Actress Kim Sae Ron pαѕѕed away at her home in Seoul (South кσяєα) on February 16. About a month later, on March 10, Kim Soo Hyun faced a wave of fierce criticism from the public after the YouTube channel Garosero and the actress's family shared the story of their dating.
The incident quickly caused an explosion on Asian social networks when Kim Soo Hyun was labeled as having a minor relationship, lying to the public about their love affair, and even being accused of urgently collecting debt leading to Kim Sae Ron's ∂єαтн.
After more than a week, the incident has not shown any signs of cooling down with many surprising information from Garosero, Kim Soo Hyun's management company, and most recently, YouTuber Lee Jin Ho. On March 19, 2025, notorious reporter Lee Jin Ho released a video that included a ѕнσ¢кing voice recording of Kim Sae Ron revealing that she was pregnant and married at the time of her suicide.
In a ѕнσ¢кing announcement titled "The Truth Being Hidden by Kim Sae Ron's Family," YouTuber Lee Jin Ho cited a set of photos with the words "Marry" that the late actress had posted and hastily deleted from Instagram in January 2025. Lee Jin Ho claimed that these were photos of the actress and her husband, who were married in the United States.
Then, Lee Jin Ho released an audio recording between Kim Sae Ron and a management company employee when they confirmed information related to these photos. Kim Sae Ron admitted that the person in the photo was her boyfriend, revealing his personality. Accordingly, she had been under a lot of mental pressure from this person before her ∂єαтн.
When talking about her new boyfriend, Kim Sae Ron said: “He’s just a normal person who works at a conglomerate in New York. We met through acquaintances. As time went by, although he’s normal regularly, when he gets insecure occasionally, as we are apart (long distance) – I even deleted my KakaoTalk, right? My boyfriend has access to my KakaoTalk and my Instagram. So he manages everything. And I was unable to use anything, and now I’m able to use normal messages and Telegram a little, but he told me he didn’t know why I kept hiding the fact that I was married. He wanted to make it public. So we ended up fιgнтing and he uploaded the post. I told him to delete it just now, so he did. Anyway, that’s my situation.”
She also tried to add: “But I swear he’s normal but he gets a little like that when he drinks.”
The staff also pressed about their status of marriage. The staff asked that: “Did you perhaps already have the ceremony?”. Kim Sae Ron replied: “Yes, we already did it". Next the staff questioned: “In кσяєα?” and the actress confirmed it's “Overseas.”
On the other hand, one piece of information that caught fans' attention from the recording was when Kim Sae Ron mentioned her ex-boyfriend - Kim Soo Hyun. When asked by the staff about her ex-boyfriend, Kim Sae Ron admitted that she met him when she was in кσяєα due to some problems with her company.
Kim Sae Ron said in the recording: “While I was dating my current boyfriend, I happened to meet up with my ex while I was in кσяєα. There’s problems to do with the company and B, so he said that he would just help me out with the issues even though we were broken up. So when we met up then, we were already broken up. I told everything to my ex, and that I had a boyfriend, and we said goodbye like that..."
Notably, she also revealed that she was forced to marry her new boyfriend because she was pregnant. "I was also not going to marry my current boyfriend, and was actually about to break up with him. But then, I suddenly got pregnant”. Fans were heartbroken when they heard what Kim Sae Ron said.
Apparently, through the revealed recording, fans realized that Kim Soo Hyun met and helped Kim Sae Ron when she was in a difficult situation. Notably, at that time, the two had broken up for many years and the actress had a new boyfriend, even got married.
Therefore, the accusations that Kim Soo Hyun abandoned his ex-girlfriend and forced her to ∂єαтн, as declared by the Garosero Institute and the actress's family, are not entirely true. Fans also suspect that the reason for the actress's extreme choice is related to her new boyfriend - who was married but forced her to have an ab0rtion in the US.
In addition, on March 18, Kim Soo Hyun's company also released a 12-page document in response to the information revealed by the Garosero Institute and the actress's family.
Gold Medalist Company affirmed that there was no connection with YouTuber Lee Jin Ho, and there was no cooperation between Kim Soo Hyun, the company and Lee Jin Ho. Kim Soo Hyun's company also said that the information released by Garo Sero Institute was incorrect and caused public misunderstanding.