Top Court of South Korea Rules that Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol Will be Formally Removed From Office
So this breaking political news story does tie into the recent scandal around top K-actor Kim Soo Hyun allegedly dating minor-aged deceased actress Kim Sae Ron so bear with me. This morning in a highly charged ruling, the top court of South Korea officially upheld the impeachment of conservative party President Yoon Seok Yul, four months after he was impeached for unilaterally declaring martial law in the country and trying basically to engineer a coup of sorts. The country has been in protest mode between his supporters (conservatives who believe he had the right to declare martial law and did nothing wrong) and his opponents who want to stop what is viewed as his power grab. The Youtube channel Garo Sero Institute that broke the Kim Soo Hyun scandal is a stalwart supporter of President Yoon and it’s been clear that it used the scandal as a microphone to more viewers to further spread its support of the embattled President Yoon. That doesn’t mean the evidence its released in the Kim Soo Hyun scandal is false, simply that GSI clearly had an agenda that it used the scandal to help itself but at the same time also reveal what it alleges was a dirty open secret in K-ent that Kim Soo Hyun dated an underaged actress and that allegedly led to a serious of events which culminated in her suicide two months ago. Kim Soo Hyun supporters have understandably harped on this point, but both things can be true at the same time. GSI can have its own agenda, but also be revealing true facts. You can decide. The top court ruling that President Yoon getting impeached and removed from office does end the wild political show in South Korea, but unclear how that will play out in the Kim Soo Hyun scandal next movies.
Lol…Kim Soo Hyun is a high profile public distraction for this President impeachment case… Of course Kim Soo Hyun if he was living a honest life, it will be someone else’s scandal to be exposed. Anyway, SK politician using celebs as cover ups are not uncommon practice. Many will feel this was a distraction too.
A President who tried to compromised democracy in SK, this guy will go down. Now, after he leaves office, in coming months, his, his family bad deeds may get revealed to public.
Wow, the circus they were creating to destroy KSY is incredible. They defamed him so much. I don’t deny that he had a relationship with a person several years younger than him, but worse things happen these days and no one has been shocked like this. Korean society and crazy fans scare me.
You are scary. It is called statutory RAPE, not a relationship with someone younger. SMH.
Era algo de suponer, un escandalo politico, esos sucede a nivel mundial. Los politicos son una basura.
Whatever his intentions were, at least he had to gumption to be the platform to voice the truth for KSR’s parents. They had gone to all the major news sites and none of them would touch the story – they were so fearful of the repercussions (being sued). Beggars can’t be choosers. So they chose to go with this route. I think you need to be slightly unhinged to take on someone as powerful and influential as KSH. Any “normal” person would’ve just been cowed into silence and “minded their own business”. So for his courage to speak for the weak and vulnerable I applaud The Reb Bandanna Man (the David to the Goliath KSH). I read in Associated Press that they are planning a counter suit against KSH and building their case. This is going to be a long drawn out battle in courts.
@pilgrim, is it true they’re building the case ? Do you have the source ? I have been checking on x and Weibo on family updates but his fans have been mass reporting on accounts not in his favor so I can’t really see the other side of the story now
I agree with you. You need someone crazy to take down someone influential and I don’t think Ksh will really go down since he has so much money and power and a large group of crazy fans backing him. Did you those hashtags on x supporting him or stand by him that has gotten to 1000x. So many pedo lovers
Associated Press. https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-entertainment-kim-saeron-kim-soohyun-eb8a38533334d0b331e6febb0ea3a1ea
If you scroll down after reading their breakdown of the whole saga, and into the segment with the title “Could there be legal consequences”, after they mentioned what KSH’s side did with filing the court case on Monday, they said this
“The family’s legal representative and HoverLab both told the AP on Wednesday that they plan to sue Kim Soo-hyun and his agency for making false claims about his relationship with the late actor.”
That would make sense because the last we heard was that they had gotten 8(?) of KSR’s friends who were planning to make statements about knowing that they dated when she was a minor? That would only make sense within a court case setting? So presumably they would act as witnesses to strengthen their case against KSH. I think they are waiting for some of this Impeachment stuff to die down a bit before filing the case.
I don’t know if this site allows urls. My last comment may have been picked up for the link. Type in “Associated Press Kim Soo Hyun” in your browse and you should find an article titled “How does South Korea’s society treat celebrities in crisis”. They break down the whole saga then in the segment titled “could there be legal consequences?” you will see them write at the end.
“The family’s legal representative and HoverLab both told the AP on Wednesday that they plan to sue Kim Soo-hyun and his agency for making false claims about his relationship with the late actor.”
@Rollingstone Google Associated Press Kim Soo Hyun. You should see an article about “How South Korea society treats celebrities in crisis”. It details the whole saga and then in the segment about legal consequences you will see them mention how they spoke to the family’s lawyer on Wednesday and how he told them that they plan to counter sue KSH.
I don’t mind if Kim Soohyun is cancelled but I despise the public for not treating Kim saeron parents the same way they treat Kim Soohyun,none of this would have happened if Kim saeron had a healthy relationship with her parents (good role model). only children starved for affection would think scumbags are good boyfriend.
@pilgrim, thanks for sharing. I have not seen any new update from Garo talking about KSH and his fans are thinking Garo has already gotten donations and therefore is stopping. Maybe he is waiting for this political stuff to settle down plus it is 49 days since KSR’s passing.
@loulou, I dont think he will be cancelled that easily. His team is suppressing a lot of content unfavorable to him on social media and weibo and various chinese platforms are now banned from posting Garo keywords. X and various platforms have a lot of his paid supporters flooding hashtags supporting him. I am still surprised even chinese stars may not have the power to suppress certain things being discussed about them on weibo but this mere Korean star does. I do wonder what kind of powerful backing KSH has. His fans are spreading lies he donated 7 billion but total raised is only 2.7 billion. And his fans are spreading rumors the family has retracted their words on saying he dated her as a minor and even to the point claiming KSR did not die on his bday.
@Rollingstone if they’ve decided to sue then there’s no more point to reveal anymore to the defendant? They were waiting for KSH to give them an apology when Garo was putting all his posts out but seeing KSH had no intention of doing that (after his dramatic Press Conference), they’ve decided to head down the path of a counter suit. I think once they decided on that, they would just focus on building their case with the evidence that they have? That’s what I would do. Why bother revealing any more of your hand when you can keep it close to your chest and reveal it in Court? And they have a lot. They claim to have 4 laptops and 5 (?) phones. And there’s her written diary journaling their whole relationship (amongst other things) – which you cannot tamper with so that holds a lot of weight. I can’t see how he will be able to refute that evidence. I think they are waiting for the political fallout to die down somewhat. It’s huge right now in South Korea. Meanwhile the Anti KSH petition to raise the statutory rape age to 19 is sitting at 93% now as I type. It will hit the required 50,000 signatures and move on to the next stage which is for the Parliamentary Committees to look into it.
@pilgrim, let’s see how it will all turn out. Feels like they are doing a lot of work to hush the media, change the tone or make the media shift focus since these two days there were a bunch of other news about other stars. I think it may be hard for the family to win that defamation lawsuit since the defamation law is so messed up in Korea and favors the rich and powerful and the lawyer he hired is known for winning these cases. I also think the billion lawsuit against the family is also his attempt to silence them since he knows they dont have that much money.
What happen to the 8 friends who know about him dating her as a minor? I have not seen any follow up.
His fans claim Garo spread fake news but they spread a lot of fake news themselves. Now, his fans are even saying KSR didn’t die on his bday on top of saying the family has retracted their statement he dated KSR as a minor.
I think the petition will get enough signatures soon. He kept calling himself a star and now he became the star of this petition. That will be part of his legacy as well.
PS @Rollingstone I wouldn’t listen to anything posted on X or other platforms unless it’s something their lawyer has said. If they were going to retract they would have their lawyer say so on their behalf. I thought the 7billion donated was questionable because GM is already in financial strife so they wouldn’t have the money to do that. And of course now that it’s been revealed only 2.7billion was collected in total, that has been proven false news generated by his fans.
PPS I was wondering who the brave female reporter was who dared ask him a question (about when he first met KSR) at the end of his Press Conference? She was from Associated Press (it was written the same article in the link above).