Kim Soo-hyun and Kim Sae-ron’s dispute has escalated further as Kim Soo-hyun’s representatives challenge the validity of the recently surfaced audio clip. This development comes after HoverLab and Kim Sae-ron’s family unveiled the recording.
According to Soo-hyun’s agency, GOLDMEDALIST, and his legal team from LKB & Partners Law Firm, the newly released recording of Sae-ron saying flattering things about Hyun is false, AI-generated, and fraudulent.
The legal representatives of Kim Soo-hyun issued a statement saying:
During the press conference, HoverLab claimed that they acquired an audio clip featuring the deceased actress Kim Sae-ron. Nevertheless, this audio file is completely fake. GOLDMEDALIST has concluded that the recording was generated through AI or comparable technologies.
The statement continued:
“The individual who provided this audio file to HoverLab is a fraudster who also approached GOLDMEDALIST, claiming to possess a recording in which the late Kim Sae-ron made statements favourable to actor Kim Soo Hyun. The audio file provider demanded money from GOLDMEDALIST and sent a portion of the recording, which was manipulated to imitate the late Kim Sae-ron’s voice.”
Further information regarding the dispute involving Kim Soo-hyun and Kim Sae-ron
On Wednesday, May 7, 2025, the family of Kim Sae-ron organized a press conference where they presented what they thought would be conclusive proof that actor Kim Soo-hyun had indeed been involved romantically with the young actress Kim Sae-ron during her minority years—a connection he has consistently refuted ever since the scandal first surfaced.
The late actress’s family shared an audio clip in which a voice believed to be that of Sae-ron admits to dating and having sexual relations with Soo-hyun when she was still in high school. The recording also included flattering remarks from Sae-ron to Soo-hyun. The recording said:
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I had a relationship with Soo Hyun oppa. Some may think I’m insane for saying this, but I actually dated him from my middle school days until our breakup when I started college. Both Soo Hyun oppa and members of that GOLDMEDALIST group can be quite intimidating and would go to extreme lengths.
It continued:
“I feel like I was used since middle school. Honestly, I was his girlfriend, and he knows how I was to him since middle school, but after the accident, they all made me out to be a weird person. What’s really crazy is that he sent me a photo taken while he was doing ‘it’ with someone else.”
He mentioned that the idol he spent the night with smelled like miyeok (seaweed), so he stored her name as ‘Miyeok’ in his phone and shared this information with me. Under different conditions, I would have disclosed all of this earlier.
“The first time I did it with him was during winter break in my second year of middle school. Thinking about it now, it was done to me. Not many people know about when I dated him in middle school, but they all reacted the same way. They asked why I just let him be,” Sae-ron allegedly added in the recording.
Following the press conference held on Wednesday, Soo-hyun’s agency announced that the press conference was yet another way for the late actress’s family to destroy Kim Soo-hyun’s reputation, calling the recording a “fabrication cornered with defamation, stalking, cybersexual crimes, and evidence fabrication against Kim Soo-hyun.”
The agency is also ready to “file a complaint against Garo Sero for violating the Stalking Punishment Act and the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilisation and Information Protection.”
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This lawsuit will be added to the two lawsuits already filed by Kim Soo-hyun against Sae-ron’s family, along with two others against Kim Se Ui for privacy breaches and stalking.