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[Statement Regarding the Progress of Actor #KimSoohyun’s Case and Claims Made by the Bereaved Family’s Attorney, Bujiseok]
1. There are signs that the investigation team is moving toward faster handling of the case. It’s possible that their next steps are based on the National Forensic Service’s examination results regarding the alleged voice recording of the deceased. Regardless of my previous criticisms, I understand that confidentiality is necessary in criminal investigations. I trust that the police will make the right judgment and deliver a fair conclusion.
The following are statements I’ve heard through broadcast reports about the bereaved family’s lawyer, Bujiseok.
2. There are no “thousands of photos.” Such photos cannot possibly exist, which should be obvious. Lawyer Bujiseok reportedly said, “I don’t know why Gaseyeon (the YouTube channel) said that.” But for him to say that now is strange, he had plenty of time to confront Kim Seui and ask, “Why did you say such a thing?” back then.
After the joint press conference on March 27, Kim Seui immediately claimed that thousands of photos existed. Later, on May 7, Bujiseok held another joint press conference with him, where instead of showing “thousands of photos,” they played recordings allegedly provided by an informant from New Jersey, recordings involving the deceased, lawyer Kang Yongseok, journalist Lee Jinho, an “American wife English test,” and lawyer Ko Sangrok, and claimed those were genuine.
3. Regarding the photos Gaseyeon claimed showed the deceased during her teenage years, including ski resort pictures, lawyer Bujiseok said, “I never told Gaseyeon that those were photos from the deceased’s underage years.” In other words, again, he claims he doesn’t know why Kim Seui made such statements. Yet after March 10, when Kim Seui repeatedly made those claims in excess, Bujiseok remained silent, continued to provide him with additional material, and then jointly played the aforementioned recordings with him at the May 7 press conference.
4. Regarding the photo taken around late February 2020, showing actor Kim Soohyun and the deceased with their faces close together, Bujiseok said, “That photo was already released before I was appointed as the family’s legal representative, so I have nothing to say about it.” I’m not entirely sure what that means, but it clearly suggests that he acknowledges the photo was taken around late February 2020. The bereaved family believes the photo was taken when the deceased was a high school sophomore, but as I’ve said several times, that simply doesn’t make sense.
5. The sender name for the June 2016 KakaoTalk message (“When can I fall asleep in your arms?”) is listed as “Unknown.” The claim that this message came from actor Kim Soohyun is based on what the deceased’s younger sister allegedly said, but when you hear her reasoning, it’s absurd to the point of disbelief. The claim goes like this: a first-year high school girl exchanged KakaoTalk messages with a man, saying things like “When can I fall asleep in your arms?”, then showed those messages to her younger middle-school-age sister, telling her who that man was and what he was like. And the younger sister supposedly believed it. That doesn’t make sense. Even more strange is the idea that a younger sibling could recall such an unnatural conversation word for word, nine years later, from when she was in middle school or younger, and give a detailed statement about it.
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김수현은 언제나 특별한 사람이었습니다.
겸손하고, 열린 마음을 지닌, 진심이 깊은 사람.
그의 재능은 연기에만 있는 것이 아닙니다.
그는 사람들에게 보호받는 느낌, 위로받는 마음을 주는 사람이죠.
그가 나타날 때마다 마치 집에 돌아온 듯 편안하고 따뜻합니다.
그의 미소는 평화를 담고, 그의 눈빛은 진심 어린 친절을 전합니다.
그는 지위나 이름 따위에 얽매이지 않았습니다.
누구에게나, 가장 높은 사람에게도, 가장 평범한 사람에게도 같은 존중으로 대했습니다.
하지만 사람들은 그에게 너무나 잔인했습니다.
그의 선함을 질투로 오염시키고, 조용함을 죄로, 품위를 오만으로, 아픔을 연기로 왜곡했습니다.
그들은 몰랐습니다. 진짜 친절은 소리칠 필요가 없고,
진실은 스스로를 증명할 필요가 없다는 것을.
그의 마음은 아마 예전과 같지 않을 겁��다.
세상에 배신당한 사람은 아무리 강해도 변할 수밖에 없으��까요.
그러나 어쩌면, 진짜 강함은 그때 시작됩니다.
부서져도 다시 빛을 지키는 법을 배울 때.
그는 여전히 친절할 겁니다 — 하지만 이제는 조금 더 조심스러울 겁니다.
여전히 겸손할 겁니다 — 하지만 더 현명해졌을 겁니다.
순수함이 배신을 만나면, 부드러움은 사라지지 않습니다.
그저 살아남는 법을 배울 뿐입니다.
진짜 영혼은 사라지지 않습니다. 오히려 더 강해집니다.
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ive read & carefully analyzed what attorney Go Sangrok shared today. My feelings are torn; it’s absolutely heartbreaking & i found myself in tears. Yet at the same time, i know those painful details had to be revealed for the sake of truth so that it could outweigh the lies.
But the part that shattered me the most is, soohyun was forced to expose his own deepest privacy to the public, sth that should never have been shown in the first place.
Just imagine your own self being forced to reveal your ex bf/gf towards complete strangers when you had alr moved on yrs ago. It rips open old wounds & esp for a public figure, it’s nothing short of humiliation.
He even had to search for his old diary-letter & thankfully he still kept it. Maybe to him, it was just a piece of memory he had moved on from but lil did he know that one small piece would later become his shield in this storm & helping us uncover the truth.
Thru it all, soohyun deserves nothing less than genuine happiness & real connection. i hope the ppl who remain by his side now cont to embrace him unconditionally, love him inside out & walk with him thru this darkest nights.
And as for us, we’ll keep watching as this case unfolds, standing by him every step of the way until his name is cleared, his reputation restored & Garo receives the punishment he deserves.
Haters keep shouting that kim soohyun should go to jail but they never know it’s actually their beloved Garo & saeron’s family who refuse to cooperate, who have no evidence & who are the only suspects now, not soohyun.
They dont even have a proper basis to file a complaint against him. The only attempt was on March 7 with fake evidence & it backfired. Instead, it was soohyun who actively filed complaints & attended police meetings.
So tell me, how exactly is soohyun supposed to go to jail? What a joke.
Thank you for living, soohyun. Bcs of ppl like you, im reminded that this world is still worth living in.
It’s not abt your past but abt the present— who youre now, who youve chosen to become.
You make me wanna be a lil kinder in this imperfect world 🤍
For near seven months, ive been speaking about soohyun on this platform out of my own will. ive been personally attacked by haters in the early months while hate narratives were dominating. My tweets became subjects of gossip in private GCs. i lost sleep researching this case in depth just to make sure i could deliver the truth even as a small fish in a vast ocean.
i think that alone alr shows how deep my support runs for soohyun. And i know most of you have done the same.
So please, prevent from having any moral superiority & invalidating others’ complex emotions. No one has the right to question my moral conviction or demand it to be proven in black-and-white or yes-or-no way.
When i support soohyun with all my heart, it means im advocating for all forms of humanity in the world. i stand for those who face oppression & injustice. i advocate for the rich or the poor, men or women as long as theyre being oppressed.
Strong emotion cant be met with the same low level reaction. Instead, it must be met with firmness & impact. Stay steadfast bcs cowardice always reveals itself. Yet how we respond also matters whether we stoop to their level or raise the dignity of the person we’re defending.
Learn to regulate our emotions well. If we doesnt, it will destroy us & we will never find peace, for the oppressed or for ourselves.
And the conclusion is simple if ppl dont blind themselves from the truth that's alr backed by consistent facts & evidence:
Kim soohyun is a victim of a systematically planned cybercrime & orchestrated to frame him as a pedophile by the controversial youtube channel GaroSero, in collab with the late kim saeron's family, an irresponsible lawyer Bu Jiseok & many more, to make their claims appear credible.
They weaponized saeron's death & exposed her privacy for malicious intent whether for money, political motives or sheer envy.
But this all happened starting from bitsak incident 24 March 2024 by saeron herself. So saeron cant be left out from this narrative. The most respecful way for the deceased is to upheld the truth even if it challenge our ‘cognitive dissonance’.
Saeron was simply a part of soohyun's past; their relationship occurred when she was alr an adult (Summer 2019 till Spring 2020) & there was nothing criminal about it.
And the real truth is— saeron is the first puzzle & the other malicious party including HER FAMILY who completed the puzzle.
"Kim Soohyun knows everything but won't speak...
Kim Soohyun only talks about what he didn't do, but won't say who that KakaoTalk message truly belongs to.
Is this the kind of person Kim Soo-hyun is, ㅠㅠ [crying]
What was not done, was not done. We will absolutely prove it!!!
Kim Soo-hyun’s side filed a lawsuit in March, and in April, they submitted his diary to the Gangnam Police Station… The damage he suffered over these seven months is just too severe 😭😭😭 I really can’t understand what’s going on with GRI, the family, and the Gangnam Police…
[TRANSLATION KOREAN LEGAL TITAN YT POST]
You must be very curious so let me clarify a few points.
1. All the photos disclosed by GaroSero are from the deceased’s adult years. This is clearly proven & leaves no room for dispute.
2. The postcard dated 1 Nov 2019, was sent when the deceased was alr an adult (fall of her first year in college). From its contents, it's clear the two had only recently begun dating. Phrases like “i’ll nag you a lot & care abt you” or “Even if we fight, i’ll apologize first & let you win” are the typical language of couples who have just started a relationship.
3. The letter dated 9 June 2018, sent during military service isnt a love letter between lovers. Reading it in full shows the actor mostly talking about his own military life then briefly saying he wanted to see her & ending with things he planned to do alone after discharge. A man in the army wouldnt write to a romantic partner this way; if an actual girlfriend received such a letter, she might even get angry.
• While i cant reveal exactly how a real romantic letter would look, there are materials that can explain this difference, some of which have alr been submitted.
4. In defamation cases based on false information, “falsehood” is judged by whether the important parts of the content match objective facts (Supreme Court Decision 2013Do12430, etc.). Even if there are minor exaggerations or differences, it's not false if the important parts match objective facts. But if they do not, then it is false.
• Since direct proof of the speaker’s awareness of falsehood is difficult, courts consider objective factors: specificity of the statement, supporting evidence, sources, how it was obtained, the speaker’s position, timing of disclosure & ripple effects.
5. The key part of the accused’s statements is that the actor “maintained a romantic relationship with the deceased from her minor/childhood years for six years & engaged in perverted pedophilic behavior.”
If that were true, the deceased would have started dating from her 3rd year of middle school (under 16, within statutory rape range under current law), dated for at least 3 years while still a minor & continued until her 3rd year of college for a total of 6 years. Especially, a 3rd-year middle school student is considered by both social norms & criminal law as being too young to exercise full sexual self-determination.
◎ Reference (age standards)
• Minor (Civil Law): under 19 → before 31 July 2019
• Statutory rape age (Criminal Law): under 16 → before 31 July 2016
6. No matter how one reads the 9 June 2018 military service letter, it cant serve as evidence for the accused’s core claim (that they dated from middle school & he sexually exploited her).
7. All disclosed objective materials support or at least dont contradict the fact that their romantic relationship began around the summer of 2019 & ended the following year. It also confirms that during the relationship, the actor treated the deceased with warmth & respect.
• In their home date video, there is no sign of perversion, pedophilia or psychological domination — only ordinary affectionate conversations & caring behavior between a couple.
8. Ultimately, the accused’s claims are all based on falsehoods that dont match the confirmed objective facts. Accordingly, the agency & the actor immediately issued rebuttals after the accused’s first broadcast, consistently demanding an end to the baseless dissemination of false information.
9. Nevertheless, after these rebuttals, the accused intensified his attacks, repeatedly portraying the actor as a perverted pedophile in multiple broadcasts. He even used phrases like “worse than the Nth room” & described acts such as “tying hands,” making it seem as if the actor engaged in child sexual exploitation. He further claimed to have “very serious & vast evidence” also repeated such broadcasts.
• Later, at the 7 May press conference, he even played what he said was a voice recording of the deceased & claimed the timeline went back further, alleging sexual relations began during her 2nd year of middle school winter vacation (winter 2014).
10. By publicizing these fabricated details, the accused incited public condemnation of the actor, who was branded as a pedophile, child sex offender & psychological abuser.
• As a result, all of the actor’s scheduled activities were canceled or suspended, he faced massive penalty lawsuits from advertisers & he continues to suffer severe public criticism & extreme stress to this day.
This is the summary of the issues i can state at this point, based on my review of the available materials and my prior public commentary on this case.
Law Firm Phil
Attorney Ko Sangrok
Here is my translation
As a Korean, I can say your translation is completely inaccurate. The letter primarily describes KSH's military training and surroundings. While KSR is briefly mentioned in the end, it is evident that he avoided burdening her cuz she was 19 in Korean age