Actress Lee El has sharply criticized the accusations against the late Kim Sae-ron.
On the 17th, Lee El posted on her SNS, "Is a 9-year-old a child who knows nothing and is pushed by their parents, while a 15-year-old is treated as a seductress who knows everything?" Although the sentence lacks a subject, it seems to refer to the recent allegations that the late Kim Sae-ron was in a relationship with Kim Soo-hyun, who is 12 years her senior, when she was 15 years old in 2015.
On the 10th, the Garoseoro Research Institute claimed, based on the assertions of Kim Sae-ron's family, that Kim Sae-ron and Kim Soo-hyun had been in a relationship for six years since 2015. According to this claim, at the time they started dating, Kim Sae-ron was 15 and Kim Soo-hyun was 27.
In response, Kim Soo-hyun's agency, Gold Medalist, immediately released a statement saying, "The Garoseoro Research Institute has made malicious claims against us and actor Kim Soo-hyun, alleging that we colluded with YouTuber Lee Jin-ho to harass the late Kim Sae-ron, that the late Kim Sae-ron dated actor Kim Soo-hyun from the age of 15, and that our agency's response to the late Kim Sae-ron's drunk driving incident was inappropriate, among other falsehoods." They emphasized, "These are absolutely unacceptable false facts. We are considering the strongest legal response possible against the false information spread by the Garoseoro Research Institute."
However, as the controversy continued, they changed their stance and acknowledged the relationship on the 14th. The agency claimed, "They dated from the summer of 2019, after Kim Sae-ron became an adult, until the fall of 2020," while denying the family's claims that they pressured for debt repayment, stating, "This is not true."
[Kim So-yeon, Star Today Reporter]
