On March 29 KST, actress Han So Hee posted a lengthy message on her Instagram, once again strongly denying suspicions that her relationship with actor Ryu Joon Yeol was a “transit relationship”, or one that began while Ryu Joon Yeol still had not properly ended his previous relationship with Hyeri.
The actress wrote:
“Any more of these groundless speculations and it will really wear me out.
I am where I am today because I was chasing after my happiness. In those days when I was meeting people here and there, it was so easy to waste one another’s time being too concerned about ‘face value’ or ‘image value’ and before I knew it, I had reached an age that I could no longer call ‘young’, I had reached the age of thirty, and while I was searching for my path, I met this person. More specifically, we met exactly in November of 2023 at a photo exhibit. (It was our first encounter. The comments falsely claiming that we had known each other before then, I will simply ignore them. Never had I met this person in any public or private occasions before that encounter, nor did we have any overlapping acquaintances in the middle. The bear was purchased in 2021 through Kakao Talk gifts.)
Unlike the immature relationships I had in the past, outer appearances was far from everything, and seeing how those risky sides of me that always tried to do things however I wanted were kept in check, I felt healthier in both mind and body, and as is only natural when it comes to men and women, I felt that this was a relationship that I needed in my life. What is important to say here is that I had absolutely no intention of approaching this person with the thought to disrespect the time that he spent with his former lover.
It’s the truth that they broke up last year. It’s absolutely true that they bid farewell to each other for the last time while wishing the other person good health and happiness. (I do not mean to reveal such details in their private relationship for any other reasons than to prove that it was not a ‘transit relationship’.)
Although I cannot speak directly on the matter of why sunbaenim wrote in her apology post that she had promised to meet him in November, I do know that the purpose of this meeting was not to rekindle their relationship.
If this statement is false, I am fine with any public rebuttals, and I would be honored if sunbaenim could contact me herself, as I have tried to get in contact with her in any way that I can think of, only to fail.
I am also frustrated about the fact that one person involved in this matter is maintaining silence.
I say this only because, it only makes sense that people may misunderstand that when I say that it is not a ‘transit relationship’, they may still interpret it as me denying the speculations out of anger. That is why I stress that what I have written today is based on facts from the companies of both sides, with none of my personal emotions involved.
I am also writing this because there are people I must protect, and I no longer wish to see a situation where the fans who have been cheering for me and the president of my company and our company’s staff suffering damages because of me, since I am not a fool and I know that this is not about delivering words while standing only on one side.
In the end, what I am trying to say is that they were long broken up, but the news reports of their breakup did not go public until November. This is fact, no matter what insiders from that company or my company say otherwise.
I just don’t understand why people have to doubt the news articles which reported factual information, but then they also accept other news articles that speculate on the likelihood of a ‘transit relationship’ as reasonable facts. When you look at the malicious comments, the majority of them are private side accounts, which is also a laughable matter.
Please criticize when you have exact evidence. Furthermore, seeing people curse at me and commenting on matters entirely unrelated to the issue at hand, such as slandering my family, my upbringing, my appearance, and others, I am processing much about the ways of things these days.
I have already apologized. Since I cannot contact her, I am not sure if she has seen my apology, but I hope that she will not worry. I also offer my apologies to fans of sunbaenim for my careless actions. Even after time has passed, I will always be the kind of person who apologizes for my mistakes.
What I do not understand is what was so funny about her ex-lover getting a new girlfriend. Why did she make a text message which was not meant to rekindle their relationship sound like it contained feelings of regret, and with it, attach this title of a ‘transit relationship’ to a normal relationship that occurred 4 months after their breakup? I do not want to be pitied. I am not writing this expecting an apology for all of the speculations and malicious comments that came about as a result of that single phrase either, I am simply curious.
I also want to know why people wish to attack me so viciously, giving me no choice in the matter of whether to wear a friendship ring or not, whether to smile or not smile for the reporters and cameramen who waited for me at the airport in the cold. Why do you hate me?
Once I make this post, I am certain that people will only call me a criminal feinting innocence, that I am being inconsiderate toward the staff at my company who are suffering anxiously because of me, and that they are tired of me so I should just stop. I know this for a fact.
Sometimes they say to explain, and sometimes they say to just stay put, so I don’t know what these people want from me. But I’m writing this post after deciding that I can no longer sit and watch in silence.
I have a profession where I am fed and my livelihood is dependent on the love and the faith of the public. Once again, I would like to take this opportunity to apologize for my immature and imperfect response to the recent incident. However, I can assure you that this was not a ‘transit’ relationship, that word that I do not wish to even mention. I say that not because I am delusional, but because it is a fact.
So if there is something I still have not apologized for, then please specify what that is.
Soon after making the post, Han So Hee deleted it and wrote, “I’m sorry. My personality can be rather rash.”
