Tanky Toon

Well, when US can elect somebody in the White House who has sexual assault charges against him, including engaging in underage sex parties, what can you expect. In fact, one his famous lines is that "once you are a star, you can do anything and Grab them by the p*ssy"

This is the kind of guy people worship and publicly support. Go figure.

Apparently this article/statement from Gold medalist is supposed to clear up all the misunderstandings that people have about KSH.

https://www.soompi.com/article/1729865wpp/kim-soo-hyuns-agency-releases-official-statement-regarding-recent-allegations


But they lost me on the part where they said that KSH has no idea about GM sending KSR a notice of repayment because it's been 4 years since they broke up.
So they are making us believe that a company's founder is not aware of what his company is doing. Make that make sense.

I believe KSR's statement more than KSH's not because of what we know now , but because KSR's statement is more detailed. if I was going to be lying about something, I would be as vague as possible, and that is what KSH's initial statement look liked. I wouldn't want to provide too much detail in case my lies overlap with another one of my lies.

Also for GM to release multiple conflicting statements is already making it worse. It is always best to come out with the truth once confronted, this way the backlash might not be as grave.

Similar to how Tiger Woods handled his cheating affair to how David Letterman handled his. Tiger kept denying it until multiple women came forward, made matter so big because he prolonged it whereas David Letterman admitted since the beginning when he was caught. Therefore Letterman's cheating scandal wasn't made out to as big of a deal as Tiger's and most people would probably remember what Tiger did than what David did. Letterman apologized immediately to his fans and to his wife.

If KSH had let Won Bin pay off KSR's debts, she probably wouldn't have been distressed enough to off herself but who knows. She could probably still do it but it would be less on KSH's head now and more on the actual bullies like the YouTuber who consistently harassed her. How heartless can someone be when not only you made someone else suffer, and enjoy in that person's suffering. He probably was partying all weekend while she descended into her demise.

It's like all those people clamoring for a toxic relationship in books, I had to drop many a rape-fueled romance and yet when I mentioned I dropped them, I was deemed "too weak" to handle them. For them, rape equals passion, possession equals love. I mean there's even fetishes that celebrate blood letting and choking. I'm not for one to kink shame, but there's instances where I just have to draw the line.

Like one other post on DC that showed a lot of Incels defending child grooming, I guess there's always going to be a subset of people who find nothing wrong with this. But here's to hoping that they are in the minority.

Sadly, all these red flags look like Christmas lights to many girls.

Saw this new allkpop article:

https://www.allkpop.com/article/2025/03/garosero-research-institute-released-second-statement-from-the-late-kim-sae-rons-mother-and-shocking-photo-of-kim-soo-hyun

The reporting is good IMHO , however most comments are criticizing the family for not defending KSR when she was Alive, especially looks like they knew about their relationship since KSH was in the military. Only when she passed away and incurred her debt that they are speaking out. Although the statement from KSR's mother did not specify wanting compensation, most commentors pointed out that the statement mentioned KSR being a founding member of Gold medalist. So to them, it looked like KSR's family wanted a cut if GM concedes to KSR being a founding member. They also pointed out that if KSR's family wanted justice, they should have gone to the court/police instead of this public airing of dirty laundry.

But I think that KSR's family has a better chance of going against KSH if this was made public. If they were to go the police, courts, they may have less grounds for conviction and therefore the issue may as well be swept under the rug. KSR's family is banking on public outcry to turn the tide in their favor.

The fear now is I guess that if KSR's family meets KSH/GM in private, would this be settled by good, ole moola. For KSR's sake, I hope not..

Maybe Gold Medalist owns MDL hahhaa

Maybe the opportunity to be his mother-in -law then.

No, she's just waiting for the opportunity to be railed by the great KSH!

How else they would be able to slip the mother a fat check???

Exactly!!! Like how Tablo's life was ruined because jelly people couldn't accept the fact that he can be BOTH talented and smart, even if investigation PROVED that he graduated from Stanford. To cancel him for Such a trivial tidbit is so beyond me and he didn't even do anything wrong. So what if he didn't graduate from Stanford, it's not like he groomed a 15 year old girl to be his girlfriend! I can't get how these rabid KSH supporters justify his vile actions towards KSR and God knows how many other women!!

Hopefully, but based on past cases in SK, they are faster to vilify a female celebrity with baseless rumours than a male celebrity with hard evidence against him.

Meeting in person is the only way they could slip the mother a fat stack of money without people ever knowing.

Exactly!!!!! I hate it when child abuse and trafficking is so profitable in this day and age and we dare to call ourselves a progressive society when we can't even stamp out this disgusting behavior.

Maybe the world is more effed up than what we would like to believe.

It seems grooming and pedophilia is so common in the entertainment industry that the UN wrote an article about it

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147247

There are so many actors in Hollywood guilty of this and yet most of them get away and move on with other projects and such. Most recent case is with Ezra Miller who is accused of child grooming and yet they still released The Flash even AFTER the fact. SMH.

I get that many people who are saying that the rest of the cast and crew do not deserve to be included in the boycott since they are not the ones in the wrong BUT what they (the cast/crew) could do is to force the production company to remove KSH from any ongoing and new projects. If we can't do anything about his past projects, at least hopefully we can affect his new ones.

You can't be serious right??? You are justifying a 54 year old taking in a 6 year old CHILD as a wife. So you are saying that because it was okay in the year 600s, it means that it's okay in this age?

If I apply the same logic, then honor killings should be okay too. You know, since it's for honor. And also human sacrifices should be okay too, since that happened it was widely accepted and done in the past, also witch hunts and burning at the stake should be legal too. You know, since there's no such thing as progress, and there's no such things as fighting for one's rights and freedoms, maybe we should just not promote education for women since the 600s is such a good time to be born in. We should just go back to imperialism or colonialism, or better yet we should go back to the stone age since you worship a caveman mentality where it's okay for a grown ass man to take a child to bed.

Excuse me, I can't write no more as I need to barf.

Exactly! Like writing to Netflix to remove his shows from the platform. But I doubt that will happen because there are so many shows that are still available to watch even when one of the main cast is convicted of a crime later on.

It's understandable that this guy is getting a lot of hate, and well deserved in my opinion BUT a lot of people are forgetting that age of consent is NOT the same as the age of majority. So even if it is proven that KSH did date KSR when she was 15, by SK law at that time, he did nothing criminal or illegal and therefore not punishable.

If using the Age of Majority of 19, at that time, then yes she was a minor, BUT in SK pre-2020, 13 year olds can consent to sex though they cannot vote etc. Only time that he can be convicted is if there's irrefutable fact that he took her by force/rape, but if they are indeed dating for as long as others claim (6 years) it will be harder for them to prove that she was raped, especially if the family knew of their relationship, or that she didn't file rape charges against him while she was still alive.

I came from a country where the age of consent was 12 for the longest time, and I believe that is too young to make decisions to have sex with someone, especially with a significant age gap because they can be swayed without them knowing.
Although I believe there should be exceptions to the rule like Romeo and Juliet laws that some countries put in place if the age of consent is this low. Governments and courts will not have enough resources to charge and convict every 12 or 13 year old who decide to have sexual relations with another 12 or 13 year old. So the Romeo and Juliet exemption (usually 2 years) is reasonable. Unless of course there's no consent from one of the parties.

Sexual assault in a lot of Western countries are already hard to prove in most cases, with no guarantees of the victim winning if a complaint was filed. How much more in a conservative country where misogyny is alive and well. If it wasn't for the #Metoo movement gaining momentum in recent years, many instances of rape or sexual assault will go unnoticed and unreported. And in KSH, the allegations are not even of SA, but the dating of a minor who is above the age of consent at that time.

If Seungri can walk away with 18 months after being charged with so many things including operating a prostitution ring, I'm not seeing the likelihood of KSH ever seeing the walls of a jail cell.

So the best we can do is BOYCOTT all his projects, including the one he's currently working on. RAIL against Disney for not dropping him out of his new show. LAMBAST him on multiple SocMed platforms. BRING awareness to his past actions and indecencies. Such as bleeding someone who is already down on her luck, pushing her further down into a hell hole, instead of helping her in her distress.KSR's drinking is a cry for help, a cry for attention not for money, but for someone to just be by her side and he was not.

Even if he didn't want to do anything with her romantically, the right thing to do is to help her in other ways. Like provide mental health support or at least, do not ask her for money that they know she cannot ever pay back. .That only aggravated her distress.

Although we don't know all the facts of the story, like on the flip side she could be emotionally blackmailing him, we will never know. There's always 2 sides to a story and since one side is already buried 6 feet under, KSH's agency which he owns, have all the resources to change the narrative. It's up to us to separate the chaff from the wheat.

Seungri only got 18 months jail time for doing so much more than KSH. Even if they proved that he did start dating KSR when she was 15, Sadly, he won't be seeing the walls of a jail cell as this is not a punishable crime in SK. . Pre-2020, the age of consent in South Korea is 13. So technically, in the eyes of SK law, they are not doing anything illegal. in fact, there's a famous case in 2017 where a 42 old man is found NOT guilty for having sexual relations with a 15-year old based on the fact that apparently she consented. So for them, they see nothing wrong with this. Only in 2020, did SK raise the age of consent from 13 to 16. One of the clause in Current SK law states that even If you are over 16 years but under 19 years old, then it is not a crime to have sex with a person who is over 13 but under 16 years old. Where I come from, the age of consent was 12 for the longest time until a few years ago. 12!!!! Like I was still playing with Barbies when I was 12, let alone have a relationship with a grown-ass man! This is not the 1800s where child brides were common, so disgusting.

All we can do is boycott his shows, movies, endorsements, and rile against the companies who associate with him like Disney producing his new show, I think we will get more traction that way, and let the money stop flowing into his bank account. Hit him where it hurts, if he can't go to jail, at least make him go broke.

Exactly. I was a fan of Kim Hyun Joong before the assault case came to light, but even after all the evidence , bruises etc. They merely brushed it off as accidental play fighting. They were more critical of the ex being a money grabber etc, that she faked testimony etc etc, pressure her to withdraw her lawsuit. It was such a mess and KHJ just walked away with a small fine and continued to tour and be in shows, although not as popular as he once was in his peak. Maybe the blow to KSH will not be so detrimental as to lose his livelihood, but hoping its hard enough that it will impact his perception that producers will think twice casting him in any shows. Just feel sorry for the costars in his new drama. If the producer doesn't kick him out, I hope that the cast will be brave enough to disassociate themselves from KSH.