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I am EXTREMELY late in reporting this there was just a lot of news dropping at once, and I was also trying to report on the NJZ news at the same time so I got overwhelmed.
There's new developments in this dropping right now so i'll try my best to catch up on the news i've missed on reporting over the past week so y'all can be up to date on the current developments as well.
I'll try to cover everything but once again I apologize for missing anything. I'm trying my best.
*Also once again this will have sensitive content in it so please be advised.*
I am EXTREMELY late in reporting this there was just a lot of news dropping at once, and I was also trying to report on the NJZ news at the same time so I got overwhelmed.
There's new developments in this dropping right now so i'll try my best to catch up on the news i've missed on reporting over the past week so y'all can be up to date on the current developments as well.
I'll try to cover everything but once again I apologize for missing anything. I'm trying my best.
*Also once again this will have sensitive content in it so please be advised.*
More lost brand deals
Cuckoo, a chinese (kitchen appliance?) company has ended their brand ambassadorship with KSH after just 20 days.
Their official statement is:
We will completely suspend brand promotional activities related to Kim Soo-hyun and immediately replace Kim Soo-hyun’s image materials posted on all official platforms. We will suspend related marketing plans that are being prepared and form a special task force to continuously track the progress of the case.
Additionally, all of his brand activities in China has been canceled and they have deleted all images of him off advertisements.
KSH became their brand model right after the Korean Wave ban was lifted in China on March 1st.
Source
Additionally, Jo Malone London has also ended their contract with KSH. His contract was up for renewal this month and they have decided not to renew with him. They have also removed all images of him as well. They have not released any statements as of right now.
Source
Eider was also under fire for a little bit because they originally said they would be dropping him but and was even taking down his posters and replacing him with Wonyoung, but later Eider had promos with him on I believe either their social media or website. This met with heavy backlash and Eider formally announced again that he would be removed from the brand.
KSH and Gold Medalist Statement
KSH and Gold Medalist released a twelve page statement trying to clear KSH's name and explain his controversies and such.
Here is an article about it.
I am not translating this. I have also seen no one else translate this. No one literally cares or wants to hear their BS.
Not even Knetz have expressed interest in reading the long statement, mostly because they also already knew whatever KSH and Gold Medalist was saying is probably BS.
In a news article released after this it was also said that Gold Medalist has set up three different crisis teams to try to handle all of KSH's controversies right now.
Article Source.
Another Video from Garoseo
Garoseo released another new video of Saeron and KSH. The video seems to have been filmed by KSH and in the video Saeron's on a couch and KSH's sliding his hand down to touch/rub her lower back while she sits on a couch.
Garoseo is as usual threatening to release more evidence of their relationship unless KSH admits to his relationship with her. They also claim the next video will clearly show his face.
KSH and Gold Medalist is saying that is not him in the video and denying everything.
I'm also not sure if this information was from Garoseo or not, but text messages were leaked where KSH is asking Saeron, who was a high school sophomore at the time, to delete Kakaotalk and message him through Telegram instead (Telegram allows you to delete your history).
Saeron Marriage Rumors
KSH and Gold Medalist are determined to release evidence that KSH was not the reason Saeron unalived herself and that she is lying.
Lee Jinho, the youtuber who is currently being sued by Saeron's family, released a new video yesterday and today claiming Saeron got married to a Korean American, got pregnant, had an abortion, moved to NYC, and that her new husband was abusive and he was the reason why Saeron unalived herself. They also said there was some sort of love triangle going on with Saeron and an ex-bf her's and Saeron and her "husband".
The situation was something like Saeron broke up with the ex-bf, started dating the man who became her husband and wanted to break up with him but she got pregnant so they were forced to get married. She didn't keep the baby though. The husband was controlling and abusive and at some point and even monitored her phone so she couldn't reach out to anyone.
Lee Jinho also claimed he had voice recording of her saying so to prove it and released the voice recordings, and claimed today he had a "close best friend of Saeron" confirm this as well and said the friend confirmed her husband was the reason she unalived herself.
Article Source
Saeron's family denied these rumors with her mother even stating she's never heard of this before.
Everyone now is severely bashing Lee Jinho, KSH, and Gold Medalist for all of this. They are mad at them for trying to divert the situation to another topic, they are mad at Gold Medalist for presumably paying Lee Jinho to make these videos. They are mad at Gold Medalist for trying to defame her like this.
Audio Recording
At this point everyone started questioning the validity of the audio recording and who leaked it.
It's being assumed that her former manager leaked the audio though he is denying it.
Source of manager denying it.
The source article for that also stated: "Under the current Communications Secrets Protection Act, if a third party discloses a recording file without the consent of the parties to the conversation, it is illegal and may be subject to criminal punishment."
Shortly after the audio was posted Chinese netizens pointed out how the audio Lee Jinho shared was edited and probably fake.
There is a tiktoker/instagramer called Dr. Candise Lin who makes videos talking about things trending on Chinese social media. I want to share a video she made explaining the audio being edited:
Taiwan Fan Meet
There was a lot of chat going around online regarding KSH's Taiwan fan meet at the end of the month (the 30th).
Source for the fan meeting still going on.
Pretty much everyone is calling for the fan meet to be canceled, especially since Chinese netizens are extremely angry at him and are the ones who have been doing the most work right not disproving all of KSH and Gold Medalist's lies about his and Saeron's relationships. They have been the ones proving when pictures were taken, where, what year they were actually taken, and were the ones who proved the audio in Lee Jinho's video was edited.
Here's another video by Dr. Candise Lin about Chinese netizens commenting on the Taiwan fan meeting still going ahead.
(Slight discretion is advised)
It was also announced that 50 police officers will be on standby at a festival KSH will be at when he arrives to Taiwan and his fan meeting will have a heavy police presence.
KSH and Gold Medalist sue again
KSH and Gold Medalists are suing Saeron's family, Garoseo, and Saeron's aunt.
They are suing them for "Violating the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes (Distribution of Filming Using a Camera, etc.)." for the pant-less (but censored) photo of KSH in Saeron's kitchen that was released to the media.
I also want to shout out that KSH and Gold Medalist originally denied that the photo was of him. He's being attacked/mocked by netizens for denying the photo is of him and then turning around and suing them for the photo.
Here is Gold Medalist's full statement:
Cuckoo, a chinese (kitchen appliance?) company has ended their brand ambassadorship with KSH after just 20 days.
Their official statement is:
We will completely suspend brand promotional activities related to Kim Soo-hyun and immediately replace Kim Soo-hyun’s image materials posted on all official platforms. We will suspend related marketing plans that are being prepared and form a special task force to continuously track the progress of the case.
Additionally, all of his brand activities in China has been canceled and they have deleted all images of him off advertisements.
KSH became their brand model right after the Korean Wave ban was lifted in China on March 1st.
Source
Additionally, Jo Malone London has also ended their contract with KSH. His contract was up for renewal this month and they have decided not to renew with him. They have also removed all images of him as well. They have not released any statements as of right now.
Source
Eider was also under fire for a little bit because they originally said they would be dropping him but and was even taking down his posters and replacing him with Wonyoung, but later Eider had promos with him on I believe either their social media or website. This met with heavy backlash and Eider formally announced again that he would be removed from the brand.
KSH and Gold Medalist Statement
KSH and Gold Medalist released a twelve page statement trying to clear KSH's name and explain his controversies and such.
Here is an article about it.
I am not translating this. I have also seen no one else translate this. No one literally cares or wants to hear their BS.
Not even Knetz have expressed interest in reading the long statement, mostly because they also already knew whatever KSH and Gold Medalist was saying is probably BS.
In a news article released after this it was also said that Gold Medalist has set up three different crisis teams to try to handle all of KSH's controversies right now.
Article Source.
Another Video from Garoseo
Garoseo released another new video of Saeron and KSH. The video seems to have been filmed by KSH and in the video Saeron's on a couch and KSH's sliding his hand down to touch/rub her lower back while she sits on a couch.
Garoseo is as usual threatening to release more evidence of their relationship unless KSH admits to his relationship with her. They also claim the next video will clearly show his face.
KSH and Gold Medalist is saying that is not him in the video and denying everything.
I'm also not sure if this information was from Garoseo or not, but text messages were leaked where KSH is asking Saeron, who was a high school sophomore at the time, to delete Kakaotalk and message him through Telegram instead (Telegram allows you to delete your history).
Saeron Marriage Rumors
KSH and Gold Medalist are determined to release evidence that KSH was not the reason Saeron unalived herself and that she is lying.
Lee Jinho, the youtuber who is currently being sued by Saeron's family, released a new video yesterday and today claiming Saeron got married to a Korean American, got pregnant, had an abortion, moved to NYC, and that her new husband was abusive and he was the reason why Saeron unalived herself. They also said there was some sort of love triangle going on with Saeron and an ex-bf her's and Saeron and her "husband".
The situation was something like Saeron broke up with the ex-bf, started dating the man who became her husband and wanted to break up with him but she got pregnant so they were forced to get married. She didn't keep the baby though. The husband was controlling and abusive and at some point and even monitored her phone so she couldn't reach out to anyone.
Lee Jinho also claimed he had voice recording of her saying so to prove it and released the voice recordings, and claimed today he had a "close best friend of Saeron" confirm this as well and said the friend confirmed her husband was the reason she unalived herself.
Article Source
Saeron's family denied these rumors with her mother even stating she's never heard of this before.
Everyone now is severely bashing Lee Jinho, KSH, and Gold Medalist for all of this. They are mad at them for trying to divert the situation to another topic, they are mad at Gold Medalist for presumably paying Lee Jinho to make these videos. They are mad at Gold Medalist for trying to defame her like this.
Audio Recording
At this point everyone started questioning the validity of the audio recording and who leaked it.
It's being assumed that her former manager leaked the audio though he is denying it.
Source of manager denying it.
The source article for that also stated: "Under the current Communications Secrets Protection Act, if a third party discloses a recording file without the consent of the parties to the conversation, it is illegal and may be subject to criminal punishment."
Shortly after the audio was posted Chinese netizens pointed out how the audio Lee Jinho shared was edited and probably fake.
There is a tiktoker/instagramer called Dr. Candise Lin who makes videos talking about things trending on Chinese social media. I want to share a video she made explaining the audio being edited:
Taiwan Fan Meet
There was a lot of chat going around online regarding KSH's Taiwan fan meet at the end of the month (the 30th).
Source for the fan meeting still going on.
Pretty much everyone is calling for the fan meet to be canceled, especially since Chinese netizens are extremely angry at him and are the ones who have been doing the most work right not disproving all of KSH and Gold Medalist's lies about his and Saeron's relationships. They have been the ones proving when pictures were taken, where, what year they were actually taken, and were the ones who proved the audio in Lee Jinho's video was edited.
Here's another video by Dr. Candise Lin about Chinese netizens commenting on the Taiwan fan meeting still going ahead.
(Slight discretion is advised)
It was also announced that 50 police officers will be on standby at a festival KSH will be at when he arrives to Taiwan and his fan meeting will have a heavy police presence.
KSH and Gold Medalist sue again
KSH and Gold Medalists are suing Saeron's family, Garoseo, and Saeron's aunt.
They are suing them for "Violating the Act on Special Cases Concerning the Punishment, etc. of Sexual Crimes (Distribution of Filming Using a Camera, etc.)." for the pant-less (but censored) photo of KSH in Saeron's kitchen that was released to the media.
I also want to shout out that KSH and Gold Medalist originally denied that the photo was of him. He's being attacked/mocked by netizens for denying the photo is of him and then turning around and suing them for the photo.
Here is Gold Medalist's full statement:
Article Source
Lee Jinho has also said he will sue Saeron's aunt for not actually being her aunt (but saying she's her aunt).
(This has also struck a nerve with netizens because just because someone isn't blood related to you doesn't mean they aren't your family.)
Disney+ Series
It was previously announced that the premiere of the Disney+ show "Knock Off" which KSH was in would be indefinitely postponned.
Season 1 was finished filming and I thought season 2 was close to finished as well but I guess not? Because it was announced that they have halted the rest of the filming of season 2 due to KSH's scandal.
Letters
A long letter that Saeron's mother wrote to her when she passed was released to the media through Garoseo.
The letters are shown in his video, here is a translation of the letters from Koreaboo
Good Day Show
It was previously announced that Good Day would be editing KSH out of the show as much as they can.
On 3/20 it was announced that the next episode of Good Day would be canceled.
Here is their statement:
"We inform you that 'Good Day' will be canceled. Episode 6 of 'Good Day', which was scheduled to air on Sunday, March 23rd, will be canceled for a week to reorganize the program. I Live Alone Special' will be aired during that time slot. We ask for your understanding, viewers."
Article Source
I also could have sworn they announced a new cast member (I assume someone who will be replacing KSH) but i'm having trouble finding it now? If I find it again i'll post it in the next update.
More Audio Recordings
Lee Jinho revealed more audio recordings of Saeron confirming the marriage, abortion, and abuse from her husband.
I'm not going to translate it, but here's the article link for anyone who wishes to do so.
Netizens are once again questioning the validity of this, and questioning if this person is even a friend of Saeron's in the first place or just someone paid by KSH/Gold Medalist to say this.
It was previously announced that Good Day would be editing KSH out of the show as much as they can.
On 3/20 it was announced that the next episode of Good Day would be canceled.
Here is their statement:
"We inform you that 'Good Day' will be canceled. Episode 6 of 'Good Day', which was scheduled to air on Sunday, March 23rd, will be canceled for a week to reorganize the program. I Live Alone Special' will be aired during that time slot. We ask for your understanding, viewers."
Article Source
I also could have sworn they announced a new cast member (I assume someone who will be replacing KSH) but i'm having trouble finding it now? If I find it again i'll post it in the next update.
More Audio Recordings
Lee Jinho revealed more audio recordings of Saeron confirming the marriage, abortion, and abuse from her husband.
I'm not going to translate it, but here's the article link for anyone who wishes to do so.
Netizens are once again questioning the validity of this, and questioning if this person is even a friend of Saeron's in the first place or just someone paid by KSH/Gold Medalist to say this.
The ending date of all this news is around 3/20-3/21. There hasn't been any new updates until today, 3/25.
Any updates starting from today (3/25) I will compile in a new post.
Both Korean netizens and International netizens are heavily attacking KSH and Gold Medalist for dropping all of this information on Saeron's "marriage" since this is just being used as a distraction from the fact that he dated a minor.
KSH has been threatening to sue Saeron's family for saying he dated her as a minor but has not filed a case yet. Netizens are questioning if he's just bluffing this since if he did actually date her as a minor he would have no case to sue the family.
People are also asking for some sort of proof of the marriage beyond the audio recordings (for example, a marriage certificate or something or any sort of paperwork. Her company would easily have access to something like this, right?
) but no further proof of the marriage has been released other than the audio recordings.
Any updates starting from today (3/25) I will compile in a new post.
Both Korean netizens and International netizens are heavily attacking KSH and Gold Medalist for dropping all of this information on Saeron's "marriage" since this is just being used as a distraction from the fact that he dated a minor.
KSH has been threatening to sue Saeron's family for saying he dated her as a minor but has not filed a case yet. Netizens are questioning if he's just bluffing this since if he did actually date her as a minor he would have no case to sue the family.
People are also asking for some sort of proof of the marriage beyond the audio recordings (for example, a marriage certificate or something or any sort of paperwork. Her company would easily have access to something like this, right?
) but no further proof of the marriage has been released other than the audio recordings.
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Lying to Chinese fans is literally the worst thing you can do.
Keep up the good work!
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KSH is a fkin trash!
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How much of pos r u that u cheated on a minor
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