Rumors about Kim Sae Ron and Kim Soo Hyun’s 6-year romance and Kim Sae Ron’s decision to end his life on his girlfriend’s birthday… were aired by a YouTube channel on the evening of March 10, causing confusion.

On the evening of March 10, a YouTube channel called “Garosero Research Institute” posted a video revealing information that Kim Soo Hyun and Kim Sae Ron started dating when Kim Sae Ron was only 15 years old. At the time, Kim Sae Ron was in her second year of junior high school. In addition, the channel also contacted relatives of Kim Sae Ron’s family to confirm the relationship.

Relatives identified as Kim Sae Ron’s relatives also shared an unpublished post by Kim Sae Ron on social media, in which Kim Sae Ron explained her relationship with Kim Soo Hyun and showed a photo of the two of them. In the post, she said: “The photos I uploaded to Instagram Story are from 2016. Our relationship started on November 19, 2015 and ended on July 7, 2021. At the time, I was 15 and he was 30, and our 6-year relationship ended.” At this time, the credibility of this post is not certain.

In a statement given to Chosun on March 10, Kim Soo Hyun’s camp denied the information from the Garosero Research Institute’s YouTube channel, insisting that it was “completely false.” The Gold Medalist announced their plan to take legal action against the fake information: “The information released by the Garosero Research Institute regarding Kim Soo Hyun is not true.”

Gold Medalist called YouTube channel Garosero Research Institute an “online saboteur,” and accused the channel owner of defaming the late actress, causing damage to the company’s and Kim Soo Hyun’s reputation. Gold Medalist also expressed its sadness over Kim Sae Ron’s passing: “We are deeply saddened by the passing of actress Kim Sae Ron, who previously collaborated with our company.”

Although the details are not yet clear, topics related to Kim Soo Hyun and Kim Sae Ron have gone viral on social media in China and Korea, garnering hundreds of millions of views and comments. Some people said: “Something strange must have happened, a woman can’t decide to end her life on Kim Soo Hyun’s birthday.” So far, Kim Soo Hyun has not spoken out.

Kim Sae Ron started her career in the entertainment industry as a child model for Enfant magazine in 2001, and began her acting career with the film The Traveler in 2009. The film was a Korean-French co-production directed by Lee Chang Dong, and was part of the Cannes International Film Festival. At the time, Kim Sae Ron became the youngest actress from Korea to walk the Cannes red carpet.

He next appeared in the films The Man from Nowhere , Dohee-ya , and TV series such as Can You Hear My Heart , What’s Wrong with Mom , and The Queen’s Classroom .

Kim Sae Ron retired from acting in May 2022 after a drunk driving accident. She left the soap opera Trolley and reduced her scenes in the Netflix series Hounds of Dogs , a project that has almost finished filming.

Kim Sae Ron was found by her friend in a state of cardiac arrest at around 4:54 p.m. on February 16 at a condominium in Seongsu-dong 2-ga, Seongdong-gu, Seoul and died while being taken to the hospital. According to the police, “We conducted an investigation but we found no evidence of a crime and no suicide note.”