Director Hong Sang Soo and Actress Kim Min Hee Reportedly Expecting a Baby After 9 Years Together
Well this is definitely more spicy sauce on an already messy dish. K-ent is reporting that award winning director Hong Sang Soo and his actress girlfriend Kim Min Hee are expecting a baby together. He’s 64 and she’s 42 and have been together for 9 years since she starred in his movie Right Now, Wrong Then in 2015. Her career is basically nonexistent in K-ent other than continuing to be his muse and starring in his arthouse movies since their relationship is castigated by K-netizens for being adulterous. Hong Sang Soo remains married to his legal wife (with whom he has an now adult daughter), who refuses to grant him a divorce. He filed a lawsuit seeking divorce in 2016 but she refused to appear for hearings or negotiate and the court dismissed the lawsuit in 2019 stating that the at-fault party cannot seek a contested divorce. So he simply lives apart from her and continues to date Kim Min Hee. When their baby arrives, it will either have to be registered under Kim Min Hee as a single mom or under Hong Sang Soo but considered illegitimate. Poor baby, and also to have such an old dad as well.
🤮🤮🤮 Meanwhile, this deadbeat pensioner has totally abandoned his first child from his marriage. This couple are so icky🤮
She was so famous back then. She was only 33 when she decided tobe with this grandpa. Why? Her exes are all good looking and popular as well. Why did she go to an old man who isnt even attractive? The heart wants what it wants, Selena said.
Poor little baby, the mom will be always remembered as a homewrecker, having an old dad… hope the baby lives well despite all the circumstances.
They are unanimously getting trashed by knetz. The anger has definitely not faded. Obviously Kim MinHee doesn’t care to have an acting career anymore but I’m also genuinely surprised they’re going to have a baby. She’s at an advanced age for a first time pregnancy so all the ickiness aside, I hope hope everything goes well. More so for the sake of the child I hope they can both just live quietly. No child deserves the sort of hate that’s likely going to be dumped on them by association to their cheating parents.
They deserve to suffer forever, and the fact that they brought a baby into their immoral relationship is all the more infuriating.
the wife is off her rocker,a man will only stay if he’s willing to be by your side.she should just divorce and move on and take all his money.
It’s been a decade. The wife should just let go and live her best life. Sometimes holding onto a non existent marriage simply because of resentment is a resentment in itself. I’m surprised korean courts don’t allow unilateral divorce.
Exactly! I don’t see the point here of holding on to a dead marriage. For what exactly? The satisfaction of not giving him a divorce. Either way, he is not coming back. It seems strange that the courts don’t allow the marriage to be dissolved when they have been living apart for so long.
I personally feel like with a marriage, there needs to be two yeses to continue. if even one is a no, whether it’s the man or woman, the other person should be allowed to get out. she totally should divorce also to let go, but you know the saying misery loves company.
South Korea allows unilateral divorce, but the spouse asking for it should be the one who was not at fault. Because Hong was at fault (having an adulterous relationship), he as the guilty spouse cannot force the innocent wife to divorce him. He should have settled this better before starting the relationship with the other woman.
I think we often forget the consequence of divorce in Korea and Japan. In both countries, the divorce doesn’t just end the marriage it also erases it…if there’re any children they go with one parent and the other parents loses custody alongside every right on the kid. The kid also loses all rights on that parent (in terms of child support and inheritance).
Imagine you’re the daughter in this case either you decide to stay with your mom and become poor (in a materialistic country like South Korea it’s a death sentence)or you go decide to live with your cheating father who couldn’t care less about you. And let’s not forget that the wife also sepent her life raising her child and providing free care to her mother in law. If she accepts the divorce she and her daughter will most likely end up in the streets….
The director is a scumbag and the actress is nothing better.
I don’t like cheating , but it happened 9 years ago , they still together and Kim Min Hee may love him because she let go her career , suffered backlash, become his muse ( she won a big prize) . His wife don’t want divorce it’s her choice . Kim Min Hee has the right to have a child , hope for her that SKorea will be able to be less harsh toward children borned out of wedlock in the future . It would have been better for them to go to live in Europe ( France, Germany,Monaco,…)
@cahill same. I find it hypocritical that MeToo’d men are still working in high profile projects in Korea and Lee Byung Hun remains Korea’s top actor (everyone just lets his cheating on his pregnant wife go with a shrug) but Kim Min Hee has to remain cancelled.
She’s only 42 but people are vile, inets practically wishing birth defects on the baby because it’s born out of wedlock and the dad is older? Where was all this ‘concern’ when Son Yejin had a baby at 40…. Dispatch knew what they were doing, choosing to release this news.
@Royal We, I dislike Lee Byun Hun immensely thus never ever watch any of his shows. He is so lucky to have move from his scandal with career and marriage in tact. Hope he no longer disgrace his lovely wife and family again.
Same here too… I dont care to judge this couple too much. I know both did bare conseqeunce ones’s their affair were out in public. Both moved away for many years and also suffered huge backlash. But they stick to each other, supported each other. Their love for each other are strong.
I did find it uncomfortable to learn how their newborn if it had dad’s surname, he will be known as illegitimate child. It is just such a awful label for a child on his birth registration.
Not only baby’s dad is very old mama is also old for a pregnancy. Yes I know women can have whenever they want a baby but If you arent selfish enough you can see why not instead…
Let alone age matter all these cheating and scandals going around for this pairing would be enough.If baby end up being a male I can already se the headlines after the guy passes away or get sick…
I found funny the remarks about her age. She has the same age as Son Ye-jin.
This man’s mariage was over before. It’s unfair that a judge can force you to stay married.
That’s what I recall reading. I can find any print references… but I thought he and wife had been living apart for years before the relationship with KMH happened.
Maybe because I’m American and have different cultural values… but I think it’s totally stupid to call her a homewrecker and nag on the relationship if he’s been trying to divorce for like 15-20 years and his legal wife refuses.
Completely agree 💯
It’s too bad that the couple are still being so harshly judged even though they have been together for almost a decade. I actually admire KMH for following her heart. She could have been one of Korea’s most celebrated actresses.
His wife needs to let go. Just take his money and put everyone out of their misery. Hope the couple consider raising the baby in a more forgiving environment. Europe or the US, perhaps.
I remember when the scandal first happened and not understanding the wife being unwilling to divorce. Someone here explained that in Korea, being divorced had a worse stigma. So here we are all these years later and divorces are happening fairly regularly in K-ent so it’s just about not letting them marry it seems. Anyway, I agree 100% that there should be a plan for raising the child elsewhere.
Please educate yourself. The divorce isn’t only about letting it go. It’s about the wife and daughter’s financial future and also the fact that he used his wife as a baby making machine and a free care provider for his mother and discarded both mother and daughter when he found a shinier toy.. sorry muse.
Most directors are just creeps…..