Hello. This is Gold Medalist Co., Ltd.

This is our official position on the YouTube broadcast by Garosero Research Institute regarding actor Kim Soo

-hyun, who is affiliated with our company. The claims made by Garosero Research Institute regarding actor Kim Soo-hyun through the YouTube broadcast are clearly false. Garosero Research Institute made claims that our company and actor Kim Soo-hyun colluded with YouTuber Lee Jin-ho to harass the late actress Kim Sae-ron, and that actress Kim Sae-ron had been dating actor Kim Soo-hyun since she was 15, that the agency’s response at the time of the late actress Kim Sae-ron’s drunk driving accident was unfair, and that our manager was close to YouTuber Lee Jin-ho, etc. They made many malicious claims against our company and actor Kim Soo-hyun. However, all of these are false claims that we cannot tolerate, and our company plans to consider taking the strongest legal action possible against Garosero Research Institute for spreading false information.

Our company is deeply saddened by the news of the death of actress Kim Sae-ron, who was once affiliated with our company, and we mourn the deceased. However, the above-mentioned false information spread by Garosero Research Institute is a direct repetition of the behavior of the so-called 'cyber wrecker' that the deceased had such a hard time with while alive, and it is damaging not only our company but also the deceased's reputation for its own benefit, so our company will respond strictly to this.

We earnestly request that you refrain from spreading, expanding, or reproducing false information that has no value whatsoever.​

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The entire internet is not buying his story in the slightest and still finding him guilty.

More Information Revealed

Here is a compilation of more information which has been released since then:

- Here is the picture Saeron shared on social media of her and Soohyun when she was just 16:

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- And I would also like to take a minute to shout out that Saeron committed on Soohyun's birthday.

- An interview from when Soohyun was promoting the movie "Secretly, Greatly" in 2013 started trending as well.

I'm a bit confused on the direct word from word of the interview but to my understanding the interview went in this order:​

Kim Soohyun
When I was 24 years old, I was making a life plan for how to make a living, and I thought I would get married between 36 and 37, but I don't think I can keep it now.I'm a little behind now, so I think I can get married when I'm about a year older. I will marry a 21-year-old woman at the age of 41"

Interviewer
Isn't that an infant?"

Kim Soohyun
To all the nation's kindergarten students, please look forward

Interviewer
Kindergarten students across the country would be thrilled to hear this story.​

Oppa, this is Sae Ron. I received the letter of certification today, that [your company] is suing me. You said that you would give me ample time, so I’m working hard, preparing to make a comeback. I will pay you back with a percentage from each work. I’m not saying that I won’t pay you back, but if you suddenly ask for ₩700 million KRW (about $480,000 USD) right now, I really can’t do anything. It’s not that I won’t, but I can’t. Do you really have to take it as far as a lawsuit? Please save me… I beg of you. Give me some time.​

When he didn't respond the photo was posted by Saeron to hopefully catch his attention and get him to contact her.

Community note from Garoseo

In response to Soohyun threatening to sue Garoseo they released this statement.

I'm putting it under cut since it's sort of sensitive information:

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I don't have a source link for this since i'm not part of his youtube channel but I can share a screenshot that's floating around for anyone who needs a source of this.
I know they aren't the best source but I got this translation from Pannchoa.

Chinese Netizens

Chinese netizens have really been attacking Soohyun online.

Chinese netizens found further proof that the picture Saeron shared of them dating was real, I will put the photo under cut:

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Family Interview
Mass media is finally starting to shed some light on this situation after previously ignoring all of Saeron's family's attempt to expose this to the media.

There is currently an ongoing interview on Naver with her family. The interview is between Saeron's father and the rest of her family, though for privacy reasons all of her family members are just referred to as "family member" to keep them anonymous.

The family spoke out about how much cyber wrecker youtuber Lee Jinho affected Saeron and drove her to multiple suicide attempts.

Here is part of the interview:

Family Member:​

In Lee Jin-ho's video, there is a part where he calls Sae-ron, and he sarcastically asks if Sae-ron changed her phone number and asks if this is the attitude of an actress who reflects on herself," (At this point the family member burst out into tears) That very day, Sae-ron attempted an extreme choice.​

If my daughter receives a call from Lee Jin-ho, is she reflecting on herself, and if she doesn’t, is she not reflecting on herself? I don’t know how much Sae-ron suffered because of Lee Jin-ho’s videos and the media that copied them.

Sae-ron was in so much pain that she tried to do that many times. Whenever those videos and articles came up, she really tried (committing) many times. I don’t know how many times I carried my daughter on my back and rushed to the emergency room. But in the end, I couldn’t protect her.​

The actions of Lee Jin-ho and the Internet media are absolutely unforgivable and unforgivable, destroying not only Sae-ron's life but also the entire life of a family. I will never forgive the behavior of forcing people to fit their own frame with a disgusting face even if the world ends.

On YouTube Shorts and other places, there are things like Sae-ron coming to the ossuary and opening the urn, and things like that, and things like that, and that our family squandered the money Sae-ron had earned. Because of these things, my family, and now my two daughters, are being branded as such a family.

Do I have to explain that these things are fake news and not something that our family does? Even if I and the mother can tolerate such things, what should I do about Sae-ron's two younger siblings? How should I protect my two daughters? Do I have to live my whole life with false accusations if strangers point fingers at my remaining two daughters? I really want to correct that and delete those videos.

I wanted to call Lee Jin-ho and swear at him and tell him that what he said wasn’t true, but I couldn’t because I was afraid he would record it and use it for his own purposes. I feel so wronged, resentful, and angry.

I want Lee Jin-ho to be legally punished. I want to punish not only Lee Jin-ho, but also everyone who uploads such things and leaves malicious comments on our family. Fortunately, there are people who are helping me, and a law firm is gathering information.

I think a lot of ridiculous YouTube videos and ridiculous articles are being uploaded because we haven’t taken any legal action. For the sake of my remaining family, I plan to take legal action with those who are helping me.​

As you said, if an actor in the company experiences something like that, shouldn't they work together to resolve it? Nevertheless, when the transformer was first installed and the stores were said to have suffered severe damage,

Because of that incident, the amount of money was ridiculously large. The deposit... At first, they were talking about over 20 billion won.

So the family wanted to investigate everything to compensate for the damage to the store that was hit by the transformer, but the agency cut it off. They just said they would do everything and get it done quickly.

Then, from the parents' perspective, they naturally thought that the company would have some thoughts and actively do something for Saeron, so they left their child in their care, but instead, they turned all the debt around and suddenly hired three lawyers and sent a certified letter demanding that the child pay back 700 million won.

Sae Ron burst into tears after seeing that, so I immediately thought, "I should try contacting her," and tried to contact her, but I couldn't. Rather, the people around her were setting boundaries, telling her not to contact Sae Ron. (Here's a summary: Even before that, there were similar incidents of not only her actors but also her celebrity friends cutting off contact with Kim Sae Ron.) So at that time, since she couldn't contact me in any way, she used the method of uploading the photo.

At that time, when Saeron was going through that and had to pay this huge penalty, she tried to save up all the money she had and borrowed it from acquaintances to take responsibility for everything, but in that difficult situation, she suddenly received a certified letter for 700 million won. Where will she pay back 700 million won?​

Hello, this is Kim Sae Ron. Firstly, I wish to apologize to those everyone and the industry staff who were affected and confused by my careless actions.

Although the media is reporting the rumors which have been spreading in the media as falsehoods, I wish to clearly state that that is untrue.

The photo uploaded on my Instagram Stories was taken in 2016, and we were dating from November 19, 2015, to July 7, 2021.

But Gold Medalist is currently claiming that “they don’t know my intentions behind uploading it,” and this completely does not match up with what they have been doing. I hope that they can come to recognize and apologize their misdoings which caused me harm when I was still with the company.

As an actress who’s image is consumed by viewers, I am leaving this post in belief that people need to be told the truth.​