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In case you missed it, in response to new evidence of Kim Soo Hyun grooming and mistreating Kim Sae Ron, GOLDMEDALIST basically took half a day to not say anything new about it, which is not a great choice from them when the story needs to be a complete fabrication for him to come out of it looking alright. So while he’s surely hoping that this will all blow over or something, things certainly don’t seem headed in that direction, especially now that Dispatch has joined in and effectively confirmed most of Garo Sero Institute‘s version of events.
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Indeed, in a recent report Dispatch confirmed that prior to Kim Sae Ron sending out that tweet of her and Kim Soo Hyun looking close last year, GOLDMEDALIST had sent a certification of contents to her for debt repayment.
On March 2024, Gold Medalist sent Kim Sae Ron an official notice for debt repayment. She was being ordered to pay compensation to her former agency for the damages she caused. She still had ₩686 million KRW (about $473,000 USD) left to pay back, and the due date was December 31, 2023. Gold Medalist threatened to take both civil and criminal legal action if the amount was not paid back in full.
They also confirmed the legitimacy of the previously covered text about it she sent to him afterward.
Adding onto that story, Dispatch says that back then GOLDMEDALIST told them they decided to not ask for the money from Kim Sae Ron, this despite the reality that they sent the debt repayment notice to her. Then GOLDMEDALIST released a statement where they acted confused as to what caused Kim Sae Ron to post the picture of her and Kim Soo Hyun when the company would’ve known the reason at that point.
After Kim Sae Ron’s death, GOLDMEDALIST claimed to Dispatch that they only sent to the certification of contents to her as a matter of procedure, and that her manager informed her it was a formality and that she could pay the debt back at her own pace. However, she quickly essentially liquidated all of her assets, compiling over 200 million won in total to handle compensation from the drunk driving incident and the debt repayment. Dispatch talked to witnesses from her apartment building, and they testified that she was distressed and showed signs of self-harm, all of which doesn’t jive with GOLDMEDALIST’s claim that the notice wasn’t formal pressure.
Furthermore, Dispatch confirmed with multiple sources that the two dated, explaining that it’s how she ended up at GOLDMEDALIST in the first place. They don’t confirm the exact age at which they dated, but she joined the company in 2020 when she was 19 (Kim Soo Hyun was 31 and about to make 32 at that time), so they had likely been dating for some time before that at least. Considering a “close acquaintance” of Kim Soo Hyun explained that his side will never admit to the relationship because of Kim Sae Ron’s age when they started dating, it seems safe to assume it was because she was a minor when it begun, as previously reported.
Kim Sae Ron’s age is the issue, which is why they will never officially admit to dating.
Yeah.
Speaking of that, a new photo of the two has been released, seemingly from the same time as she posted the original photo of the two, and it depicts Kim Soo Hyun going in for a kiss.
While some of this isn’t even new information, it relevantly provides a more credible source for it, and it certainly makes things harder for Kim Soo Hyun to try and blanket deny. Like to me, it’s hard to see a way back for him at this point, as basically the only hope before was that the cyberwreckers were fabricating everything.
