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    Allegations that actor Kim Soo-hyun dated the late Kim Sae-ron as a minor were false, police conclude
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    Allegations that actor Kim Soo-hyun dated the late Kim Sae-ron as a minor were false, police conclude


    Allegations that actor Kim Soo-hyun dated the late Kim Sae-ron as a minor were false, police conclude

    https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-05-21/national/socialAffairs/Allegations-that-actor-Kim-Soohyun-dated-the-late-Kim-Saeron-as-a-minor-were-false-police-conclude/2597903

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    2. Prefer_Diet_Soda on

      I believe the police still have not received the phone (the bereaved family members claim to have) that is supposed to contain detailed information, including the timeline, about their relationship. Is there any news about this?

    4. breloomislaifu on

      Instead of believing the police, people will double down on their misacussations. Poor guy

    5. HealthyCompote9573 on

      I had a bad surgery in Korea. And I made a police complaint. The investigator that did it was a farce. Never asked me for the doctors name, never asked me any questions. Never confirm with me that I was the one in the cctv footage.

      My experience of South Korea. Extremely corrupted country. I would tend to not believe what the police said.

    6. No-Advantage-579 on

      Yeah, miss me with this. Since I’ve read “Flowers of Fire” with all the cases on how much police harass women going to police with rape cases. Ummm…. The book contains many such cases in which the women are all accused by police to have fabricated things (and when there is much more… interest in pursuing absurd SLAP suits by men accused of rape than of potential rape victims).

      Arresting a lawyer … is also beyond unusual.

      From the article you linked:

      >Kim Se-eui has rejected the warrant request as a maneuver to obstruct his reporting. “I had originally planned to do additional reporting on a sexual crime case involving a certain prominent politician in Hanoi, Vietnam,” he said in a livestream on Wednesday. “The arrest warrant was suddenly filed out of nowhere to interfere with our reporting,” he added.

      (And yes, also in other countries of course. I’ve experienced it myself as well. I can also give an example: response of German police to being alerted BY JOURNALISTS with address (!) of man drugging and raping his wife?! Crickets. After a year, they recontacted the police cause they kept seeing the rape videos in real time. Or take the UK: conviction rates for rape that make it in front of a judge were under 1% in 2003/2004.)

      Then there is this patriarchal absurdity:

      >”With the actor still receiving psychiatric treatment, any further spread of false information by the suspect could lead to serious and irreparable harm,” police added.

      # FUNNY THAT! So fucking funny – when [male violence is responsible for between 28% and 56% of women’s suicides](https://phys.org/news/2026-05-intimate-partner-violence-hidden-contributor.html)!

      Now – gimme cases in which police have addressed this issue for women. I’m really curious to see. Ah no, wait – they don’t even track that for men murdering their wives DIRECTLY:

      >While the police do not even tally specific numbers on spousal killings, a study by the Korea Women’s Hot Line (KWHL) showed that on average at least 92 women were reported by the media to have been killed by former or current partners each year from 2009 to 201785—a significant number in a country where the total annual murder toll hovers around 300.

      [MEANING: ONE THIRD OF ALL MURDER VICTIMS per year in Korea are WOMEN KILLED BY THEIR HUSBANDS!]

      # This is the same police that engaged in all those Lee Sun-kyun shenanigans?! Why did they not stop there because the “false accusations could lead to serious and irreparable harm”?!

      How gullible do they believe people to be?!

      Or who didn’t pursue all names in the Burning Sun related chats because “Korea has too few last names”?!

    7. secretwep on

      Yes, because the Korean police are known to be very trustworthy, competent, and totally not corrupt.

    9. No-Advantage-579 on

      Here just some segments from “Flowers of Fire”:

      >Meanwhile, the police, unconvinced that “a bit of yelling and throwing stuff” amounted to the dating abuse Momo claimed in her post, recommended that prosecutors charge her with libel based on lies. Momo’s ex then filed a suit seeking tens of thousands of dollars in damage. […]

      >For sexual-assault victims, making a police report is not itself grounds for defamation, but if they go public with their allegations, a criminal complaint can be filed against them. And if the case is later dismissed by police, by prosecutors, or in court, they can be pursued for false accusation—although, in reality, many arraigned abusers used to file such charges as soon as their victims came forward.

      # According to a [Korean] landmark study in 2019 of what percentage of sexual-assault cases could be based on false complaints, the estimated percentage, based on data from the prosecutors’ office, was 0.78 % at best.

      >While those accused of sexual misconduct have every right to defend themselves, the extensive use of these countersuits is simply staggering. Some of those who speak out face charges of not only false accusation and defamation but also of insult, coercion, blackmail, perjury, and tortious interference. Such charges and threats also target the accusers’ families, friends, supporters, and neighbors, and even those who testify or merely agree to testify for them— effectively building an iron wall of silence over public conversations of sexual assault.

      >Given these consequences, it’s often enough for many perpetrators to use the simple threat of legal action to force women to drop their complaints or retract their statements—or to simply punish them along with their families and friends.

      >“The whole system has a chilling effect on women,” said Seo Hye-Jin, a lawyer who has represented many assault survivors. “Many men openly used the threats of lawsuits as an intimidation tactic, saying, ‘I’ll drop the criminal complaints against you if you drop the assault complaint against me.’”

      >Park Eun-Jeong, a veteran prosecutor in sexual-assault cases, said that such legal tactics pushed many who’d mustered up the courage to report their cases to bow out in fear—which may explain why only 1.9 % of those experiencing sexual harassment or assault report it to the authorities.

      # “A victim … suddenly finds herself becoming a criminal suspect, meaning the police could potentially raid her house or even arrest her,”

      >“So she quickly settles the case, drops her assault complaints, or simply stops talking to law enforcement to put an end to everything. Meanwhile, her attacker uses his false allegation complaints to frame her as a ‘flower snake.’”

      >These types of attacks have become such a common, “almost-routine pattern” that most victims take them as “a natural, inevitable part of their fight,” Cho Jae-Yeon, a former activist with the nonprofit Korea Women’s Hot Line (KWHL), told me. “Many victims who call us expect [counteraccusations] coming by default. Understandably, some people give up the fight because they can’t endure being grilled as a criminal suspect and risking a possible jail term— or even paying their abusers compensation for defamation—as if they had not suffered enough.”

      >The KWHL has even published a 128-page manual to help prepare victims and their supporters for revenge countersuits meanwhile, a UN committee on gender inequality has urged Seoul to finally protect victims from false-accusation charges and libel suits.

    10. Prefer_Diet_Soda on

      I am once again shocked by the comments in this reddit post. People will believe a YouTuber who’s known to be a douchebag and a blackmailer than the police. The police still might be wrong about this, but if I am going to believe things at face value, I would rather believe the police.

    11. Foyles_War on

      Hard to say what sucks more, for the original accusations to be true and the police cover it up or for the police findings to be true but no one will believe them and this guy is ruined forever.

      Being famous in Asian countries frankly sucks.

    13. sonertimotei on

      i stopped following after the family side said they were closed but had no idea she was married in US.

    14. Quiet_Government2222 on

      If you say you can’t trust the police announcement simply because Korea is corrupt, then what can you trust? Do you just accept it because you don’t like it? You are truly ridiculous people.

    16. vieneri on

      So there were newspapers following the case throughout? I thought they all had stopped writing about it.