New Delhi:
Kim Soo Hyun lately discovered himself embroiled in a courting controversy after a now-viral video shared on YouTube claimed that he and late actress Kim Sae-Ron have been in a relationship.
The video alleged that the actor dated Sae-Ron when she was a minor on the age of 15, whereas he was 27.
Kim Sae-Ron was discovered lifeless at her residence in Seoul on February 16. In accordance with the Seongdong Police, the actress died by suicide.
Regardless of a back-and-forth of statements and allegations between Kim Soo Hyun and the YouTube channel, Garosero Analysis Institute, the dispute doesn’t look like coming to a detailed anytime quickly. This is how the Queen of Tears actor received dragged into Kim Sae-Ron’s loss of life case and courting controversy.
It began on March 10, when the YouTube channel Garosero Analysis Institute, owned by former MBC reporter turned YouTuber Kim Se-Ui, launched a video claiming that the late actress Kim Sae-Ron was in a long-term secret relationship with Kim Soo-hyun.
The video featured statements from Sae-Ron’s aunt, who revealed that the late actress began courting Kim Soo-hyun, 27, in 2015. At the moment, Sae-Ron was barely 15, whereas Soo-Hyun was 27 years previous.
The video additional claimed that Sae-Ron joined Kim Soo-Hyun’s administration firm, Gold Medalist, in 2019 and selected to not prolong her contract together with her earlier label, YG Leisure. She gave him free labour, together with giving appearing courses and directing contemporary expertise, to assist him begin the enterprise whereas they have been nonetheless courting.
The couple dated for six years earlier than Kim Soo-hyun distanced himself from Sae-Ron as a result of DUI scandal in Could 2022, which considerably impacted her profession. Even then, Kim Soo-Hyun and his label, Gold Medalist, helped her deal with the scenario and paid about $483,000 in damages with out asking her to pay the cash again.
Whereas Sae-Ron was grateful, she nonetheless meant to “work onerous so she may pay him again finally.” Nonetheless, issues took a flip after her contract with Gold Medalist ended. In 2024, the company despatched Sae-Ron a authorized discover to pay again the cash. When she tried to contact Kim Soo-Hyun, he didn’t reply her calls.
This was across the identical time when Kim Soo-Hyun’s drama Queen of Tears was on air. Sae-Ron, to attract his consideration, shared an image with Soo-Hyun on Instagram.
However the actor and his firm remained unreachable and issued an official assertion that “negatively painted Kim Sae Ron”.
As per Kim Sae-Ron’s aunt, the actress died by suicide below the strain of “not with the ability to pay again $483,000.”
Quickly after the video went viral, Gold Medalist issued a robust statement, dismissing the accusations as “baseless and malicious.”
The company additionally criticised the Garosero Analysis Institute YouTube channel for spreading false rumours and threatened to take authorized motion in opposition to them.
The Garosero Analysis Institute refused to again down and as an alternative mocked the company in a defiant put up. They additional dared the company to file a lawsuit, claiming their sources got here immediately from Kim Sae-ron’s household.
The controversy deepened when the YouTube channel printed further content material allegedly shared by Kim Sae-Ron’s household. Amongst the proof, there was a textual content message from Kim Sae-Ron, despatched to Soo-hyun on March 19, 2023, wherein she begged the actor to present her a while to pay again the cash.
Moreover, they revealed a 2016 image of Kim Soo-hyun kissing a then minor, Kim Sae-ron, on the cheek.
Within the wake of the occasions, Kim Soo-Hyun’s controversial remarks from his previous media interactions at the moment are going viral on the web. In a single explicit comment on marriage, the actor mentioned, “It seems like my marriage timeline has been pushed again a bit. I feel I’d be capable to get married at round 41. I will marry a 21-year-old after I’m 41.”
In the meantime, Kim Soo-hyun is presently receiving a wave of backlash on social media, with a number of manufacturers and tv exhibits declaring that they’ve minimize their ties with the actor till additional clarification on the matter.
