Actor Kim Soo-hyun / Courtesy of Ssangbangwool By KTimes Actor Kim Soo-hyun will publicly address mounting controversies, including allegations of an underage relationship with the late actress Kim Sae-ron, in a press conference scheduled for Monday. Kim's agency Gold Medalist announced Sunday that the actor and his legal representative will make a press conference at 4:30 p.m.
on March 31 at Stanford Hotel in Mapo District, Seoul. "We sincerely apologize for the concerns caused by recent events," the agency said in a statement. "We have arranged this opportunity so that Kim Soo-hyun can speak directly to members of the media.
" The press conference will be attended by attorney Kim Jong-bok from law firm LKB & Partners, along with Kim Soo-hyun himself. However, the agency said that only a statement will be delivered, with no Q&A session planned. This will be Kim’s first public comment since the YouTube channel Hoverlab alleged on Mar.
10 that he had been in a relationship with the late Kim Sae-ron. The actress's family claimed that the two were romantically involved from 2016, when she was 15, for a period of six years. Gold Medalist responded on Mar.
14, saying, "Kim Soo-hyun dated Kim Sae-ron from the summer of 2019 to the fall of 2020, after she became a legal adult." Hoverlab further fueled the controversy by releasing what it claimed were handwritten letters Kim sent to Kim Sae-ron during his military service, a photo of him kissing her on the cheek, and an image of him.