Hong Sang Soo has started divorce proceedings

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Korean film director Hong Sang-soo's alleged romantic relationship with actress Kim Min-hee ― despite a 22-year age difference ― appears to have deepened as he has started divorce proceedings.

Hong, 56, filed for divorce from his wife only referred to as Cho, 56, at the Seoul Family Court, Nov. 9, according to media reports.

An associate of Hong told News1 Korea that Hong and Cho's marriage "has already been destroyed" and Cho has been avoiding Hong, who has been trying to persuade her to divorce.

The settlement did not mention alimony or property division, which, according to the associate, will be discussed later.

Hong met Cho in the U.S., where he went to study, and married her in 1985. Netizens have said that Cho helped a lot with Hong's life in America. The two have a daughter who is a college student.

News of Hong's affair with Kim erupted in June this year. Hong met Kim during shooting of his romance film "Right Now, Wrong Then" (2015) that featured Kim as the heroine. The movie won the Golden Leopard at the 68th Locarno Film Festival last year and, after its release in the U.S. in June, was well received by American dailies.

In September last year, Hong allegedly told his family about his affair with Kim and left them. The next month, Cho sought out Kim, who blamed her for "not having taken good care of Hong."

Hong was expected to make his first public appearance since the scandal at the VIP showcase for the documentary "Goguryeo" at the Megabox cinema in COEX, Seoul, Nov. 15. But he did not turn up. He also did not attend the showcase for his 18th film, "Yourself and Yours."


My ass says drag this out, make it messy for him, and take him for all his $$$ and property.

KoreaTimes

Comments

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

I'm honestly always shocked when a man actually divorces his wife for the other woman.
thats more common than you think

[pandaapple27.livejournal.com]

I want the wife to drag out the divorce proceedings for as long as she can, so long that kim minhee will get bored and dump this guy. I hope he loses both women.

[goshipgurl.livejournal.com]

#TeamCho #GetHisMoney

[ashdevilrun23.livejournal.com]

She better take all his damn money and he can go choke

[kwonsoonyoung.livejournal.com]

+1

[soyunatetera.livejournal.com]

"not having taken good care of Hong."
weren't her words "You should have managed your husband better?"
Hope everything goes well for the wife

[sayuridoll.livejournal.com]

i feel terrible for his wife.

[pastelpinklace.livejournal.com]

I hope she gets 90% of his money, finish him girl

[torontok.livejournal.com]

You know, he's dog shit but I'm glad he's proceeding with the divorce. i feel for his wife but her statements about never granting him a divorce didn't sit right with me either, it felt like entrapment. It's better for them both to be separate and hopefully he gets dumped and ends up sad and only

[tungatunga.livejournal.com]

Agree, maybe because I'm old fart and witness people divorcing in real life, my advice is always to get your money worth and go on with your life. Centring your life on making other party miserable only drive people into very lonely and toxic place.

[torontok.livejournal.com]

Yeah exactly, I can sympathize with her pain and he was 100% in the wrong for cheating but she then put herself in the wrong by refusing a divorce. At that point trying to hold onto the failed remains of a marriage is just wrong for all involved.

[mmmalvina.livejournal.com]

i feel for her though, because no matter what consequences her stubbornness might have for her own life, this is essentially her way to screw up HIS life, and i think in a sense she's entitled to that. he cheated on her, so to simply let him go and enjoy his life must be very unfair. we all want to be better people etc etc, but in some situations it does not really matter because in the end it means that an innocent person would suffer and a cheater would "win"

[lulufairybubble.livejournal.com]

I hope his wife takes him for everything he has.
Minhee...how you get them is how you lose them. Remember that.

[pinkwingsblack.livejournal.com]

Hoping that his (ex-)wife takes him for everything he's got now and in the future. Get paid!
And for Minhee ... good luck; you lay in the bed you make.

[cafetin99.livejournal.com]

The disgusting grandpa is trash.
And that homewrecker is trash too.
I hope the wife wins every $$$ and both assholes can rot in misery.