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

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• 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.

• 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.