Director Hong Sang-soo and Kim Min-hee Expecting a Child Amid 9-Year Affair

Jan 18, 2025

Director Hong Sang-soo and Kim Min-hee Expecting a Child Amid 9-Year Affair



Director Hong Sang-soo and Kim Min-hee Expecting a Child Amid 9-Year Affair
With the news that director Hong Sang-soo and actor Kim Min-hee have been having an affair for nine years and are expecting a child this spring, attention is focusing on whether they will make an official appearance at the Berlin Film Festival together.

On the 17th, entertainment media Dispatch reported that `Kim Min-hee was pregnant with director Hong Sang-soo's child naturally. I'm expecting a baby this spring."

According to the report, it was last summer that the two learned of their pregnancy, and they are currently in their late pregnancy. In particular, the media reported that director Hong Sang-soo visited the obstetrics and gynecology clinic with Kim Min-hee, regardless of the gaze of those around him, as well as went from pregnancy confirmation to examination and examination.




In the midst of this, attention is drawn to the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. Director Hong Sang-soo is likely to be invited to the festival again, as he is called The Man in Berlin, as well as submitting a new film he worked with Kim Min-hee. As a result, attention was focused on whether director Hong Sang-soo would walk on the red carpet with pregnant Kim Min-hee.

Meanwhile, director Hong Sang-soo, Kim Min-hee and Hong Sang-soo have been having an affair for nine years.

The two met in the 2015 movie `Right Now, Wrong Then````. Then, at the press preview of the 2017 film 『On the Beach at Night』, "We love each other", he admitted to the affair, shocking.




Director Hong Sang-soo and Kim Min-hee Expecting a Child Amid 9-Year Affair
Director Hong Sang-soo married in 1985 and has a daughter, but has been filing for divorce since he admitted to an affair with Kim Min-hee. The divorce claim filed by director Hong Sang-soo in 2016 was rejected by the court in 2019.

Since then, director Hong Sang-soo has been living with Kim Min-hee for nine years, legally maintaining a marital relationship without appealing. As a result, attention was focused on the family register of the child Kim Min-hee was pregnant. If you put your child on director Hong Sang-soo's family register, he will be on the family relations register as Hong Sang-soo's extramarital man because he is currently married. Also, Kim Min-hee can put it on her family register alone.

Attention is focusing on whether the two, who have been in an inappropriate relationship for nine years, will express their position regarding the child.






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