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Hmm. It sounds like you don't trust your children at all. With the limited knowledge we have about the family dynamic and circumstances, should we make judgements? Generally parents don't talk like that about other parents - it always comes back to bite us and it makes us look shallow and snobby in front of our friends. To talk like that about bereaved parents is a total faux pas. Are you a parent really - you need to qualify your opinion on parenting? Why? If you're a parent, you wouldn't feel the need to announce it - you'd have enough confidence to know what you're talking about and make a constructive point. If someone challenges you, then maybe you'd say you have personal experience of parenting a famous teenage actress - but even then, you should use a good argument to convince others rather than waving your credentials to force acceptance of your opinion.

I must have missed that... you mean that nonsense story about Kim Sae-ron's mother being worried about Kim Soo-hyun's mental state? I remember seeing it right at the beginning.

You're right, they're not looking for a criminal conviction. It's an apology and culpability they want. Regardless of the law, it's as indecent in South Korea as any other civilised country for a 27 year old man to groom a 14 year old girl.

If KSR was still with us, she'd have information of actual criminality that may have taken place, and her word on it may have been enough. After all, consent is a word that's up for interpretation, more so when the party is a child. Children are more suggestible than adults, for example.

Other issues like harassment are at play, and the media campaign - once those are tied to a party there could be legal ramifications. It cost a life.

Noted.

Right. That sounds like one of Lee Jin-ho's stories.

What happened after her dui?

Methinks thou dost protest too much.
Lee Jin-ho ssi?

Noted. Isolated incidents point to circumstances more than character. Her behaviour remained honourable.

He owns his agency. Him and his 'cousin' started it... a week later it was co-producing a massive Netflix funded project, had a roster of stars on the books and he was a big shot power player - this type of meteoric rise happens when there's money and power behind the enterprise. That power wants to have chess pieces in the top layer of Hallyu, the legal system, politics and the media - and what's more, the key players are dirty, into all kinds of dirty things... it's like a kill-switch for when things go south, nobody can walk away or step out of line. If they do that, then they too can enjoy the immense power and influence it brings.

Just my opinion.

I'll answer your first question, about why the release of evidence in this manner.

It's tactical.

1. Make a statement
2. Release a little evidence, circumstantial, inadmissable, it doesn't matter.
3. Provoke a response from GM - allow GM to incriminate themselves, or just tell lies.
4. Rebut the response from GM with the next evidence.

GM has told lies in every statement it's released. Very good approach by Garosero and the family's lawyer. How can we believe anything GM says now?

Noted

That's not true. He was trying to intimidate her, silence her, destroy her career and reputation - she had knowledge that could have sunk him, she was a danger to him. What we don't have is that video that magically appears in dramas of the crime taking place - this is the real world. All she did was get too old for him.

They stated they did not want money. Kim Soo-hyun sent the most expensive law firm in Korea to try to buy them off. They rejected the offer. Learn the facts, there are some facts that have been established, not everything in this case is conjecture.

Noted

I've said this before, sorry to be boring if you're one of the few that saw it.

There is a drama called Missing 9 that is wildly fictional, but if you lift that outlandish veil, it's strangely prophetic of this incident, made before any of the deaths associated with Kim Soo-hyun (those that we know about).

The difference between drama and real life may not actually be the ghastly crimes, but the culpability.

It's like a PR campaign of deflection

Irrelevant. What's that got to do with the atrocities of Kim Soo-hyun?

Your comment seems to be part of the Kim Soo-hyun deflection campaign.

In a way you're mitigating, which only works in the favour of KSH. I don't know her family.

I personally don't believe her family is trash, simply because you can judge a family by looking to the children.

Kim Sae-ron's behaviour has shown her to be a polite, respectful and warm person that takes personal responsibility. People with these qualities do not come from trashy upbringings.

Finally, even if the family was bad, it's not particularly relevant - KSH is responsible for taking out a person that was one of theirs, they are entitled to react to it.

I suggest you are a commentator attempting to change the narrative away from the atrocities of Kim Soo-hyun, I reject your position.

Right. And his accomplices. Kim Sae-ron's manager at Gold Medalist Kwak Tae-young (not sure if I heard the name correctly) who is "best friends with Lee Jin-ho", and of course the one glueing all these scumbags together and probably coordinating the whole campaign: KIM SOO-HYUN.

I can't watch any more K-dramas and movies. I no longer have the feeling, time to find a new hobby.

Once the truth has been accepted, watch those people in the industry finally come out and have their say about how awful it all was for Kim Sae-ron. But it's too late now.