Gosang-rok, the lawyer from the law firm representing Kim Soo-hyun in his criminal case, addressed the public on the 30th through a post on his YouTube channel “JingeokUigoByeon.” He stated, “I have written this post to restore the damaged reputation of the actor and to correct the distorted facts. This is based on the facts confirmed through the agency and the meticulous verification of objective materials.”
Firstly, lawyer Go re-emphasized that Kim Soo-hyun and the late Kim Sae-ron were in a relationship starting from 2019, reiterating, “All publicly released objective materials consistently support that the relationship between the actor and the deceased began in the summer of 2019 and ended the following year. The postcard sent by the actor was also written when the deceased was already an adult. In the released video footage of their relationship, only the actor’s care and respect towards the deceased are evident; there are no traces of any inappropriate behavior, as claimed by the Garo Sero Research Institute.”
Furthermore, lawyer Go mentioned possessing letters Kim Soo-hyun wrote to a romantic partner during his military service, stating, “As is known, the actor had a real partner he dated from 2016 to the spring of 2019. Throughout his military service, whenever he had free time, he called and communicated with this partner, expressing his feelings in writing almost daily. There are records of these diary-format letters being shared with this partner during his leaves. Comparing these letters with those sent to the deceased shows differences. The letters to his partner include expressions of ‘love,’ while those to the late Kim Sae-ron include daily impressions, weather, and military life.”