K-actress Kim Sae Ron Booked for Suspected Drunk Driving After Crashing Her Car into a Sidewalk Planter Around 8 am

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• there is absolutely no excuse for drunk driving. Her career is basically over due to a dumb decision, how sad. There is also a video on youtube where you can see her drunk driving, crazy :(

• She hit the electric transformer box causing outage to the area for a bit. She was lucky no person got hurt but it was very irresponsible. She could have gotten a chauffeur service.

• This is so bizarre (even though drunk driving is hella common in South Korea) because who the hell is inebriated at 8am??? It takes some serious stupidity to
  a) drink so much so early in the morning,
  b) go driving like the joker afterwards in broad daylight,
  c) crash into something that could've easily resulted in someone getting hurt,
  d) try to ditch the scene,
  e) request a blood test that takes two weeks to process even though a breathalyzer is fairly accurate, and
  f) not apologize immediately and sincerely.

  I dunno how badly the public's gonna react since drunk driving isn't always a career ender in the country but it certainly will hurt her a lot. And deservedly so. Never thought she was a good actor either way.

  • There may be more to the story. Am waiting for the juicy bits to come out like the identity of her passenger as alleged by other commenters in soompi. If she's alone by herself getting drunk at 8am in the morning the case is very cut and dried. However the mystery passenger threw a spanner in the works.

  • 2 week wait for dui blood test is fast. In US normal wait time is 4-6 weeks some 6 months. She could be buying time with her lawyers to see how she can get out of this.

    • Maybe another reason why her agency's statement was very general with no apologies. The details of the statement will depend on the blood test results.

  • Accidents do happen at all hours. Andrew Symonds an acclaimed Aussie ex cricket player rolled his car at night and died on the spot. He was only 46 and healthy by all accounts. Police haven't revealed cause of death.

    • That does not apply in this case in the slightest. 46 is a young but somewhat reasonable age for someone to die of natural causes - 21 is not. She is rich, famous and equipped with the staff and resources to avoid driving if she's drunk off her ass. If for whatever reason she's not actually drunk and she crashed because of something else, running away from the scene right after is certainly damning either way. It's dangerous and beyond stupid and she deserves to have her career bungled because of it.

    • People can die naturally or suddenly at any age everyday. Over the ditch in nz today a high school student died suddenly in school. Police said death is not suspicious.

• It doesn’t matter if she was drunk or not. It was a hit and run either way. There is a literal video of her ramming into the transponder and then driving away. She would have done the same if it was a person. Her first instinct was to run. Secondly blood test might be more accurate but she only did it to buy time. It’s what all alcoholics who habitually drive under the influence do. In the meantime the public anger will calm down and her agency can conveniently manipulate the result. Trying to defend her at this point is silly and illogical. She damaged public property, caused a literal power outage and who knows what consequences that had in the lives of real people and worst she didn’t even bother to apologize for any of it. She should be canceled permanently but Gold Medalist will easily buy her way back in. That agency is super shady as well. There’s a reason why her career is a complete flop and her character shows clearly in her actions.

• She literally hit and ran away. There’s no freakin excuse for that. No allegedly in that.

  • There were some who stated that she really hit and run coz police caught up with her 30 minutes after hitting the transformer. And then with her refusing the breathalyzer immediately and asking for blood extraction at the hospital, girlie was smart with her post-accident decisions.

• What planter nonsense? She rammed into an transponder and knocked out all the electricity in 4 blocks including traffic lights! Don’t try to sugar coat this she literally could have killed someone and not cared!

  • Right .. the headline so misleading…there a huge different between a planters and transformer .. how many life got disrupted during the outage …and a it’s a hit and run too no less wth ….geesh drunken idiot …

• She needs to be eternally grateful that she did not hit someone and the transformer did not explode. Nevermind her career, who knows how many lives she could have ended!

  • Yeah this was in the Gangnam district and a busy street at that. So many could have gotten hurt. SMH

• How Gold Medalist handles their artists' scandals is mind boggling. The girl caused public endangerment, damaged public property, and disrupted the traffic and electricity nearby. And yet the first statement they put out isn't even remotely apologetic.

• She is a whole bird for driving while this drunk. She would’ve killed or maimed someone if it weren’t so early.

  How you be this drunk at 8 am???

• Just saw the CCTV and dashcam footage in the Korean news. She's darn lucky she didn't crash into a pedestrian or another vehicle. Still, some residents and local businesses were affected by the power outage caused by her irresponsibility so it's really disappointing.

  I wonder what happened to her that she got herself into this mess. Is she going through something personally or professionally?

  Also, I don't understand why it would take 2 weeks, in a technologically advanced country like South Korea, for her blood alcohol test results to come out. Can someone enlighten me about this?

  • apparently other countries like the usa take like 4-6 weeks to get results so 2 weeks is pretty advanced in that case. and tbh i couldn't care less what her personal or professional circumstances were, the minute you step into a car drunk, you've committed attempted murder. and she tried to drive off right after and more than likely chose the blood test route because it gives her more time to get her lawyers and defence together so yeah. she deserves every last bit of backlash and more.

    • Thank you. Such illegal action shouldn't be condoned indeed especially when it triggers other people who've unfortunately experienced losing someone because of incidents like this. But in reality, this may not be a career-ender for her knowing her agency.