Kim Soo Hyun’s Agency Allegedly Tried To Rip Kim Sae Ron Off Of 13 Million Dollars

They previously asked for a high amount.

Following a recent exposé by Kim Se Ui of Garo Sero Institute, the late Kim Sae Ron‘s aunt that exposed the alleged relationship between Kim Sae Ron and actor Kim Soo Hyun.

In a phone conversation between the aunt and Kim Se Ui, it was revealed that Kim Sae Ron and Kim Soo Hyun began dating in 2015 when Kim Sae Ron was 15 and Kim Soo Hyun was 27. Their relationship lasted for six years until 2021. In 2019, after Kim Soo Hyun established his own management company, GOLD MEDALIST, Kim Sae Ron chose to join him and did not renew her contract with her previous agency, YG Entertainment.

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In an interview about the matter, Kim Sae Ron’s aunt alleged that the company initially tried to ask Kim Sae Ron to pay ₩20.0 billion KRW (about $13.7 million USD) in penalty fees. This was way higher than the later ₩700 million KRW (about $480,000 USD) that they tried claiming from her. They claimed that they would take care of everything for her to quicken the settlement process.

The huge amount raised doubts in Kim Sae Ron’s aunt’s mind, and she did her own research about the matter. She questioned the company about the fees, only to be shut down. Later, they changed their quote to ₩700 million KRW (about $480,000 USD) and paid it off for Kim Sae Ron, claiming that she need not pay it back. In 2024, they sent her a legal notice to ask for the money.

As you mentioned, when an actor under the company goes through such an incident, shouldn’t the company work together to resolve it? Despite that, when it was initially said that the transformer crashed into shops and the damage was severe, the amount due to that incident was incredibly high. The penalty fees were ridiculous… At first, they mentioned over ₩20.0 billion KRW (about $13.7 million USD). Regarding the shops that were damaged by the crashed transformer, we genuinely tried to investigate and compensate them, and I said we would look into it with the family. But the agency cut me off and just said they’d handle everything and to settle it quickly. From a parent’s perspective, I thought the company would have a plan and would actively help for Sae Ron’s sake, so we entrusted it to them. But instead, they shifted all the blame towards us, and suddenly sent a letter with a demand for ₩700 million KRW (about $480,000 USD), hiring 3 lawyers to send a certified notice.

— Kim Sae Ron’s aunt

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