Kim Min Hee Wins Best Actress at Berlin Film Festival for Movie Directed By Her Affair Partner Hong Sang Soo

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• Katherine Hepburn was in a relationship with Spencer Tracy despite him being very much a married man but she still had respect towards his family and being discreet over the affair that she did not even attended his funeral out of respect for his wife. It's difficult to judge when comes to a matter of a heart but at least, both of them should have the decency to respect the injured parties.

• She's a very talented actress - that much I've long acknowledged. But I agree with you, it's a tad disturbing that they look so comfortable being in such close physical proximity together under the watchful eye of the public. It makes them seem very distant and distorted from the reality. I feel bad for Hong's spouse and children, really.

• Disgusting indeed.If she is just dating a single old man,I can still understand.After all,there is no commitment.But She,on top of dating a married man,still dare to hold his hand and say "I love you" in public when the divorce is not even happening. That might be last award she will ever get as an Korean actress.I wonder which director will now call her.Oh...May be,that old crazy director.

  • lol Both if her last 2 films winning big internationally and she won the best actress at Blue Dragon after the scandal, her career is far from over.
    Wanna bet?

• I don't want to judge because I don't know anything. We only know what the press say... It's true it seems a little bit insensitive from them but maybe it's because of the rumors about them breaking up.

• Well this is a story as old as time, and when the story broke I sympathized with the wife. Here's the deal to me though: If your spouse want a divorce, you get the divorce. Feel free to take that person to the cleaners in divorce court but refusing a divorce is ridiculous. This to me seems to be a public statement of "we're together" and perhaps that in-your-face openness will move his wife to move on. She (the wife) deserves better than this guy.

  • I agree with Kat. Why hold onto something like that when you're just going to suffer? Let the man go so you can free yourself of this embarrassment.

    • It's easy for us to say the wife should just let go and have a better life because we are not her and we are being rational. I think this is her way of taking revenge, to be the LEGAL wife. I see a lot of cases where the wife not giving a divorce, they might not love their husband anymore but at least they have the title. In Asia, title is EVERYTHING. Stupid way of revenge but I believe eventually she will let go. These things takes time.

  • I find it difficult to judge the wife or sympathise with her coz I don't know the details of her life with her husband. But I really pity the kids. Regardless of who was more "at fault" in their parents' marriage, they're paying the price for a family that has broken down.

    • If I'm not mistaken, he only has 1 daughter and she is an adult? 21 yrs old at least.

  • Exactly! Why hang on to someone that doesn't want you!? Why do that to yourself, it's only poisoning her soul.

  • Yeah I don't agree with them but why is the wife is doing this when his heart and body isn't with her.
    If he comes back it's another thing but it's his wife that make the whole thing a bigger mess to refuse to let go.

• "I don't want to be judgy ... but ..." And there lies the problem. If Kim Min-hee was a man nobody would write a blog post like this. Also what the press says and what's going on behind the scenes are two different things.

  I'm not defending her but to overshadow her win with a post like this, written by a woman, it can only happen to a female celebrity.

  • Really? I would write regardless if its a male or female. I think your comment is detracting from the main point...

    • The main point is: Kim Min Hee won an award at the Berlin Film Festival and Koala had nothing else to do but to bring in the Netizens playing moral police when they should watch out since they usually have double standards when it comes to affairs or anything for that matter.

    • But Jilia... Kim Min Hee HERSELF is bringing attention to this shameful matter. Obviously (1) she feels no shame (2) she WANTS people to talk about it. To just ignore it while congratulating her is almost like condoning it. I can't do that...

    • She took the spotlight off of her accomplishment by bringing along the married man.

  • im a pull a yellow card on you trying to call out sexism here cause there are plenty of articles and news written, including on this site (search Yao Yuan hao aka "real life douchenozzle") about affairs from both genders. both director and actress are being dragged in this and there's no hong sang soo article written without affair linked in the headline.

    so whether it's wrong or right for her to be judgy, it has nothing to do with kim min hee being a woman. - From a woman

  • Really, when Lee Byung Tae ( Lee Santa) cheated on his beautiful wife with two young girls...koala also post article about how sh*tty he is....

    Well based their public interaction...everything that media publish very likely to be true...esp dispatch (who known for their stalkery skill) already gave many insight and fact regarding their affair

  • Even the title itself is already emphasizing the affair more than her victory. I initially thought that "...Her Affair Partner" part of the title referred to a fellow actor in a movie titled "Affair".

    Kim Min Hee is an accomplished actress and among the best in Chungmuro. This is like Ingrid Bergman all over again.

    • For Bergman case, i saw from old hollywood item, her first husband totally abusive crappy person, so everyone else in hollywood actually not surprised by her affair and actually they were relieved she managed freed herself from her abusive husband...but the conservative religious party in hollywood obviusly against adultery and tried blackballed her but not successful coz entire open minded hollywoods actually support Inggrid.

  • if KMH was a man, the title will be "KMH wins Best Actor at Berlin Film Festival for movie directed by His Affair Partner HSS". What's wrong with the title anyway? this is interesting, isn't it?? LOLOL... and does it matter who writes this post, whether it is a man or woman. You still read it!! You are totally defending her @Jillia, please don't lie to yourself...

  • Jillia agree with you. At least a site run by a woman and read by women should be more sensitive rather than writing titles and a piece that smacks of the online hanging of a scarlet letter on KMH. Not that much of a change from 17th century oppressive societies then.

  • Yes. I also agree. Press these days are not very reliable. They sometime twisted the actual truth to make it more appealing to the readers. I'm not saying the press is bad but I'm just saying that we should sometime doubt what we read.

    • What is the actual truth? I don't see anything wrong with the title at all. If HSS is not yet divorced, his relationship with KMH is called an affair. Simple English!

    • That's the point. We don't know the actual truth.

    • In any case, I don't see what's with all the fuss about this title. This is a Blog Site, not Global Mail or New York Post. You shouldn't expect straight off reporting of the result of a film festival, this would be terribly boring!

    • candycane I agree with you, nothing wrong with existing title

• What Kim Min Hee and Hong Sang Soo did is really mean to HSS' wife and children. Really really mean

  But can I just ask for the title to be amended to "Kim Min Hee wins Best Actress at Berlin Film Festival directed by her affair partner Hong Sang Soo" - the current version's grammar is ridiculous ?

  • How about dropping the affair part and call the post "Kim Min-Hee wins Best Actress at Berlin Film Festival"?

    • Well, i wonder why you defend her and him so much... she deserved has article with title like this, both of them are sh*tty human being for has no consideration toward other people who suffer from their action.

      Yup, she won. But her image already in mud and hard to recover....even she can continue her career ...like lee santa, her adultery scandal will forever haunt her.

    • @Jillia Because she decided to make her relationship part of the story. She could have kept things a little more professional, as in arriving with the director and thanking him warmly, if she absolutely had to, but holding off on the PDA and declarations of love, so their work could speak for itself. But no. She and the director decided to go full on Bangelina, in a way that many long-term couples (married or otherwise) chose not to. Mostly all you are seeing people around here saying is "Gee, I wish she hadn't done that."

      And, by the way, nobody around here is giving the director a pass on his behavior. He's worse than she is. He just wasn't the one the award, so the headline isn't about him. But yeah, he's total slime.

    • Nonono. Firm no. "Kim Min-Hee wins Best Actress at Berlin Firm Festival directed by her affair partner Hong Sang Soo" is perfect. She is responsible for her own action and she should have known the consequences when she goes so publicly here. I don't think you need to be so defensive though, if she dares to come out to announce her love for him, I don't think she cares what people are saying or whatever title is for this article. I am just curious though, if everyone think like you @Jillia, and only acknowledge her success and disregard her personal life, how will the wife feels. At least now the wife has the moral support from the public. What if we are all like @Jillia, won't the wife feel isolated and disheartened, to see Kim Min Hee got it all and she losses everything? LUCKILY, not all of us are @Jillia.

    • Luckily we're not all talking BS like you, @fenny!

      I'm definitely not okay with the affair but I think to bring this in when the film festival was about Kim Min-hee winning is just not okay.

• I just want to know how she went from jo in sung to her current boyfriend...

  • LOL, I know, right. Truthfully though, I have friends who have a thing for the older men. And the director/actress scenario is nothing new though often the public only hears about it years later when someone writes their memoirs.

  • Love is strange........though their love are totally disgusting.

    • She totally went off from, let see... Lee Jung Jae, Lee Soo Hyuk, and Jo In Sung

      Welp, probably she bored with handsome, single and hot men, hence this guy

    • Her list of previous boyfriends are quite something. Made me suddenly thinking that there must be something special about Kim Min Hee that she could dated those guys before hooking up with this old man and now putting everything at risk just to continue with this affair.

    • I don't think their love is digusting. Not that I support it or anything.

    • No love is disgusting... It's society's opinion just like when they said gays were disgusting back then.
      I don't agree with their actions but there is no wrong and right in love. It's the choice they picked and they are willing to pay the price for their actions. It took courage. We shouldn't judge.

    • i 'm not a person who thinks that one can do what he wants in the name of love. My ethics are more important to me than what my heart wants. But i don't judge those who let their heart choose their life.Because that's just it. It's their choice and not my business .

• Mean, she is great actress, even better than Hallyu star like Song Hye Kyo, Park Shin Hye and Choi Ji Woo. If only not for her affair, she will reached Jeon Do yeon Top Actress status and cemented her talent in Asia.

  Personally i indifferent toward artist professional and personal life ( reason why i still watching Brad Pitt or Casey Affleck) , but its quite funny she won for playing herself ( the film about woman who has affair with married director ). It's pissed me that she and that old man has no consideration toward party whom they humiliated.

  Kim Min hee-ssi you are talented, but i wish you aware how morally wrong your action and hope you aware the karma always happen.....

• Have personal experience with such a story. Many years ago, a friend who was Catholic refused to divorce her husband who had left the home. They had two boys together. He met another woman he dearly loved and wanted to marry her. Wife refused the divorce. The man and his new "woman" moved to Costa Rica. They had children and remain today -together as a happy couple. The former wife remained alone, bitter, vindictive and unhappy. The man's two boys from his 1st wife, missed their dad and realized their dad and mom would never reconcile and became determined to have a relationship with their father. As the years passed, dad/stepmom and sons renewed their relationship. First wife continued her vindictive, stubborn, mean spirited behavior and remains to this day a bitter, pitiful. unhappy woman. We have all watched enough dramas to know "love cannot be forced". Also, a man who is content in his marriage will not leave home. Only the Director, Kim Min Hee and the ex wife know the true story. We are in no position to judge.

  • "a man who is content in his marriage will not leave home"
    Yes, and some men are just sh*tty humans, who can never stay monogamous for long--no matter how hard the current wife/gf tries to keep them "content."
    I do agree that love can't be forced, and that both your Catholic friend and Hong Sang Soo's wife should have cut their losses and divorced their husbands when they first asked. That doesn't make it less true that Kim Min Hee started an affair with her director while he was still living with his wife--which makes both KMH and HSS despicable human beings imho.

  • Lede
    1. It's strange that you claim to be a friend of the first wife and at the same time calls her vindictive, bitter and unhappy woman.

    Which part of her is vindictive? Did she murder the second wife? Did she burn down their house?

    Nobody is judging the couple. Koala is only reporting the truth. She is not dragging KMH to the court or throwing stones at KMH. The scandalous couple looks perfectly happy posing away. Who is judging them?