”I sent an email asking for help”...Did Kim Soo Hyun's side send a second certified letter to the late Kim Sae Ron?

The bereaved family of the late Kim Sae-ron clarified their position.

　On the 17th, at the Seoul Police Agency in Naeja-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, the representative lawyer Poo Ji-seok of the legal corporation BUYOU, which provides legal representation for the bereaved family of the late Kim Sae-ron, Kwon Young-chang, director of the Korean Celebrity Suicide Prevention Association, and the YouTube channel Garosero Institute. A press conference was held by Kim Sewi, representative of the YouTube channel.

　On the same day, the bereaved family revealed that they would file a complaint against YouTuber A, a reporter from the Entertainment Department. They also stated that they would continue to take legal action against actor Kim Soo Hyun, whom the late Kim Sae-ron allegedly had a relationship with from the time she was a minor before her death, and agency, GOLDMEDALIST.

　The bereaved family said, "For the first time, we hoped that Kim Soo Hyun's side would admit that they were lovers in order to prove the YouTuber's false facts, but the repeated false position statements from Kim Soo Hyun's side made the bereaved family suffer even more, and we hope that they will now make a heartfelt apology for this’. After Kim Soo Hyun's agency sent the first content proof, when the deceased sent an email to Kim Soo Hyun asking for his help, Kim Soo Hyun sent a second content proof to the deceased through his agency instead, without a single contact."

　According to the bereaved family, what Kim Soo Hyun's side recently revealed that they had no choice but to send a content proof to the late Kim Sae-ron in order to avoid breach of trust by paying on behalf of him, is not true. The bereaved family stated that, "In effect, the content was to give the deceased a period of time to repay the debt without fail, and other than that, it was a threat not to contact Kim Soo Hyun and the actors from his agency directly, as well as a threat to take legal action against the publication of the photos", and added, "In fact, after the second content proof, Kim In fact, after the second content proof, there was not a single contact from Kim Soo Hyun, and no contact was received from other actors from Kim Soo Hyun's agency."

　On the 17th, Kim Soo Hyun's side revealed to Herald POP in this connection that they are ‘sorting out the position’.

　Kim Soo Hyun is surrounded by the issue of having been in a relationship with the late Kim Sae-ron, with a 12-year age difference, from the time when he was a minor. At the time when the late Kim Sae-ron published and deleted a couple photo before his death, when the theory of a passionate relationship emerged, Kim Soo Hyun's side took the position that they had no idea what Kim Sae-ron's intentions were for her actions. However, in the position they took on the 14th, they reversed their position and said that their relationship with the deceased was a fact. However, it claims that the relationship lasted from the summer of 2019 to the autumn of 2020, after Kim Soo Hyun had reached adulthood, rather than when she was a minor. It is also alleged that the deceased sent a content-certified letter from Kim Soo Hyun's side, pressuring him to repay the money, despite the fact that he had suffered hardships in his life after a controversial drunk driving incident in 2022, due to accident recovery and suspension of his activities.

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