Die Behauptungen, der Schauspieler Kim Soo-hyun habe die verstorbene Kim Sae-ron als minderjährig datiert, seien falsch, kommt die Polizei zu dem Schluss
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-05-21/national/socialAffairs/Allegations-that-actor-Kim-Soohyun-dated-the-late-Kim-Saeron-as-a-minor-were-false-police-conclude/2597903
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Hmm…
I believe the police still have not received the phone (the bereaved family members claim to have) that is supposed to contain detailed information, including the timeline, about their relationship. Is there any news about this?
I’ll still never watch anything with him in it.
Instead of believing the police, people will double down on their misacussations. Poor guy
I had a bad surgery in Korea. And I made a police complaint. The investigator that did it was a farce. Never asked me for the doctors name, never asked me any questions. Never confirm with me that I was the one in the cctv footage.
My experience of South Korea. Extremely corrupted country. I would tend to not believe what the police said.
Yeah, miss me with this. Since I’ve read „Flowers of Fire“ with all the cases on how much police harass women going to police with rape cases. Ummm…. The book contains many such cases in which the women are all accused by police to have fabricated things (and when there is much more… interest in pursuing absurd SLAP suits by men accused of rape than of potential rape victims).
Arresting a lawyer … is also beyond unusual.
From the article you linked:
>Kim Se-eui has rejected the warrant request as a maneuver to obstruct his reporting. „I had originally planned to do additional reporting on a sexual crime case involving a certain prominent politician in Hanoi, Vietnam,“ he said in a livestream on Wednesday. „The arrest warrant was suddenly filed out of nowhere to interfere with our reporting,“ he added.
(And yes, also in other countries of course. I’ve experienced it myself as well. I can also give an example: response of German police to being alerted BY JOURNALISTS with address (!) of man drugging and raping his wife?! Crickets. After a year, they recontacted the police cause they kept seeing the rape videos in real time. Or take the UK: conviction rates for rape that make it in front of a judge were under 1% in 2003/2004.)
Then there is this patriarchal absurdity:
>“With the actor still receiving psychiatric treatment, any further spread of false information by the suspect could lead to serious and irreparable harm,“ police added.
# FUNNY THAT! So fucking funny – when [male violence is responsible for between 28% and 56% of women’s suicides](https://phys.org/news/2026-05-intimate-partner-violence-hidden-contributor.html)!
Now – gimme cases in which police have addressed this issue for women. I’m really curious to see. Ah no, wait – they don’t even track that for men murdering their wives DIRECTLY:
>While the police do not even tally specific numbers on spousal killings, a study by the Korea Women’s Hot Line (KWHL) showed that on average at least 92 women were reported by the media to have been killed by former or current partners each year from 2009 to 201785—a significant number in a country where the total annual murder toll hovers around 300.
[MEANING: ONE THIRD OF ALL MURDER VICTIMS per year in Korea are WOMEN KILLED BY THEIR HUSBANDS!]
# This is the same police that engaged in all those Lee Sun-kyun shenanigans?! Why did they not stop there because the „false accusations could lead to serious and irreparable harm“?!
How gullible do they believe people to be?!
Or who didn’t pursue all names in the Burning Sun related chats because „Korea has too few last names“?!
Yes, because the Korean police are known to be very trustworthy, competent, and totally not corrupt.
„Never make hasty judgments before the truth is revealed.“
Here just some segments from „Flowers of Fire“:
>Meanwhile, the police, unconvinced that “a bit of yelling and throwing stuff” amounted to the dating abuse Momo claimed in her post, recommended that prosecutors charge her with libel based on lies. Momo’s ex then filed a suit seeking tens of thousands of dollars in damage. […]
>For sexual-assault victims, making a police report is not itself grounds for defamation, but if they go public with their allegations, a criminal complaint can be filed against them. And if the case is later dismissed by police, by prosecutors, or in court, they can be pursued for false accusation—although, in reality, many arraigned abusers used to file such charges as soon as their victims came forward.
# According to a [Korean] landmark study in 2019 of what percentage of sexual-assault cases could be based on false complaints, the estimated percentage, based on data from the prosecutors’ office, was 0.78 % at best.
>While those accused of sexual misconduct have every right to defend themselves, the extensive use of these countersuits is simply staggering. Some of those who speak out face charges of not only false accusation and defamation but also of insult, coercion, blackmail, perjury, and tortious interference. Such charges and threats also target the accusers’ families, friends, supporters, and neighbors, and even those who testify or merely agree to testify for them— effectively building an iron wall of silence over public conversations of sexual assault.
>Given these consequences, it’s often enough for many perpetrators to use the simple threat of legal action to force women to drop their complaints or retract their statements—or to simply punish them along with their families and friends.
>“The whole system has a chilling effect on women,” said Seo Hye-Jin, a lawyer who has represented many assault survivors. “Many men openly used the threats of lawsuits as an intimidation tactic, saying, ‘I’ll drop the criminal complaints against you if you drop the assault complaint against me.’”
>Park Eun-Jeong, a veteran prosecutor in sexual-assault cases, said that such legal tactics pushed many who’d mustered up the courage to report their cases to bow out in fear—which may explain why only 1.9 % of those experiencing sexual harassment or assault report it to the authorities.
# “A victim … suddenly finds herself becoming a criminal suspect, meaning the police could potentially raid her house or even arrest her,”
>“So she quickly settles the case, drops her assault complaints, or simply stops talking to law enforcement to put an end to everything. Meanwhile, her attacker uses his false allegation complaints to frame her as a ‘flower snake.’”
>These types of attacks have become such a common, “almost-routine pattern” that most victims take them as “a natural, inevitable part of their fight,” Cho Jae-Yeon, a former activist with the nonprofit Korea Women’s Hot Line (KWHL), told me. “Many victims who call us expect [counteraccusations] coming by default. Understandably, some people give up the fight because they can’t endure being grilled as a criminal suspect and risking a possible jail term— or even paying their abusers compensation for defamation—as if they had not suffered enough.”
>The KWHL has even published a 128-page manual to help prepare victims and their supporters for revenge countersuits meanwhile, a UN committee on gender inequality has urged Seoul to finally protect victims from false-accusation charges and libel suits.
I am once again shocked by the comments in this reddit post. People will believe a YouTuber who’s known to be a douchebag and a blackmailer than the police. The police still might be wrong about this, but if I am going to believe things at face value, I would rather believe the police.
Hard to say what sucks more, for the original accusations to be true and the police cover it up or for the police findings to be true but no one will believe them and this guy is ruined forever.
Being famous in Asian countries frankly sucks.
This article from The Beeb is far more instructive. Seems like a very elaborate and evil plan from the Youtuber.. but it seems at least some dont buy this news? Not sure how the police benefit from an even more elaborate plan to stitch that guy up..
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r2j18k2vxo
i stopped following after the family side said they were closed but had no idea she was married in US.
If you say you can’t trust the police announcement simply because Korea is corrupt, then what can you trust? Do you just accept it because you don’t like it? You are truly ridiculous people.
This topic brings all kinds of craziness out of people, doesn’t it
So there were newspapers following the case throughout? I thought they all had stopped writing about it.
ts why ppl need to shut they mouths before investigations conclude.. stay in neutral gear
so let me get this straight; you’d rather believe a claim made by a far-right propaganda media group(가세연) known for spreading fake news for the sake of clicks(in this case the so-called evidence was made with fake AI voices & fake Kakaotalk messages) than an official police investigation?
there are a lot of reasons to not trust the police but this is creepy tier weird response.
r/korea is fucking pathetic today, y’all would rather side with the far right conspiracy spreading nutjob in 가세연, than the results of the prosecutor’s office’s official investigation?
Turns out the audio recording leaked by 가세연 was AI generated.
https://preview.redd.it/y9g06gpivt2h1.jpeg?width=756&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0252fe9cb67de7fed54e7ff0fa8c89100d02f82e
I mean the Korean police isn’t exactly 100% credible (like any other country), but dear lord. At this point some people are actively wanting him to be a groomer, to the point where they’d rather believe a goddamn YouTube channel (with very shady records) instead of an actual country’s police force.
To be fair, the case is not completely over, and the tables may be turned against Kim Soo-hyun any time in the future, if new evidence comes by. But if you’re going to be skeptical, you need to be open to both possibilities. Isn’t ‘innocent before proven guilty’ the absolute basis of a modern judicial system?
Believe what you want, but if you’re radical enough to disregard everything announced from Korean authorities (and insult the entirety of Korean society along the way) solely under excuses like ‘they probably got bribed’ or ‘they’re so misogynistic and corrupt so they don’t matter’, then at this point it’s not that you can’t believe the results; you simply don’t want to believe it.
As of right now the police are claiming the texts weren’t even doctored but had fake names imposed onto real messages which doesn’t account for the letters he wrote to her while she was underage or the photos of him half naked while she was underage or just the fact he admitted he dated her conveniently while she was over the age of consent which is creepy because he’s known her since she was 10 as a far older person or any of the financial abuse he inflicted on her as head of the company she was under. His fans will claim this is a win but it hasn’t really convinced anyone who didn’t want to believe the best of him that he treated Saeron appropriately.
He’s a pedophile rapist like Donald Trump.
Disappointed but not surprised
You know, this actually could’ve worked out for KSR’s family if their legal rep had done the most basic due diligence and verified the evidence before submitting it to the police and dragging his clients into a mess. And before anyone jumps in with “he’s doing it pro bono,” I know. That still doesn’t excuse sloppy lawyering.
Also, I refuse to believe the family had zero say in this whole thing. There’s no way every single Seoul law firm registered under the KBA just magically refused to represent them for no reason. That doesn’t even sound believable.
Of course he’s gonna get away with this..once again, koreas justice system disappoints
As a reminder, the law is the bare minimum of morality. Let’s say it’s true and he never engaged in sexual activity with a minor. Does that negate the fact he’s sent her romantically and sexually suggestive messages when she was a minor and he was substantially older? That he on camera has stated being attracted to very young women? That he took on her debt burden in a very unequal relationship as boss and partner, then instantly reneged with no compassion asking for immediate debt payback? Where everyone draws the line is a decision of what you personally find acceptable
Kim se ui had connections with the gangnam police and they protected him many times. He said it on livestream. He stated that the police were subscribers to his channel. He is also the right wing political channel on youtube and was pretty well known.
God of business is a youtuber whom God of business screwed over with fake news causing his business to lose millions and lose his business empire. He was fighting against garo institute for years.
He and Lee jin ho teamed up and had a plan against Kim se ui which was the fake ai voice conversation between the fake informant and Kim sae ron.
this lead to a nationwide petition against cyberwreckers.
God of business stood up and talked to parliament live and a talk arose about why gangnam police never investigated Kim se ui even after multiple criminal complaints.
The gangnam police admitted to the delays and negligence. The case got stripped from gangnam police and a special investigation team was formed to bypass the gangnam police.
This led to the arrest of Kim se ui.
Obviously, we can’t trust the YouTuber; he’s making a living off ruining other people’s lives. But I was hoping the evidence the family forwarded was real, proving that he took advantage of her while she was young, naive, and popular. His company flourished after taking her in, and the way they handled her case after the accident—pressuring her to pay debts when she had no work and couldn’t get any work—was just wrong. The family didn’t ask for money or compensation; all they wanted was an apology, so I thought their story was believable.
Even if they only officially dated soon after she turned 19, since she was born on July 31, 2000 and he stated they started dating in 2019 summer.
There is still the fact that a much older, powerful celebrity may have built emotional closeness beforehand when she was a minor and then started dating the moment it became legally acceptable when she was 19 and he was already an established top actor in his 30s.
This news does not dismiss the fact that there are possible power imbalance, emotional influence and other possible grooming dynamics over a much younger person.
People are going to extremes with this, either he’s completely innocent or he’s a pedophile.
The most likely case is that he was grooming her and waited until she was no longer minor because why would a man in his 30’s write letters to a 17 year old when he was in military(those are not fake and are confirmed by his side, and military letters are usually sent to family, friends and girlfriends), even if they were friends it’s weird for a man that much older to be close friends with a teenager and immediately when she’s of age have sex with her.
Money matters.