some American kids are high-performing achievers in academics while others have talent in various craftsmanship even they appear lackluster in classrooms. Take Taiwan for example, Taiwan is known for producing disciplined and very capable engineers in average thanks to very vigorous STEM education. Nonetheless, the school system there doesn’t encourage creativity that much as in the US. That’s why the US has got creative entrepreneurs and/or inventors like Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, who were college dropouts, and Elon Musk. But Taiwan has got TSMC. LOL.
I look at school education differently than perhaps average Asian parents. I appreciate how diverse and free-spirited the American system is to allow each kid to explore and develop their own gifts, not fodder-feeding them uniform definitions and values of “success.” That’s why intellectuals like professors/researchers don’t necessarily deserve higher societal status and make higher salaries here in the US than restaurant owners, other blue-collar small business owners, competent garage mechanics, or plumbers etc. In most Asian countries, however, people may still regard white-collar jobs more respectable and therefore parents push their kids to go through reckless competitions at schools, hoping kids to land office jobs in the future. There is no chance for Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and many others alike to thrive in Asia.
Men are created equal but talent isn’t. Why promoting cookie-cutter education pushing everyone to master Shakespeare or Newton’s Laws? LOL. That’s not how human beings are created to be.
The media has been awful about this so I don’t blame her family making everything super private. Stop all the crazy speculation and let them grieve. Also her ex husband and his mom are truly despicable. Never want to hear about them again.
Latest from DJ Koo, is that he will be transferring whatever assets he receives to her mother, and to stop the walking in the rain drama et al becausee it’s not helping.
He believes this will make Barbie happy, so he’s doing whatever it takes as a last gesture he can do. (This will shut the naysayers who believed he married her to boost his own fame/career/lived off her)
RIP
May she rest in peace and watch over her children fondly from where ever she is now. I am still so sad about this news. MG was a treasure for me growing up. Literally screamed when I read this news. Took me a few days to come to terms with it.
Her ex and his mum have meanwhile been lying so they both can look good in public. Such a scheming mother and son.
Jun loves her alots and is protecting her as much as he can.
Her family can’t even mourn in peace as she has to take action to protect the children and assets . Sadly her former husband doesn’t seem to be the kind of person to show respect . Just my opinion .
Douchebag indeed! They were already divorced and he’s also married to someone else now. How the heck does he have any right to claim her assets? It would be unfortunate for her kids to be under custody of her ex and lived in China. Apparently Taiwan has a healthier and balanced environment for kids to grow up and receive education.
Her ex mother-in-law lied to public it is them who paid for her ashes to be flew back to TW and organise her funeral…honestly such can be easily debunked but why lie even in the first place??? So awful.
They seem like such an attention seeking family. I saw the video of her ex-husband supposedly walking sadly in the rain, presumably to show how upset he is by her death. What kind of person does that? It just seems so performative. I hope people can just let her family grieve in peace.
Now China has banned both mother and son on Douyin (permanently too, ouch!) … for spreading ‘fake news’ about the private plane.
Backfired big time. All the walking in the rain, is not going to save them.
Legal disputes between her ex and her surviving hubby/mom? Something similar happened to 9 out of 10 cases among my Taiwanese friends when their parents passed away, even going to the court for asset feuds among siblings. Taiwan doesn’t have the culture like the US where we are encouraged to set up wills and trusts while we still look healthy. My company paid attorneys to help us write wills for free many years ago. I had my first will done at 30s LOL. Now I’m gonna revise it again cuz of various tax considerations due to assets accumulated these years. Setting up legally valid wills is good for ourselves and also our designated inheritance beneficiaries. Litigation is expensive. Everyone should consider this.
RIP. Been watching her since Mars (skipped MG after ep 1). She was the first TW star I followed.