{"id":490271,"date":"2026-06-09T08:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490271\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T08:04:08","slug":"korean-actor-kim-soo-hyun-to-shoot-first-ad-campaign-since-controversy-amid-advertiser-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/490271\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean actor Kim Soo-hyun to shoot first ad campaign since controversy amid advertiser lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, the actor himself is also planning to pursue a civil damages claim \u2013 this time against YouTuber Kim Se-eui, head of the YouTube channel HoverLab, who had published the materials alleging misconduct by the actor.<\/p>\n<p>He also plans to increase the claim from 12 billion won to 30 billion won, according to ChosunBiz.<\/p>\n<p>The civil claim comes as police arrested the YouTuber and referred him to prosecutors on multiple charges, including defamation through false facts, violations of South Korea&#8217;s stalking and sexual crimes laws, intimidation and attempted coercion.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Gold Medalist thanked the investigative and judiciary authorities, as well as fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are deeply grateful to those who raised their voices for a long time on behalf of Mr Kim Soo-hyun, who waited for the procedures set by law,&#8221; it said, adding: &#8220;We sincerely thank the fans who supported Mr Kim Soo-hyun and stayed with him for a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, the actor himself is also planning to pursue a civil damages claim \u2013 this time against YouTuber&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,921,93,61,60,541,79179],"class_list":["post-490271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-south-korea","tag-television-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}