Gold Medalist Releases Official Statement Admitting Kim Soo Hyun Dated Kim Sae Ron But Claims it Happened in 2019 After She was Legally an Adult and Denies Trying to Collect Debt that Contributed to Her Stress
So the public won’t need to wait until next week as today Kim Soo Hyun and his agency Gold Medalist released its official statement on the allegations Kim Soo Hyun dated Kim Sae Ron when she was still underage. The statement is very long (translations will abound) but here I’ll just do the TL:DR: the statement admitted Kim Soo Hyun did date Kim Sae Ron but it was only after she was legally of age, claiming the relationship was between summer 2019 to winter 2020. That would make him 31 years old (b. 1988) and her 19 (b. 2020), you decide if it’s still gross if true. It said that the pictures released were all taken in 2020 and not in 2016 and GM has metadata to prove it and also Kim Sae Ron wore a t-shirt that was released in 2019. It addressed the letter sent from the military in 2017 saying it was Kim Soo Hyun writing one of many letters simply to his close acquaintance including Kim Sae Ron and not that they were dating and the use of “I miss you” was a common army phrase to friends and family back home. But the postcard from Paris they were dating but that was in 2019 when she was of age. It claimed the nickname used in the letter SaeroNero was her nicknamed widely used and not a nickname used only by Kim Soo Hyun.
As for the callous debt collection legal demand, GM claims the agency paid Kim Sae Ron’s penalty and compensation that she could not afford and never intended to ask her to repay it. The agency claims their stance was evidenced by writing it off in its tax statement that year as uncollectible debt, but needed to send the official letter for documentation purposes that it tried to collect the debt otherwise it would be seen as a shady transaction. GM will respond further next week with more details but wanted to get this response out because media is camping out and harassing Kim Soo Hyun and he’s very distressed by all these mistruths and distortions of fact. The immediate reaction from netizens is not buying this one bit, with a K-netizen showing that her t-shirt came out in 2014 and also questioning why the statement made no mention that GM vehemently denied Kim Soo Hyun ever dated Kim Sae Ron in the past statements and is now just glossing over that he did and focusing on the age issue.
C-netizens finding his glasses in the cheek kiss picture was what he wore in 2015 and was gifted to him from his fans in 2013:
This is C-netizens expression to this whole statement lol:
Some c fans already dug up the year of the clothing on ksr was prior to 2019 and the glasses he wore in the pic was given by c fans in 2015
I am amazed how they dug that up. Also, they even use hairstyles at that time to refute the GMs press release. Sadly, now the mom wants Garo to just concentrate on Lee Jin Ho the youtuber about his part on this and not to release the video. Seems like they got to her.
KSR really didn’t know about the debt discharge, or she will not feel the world on her shoulders and self-exit. So that excuse is questionable. They cannot go after her if this was tax written off.
I hope the mom is not bought off, cause honestly the mom sounds kinda sus in the whole story
It is standard reply for all young stars to deny any hint of romance. That one you can’t pile on him. The collection of debt is consistent with corporate governance but question remains did they inform her that was the intention? As to when they started dating, no comment. On his allegation that they started dating when she was 18 and fizzled out after one year, I will likely believe that because he doesn’t look like a long term commitment guy. But that doesn’t mean there were no flirtations prior to 18. Questions remain why he didn’t reply her when she was desperately looking for him about the debt collection. I will say this is the legit part to question his character and how he treated his former close friends cum GF cum lover. As for when they started, he said her auntie said. But NO ONE even talked about the unfair contracts term about morality clause, severe penalty without first establishing guilt. that answers why this romance wasn’t publicised then. Morality clause. Also because for him probably just a fling (if you think of him positively) or she aged out (if you see him the other way). As for age gap, reality; there are men who date younger women, as long as she’s not underage. The statement is painfully trying to establish that. I feel he should explain all this in a press conference. They really wanna cancel him and blame him for her death as atypical of korean netizens who also jumped on the same bandwagon with every star that has ever killed themselves.
Wow. Really trying to justify his behavior huh.
He will not date you. You are too old for him. You are quick to believe his statement but ignoring the tonnes of proof? Ha ha have some shame. His chinese fans already exposed that the timeline is not matching because of the gifts they sent. Anyways garo sero will probably bring out more solid proof. Until then keep thinking of what excuse you will come up with
Men-obsessed and boy-crazy women like you are EMBARASSING lmao. Caping for a millionaire pe*do as if he’ll ever look your way. Nah, you’re too old for him. While you’re being a keyboard warrior here whiteknighting for him, he’s setting his eyes on pretty, super young rookie actresses/idols to prey on again. EVERYTHING YOU’RE NOT. Again, women like you are EMBARASSING. You’re probably from men-worshipping countries in Southeast Asia, Africa, or LatAm lmao
@FunnLimisetc
I was mostly agree with you before your last sentence. It’s disgusting, and you’re a nazi. How you downgrading women from these territories from women from YOUR territory.
Men-worshipping countries not existing, all women are different from each other around the world. I saw KSH fanpage supporting him from England, and yet I have brain enough to not badmouth or women from England. And I have enough brain to understand “boy-crazy woman” can be in any country, and you can’t guess it by a comment.
I advise to you to stop being nazi and not differentiate women by territory they living in, especially when you using that as a form of insult.
go be a pick-me somewhere else
Wow. some many things to respond to. As an example
I’ll just comment on the frist sentence alone.
Calling a male actor aged 37 years old “young” as an excuse “to deny any hint of romance” is ridiculous. Other a married with kids for many years at that age. He isn’t a rookie actor trying to establish himself. Even if he where a decade younger that is a weak argument, let alone an excuse.
Yup keep justifying his behaviour, they have found her diary which documents that she got into a relationship ( groomed) by him when she was in middle school age 14/15.
I hope all this is released so people like you can see him for who he is , a manipulative pedo!
I have a kid who is 14, I can’t imagine her being ready for any kind of relationship, she can’t even get ready for school without forgetting something!!
Why are you so mad at @Funn Lim? People commenting here should ask yourselves if you’ve ever dissed KSR before or jumped on the bandwagon of pile-on over KSR and/or her defenders while KSH was still held up on a high pedestal with a perfect image. Just be honestly answer this question!!!!!!! If you have, then you’re not learning any moral lessons from her tragedy and many others in K-ent to which cyber bullies (you included, perhaps) also had a share of contribution. Now you’re just going around with your old selves to jump on another bandwagon to pile on another preys with all sorta excessively derogatory name calling and dissing. LOL. You got on high with hyped adrenaline not out of your sympathy for KSR, but you seem to just have fun harassing people online, KSR and her defenders in the past and now KSH and his defenders or those who on the fence to take a side. You might have been among the ones pushing celebs to be cancelled that resulted in their financial distress and finally tragic exits.
I don’t see anything out of line in @Funn Lim’s post. She made her points that are something legit to think about. There are many speculations based upon she said he said. It’s not like you own the moral high ground to judge more fairly than different opinions. We, Koala included, are all here to SPECULATE LMAO. Other than the insiders, everyone else is just choosing what to believe. You guys should get off of your high horse pretending you’re a better holy saint than Funn Lim. LOL.
Says the one trying to look impartial while judging others and want to withhold judgment until a court rules otherwise (smells like male privilege to get the benefit of a doubt even under such damning evidence).
How convenient from his side to just admit what can’t be denied anymore. No dating whatsoever turned into dating when she became of age. Trying to sell love letters to a minor is normal for soldiers, since they send out such letters to all their friends. How is an almost 30-year-old man friends with a female minor to send out private letters? Even if we belive he wasn’t dating her then. Being friends as a male adult with a minor girl is grooming. The clips of him and KYJ (12/13y!!!) on the set/promo on TMTES are sick, knowing he is into such young girls. Naming underanged girls as ideal types. Wanting to marry a girl when he is over 40, and she is not older than 21…
All of this is pedo behavior. There is no doubt now that he is indeed attracted to young girls, which is the definition of pedophiles. Regardless if they play out their fantasies or not. He has no business being around young girls, seeking their presences. I do not need to wait if his dating and grooming of KSR are verified by court. The circumstantial evidence is incremental as it is.
Since I’m aware that we all live in a patriarchal world, I wasn’t witch hunting her or defending him in the past. And it’s even worse in SK than most western countries. I will not defend a male just because he is male, famous, handsome, or powerful and condemn a woman as easily as other women do, holding them to higher standards than men.
Grooming and pedo are unforgivable and a line once crossed is no turning back for me. I agree to disagree a lot. However, such offences are not redeemable or defendable. And one misogynistic argument that is brought up a lot in SA cases and already debunked time and time again and still widely used is the accusation that victims are just making up stuff and in doubt always believing the guy instead of the victim.
@eJc, your lengthy argument here still doesn’t make any more legit points than Funn Lim. You’re preaching with general moral standards that most people already agree with. The problem in your argument lies much within a lot of speculations about this case based upon cyber rumors that yet need more corroboration from legal authority. Now the information we have is still he said she said. It’s already proven misinformation and disinformation are so easily manipulated and spread online. That’s why I stand by my trust in legal routes. Netizens are gossipy and also gullible. There is a reason why legal systems exist. I don’t want to be a judge outside courtrooms.
If I were KSH, I definitely would take legal actions if wanting to break all the rumors and clear name as a ruthless pedo. If KSH doesn’t take legal actions against defamation, then he’s fishy and the theory that he’s a pedo is more plausible cause it shows he must know he’s guilty and would fail related law suits.
@Somebody
I kinda respect your choice not to jump on hate train and wait, because right now it’s so seductive to do so.
Maybe you’re right, as I read about few criminal cases where even police and victims were confident about identity of a criminals, for it being debunked by some ridiculous evidence when damage was already done.
For example, I read about one case when man r*ped two women. Women described his look to police, police found him, victims recognised him by his face, guy was sentenced. Turns out that guy was actually a doppelganger of a real criminal, who was charged many years later for another case. He looked like his twin, although they weren’t related. Like, if such ridiculous thing happened, anything can happen.
So people need to understand the responsibility they taking when they’re accusing someone to something.
But also despite the truth I’m not sure we would get anything what will tell 100% they were together when KSR was 16. There’s need text messages from this time, or photo which 100% proves it. Every evidence released till now can be debunked, if you have enough fantasy for it. I went on KSH fanpages out of curiosity, who still supports him, to see what they’re telling: discussions about KSH mole, KSR bang, t-shirt and glasses were debunked by them. Photos could be made either in 2016, either in 2020.
And I dislike how this YouTube channel milking scandal as long as they can, instead of releasing all evidences for once. How they talking about KSH and KSR at the same videos they’re telling their political statements, to make more people to watch it. Their intentions very clear.
If they have 200 photos of them dating they want to make 200 videos about it or what, why they can’t release one photo which proves it 2016 year on 100%. Photo of naked KSH on KSR kitchen proves nothing, it doesn’t show up information when this photo was made, and looks like it was released not for information but for shock content.
I doubt channel’s sincerety, I doubt KSR parents sincerety, I doubt KSH sincerety. T-shirt wasn’t made at least till 2018, but Garo Search said photo from 2016. KSH said he wrote letters to KSR just as to a friend, but I’m very doubtful 30 yo person would want to be friends with a minor 12 years younger than him without a second thoughts. And what they were friendly enough for him to know her address, so he could sent letters to her without any hiding meaning behind it. And how “I miss you” is a common phrase of soldiers, I’m not from Korea but I didn’t know soldiers have such genuine slang. And if they were just a friends how he suddenly started to see her as romantic interest after he was discharged.
Another media started to talk about their relationship as an “open secret”, why they need to lie about that.
But at the same time if it was an open secret, why only Garo Search has evidence of it.
Anyway, it’s just my thoughts about all of it. Sorry for long essay, I just wanted to share some of my confusions of not matched things from both sides. And I think you’re one of few people on this site who wouldn’t call me a pedo defender for doubting some things from Garo Search side.
But even if we close eyes on their relationship, his action later: to read her message about 700 mln won loan, don’t reply on that (he could just answer to her “Agency will talk with you about it”, there’s no legal need to ignore her message), and to sent screenshot to Dispatch. The last one very evil, and Gold Medalist didn’t debunk that. And how he wrote on his bubble a week after his birthday/her su*cide “whole week is like my birthday”, despite knowing what happened to his ex at that day.
No matter when they started to date, him sending screenshot of her message to Dispatch is enough for me to be done with him, but I still want to see one evidence from Garo Search, on which I can look and on 100% know when they started to date.
@Olesya1, you are one of very few savvy people making thoughtful comments about the scandal on this site. All the speculations are possible. Some are more plausible than others and some are more questionable than others. But at the end, they are still speculations without credible validation of their authenticity. At this point, it’s basically still he said she said. That’s why I’m pretty turned off by all the derogatory allegations and accusations now, either against KSH or against those who are not riding bandwagons to scold his side with scorn, just as I equally disapprove of the cyber attacks with vitriol hurled at KSR and her defenders/people on the fence when she posted her photo with KSH before. KSH will either survive this scandal or get cancelled at the end. I hope he won’t be LSK 2.0 even he’s mistreated KSR.
A lot of people love gossips and are thirst for seeing drama in celebs’ private lives cuz perhaps their own real lives are pretty boring and unfulfilled with nothing to be thankful for. LOL.
Asian-drama fans collectively are perhaps the most irrational emos among all the social circles I’ve ever come across, loving hanging around in their mental gyms about celebs’ gossips. This social psychological phenomenon has made influencers, this blogger included, take great advantage of all gossips about celebs’ privacy for their profits. Look at the traffic and google ads popping up nonstop on this site pages LMAO. It’s business-interest motivated.
@Somebody
I’m so agree with you about asian-drama fans. K-pop fans as well. Couldn’t say it better.
Maybe asian content is so popular not because of dramas and songs, but because people addicted to negativity find perfect playground here. At least people who spending a lot of time on social media.
Of course, there are also positive people, but as someone who was positive someday, if you’re a drama fan, you would hardly find positivity on social media and such sites. More likeable gossips and negative.
I think Koala makes more neutral statements than some other influencers, but I can’t not to notice, articles about some gossips and scandals published way more often when about actual drama content.
It was very noticeable on ~7 articles about small ratings of When the stars gossips.
soo what i feel like after looking through whole thing is that he probably has a thing for young girls but dont want long commitments also ig they dated for 1 year then it fizzled out and the reason he didnt admit that they were dating is quite obvious even if it was someone else during QOT hype now if he admitted he dated her the grooming and boycott would have came anyway and it was his first relation too also from financial you cant just loan someone soo thats why legal notice was send due to legaL purpose and obv right now whole situation is being dramatized by gossip youtube channels
Hey, don’t steal my username!
nice effort….now lets wait for the next evidence
i believe eventually this thrash will not get away with this
It has gotten too big to be coverup…I too think he will not get away.
Apparently the next evidence if him half naked washing dishes at her house.
I call BS. So shameless. He is really something. Wow.
Based on past videos, interviews and comments, he seems to have penchant for minors.
Not jumping to conclusion but his reasoning does not seem to add up and sounds obviously doing damage control.
If and I mean If (which I highly am sure he is) KSH turned out to be that predatory manipulative creep, I hope he will receive severe punishments for what he did. He has come too far with that good fortune by his side by entirely faking that goofball dorky guy image, fooling the public and making so much money out out it.
There are more talented and good looking actors cum decent human being out there who should be given the opportunity and recognitions.
Be a human being first before being a fan. I can’t believe there are still fans of this pedophile lol. Please have some shame and I hope this pedophile will be cancelled forever. Karma will always catch up to those who manipulated a poor underage girl. Poor girl, have some decency KSH fans.
Tell me about it! I saw a comment on FB saying what he’s doing is not pedophile unless he’s done some intimate stuffs with her and I’m like tf you don’t know that…Some crazy people try to justify the age gap too and I’m just like you must not have kids or love your daughter enough to realize that they can be victims of grooming at that young age. I’d say maybe at age 25 is when you have a better grip at some reality and he dated her when he was over 25 yrs old.
Huge age gap in a relationship isn’t actually a crime, even one may disapprove of it. Otherwise, go ahead condemn and sue Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle, and Terry Gou, the founder of Foxconn. LOL. I also have a friend whose wife is 26-27 younger than he and they seem to be happily married with two gorgeous kids.
Grooming is the problem. I’d like to see more evidence coming out to prove that. If KSH did not lie and did date KSR at her legal age, then he should sue all the rumor spreaders for defamation. Otherwise if he didn’t take any legal actions to clear his name as a pedo, then he is fishy and it’s plausible he lied about the period when they dated.
I see so many handles writing convoluted fanfics to justify his behavior. I wonder what kind of sad lives these people live. What kind of morals will such parents impart to their children? Can one be so man crazy to go blind? They likely encourage similar behavior in the society they live in. Not just young girls but even boys are targeted by pedophiles.
Look at 14-15-year-olds around you and see how impressionable they are. Surely there is some moral compass to hold on to.
Right? Those boy-crazy/men-obsessed women have no brains, they can’t think of anything but worshipping their oppars who will never look their way because they’re too old (and most likely not conventionally attractive enough) for these men. I bet these are the type of women who would victim-blame female ra*pe/assault victims and accuse them of seducing the ra*pist. I’m from SEA and those type of women are everywhere here. Funny thing is, they’re most of the time 40+ years old and above, literally far far from being desired by the creepy men they’re defending. I can’t believe these women are really throwing morals out of the window to defend a man who don’t know they exist. And even if he does know they exist, he wouldn’t even glance their way because they’re not a pretty, underage girl.
FEMALE KSH FANS, WAKE UP AND HEAL FROM YOUR INTERNALIZED MISOGYNY! A young girl literally DIED! If y’all are that man-obsessed, at least stan a male celebrity who is known as a decent man, FFS
Tbvh, I did not mind the whole I-need-a-week shtick. My logic is, this whole situation can only be solved in court as I said previously. So if he needs to talk to his lawyers or whatever and send out more info next week, fine. KSR’s side had the time to get their evidence together and can just continue releasing it if he comes up with bullshit anyway. There’s literally 6 years worth of evidence. In fact, GSY already said they’d release naked video of him in KSR’s home which EW. Please don’t for the sanity of everyone. This is already as gross and nasty as it gets without it. If it needs to happen, I hope they can edit out KSR at least most especially if she was a minor during that time. The whole thing is simply sordid.
On a somewhat different note, I’m absolutely alarmed by just how powerful KSH’s influence is in the industry. Other than Tour Les Jours with a perfectly timed contract end date of March, none of his dozens of endorsements have officially ended contracts yet and I feel like that has not been the case in previous huge scandals of this sort. They are all waiting and watching which is truly unprecedented given the allegations and the reactions. Never seen anything quite like it. Yest, there was news that apparently he is still being supported openly by Good Day’s production after he went to film?!? What. The. Actual. Fuck. It’s completely baffling how much power he holds. I’m genuinely flabbergasted.
Anyway, GM claims none of this info came from KSR’s “aunt” but rather her mother’s acquaintance. That is probably the only thing worth their salt in that long ass statement. It did confuse me how KSR’s dad was blaming Lee Jin Ho for weeks and never spoke of KSH’s involvement before this “aunt” did. I really would like someone from a true media outlet to interview her actual family and get their proper statements so GM has nothing to fall back on. I don’t buy that they didn’t know their daughter was dating a man this old. They weren’t in the same agencies when she was a minor and had zero reasons to be hanging out often. At the end of the day, they are also to blame for what happened to her and I will die on that hill. All the adults in her life failed her for their own selfish reasons.
Dispatch released news that Won Bin had reached out to her a couple of years back asking if she needed help with repaying damages. KSR told him she’ll try to manage on her own this time and that simple conversation was the thing that truly broke me. So gut wrenching for her to carry the burden of all of this by herself and never once did she think of throwing KSH under the bus. It would’ve been so easy for all this to come out a year ago and it never did. She breaks my heart seriously.
I no longer sit on fence…he is as guilty as said. he dated her when she was young… then treated her cruelly. She is his victim.
He and his cousin ran a awful management company.
He wanted underage girls because he can easily manipulate them. After using her and she is old enough, throw her away, until she killed herself. Imagine you have been in a relationship, 700M won is too little for him. He is a pedophile roaming to get another underage to manipulate. This is a test to socially moral koreans. Lets see how he will be treated after all is shown as evidence. Be a decent han being before being a fan please
Sadly, this is very believable to a lot of people aka his fans. They will use this as shield and proof to all allegations and maybe even to convince themselves that their idol is not a bad person. I really believe ever since this whole thing started that ksh will be able to comeback. He has a lot of money and power. He still has a lot of fans who still blindly believe or want to believe him. He will probably still attend schedules not just because of contractual obligations but also to stubbornly hold on to his top star status and hoping that the public will get used to it, forget about it, and get tired of cancelling him. Why wouldn’t he? A lot of top actors who had big scandals before already set a precedent that with enough time, a big chunk of the public will move on and the industry can just pretend that none of this ever happened, especially if there wouldn’t be legal implications. This is really a frustrating and rage-inducing situation and one of the reasons I’ve been veering away from k ent for some time now.
Meh… If that letter was just for tax formality and they never expected repayment, why not simply reply to her msg about it. There are better ways to reassure her than blocking her number, leaking her cousin number to the media and publicly stating they didn’t know why she uploaded that picture when they perfectly know why she desperately tried to get in touch with them. They are comical and still fake as ever.
Previously, the company flat out denied a relationship between the two and shifted the blame to Saeron. This article-I call BS. He’s a coward. Willing to date a kid, but not willing to admit it. It’s just PR tactics to save himself.
Her fees are a different kind of issue and she has already try to serve her dues, but this man is another kind of evil
. He couldn’t even reply or pick up the phone call to his ex’s plead. He couldn’t even write a goodbye note or attend a quote on quote colleagues…or…friends’…oh wait ex-girlfriend’s funeral. Sheesh, make up your mind on what to address her Gold Medalist!
The way he’s just blatantly lying when there’s evidence of pics and letter way before 2019 of them being together and her texts to her cousin stating they were dating since she was 16. Her family is probably sitting on more evidence too waiting to prove him wrong. How does he think he’s getting away with this?
his letters to her while in the military too. Who wrote such thing to a minor, seriously?
yeah yeah a 12 year older senior sends “i love you ” in his letters addressed to a minor and we are supposed to believe they werent in any relationship and were mere acquaintances? I am disgusted to see how some people on this site are still giving him benefit of doubt.
In that pic he has a mole which is removed now many of his ex fans saying it’s 2014/2015 era, then there’s Chinese netz proving it’s 2016 with the glasses and the filters defo not being from 2019. Better late than never I wish be was investigated earlier like so many clips resurfacing of him being so creepy, like the marriage statement wasn’t a one off and the fact that he dumped Kim saeron when she turned legal age, such a sicko. Now his team playing the mental health card when he made her look like an attention seeker last year, next level evil. An actual psycho no wonder why those blind items were right no smoke without fire. I hope his inner circle and those complicit get exposed too. Another related noted the way in later years he fooled the media with his goofy awkward image yet his earlier years he was so creepy and unfiltered. Makes sense also why he’s always so awkward around adult woman but seems gleeful around kids, the clip of him hugging kyj as she’s getting make up done,
and him eyeing her up as his next partner.
The only good pedo is a dead pedo. He’s a waste of space and oxygen.
haha for real. i’m reading the ridiculous comments from kim soo hyun’s braindead fans who are like, “stop witchhunting him! he might off himself, you bullies!
” And all I could think of is, good, off himself then, i don’t care! again, i don’t care if someone calls me a psychopath here, i hate pedos with a burning passion, they ruin people’s lives, so they can off themselves for all i care. ksh fans can cry about it 
I wanted to stay away from this discussion but there is one random thing I’ve been observing from the first picture that was released. Don’t quote me on this but KSH seeems to be having the hairstyle from The Producers. Honestly that hairstyle was pretty ugly so I vividlyremember it. I don’t think I’ve seen his hair like that ever again but I don’t really follow him so don’t know how long he had that hairstyle or if he cut his hair like that again. The Producers was released in 2015.
I’m definitely not as good as cnetz on this. Sorry, my bad, it’s not the exact same hairstyle.
I still remember when Kim Sae Ron posted that photo of her with that pdfile back when Queen of Tears was still airing, this blog called her attention seeker (not verbatim). She must have been so desperate to call his attention for help but instead she was called an attention seeker. I can’t even imagine the pain she was going through back then. Now, this blog is condemning the man as if to wash hands from their scornful writings.
Agree. She picked the least damning photo to reveal. She could’ve buried him if she wanted to and she took her secret to the grave, poor thing.
This! She could’ve gone scorched earth and taken him down but chose to end her life instead. Her entire life just seems so tragic…poor girl
Well said. That’s the message I’ve been trying to deliver countless times on this site. Many people are innate gossipers and get excited about scandals. This site is one of the fodders to feed this sort of appetite. I feel that many are ranting about KSH now not because they really care about what’s right or wrong but they’re reacting on impulse to quench their thirst as busybodies.
I don’t understand people saying a 31-year old dating a 19-year old is somehow okay. That’s so gross. But I believe anyway that he is as guilty as the aunt claims he is.
The one thing I’m curious about is whether it’s true that there’s a connection between the youtuber (who endlessly harassed Kim Sae Ron) and Kim Sae Ron’s ex-manager at Gold Medalist. If true, it would mean KSH really hounded her to death after using her. The youtuber is currently trying to redeem his image in the public eye by apologizing to the family and claiming complete innocence.
I hope they all get what they deserve but unfortunately I highly doubt it.
I doubt the law would penalize this trash. Wish we could summon Kang Bitna to deliver justice.
Good news : Prada kick him
https://www.koreaboo.com/news/prada-makes-statement-regarding-kim-soo-hyun-ongoing-controversy/
about time. others are following suit.
but only Prada so far. Their Korean brands and endorsements just remove pics or put his commercials on hold. They did not even terminate him which shows how powerful he is.
More companies need to drop him and hit him in his pockets
Good for Prada dumping him! I will say realistically rom a business perspective Prada dropping him would have been an easy decision for them. He’s only been an ambassador for a couple of months, he doesn’t have an established relationship or ads with their label. They already have numerous very popular, non-controversial SK ambassadors so no point wasting their time or money on Kim Soo Hyun the pervert any longer.
When I was 15, I dated a 25-year old. I thought he was the love of my life. In hindsight … eeeew
Anyway, let’s see how this unfolds, but we are talking here about a public that adored to bits a show about a 1000+ goblin general (Gong Yoo, born in 1979) and a 18 year old high-school student (Kim Go Eun, born in 1991). Eeew.
True. That’s why I never support those shows no matter how beloved they are.
Oh Goblin! I’ve never understood why that drama was so popular. I was turned off at the first sight of the leads together. They looked awkward. I had no idea of the age gap of the leads. They just physically looked awkward to me as a couple together in the drama. I’ve never been a fan of huge age gap between an OTP anyway.
I couldn’t reply to your comment up above as there was no reply button so I’ll just reply here
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Sighs, I know age gap is not a crime because people say age don’t matter when it comes to love but sheesh…I just wish she was older like 21-25 (or in my mind 23-25) before her and Kim Soo Hyun started dating. At that point, If she was my sister, niece or cousin, I’ll still be iffy about the age gap, but at least I know that she’s an adult and will have to make her own decisions.
So, Goldmedelist released a lengthy statement now and didn’t wait till next week to respond. As feared they make him the victim. He is distressed now? Wow. No shame to the hell they put KSR through. And people are still defending him, believing the spin they put on things.
He is Tefon. Nothing sticks with him. He can get away with everything. It speaks volumes that he has the power to quiet down K media so easily for so many years.
It’s s a men’s world driven by big, big money.
To big to fail.
No justice.
RIP Kim Sea Ron
I don’t know it’s hurt me when Kim Sae Ron getting bullying in media just for one mistake and never forgave her when she was alive. It’s not like she was not responsible of her action. Now she is in better place than this shitty world.
Media keep bullying her. What make you think she had a hard time getting ajob? It’s all you media, youtubers and haters who keep terroring her despite her good intention to get up. Now you swicth all the blame on Kim Soo Hyun meanwhile she is not the only responsible for her tragedy.
I hate Kim Soo Hyun and he is not even my fav actor. But While Kim soo Hyun got his karma, the haters will get it one day.
LOL At first, they were denying that KSH ever dated KSR, and now they’re admitting to it just to save what’s left of KSH’s reputation? That tells me everything all I need to know about their credibility LMAO
They are only denying he dated a minor since he has an upcoming drama knock off released by Disney. Can’t imagine Disney would want to release dramas with the male lead as the pedophile.
Nay. Disney will stick by him. They have gone woke a long time ago. LGBTQ+ is at the center of all their casting decisions now and race baiting. Add not allowed to be used term “pedophile” – you must define them as “Minor Attracted Person” – this is all them. So KSH will fit right in.
The only things that might have some weight is the explanation on the debt as there involves law but still if KSR knows why did she sent a pleading text to her once ex.? Why he didn’t reply instead leaking her number to the despicable youtuber.. Why not attending her funeral instead went on partying.?. That alone showed he is cold blooded.
Last news said this Garo institute will not further publish the “anticipated’ pictures of him doing the dishes and other evidences on the request of KSR’s mom, not sure if this is true or not. Otherwise why started it to begin with?. Because he is under extreme stress and anxiety?. Have it occurred to them what they put KSR under?. Will he taken his life? Slim chance because if all the allegations are true he is a narcissist and these people love themselves to much
KSH career may stumble but I don’t think it is over. He has this huge fan base in China and Japan and maybe other countries too. Stay low and after some years he will reappear.
I hope the petition against the youtuber reached over 50’000 so it can really be reviewed by the authorities.
I can see the family feeling aggrieved, but give in since KSH is just too powerful. They want justice, but putting their lives on the line and the futures of the other two daughters for a result that will likely just be KSH living out a nice early retirement trading cryptocurrency….it’s hard. If he kills himself, whoever is left of his rabid fans will come after them or sympathy will swing his way again.
I think the China fans have mostly abandoned him.
Even if he did wait until she was of legal age to date (which feels like a lie to me), there is no denying that all the other stuff is weird and sketchy. Not even sending any flowers to her funeral despite her being one of the first artists under his newly-launched company and despite dating her – speaks to a level of coldness that people are going to side-eye hard. He seemed a lot more broken up over Song Jae-rim’s death a few months prior.
I’m going to be harsh, but they denied now admit that he did date her when she wasn’t a minor anymore . Was he still looking his watch until the first minute she became “adult”. Like ” Oh!it’s past midnight now we can date” Seriously ! Many celebrities were cancelled for less than that . There are plenty of actors so why bother ! He has enough money to go under radar . If he is innocent , i’ll apologize .
a lot of men sadly are like that. remember how a decade ago, it was common for men online to have “countdowns” for female celebrities’ 18th birthday, when they can finally freely sexualize these girls because they turned legal? just absolutely disgusting. will never understand how these men’s mind work and will never understand how some women can defend them.
@georgina, i didn’t know about the “countdowns” . Thanks your comment , i learnt something new unfortunatelly. Currently, in my country (France) there are 2 historical big cases : the trial of a surgeon who abused more than 312 children when they were under anesthesia , but it wasn’t the only thing he did , he used to wrote everything in notebooks that were found by the police and what it’s written is unspeakable,horrific ( Joel Le Scouarnec) , and a private catholic teaching institut which is involved in sexual and physical children abuse for 50 years with over 100 judicial complaints . Bétharram case .
. They aren’t humans but monsters in disguise .
@cahill, that’s disgusting! Those men are demon possessed!
So what if he denied dating ex girlfriend whom wrapped in big fat scandal,he have no reason to knowledge their relationship and get in mud with her ,and he have no obligation to pay her debts for her , you ppl are crazy ,he don’t own her anything.
Dont worry guys…there will be more photo and video too!
He can’t run away
Those foolish and blind fan is the one should be worry
Lets enjoy the unveiling of the one biggest villain in the Korean Entertainment
(for the fans : are you not disgusted he threw away the girl and make her suicide like that
and before that lie about having the relationship when she was in trouble that time attacked by everyone?)
He’s obviously trying to minimize damage and do anything he can not to go to jail. If they were dating before she turned 19 (which I think they were), her side will definitely have more evidence. I hope the police do a thorough investigation. There will be uproar if he gets away with this.
He is NOT going to jail on any grounds revealed so far. Let’s understand that loud and clear. As much as I hate this piece of trash, there is NOTHING illegal here. Some of ya’ll need to learn some law. Age of consent until 2020 in SK was 13. So if this were to reach the courts, KSH would be absolutely “innocent” in the eyes of law. The ONLY thing being talked about here is moral responsibility, NOT legal. End of.
As we are speaking, they have already released another picture. There is no way he can actually get away with all this. Now, I am just waiting for more of their pictures. This issue has already become too big and the fact that his agency first denied and now claiming that he only dated her when she was a major is a big proof that he is lying. All the evidences are showing that he actually dated her when she was a minor so, yeah he is fucked.
Seriously, KSH turning out to be a groomer was not in my watchlist. He might be regretting not helping her with the debt now. If he had helped her, then this issue would have never come out and who knows KSR might have been alive. All of this is his own doing and no one else. With so many controversy coming from Korea, it is now hard to trust any male actors.
Also, I am hearing Choi Hyun Wook’s name too. Is he related to this case? I hope not.
@Jimmy
CHW’s name was mentioned because people started to spread rumors about him being in the car with KSR at the moment of her DUI. It was debunked by his fans, I don’t remember what they said, you can find their fanpages on twitter.
P.S.: It pissing me off how people trying to make KSR’s case about others actors/actresses. Her DUI has nothing to do with it.
His power in in the industry is too big. I saw an IG account got a letter from GM to tell them to remove contents related to KSR and KSH and they are deleting some of his bad IG comments and removing hashtags on X. He really wants people to forget this incident and do damage control.
I was reading how Esther Yu is getting harassed by his fans for unfollowing him. Even if (big IF) he was innocent, it’s her perogative to follow/unfollow whoever she wants. Why are his fans harassing her? I also read some comments about how people like him as an actor and his personal life isn’t any of their business. I normally adopt this mindset as well, unless the issue is so bad (e.g. murder, SA/r*pe, pedophilia) that it can’t be ignored. Even if she’s of age, 19 and 31, I still think it’s quite the age gap. This is coming from me, whose parents are 11 years apart, and my dad is still devoted to my mother after all these decades. It’s his other comments on top of this relationship that he vehemently denied that makes him sketch. Even if their relationship wasn’t “official” until she was of age, it’s hard to believe he wasn’t interested in her when she was younger based on that letter. The sad part is that nothing changes. Even if he’s guilty, he’ll probably be back in a few years even if he gets canceled today.
As for her mom/parental figures, I still think there is fault with them. If they claim she’s been with him since 15, how did she sneak around with him for 4 years before they noticed? That makes no sense. She couldn’t drive, and someone that young shouldn’t be out and about without the adults knowing where she is. They definitely knew and probably just saw $$ signs. This poor girl was exploited by everyone around her. When will we learn to protect the children? Now there’s a new kpop program recruiting girls under 15, as young as 3. What are these parents thinking?!
Isn’t he tired of lying yet? This pervert has lied and lied and lied: first, when she posted the picture last year he claimed he had absolutely no relationship with her and his agency statement was even mocking in their statement as if she was totally delulu; a few days ago all the rumours were totally false and they were taking legal action; next they go quiet on the legal action threats but will release a statement in a week explaining everything; a day later and it’s OK so yeah they actually did date but only for this very specific short period when she was totally legal. Bunch of BS
I’m so glad the C-netizens are on it and showing up his lies.
I really wish KSR’s family had Gloria Allred type legal figure to advocate for their side to the media. I understand why they went to the Youtuber as the media were too afraid to touch the story but KSH and his agency are still too powerful and are controlling the narrative with their lies in the mainstream media.
And now this piece of garbage and his agency are trying to make us feel sorry for him because he’s just sooooooo stressed. Yeah, I am sure it is stressful being exposed for being a groomer paedo who took advantage of a much younger girl for years, tossed her aside and shrugged his shoulders whilst she ended up losing everything including her life. He is disgusting. He should just hide himself and retire so we don’t have to see his smug face again but he is obviously a total narcissist and isn’t sorry at all.
Don’t even get me started on his pathetic pick-me fans. They are a disgrace to girls and women everywhere.
I love these articles where it shows folks smacking themselves in the face lol!! All these claims that these are within a certain timeframe and with the leading female dead, who can tell? Welp, looks like they severely underestimated knetz lol. Well deserved. They got a lot of explaining to do…:)
Welp the C-netizens are having a field day with his scandal. If he gets cancelled by the Chinese, that might put some pressure on the brands he’s currently endorsing. He needs to come out and do some explaining because it’s not going to go away anytime soon once the C-netz start hating on him.
the fans are pissing me off,
let’s believe him that they dated the moment she comes off age, so when do they think he catch on the feeling?
Do you listen to your own self,
there is only one answer, before she comes off age, when she is still a minor.
certified lover boy ,
Now let’s say that he dates her was not of your concerns, he doesn’t even attend her funeral, he blocked her message when she tried to renegotiated the payment, he stop her to the drama which resulted in damages, even when the said drama is fine with her.
Just because you won’t care about his love affair doesn’t make him any good guy either.
He is wrong in all fronts and in all ways you can say “bad”.
The more I’m reading about this, the more I feel disgusted and horified. As a mom myself, I pray that all girls, all children are safe from this kind of people. KSR parents are as guilty as this man and all other people that were around her as a child and allowed for this ‘relationship’ to happen. And I don’t see any remorse in their behaviour as parents at all. What is all this about releasing pictures and videos only if that scumbag doesn’t appologies? It feels like they are asking for money, negotiating still their daughter pain. No, just release everything, point it out to the wotld who hurt your daughter and pray that no other child in this world will go through what your child went through. But I guess for them, money is more important then their dead child. And, unfortunately, there are a lot of parents like this. Humans like KSH shouldn’t exist. And I’m not saying that he should die, because death feels the easy option, I hope he stays around to see his own downfall. And that he gets nightmares all nights for all the pain he caused to a child named KSR.