Actor Kim Soo-hyun (38) is set to resume his activities in Korea after approximately 1 year and 6 months of controversy surrounding his private life.
The organizing committee of 'The Fact Music Awards' (TMA) announced on the 28th that "Kim Soo-hyun will attend as an award presenter at the '2026 The Fact Music Awards' to be held on September 19 at the Busan Asiad Main Stadium."
This marks Kim Soo-hyun's first appearance at a domestic official event since his press conference in March last year. At that time, he denied allegations that he had dated Kim Sae-ron when she was a minor and that his agency's debt pressure led to her tragic choice.
The police investigation also supported Kim Soo-hyun's side of the story. The Seoul Seongdong Police Station, which investigated the case in which Kim's family filed criminal complaints against him for violations of the Child Welfare Act and false accusations, decided on the 29th of last month not to transfer the case to the Prosecution Service due to insufficient evidence.
In a separate investigation targeting Kim Se-e, operator of the research institute Garo-Soro, which first raised the allegations of underage dating, it was determined that the released audio recordings and messages purportedly supporting the claims were generated or altered using AI (artificial intelligence).
Kim Soo-hyun recently began to expand his activities with a fashion brand advertisement shoot in the Philippines last month and an appearance on RCTI, an Indonesian private broadcaster, for its 37th-anniversary special live broadcast scheduled for mid-September. With this awards ceremony as a turning point, he is expected to accelerate his return to domestic activities.
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