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In her past interviews, Kim Sae Ron mentioned that she would love to work with Kim Soo Hyun as he looks very “young”. The South Korean entertainment industry has been rocked by a scandalous revelation nearly a month after the untimely death of actress Kim Sae Ron. She was found dead at her apartment in Seongdong-gu, Seoul, on February 16 by one of her acquaintances whom she was supposed to meet that evening.
On March 10, the YouTube channel Garosero Research Institute posted an explosive video where the late actress’ aunt made some shocking claims related to Sae Ron’s past. Her aunt alleged that the Queen of Tears actor Kim Soo Hyun was in a relationship with Sae Ron for six years before calling it quits in 2022. However, the most disturbing detail of their alleged relationship was that Soo Hyun started dating the actress when she was just a minor while he was already 27.
The revelation has sent shockwaves through the industry and social media, with the internet even expressing outrage and disgust. Amid the controversy, Sae Ron’s past interviews, dating back to 2017, have surfaced online, where she talked about the It’s Okay to Not Be Okay actor, repeatedly calling him “young". In hindsight, many now feel she was “groomed and gaslighted" by Soo Hyun.
In an interview with THE FACT, Kim Sae Ron was asked if she would like to try ordinary roles rather than her usual ones. While answering the question, the then-17-year-old actress mentioned that she would love to work with Kim Soo Hyun on a project. “I still want to take on dark or heavy roles, but of course, I’d also like to try more comfortable ones, too.
I’d be interested in doing slice-of-life acting, and I’d love to do K-Dramas about friendship or even a romantic comedy. Ever since I was little, I’ve mentioned actor Kim Soo Hyun whenever people asked me which actor I’d like to work with. He’s twelve years older than me.
But he looks so young, doesn’t he?" she said, as quoted by Koreaboo. Similarly, when she gave an interview to Ilgan Sports, the Snowy Road actress shared, “Ever since I was young, I’ve always picked actor Kim Soo Hyun as someone I wanted to work with. I think it would be fun if we got to work on a project together.
He is twelve years older than me, but he lives such a ‘young’ life." After the past interviews surfaced online, Koreans took to a social media platform and called out Kim Soo Hyun, mentioning that he manipulated the late actress into staying in the relationship. One user said, “Seeing how a 17-year-old kept repeating the same phrases like ‘looks young’ or ‘young life’ like a parrot.
.. I feel like she might have been groomed, and it’s unsettling.
" Another quipped, “No 17-year-old would say a 12-year gap would be OK because the guy ‘looks young.’ Only ahjussis would say things like that. She was obviously gaslighted into thinking this way, f–k.
To a literal child?" “How come no one stepped in to stop such a baby from dating an ahjussi, though? Why didn’t anyone intervene?" asked a different user. After Sae Ron’s aunt made the explosive claims, Kim Soo Hyun’s agency, Gold Medalist, denied it by releasing a statement, saying that the claims “are clearly false and baseless.".
