Hwang Jung-eum and Kim Jong-kyu broke up after 14 days of public romantic relationship interest (official)

Aug 05, 2024

Hwang Jung-eum and Kim Jong-kyu broke up after 14 days of public romantic relationship interest (official)
Hwang Jeong-eum (left), Kim Jong-gyu. Sports Chosun DB
Actor Hwang Jung-eum and basketball player Kim Jong-kyu broke up after two weeks of public romance.

On the 5th, E-Daily reported that Hwang Jung-eum and Kim Jong-gyu broke up after two weeks of public romance.

According to a close aide who knows the two well, the two felt burdened when their romantic relationship became known while carefully getting to know each other and decided to remain good sisters and brothers without further developing their relationship.

Hwang Jung-eum's agency, Wyone Entertainment, said, `Hwang Jung-eum was in the process of getting to know each other carefully, but they decided to remain good acquaintances.'

Regarding the reason for the breakup, "It is difficult to mention the details because it is private life."," he declined to say.

Earlier, Hwang Jung-eum's agency, Y1 Entertainment, told Sports Chosun that `It is true that Hwang Jung-eum and basketball star A have recently become favorable, but they are still cautious.'

Since then, Hwang Jung-eum's romantic relationship, A, has been known as Kim Jong-kyu, a member of Wonju DB Promy in Korean professional basketball. Kim Jong-gyu was born in 1991 and is seven years younger than Hwang Jeong-eum, who was born in 1984. He is a basketball star from Kyung Hee University and has been the oldest and center of the Wonju DB Promy team since 2019. In this regard, Hwang Jeong-eum declined to say "Please understand that it is difficult to confirm the facts about the actor's romantic relationship."

Meanwhile, Hwang Jung-eum married Lee Young-don, a former golfer-turned-businessman, in 2016 and had a son the following year, but faced a crisis of breaking up once in 2020. However, he later reunited and gave birth to his second son in 2022, but in February, he said he was in the process of adjusting for divorce. Later, during the divorce proceedings, Hwang Jung-eum drew attention by posting an article indirectly acknowledging that the reason for the divorce was her husband's affair through her personal account.



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