This article is part of our coverage of Kim Soo Hyun and Kim Sae Ron’s report. You can read more and view the entire time sequence here.
Actor Kim Soo Hyun He held an emergency press conference on March 31, 2025 (KST), to face all the accusations that the deceased actress Kim Sae RonThe public made public after its sudden disappearance last month.
The actor spoke next to his lawyer for about 40 minutes, during which he often broke in tears and suffocated.
Kim Soo Hyun breaks into tears during the press conference on Kim Sae Ron
Kim Soo Hyun started his press conference with apologies. He then continued to speak and confirming that he and the late Kim Sae Ron really had a relationship for about a year.
“Hi, this is Kim Soo Hyun. First of all, I apologize. Thanks to me, too many people suffer right now … and I feel that the deceased is unable to rest in peace, which makes me feel terrible.
I think of myself like a coward. All this time, I focused on the protection of what I have. I couldn’t even trust kindness for me and I was always afraid of losing everything. I was afraid of the damage I would suffer, so I hid and denying. So it took me a long time to come here. I wondered what things would have been like if I had held a press conference at the beginning of everything to clarify everything. So, I would not have caused so much suffering to the fans who love and support me and the staff of my management company that he worked so hard to get to know this conference. Every time a piece of information was revealed on me and the deceased and on our private life, I kept thinking: “I intend to tell them everything. I will reveal everything and I will finish this hell.” But every time I ended up to hesitate. I was afraid of the consequences of my decision. And if I confused everyone and everything, including myself?
Even when the “queen of tears” was on air and the deceased published a photo of us together, I hesitated. The deceased and I had a report for about a year, four years ago. At the time, I denied being in a relationship with her. I think I deserve the criticisms for that choice I made. Even if you can’t believe only one thing I say about what happened between me and the deceased, I understand. But since I only have this possibility of talking to you all in this way, I suppose that you continue to listen to me. “
The actor also shared the reason why he chose not to make his relationship with Kim Sae Ron Public, even after the actress published a photo of them together on her Instagram in 2024.
“Once debut as an actor, I received so much love. In the past, I had never been one to own a lot, but suddenly I had so much to protect and dot me. Even when the” queen of tears “was on air, I had a lot to keep safe as a male protagonist. I wondered what I could happen if I had admitted that I had been in a relationship in a relationship. What would have happened to all the staff? What if everything I chose to protect like Star Kim Soo Hyun has returned to hurt me? I was afraid. But even if I could return to when the “queen of tears” was broadcast, I would make the same choice. I had no other option.
Could I really make some decision just to relieve my mind? It doesn’t matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t. This was the responsibility that I had to endure as someone who chose this life like Kim Soo Hyun. If you say that these decisions are cowardice and selfish, I accept it. And to those who loved and supported me, I apologize. Also so far, I am very worried. And I’m anxious. What do I tell me these words returning and will I do me? But because this is what they are, I thought I had to speak. “
Kim Soo Hyun therefore faced the claims on Kim Sae Ron’s appointments while he was still a minor, denying all these accusations.
“Some people have advised me that I should let things be. That I should accept some things and lower the risks. In this way, I can let things blow, and later – later, I can return to the sector. If I had listened to them, I imagine that the private life of me and the deceased could not have been revealed in this measure. Maybe I would not have received threats every day on which photo or information would have been released the next day. Maybe I wouldn’t have been humiliated by leaving my private photos.
But I couldn’t let me admit that something was true when it wasn’t, just because I was threatened. Now I will talk about what you all want to know more.
I didn’t attend the deceased when he was a minor. The statement that I ignored it and that made the tragic decision to end his life because of my management company that pushes her to repay her debt is not true.
Apart from both we are actors, we were like any other couple. We started to attend because we had feelings mutually and then we broke up. After that, I didn’t keep in touch with the deceased. Like most of the couples who break, it was not easy for me to contact her after we left each other, above all because we were both well known celebrities. And when we were signed under the same agency, I knew how it was. So, I didn’t reach. That’s why when he came across the Dui accident, I didn’t even contacted her. “
The actor followed these statements by denying further accusations that Kim Sae Ron took his own life due to the pressure of the Kim Soo Hyun agency, gold medal.
“I heard the YouTube channel representing the statements of the family of the deceased that the CEO of his last agency said that the deceased suffered because of me at the time of the accident. But from what I understood, the deceased had a relationship with someone else at that moment. This made me even more difficult to know what to say or how to reach. We had already gone on with our lives – what could I say?
You could see this as an excuse. Sometimes, I just wanted to remain silent, it doesn’t matter what the world said. I was so loved, but I was also misunderstood. Falseness spread as if they were made. But I considered it my weight to bear. However, the deceased’s family now states that, since I was his ex -boyfriend, I led her to death. And they are pressing me to confess something I haven’t done. They say: ‘You edited the deceased when he was a minor. You have it under financial pressure until your death. So you are a killer. “
Please listen to this recording. After the deceased’s family revealed our report, the YouTube channel that represented it revealed a declaration of the last agency of the deceased. In the registration, they claim that my company has put pressure on the deceased for its debt by sending a second legal notice. However, in a call with the CEO of my agency a year ago, the same person said something completely different. Please listen to it alone.
[Plays a recording of GOLD MEDALIST lawyer explaining the second legal notice being a procedural step to Management Run CEO.]
I discovered this after what everything happened, but this is the truth about the second legal notice. So, I don’t know why the CEO of the deceased agency claims something completely different from what they said before. I will face the consequences for anything I did wrong. It is just right to take responsibility for what I should. But I can’t admit something I didn’t do. “
During his last words, Kim Soo Hyun said that Kakootalk’s messages recently leaked by Kim Sae Ron’s family were documented and that he sent them to the deceased actress.
“The same goes for the messages of Kakaootalk revealed the Lueaved. There are too many mistakes in these messages that had been written by the deceased. The photo they claim to be from 2016 is from 2019. And the deceased would not have had something wrong with age. Recruitment or visual direction.
The Lueaveds revealed the messages of Kakaootalk that the deceased and I shared during a recent press conference. And on the basis of these messages, the YouTube channel is framing me to be a grooming pedophile. But people who talk in these Kakootalk and 2018 messages are different people. To demonstrate it, I presented the copies of Lueaved of the messages of 2016 and 2018, together with my personal copies of this year’s Kakaootalk messages to my friends to an organization of analysis specialized in Forensics. The analysis concluded that the speakers in the 2016 and 2018 messages were all different.
This was the most painful part of all this ordeal. Every time my agency refutes the family tests, they release new recordings, have carefully changed the photos and have manipulated chats records as “test”. They are using my relationship passed with the deceased to justify the false testimonies and manufactured evidence.
I will accept any criticism for my choices. But this does not mean that all falsehoods become true. Just as I made my KakaoTalk messages analyze, I will assure that each test presented by the family undergoes a thorough forensic exam. If their tests are real, urge them to undergo law enforcement for verification through the legal channels. “
Kim Soo Hyun then got up, bowed to journalists and moved away from the conference room in tears.
“I have people I am responsible for. The people who rely on me right now. Every day, I have to see them crumble. And I’m afraid,” What will be exposed today and distorted as true? “I am afraid to be framed like a killer.
I don’t know what kind of fake tests and false testimonies will be used to differ and harass those that surround me after the end of this press conference. But if I had to surrender to the coercion and I would admit the things I have not done, I give up not only to myself but also to all those who loved and trusted the star Kim Soo Hyun. It would mean telling them that their support was for a piece of human garbage and that they had been deceived by Kim Soo Hyun, and would have left them with a life of pain.
As an actor, I could live wearing a mask. But this is the only thing I can’t do. I did what I did and I am willing to take any criticism for this. But what I didn’t do, I didn’t do. For all those who continue to believe in me, this is the only truth that I want to clarify. I won’t ask you to trust me, I will prove it. Thank you.”
