Actor Kim Soo Hyun, ”Tearful press conference” - is it a gain or a loss? ”Dating denial” - only admits to lies

Actor Kim Soo Hyun held an emergency press conference to open up about the allegations made against him. However, he reiterated that the allegations of underage dating are not true.

Kim Soo Hyun attended the emergency press conference held at the Stanford Hotel in Mapo District, Seoul, at 4:30 p.m. on March 31st. Kim Soo Hyun, wearing a black suit and showing the remains of his black beard, shed tears as he read a position statement that he had prepared in advance in front of the reporters.

At the press conference, Kim Soo Hyun maintained that he had not been in a relationship with the late Kim Sae-ron while he was still a minor, but that he had met the late Kim Sae-ron for about a year after he became an adult. He denied the theory that he was in love with the late Kim Soo Hyun when he posted photos of the couple, saying that it was because he had already parted ways with the deceased and that he did not want to damage his work as the lead actor in the drama 'Queen of Tears', which was airing at the time.

He emphasized, “Whenever the choice between the 'human' Kim Soo Hyun and the 'star' Kim Soo-hyun intersected, I always made the choice as the 'star' Kim Soo-hyun,” and “If I go back to when ‘Queen of Tears’ was airing again, I would make that choice again."

He added, “I have heard that the deceased was seeing someone else at the time of the drunk driving incident. I was cautious about any contact I had with him.” He also refuted the allegation that he pressured the deceased to repay his debts, which led to his death.

He claimed that he “cannot say that I did something that I did not do” and that he was regrettably subjected to a pedophile, underage grooming frame of mind. He also presented as evidence the results of a statement analysis agency's expert opinion that the people who interacted with the deceased in 2016 and 2018 were different from each other, among the messenger materials released by the bereaved family and the Garosero Institute YouTube channel.

After the press conference, the online world was abuzz. While some are cautiously watching, others are pointing out that the evidence for denying underage dating is poor, given the materials that have been made public so far. In addition, some are skeptical about whether they can trust the words of Kim Soo-hyun, who has admitted that he had no choice but to present a false position in the past. On the same day, Kim Soo Hyun filed a lawsuit against the bereaved family and Garosero Institute Channel, claiming 12 billion won in property damage and compensation.