SENSITIVE CONTENT The current Kim Soohyun and Kim Saeron situation

[RussianRoulette]

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*This post has sensitive context so please take caution of that.*

I will try to piece this together the best I can. I apologize in advance if i'm missing anything.

This is also going to be a long post though I really didn't want to split anything up. I feel like for this sort of information it's important to have everything together.
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Family Speaking Out

The late Kim Saeron's family has some out to expose actor Kim Soohyun about how much of a terrible person he is, how he is involved in Saeron's death, and how he groomed and dated her when she was only 15 years old and he was 27.

The family originally tried going to media outlets to expose this information but no one would listen to their story. They instead went to youtubers to share the information. The youtuber Garoseo exposed the information.

I usually would try to provide a summary but in this case I strongly encourage just reading the full story.

Here is an english translation of the first shared story from twitter:

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Kim Soohyun's Response

As you can all expect, Soohyun's agency GOLDMETALIST released a statement denying everything and stating they will be taking strong legal action against the family.
Here's their full statement:
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Hello. This is Gold Medalist Co., Ltd.

This is our official position on the YouTube broadcast by Garosero Research Institute regarding actor Kim Soo

-hyun, who is affiliated with our company. The claims made by Garosero Research Institute regarding actor Kim Soo-hyun through the YouTube broadcast are clearly false. Garosero Research Institute made claims that our company and actor Kim Soo-hyun colluded with YouTuber Lee Jin-ho to harass the late actress Kim Sae-ron, and that actress Kim Sae-ron had been dating actor Kim Soo-hyun since she was 15, that the agency’s response at the time of the late actress Kim Sae-ron’s drunk driving accident was unfair, and that our manager was close to YouTuber Lee Jin-ho, etc. They made many malicious claims against our company and actor Kim Soo-hyun. However, all of these are false claims that we cannot tolerate, and our company plans to consider taking the strongest legal action possible against Garosero Research Institute for spreading false information.

Our company is deeply saddened by the news of the death of actress Kim Sae-ron, who was once affiliated with our company, and we mourn the deceased. However, the above-mentioned false information spread by Garosero Research Institute is a direct repetition of the behavior of the so-called 'cyber wrecker' that the deceased had such a hard time with while alive, and it is damaging not only our company but also the deceased's reputation for its own benefit, so our company will respond strictly to this.

We earnestly request that you refrain from spreading, expanding, or reproducing false information that has no value whatsoever.​

Article Source

The entire internet is not buying his story in the slightest and still finding him guilty.

More Information Revealed

Here is a compilation of more information which has been released since then:

- Here is the picture Saeron shared on social media of her and Soohyun when she was just 16:

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- And I would also like to take a minute to shout out that Saeron committed on Soohyun's birthday.

- An interview from when Soohyun was promoting the movie "Secretly, Greatly" in 2013 started trending as well.

I'm a bit confused on the direct word from word of the interview but to my understanding the interview went in this order:​

Kim Soohyun
When I was 24 years old, I was making a life plan for how to make a living, and I thought I would get married between 36 and 37, but I don't think I can keep it now.I'm a little behind now, so I think I can get married when I'm about a year older. I will marry a 21-year-old woman at the age of 41"

Interviewer
Isn't that an infant?"

Kim Soohyun
To all the nation's kindergarten students, please look forward

Interviewer
Kindergarten students across the country would be thrilled to hear this story.​

(Naver article talking about this)

- An interview of Saeron from 2016 also resurfaced where when asked what actor she would like to work with in a rom-com and she said Kim Soohyun. She described him as having a "young personality" with a "baby face". They would have been dating for around a year already at the time of this interview.

(I don't have the direct source for this but I can share screenshots of this interview if needed.)

- In 2020 Saeron sent a coffee truck to support Soohyun and Seo Yeji (who I would like to shout out has been publicly mourning Saeron's passing) in a drama filming:

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- Soohyun did not even attend Saeron's funeral (Revealed by Garoseo).

Saeron's Photo and the money

Some more backrgound information around the photo was shared.

As mentioned in the first part of this post Soohyun's company asked Saeron to pay back the 700 million won immediately or else there would be a lawsuit. Saeron and her family were then unable to contact him at all.

Saeron sent a text message to Soohyun saying this (translation from Koreaboo)
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Oppa, this is Sae Ron. I received the letter of certification today, that [your company] is suing me. You said that you would give me ample time, so I’m working hard, preparing to make a comeback. I will pay you back with a percentage from each work. I’m not saying that I won’t pay you back, but if you suddenly ask for ₩700 million KRW (about $480,000 USD) right now, I really can’t do anything. It’s not that I won’t, but I can’t. Do you really have to take it as far as a lawsuit? Please save me… I beg of you. Give me some time.​

When he didn't respond the photo was posted by Saeron to hopefully catch his attention and get him to contact her.

Community note from Garoseo

In response to Soohyun threatening to sue Garoseo they released this statement.

I'm putting it under cut since it's sort of sensitive information:

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Looks like Kim Soohyun doesn't know who Kim Se-ye is from the Garosero Research Institute ㅋㅋㅋ
Legal action? Even the so-called world star BTS once said they'd take 'legal action' against Garosero~
What happened in the end?
Everyone... enlisted in the military~
But now, the popular Hallyu star Kim Soohyun, who is even popular all over China~?
Us Garosero didn't just pull this out of nowhere...
We aired (our video) based on direct materials and interviews with the family of the late Kim Saeron~
Why don't you try taking legal action against her family instead? ㅋㅋㅋ
First off, the comments on the article are the public opinion~ Soohyun-ah~
Probably by tomorrow... a complaint regarding underage s** relations will be filed against you~
You dated a 2nd-year middle school student?
No way~ you didn't have s****l relations with a minor, didn't you?
Well... from what I've heard, it seems like someone is going to file a complaint tomorrow~
If you secretly threaten or coerce the bereaved family, we'll know, you know right?
By the way, you didn't even go to Kim Saeron's funeral, where even Won Bin went...
Why didn't you go, Kim Soohyun?
You should've at least shown basic human decency

I don't have a source link for this since i'm not part of his youtube channel but I can share a screenshot that's floating around for anyone who needs a source of this.
I know they aren't the best source but I got this translation from Pannchoa.

Chinese Netizens

Chinese netizens have really been attacking Soohyun online.

Chinese netizens found further proof that the picture Saeron shared of them dating was real, I will put the photo under cut:

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Family Interview
Mass media is finally starting to shed some light on this situation after previously ignoring all of Saeron's family's attempt to expose this to the media.

There is currently an ongoing interview on Naver with her family. The interview is between Saeron's father and the rest of her family, though for privacy reasons all of her family members are just referred to as "family member" to keep them anonymous.

The family spoke out about how much cyber wrecker youtuber Lee Jinho affected Saeron and drove her to multiple suicide attempts.

Here is part of the interview:

Family Member:​

In Lee Jin-ho's video, there is a part where he calls Sae-ron, and he sarcastically asks if Sae-ron changed her phone number and asks if this is the attitude of an actress who reflects on herself," (At this point the family member burst out into tears) That very day, Sae-ron attempted an extreme choice.​

Saeron's Father:​

If my daughter receives a call from Lee Jin-ho, is she reflecting on herself, and if she doesn’t, is she not reflecting on herself? I don’t know how much Sae-ron suffered because of Lee Jin-ho’s videos and the media that copied them.

Sae-ron was in so much pain that she tried to do that many times. Whenever those videos and articles came up, she really tried (committing) many times. I don’t know how many times I carried my daughter on my back and rushed to the emergency room. But in the end, I couldn’t protect her.​

https://m.entertain.naver.com/article/241/0003418456
Source 1

In a second part of this interview he talks about wanting to take legal actions against youtuber Lee Jinho:
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The actions of Lee Jin-ho and the Internet media are absolutely unforgivable and unforgivable, destroying not only Sae-ron's life but also the entire life of a family. I will never forgive the behavior of forcing people to fit their own frame with a disgusting face even if the world ends.

On YouTube Shorts and other places, there are things like Sae-ron coming to the ossuary and opening the urn, and things like that, and things like that, and that our family squandered the money Sae-ron had earned. Because of these things, my family, and now my two daughters, are being branded as such a family.

Do I have to explain that these things are fake news and not something that our family does? Even if I and the mother can tolerate such things, what should I do about Sae-ron's two younger siblings? How should I protect my two daughters? Do I have to live my whole life with false accusations if strangers point fingers at my remaining two daughters? I really want to correct that and delete those videos.

I wanted to call Lee Jin-ho and swear at him and tell him that what he said wasn’t true, but I couldn’t because I was afraid he would record it and use it for his own purposes. I feel so wronged, resentful, and angry.

I want Lee Jin-ho to be legally punished. I want to punish not only Lee Jin-ho, but also everyone who uploads such things and leaves malicious comments on our family. Fortunately, there are people who are helping me, and a law firm is gathering information.

I think a lot of ridiculous YouTube videos and ridiculous articles are being uploaded because we haven’t taken any legal action. For the sake of my remaining family, I plan to take legal action with those who are helping me.​

Source 2

I believe there is one more part to this interview series but i'm having trouble finding it. If I find it I might post the update in the comments?

Saeron's Aunt and Cousin

Some statements from Saeron's Aunt and Cousin came out.

Saeron's Aunt made a statement about the money Soohyun and his company is asking from Saeron:​

As you said, if an actor in the company experiences something like that, shouldn't they work together to resolve it? Nevertheless, when the transformer was first installed and the stores were said to have suffered severe damage,

Because of that incident, the amount of money was ridiculously large. The deposit... At first, they were talking about over 20 billion won.

So the family wanted to investigate everything to compensate for the damage to the store that was hit by the transformer, but the agency cut it off. They just said they would do everything and get it done quickly.

Then, from the parents' perspective, they naturally thought that the company would have some thoughts and actively do something for Saeron, so they left their child in their care, but instead, they turned all the debt around and suddenly hired three lawyers and sent a certified letter demanding that the child pay back 700 million won.

Sae Ron burst into tears after seeing that, so I immediately thought, "I should try contacting her," and tried to contact her, but I couldn't. Rather, the people around her were setting boundaries, telling her not to contact Sae Ron. (Here's a summary: Even before that, there were similar incidents of not only her actors but also her celebrity friends cutting off contact with Kim Sae Ron.) So at that time, since she couldn't contact me in any way, she used the method of uploading the photo.

At that time, when Saeron was going through that and had to pay this huge penalty, she tried to save up all the money she had and borrowed it from acquaintances to take responsibility for everything, but in that difficult situation, she suddenly received a certified letter for 700 million won. Where will she pay back 700 million won?​

I don't know the OG source from this but I have the source I got this from which is TheQoo

Saeron's cousin released a statement Saeron changed her mind on making regarding the photo she posted on herself and Soohyun:
(Translation once again from Koreaboo)​

Hello, this is Kim Sae Ron. Firstly, I wish to apologize to those everyone and the industry staff who were affected and confused by my careless actions.

Although the media is reporting the rumors which have been spreading in the media as falsehoods, I wish to clearly state that that is untrue.

The photo uploaded on my Instagram Stories was taken in 2016, and we were dating from November 19, 2015, to July 7, 2021.

But Gold Medalist is currently claiming that “they don’t know my intentions behind uploading it,” and this completely does not match up with what they have been doing. I hope that they can come to recognize and apologize their misdoings which caused me harm when I was still with the company.

As an actress who’s image is consumed by viewers, I am leaving this post in belief that people need to be told the truth.​

Both the Aunt and Cousin shared screenshots, you can view them in the Koreaboo articles I got the translations from.

As of right now

This is the current information i'm seeing get posted as i'm typing this:

- Kim Soohyun/his agency is apparently preparing to release a second statement against Garoseo and the latest information he's dropped.

- A lot more celebrities have been speaking out/mourning Saerons death. I know Red Velvet's Yeri has been publicly mourning her on her instagram stories and that is getting a lot of attention, Saeron and Yeri were close friends, thought I would like to shout out that Yeri has always been mourning Saeron since the beginning. There are a lot of celebrities who never publicly mourned Saeron when it was first announced that she passed but are mourning now, though Yeri is not one of these people. She has always been

- GDragon is slightly in hot waters? Mostly just from Soohyun being around him lately. They aren't attacking GDragon, but their saying he's in a tough situation because Soohyun was seen at his album release party right after Saeron's passing (they are attacking Soohyun for this) and Soohyun was on GDragon's new variety show. Gdragon's new show hasn't been getting the best views in general, but they are wondering if his show's now cursed to be doomed because Soohyun was one of the first guests on his show and people are questioning Gdragon for inviting him in the first place. ( I would like to shout out that the show was filmed prior to this controversy, and it doesn't look like Gdragon was even the one who invited him on the show in the first place). (Long story short Gdragon's stuck between a rock and a hard place right now.)

- There is a massive outcry from netizens all over the world for Soohyun to retire from the industry. A lot of Knetz don't think he can recover from this. There is also a call for everyone to boycott any brands he's a brand ambassador for. This article on Koreaboo has the full list, though the major brand everyone seems to be calling out right now is Prada.

- Soohyun is currently filming a Kdrama for Disney+ right now though it has been stated it's too far into filming to replace him in the drama. They will have no choice but to proceed with filming with him in the lead.

- People are saying Soohyun also has ties to Sulli's death, but I honestly can't comment much on that right now. I'm not too familiar at all with Sulli's passing so if someone is and can inform us on how Soohyun is tied to it that would be appreciated, though I am not the best person to share this information since i'm not informed enough.
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I hope I got everything, I apologize if I missed anything and I hope I made this easy enough to follow along? (I tried to break things up by using spoilers, I hope that was helpful? Please let me know if using spoilers is helpful or not?)

Please feel free to call out anything I missed in the comments​

 

[Bellamy]

I still remember how fast this rumor was buried last time because of Queen of Tears's popularity...people even called her attention seeker. Popular male actors have a lot of power and always bounce back but I hope for a different outcome this time: He needs to be cancelled for real and forever and set as an example.

 

[choively]

I see, thank you for sharing.

 

[choively]

I still remember how fast this rumor was buried last time because of Queen of Tears's popularity...people even called her attention seeker. Popular male actors have a lot of power and always bounce back but I hope for a different outcome this time: He needs to be cancelled for real and forever and set as an example.

what was her role in the queen of tears again?

 

[Bellamy]

what was her role in the queen of tears again?

She doesn't act in QoT. He is the lead but she uploaded a pic of both of them together and deleted it almost inmediatly. That sparked the rumors of them dating in the past but his fans and her haters (she was already banned because of the DUI scandal) treated her like a attention seeker. His agency denied the rumors too and so people believed she was a liar.

 

[hatmixx]

Was wondering when you'd post your big update. All of it is sickening from what i have already seen. If everything or any of it is true... it is just tragic.

 

[choively]

hold up... r we talking about South Korea's most paid actor , Kim Soohyun?

 

[Polaris_Tae]

I haven't finished reading through it all yet, but threatening legal action against a grieving family is just sick. How low can you get

If he doesn't get cancelled, then it'll be Lee Byunghun 2.0

 

[RussianRoulette]

Was wondering when you'd post your big update. All of it is sickening from what i have already seen. If everything or any of it is true... it is just tragic.

Knetz were trying to stay neutral at first but at this point everyone is on Saeron’s side and against Soohyun.

hold up... r we talking about South Korea's most paid actor , Kim Soohyun?

Yes, that Kim Soohyun.

 

[RussianRoulette]

I haven't finished reading through it all yet, but threatening legal action against a grieving family is just sick. How low can you get

If he doesn't get cancelled, then it'll be Lee Byunghun 2.0

I’m wondering how a court case would go since he committed a worse crime.

Also, what’s going on with Lee Byunghun? The squidgame guy?

 

[choively]

I shouldn't believe in innocent lookings guys anymore Kim Jiwon deserves better.

 

[UMJI MOODS]

The family spoke out about how much cyber wrecker youtuber Lee Jinho affected Saeron and drove her to multiple suicide attempts.

This is the same cyber wrecker being sued over 200+ videos about newjeans/njz and his possible monetary connection to hybe.

- People are saying Soohyun also has ties to Sulli's death, but I honestly can't comment much on that right now. I'm not too familiar at all with Sulli's passing so if someone is and can inform us on how Soohyun is tied to it that would be appreciated, though I am not the best person to share this information since i'm not informed enough.

In 2017 the film 'Real' was released in which Sulli had a minor cameo role. The filmshoot appears to have been a disaster that was known about while still in production. Right before the release Sulli's scene which includes nudity was pushed as major in the movie. It was a small part of a 137 minute long film. When it was flopping netizens mercilessly attacked and blamed Sulli. Kim Soohyun said nothing to defend her. Some think this was partly to blame for her untimely passing.

 

[Chiharu]

my honest reaction to him

what a disgusting POS. I hope this ruins his career the same way Sareon's was ruined (obviously drunk driving isn't okay, but looking at all of this, it's clear how she got to that point)

 

[BianTwo]

So it looks like both family were okay with a 15 yo Saeron dating a 27 yo man, so things were kinda okay until KSH "betrayed" her when he and his company claimed money from Saeron.

I believe this was too much to handle and the critical point for her...Now grieving and with the pain, her family want to expose him, his behavior, etc.

Will he be "cancelled" ? I can't be sure, we'll have to see. If he do lose everything I can guess he'll do something terrible to himself.

I'll wait for more informations instead of rushing

 

[sooat]

funny how they can't replace or remove him of the drama now but they were quick to take her off from bloodhounds

 

[Ackerman]

I was reading about this earlier and I remembered something came up before but then disappeared. I wonder where things will go from here, if anywhere.

 

[boo]

I hope he gets cancelled because I don’t ever want to see him in my dramas. Regardless, I am boycotting him and anything related to him. Hope he goes to jail!

 

[Bchip]

He's disgusting and deserves jail.
And her family is no better. How do you not stop a relationship between an underage girl and 27-yo man?

 

[RussianRoulette]

I’m glad all of you are also calling out the patents/family, letting your 15 yr old date a 27 yr old is NEVER ok.

funny how they can't replace or remove him of the drama now but they were quick to take her off from bloodhounds

The drama is probably going to be majorly boycotted cause he’s being canceled. The drama is going to be screwed whether they replace him or not cause it will cost a lot to refilm everything but they will also suffer a huge loss from the boycott.

TBH I feel like they should just refilm everything and just delay the release date. At least people might respect them for it?

(Though Soohyun could sue them for kicking him out of the drama as well, but if they keep him they could sue Soohyun for his reputation ruining the drama?)

 

[fromisEJel]

I always have a feeling that he is a shitty guy.

Queen of Tears cleared up his image slightly for me.

But guess I am right..

P.s:

It's Okay to Not Be Okay. Both leads turn out to be problematic. Kim Soohyun and Seo Yeaji​