Attention is focused on giving birth to Kim Min-hee, who has been having an affair for nine years...What is the family register with Hong Sang-soo?

Apr 09, 2025

While film director Hong Sang-soo and actor Kim Min-hee have been having an affair for nine years, the news of his birth has recently made a big impact.

According to a dispatch report on the 8th, Kim Min-hee recently gave birth to a son and is currently staying at a postpartum care center located in Hanam-si, Gyeonggi-do. The two first formed a relationship through the 2015 film Now Right and Then Wrong, and overcame the 22-year-old age gap to develop into a relationship.

In particular, director Hong Sang-soo officially acknowledged his relationship with Kim Min-hee at a press conference alone on the beach of the 2017 movie Night and said "We love each other". Since then, the two have been in a de facto cohabitation relationship for about nine years, and Kim Min-hee has consistently participated in Hong Sang-soo's work as an actor as well as a staff member.

However, director Hong Sang-soo is still legally married. He attempted to divorce his existing spouse, but the divorce claim filed in 2016 was rejected by the court in 2019 and the marriage has remained intact without appealing. For this reason, the relationship with Kim Min-hee is still classified as 'out-of-marriage relationship'.

In this situation, as news of childbirth spread, attention is also focused on the issue of registration of the baby's family register. Legally, to register as a child of director Hong Sang-soo, there is a method of posting it as 'Out of Marriage', or there is a possibility that Kim Min-hee alone will register only the parent-child relationship. As it is a sensitive privacy issue, the choice of the two is drawing attention.

Meanwhile, 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.

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