Kim Min Hee and director Hong Sang Soo have a baby boy... after 9 years of affair

A baby boy has been born to actor Kim Min-hee and film director Hong Sang-soo.

On the 8th, Yonhap News reported, in the words of the film industry, “Kim Min-hee recently gave birth to a baby boy. According to the media, Kim Min-hee has remained in a postpartum care center in Hanam City."

Last January, Dispatch reported, “Kim Min-hee is in her sixth month of pregnancy and will give birth this spring. Attempts to contact director Hong Sang-soo to confirm the pregnancy theory went unanswered."

When the pregnancy theory was raised, the two were talked about from sightings of the two to photos of them in the early stages of their presumed pregnancy. If the Dispatch's report is correct, it seems that she was in the early stages of pregnancy when she attended the 77th Locarno International Film Festival held in Switzerland last August. At the time, Kim Min-hee won an acting award for her role in Hong's film “Su-yu-cheon,” and revealed her thoughts, “Director Hong Sang-soo, I love your film very much.

Later, a person who met Kim Min-hee and Hong Sang-soo at a Starbucks in Hanam (Hanam) said, “I saw a preteen baby at the next table, and Kim Min-hee looked at me with a twinkle in her eyes and said, ‘May I hold him just once?’ I let her hold him and she was so happy. She held him the whole time and fussed over Hong Sang-soo, saying, 'He's so cute, isn't he?'” she told the audience.

The two have been dating for nine years since the movie “Right Day, Wrong Day” was released in 2015. They were surrounded by allegations of infidelity, and at a media screening of the 2017 film “Alone on the Beach at Night,” they revealed that they were “in love,” effectively admitting their relationship. Since then, director Hong Sang-soo has not had any contact with the Korean press, let alone any official sit down in Korea, until the last press roundtable in 2017, until now. Kim Min-yi has also not appeared in any other films since the scandal, and is solely active as the main character in Hong Sang-soo's films. She is also currently the head of Hong Sang-soo's production office.

After losing his divorce case in December 2017, Hong Sang-soo has yet to finalize the divorce. Director Hong Sang-soo was born in 1960 and is 64 years old, while Kim Mini was born in 1982 and is 42 years old.