Professional baseball player Oh Ji-hwan (right) and his wife Kim Young-eun (left) / Photo by Kim Young-eun Instagram
[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Kim Seul-gi] Kim Young-eun (31), wife of professional baseball player Oh Ji-hwan (30, LG Twins), has taken action against malicious comments.
On the 30th, Kim Young-eun posted on her Instagram, "My husband did not want to file a lawsuit, so I endured it all this time. Since I am the wife of a well-known person, I thought I had to bear it and that following my husband's wishes was the right thing to do," signaling a firm response to the malicious commenters.
Kim Young-eun said, "I tried to ignore the dozens to hundreds of DMs (direct messages) I receive daily, thinking 'I just won't look, so it's okay.' I also publicly pleaded with those who crossed the line or continued to send malicious content by changing their IDs even after being blocked to stop. I thought 'it will get better,'" she confessed.
She added, "That was a wrong thought. I will no longer endure it. Many people have sent me collected malicious comments. I will file lawsuits along with the malicious comments I have gathered so far. There will be no leniency," and stated, "There are too many targets, so I will report them in batches of 1,000."
Earlier, Kim Young-eun revealed some of the DMs from malicious commenters through her Instagram story, saying, "Among countless DMs, I filtered out the continuous or unspeakable words to express it like this. I know ignoring is the answer, but it is very hard for me too."
Meanwhile, Kim Young-eun, who was Miss Korea Jeonbuk Jin in 2011, worked as a host for Lotte Home Shopping. In 2019, she registered her marriage with Oh Ji-hwan and gave birth to a son in September of the same year.
Below is the full text from Kim Young-eun’s Instagram
My husband did not want to file a lawsuit, so I endured it all this time.
I thought that since I am the wife of a well-known person, I had to bear it. I believed following my husband's wishes was the right thing to do.
Dozens to hundreds of DMs come every day.
I tried to ignore them, thinking 'I just won't look, so it's okay.'
For those who crossed the line or continued to send malicious content by changing their IDs even after being blocked, I publicly pleaded with them to stop. I thought it would get better...
That was a wrong thought.
I will no longer endure it.
Many people have sent me collected malicious comments.
Please send them to my personal email.
I will file lawsuits along with the malicious comments I have gathered so far.
There will be no leniency.
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