“I know you’re giving us a lot of support and have high expectations, but whenever I do media interviews or TV appearances, stories about I-geon inevitably come up,” said Kim. “So, I’ve been answering that we’re just staying in touch.”

In response to fans requesting that she invite Jo to her channel, Kim added that she is unable to do that.

“Like I said, we’re not a real-life couple. Since the reunion, we’ve been staying as close friends.”

Since the release of her video, Kim has received a barrage of hate comments from fans expressing their confusion at her behaviour. 

The backlash was especially strong given that just a day earlier, on Thursday, Kim Go-eun and Jo I-geon appeared together in an episode of The TrueMan Show, hosted by comedian Lee Yong-jin, where they said that their relationship was going smoothly. 

Jo had even said that it was leaning more towards romance than friendship.