Popular Korean stars Son Ye Jin and Hyun Bin, who starred together in Crash Landing on You and got married last year, were rumored to be getting divorced. The duo got married in a private ceremony back in February 2022 and welcomed their baby boy in November of the same year.
Recently, the reports of Son Ye Jin And Hyun Bin getting divorced went viral on social media. The rumors were rife after a video on a YouTube channel with a voiceover of Jimmy Kimmel's video said, “Hyun Bin and Son Ye Jin are divorcing in April. Hyun Bin lost ₩3.00 billion KRW (roughly $2.29 million) through stock investments and is also shouldering a lot of gambling debt. Son Ye Jin kept putting up with it but she couldn’t anymore and wanted to divorce.”
MSTeam: We're requesting the channel to report and delete fake news that is being circulated online including this case through reports and monitoring from fans. As the form and content of fake news are getting worse we're discussing strong legal sanctions against it 😌#SonYejin pic.twitter.com/ukSg2h7D9G
— Quintessential L (@__ekleona) March 20, 2023
However, the Korean talent management agency VAST Entertainment has now issued an official statement to clarify the rumors. The statement read, “The video is ridiculous and not true at all. It’s not that we didn’t know about it because we have been continuously monitoring for fake news.”
“Since it is not true, we were discussing internally how to deal with this. We were preparing to respond that it wasn’t true. We are taking action with the site, reporting the video and requesting it to be taken down, and we will continue to monitor the situation and take further action if necessary,” the statement added.
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Several users took to Twitter to react to the divorce rumors of . One user wrote, “I am surprised by the strong statement of #SonYeJin's agency, but when I think about it, I am not anymore, she is a mom, she can be ferocious in protecting her child from any form of harm. She is a wife, she will protect her husband from online malice. She will protect her own.”
Another comment read, “Two of the most honest people That they spread disgusting news about. Pleased agencies responded. Hope they get to the bottom of who did that.”