According to Insight, on September 30, former entertainment reporter, now YouTuber Lee Jin Ho, posted a video related to the scandal of actor Kim Soo Hyun.
Lee Jin Ho said: Kim Soo Hyun is suffering from extreme stress in life. He climbed mountains to calm down.
On the same day, Kim Soo Hyun's legal representative, Ko Sang Rok, said the actor exchanged about 150 letters to his real lover during his military service. The two dated from 2016 to the spring of 2019.
Lawyer Ko affirmed: "Kim Soo Hyun has never dated Kim Sae Ron for even a day when she was a minor."
The lawyer emphasized that the letters Kim Soo Hyun sent to colleagues and close friends, including Kim Sae Ron, are completely different in tone from those sent to his girlfriend. Only in the letter to his lover did Kim Soo Hyun write direct expressations of affection such as I love you.
Kim Soo Hyun's side explained that the saying "The most thing that can be said is... miss you, I'm sure" - which was considered by YouTube channel Garosero and Kim Sae Ron's family as evidence of dating - is actually just a popular expression of soldiers when writing letters to friends or acquaintances, not having special emotional meaning.
However, Lee Jin Ho pointed out: "Although he revealed the letters he wrote to his ex-girlfriend at that time, it is still difficult to accept that this is immediately evidence that he had never dated Kim Sae Ron."
Lee Jin Ho commented that "prove that the incident does not exist in essence is very difficult".
Meanwhile, Kim Soo Hyun was accused of dating Kim Sae Ron from 2015 to 2021, when she was a minor.
But at a press conference in late March, Kim Soo Hyun firmly denied the accusation. He emphasized that the two only dated from the summer of 2019 to the fall of 2020, when Kim Sae Ron was old enough to mature.
He also stated that the claim that Kim Sae Ron's death was related to a debt to the company was untrue.
Kim Soo Hyun has sued Kim Sae Ron's family and YouTube channel GaroSero for defamation, demanding 12 billion won in damages.
