SM Entertainment Founder Lee Soo Man’s Picture With A Woman Goes Viral
SM Entertainment founder Lee Soo Man has gone viral on Korean online communities after being “spotted” with a woman.
On August 9, KST, a netizen posted a photo of Lee Soo Man on Instiz where he was seen hugging a woman intimately. The woman’s head rested on his shoulder as the two appeared to be watching some sort of a concert.
In the caption, the OP (original poster) wrote that the woman accompanying Lee was in her 50s.
This picture was posted shortly after HYBE founder Bang Si Hyuk’s photos with two AfreecaTV BJs in Los Angeles went viral, bringing him much criticism from both Korean and international fans.
But, with Lee Soo Man, the reaction has been drastically different, as netizens pointed out that the woman was his long-term girlfriend, who he started seeing long after his wife’s passing. Many also appreciated that Lee Soo Man was dating someone close to him in age, taking an indirect dig at Bang’s rendezvous with the much younger streamers.
- “That’s his girlfriend, though?”
- “She’s literally his girlfriend…”
- “As expected, if HYBE gets exposed, SM will get exposed as well and vice versa. All this fuss because they couldn’t get to one another.”
- “Wow. Give it a rest.”
- “It’s been a while since I have seen this photo though?”
- “It’s not like he’s seeing women in their 20s or 30s. With 50s it honestly feels like not that big of an age difference.”
— “Really. He’s seeing someone in her 50s. What’s the problem…” - “You can’t compare them.”
- “Now people are going to cuss him out for having a girlfriend too…”
- “Dating someone in her 50s is a conscious choice. They’re going to grow old together!”