“Victory’s prison-visit rumors”: Yoo Hye-won, “The dating-rumor tag? Isn’t it inevitable?” [Star Issue]

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After Victory, a former member of the boy group BIGBANG, became a married man, influencer Yoo Hye-won was forcibly summoned into the spotlight.

Recently, reports have followed one after another that Victory completed his marriage registration with a woman in her 20s who is not a celebrity and is expected to give birth to a son next January. The news that Victory, a key figure in the Burning Sun Gate scandal who was sentenced to one year and six months in prison and released in February 2023, is setting up a new home in Gangnam and beginning a second act in life was enough to naturally pull Yoo Hye-won, with whom he had been linked in dating rumors three times in the past, back into the public’s memory.

Yoo Hye-won has been identified as someone who maintained a tenacious connection with Victory starting from 2018. In March 2020, when Victory was enlisting in the military, a woman presumed to be Yoo Hye-won was captured on camera inside a car at the scene. Furthermore, shortly after Victory’s release in 2023, eyewitness accounts emerged claiming that the two spent time together at a luxury hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Among netizens, some attached the stigmatizing label of “prison visitor” to Yoo Hye-won, saying she had silently waited for Victory while he was serving his sentence. However, throughout all three dating rumors, both sides maintained strict silence.

Yoo Hye-won’s subsequent actions drew public attention on the tvN dating reality show ‘Couple Palace 2,’ which aired last February. Making a surprise appearance as “Woman No. 19,” she emerged from behind the blind, proposing rather provocative marriage conditions by saying, “Please understand if I ask for 3 million won per month to live in my home.” Despite her impressive profile—“annual income of approximately 150 million won,” “assets of approximately 200 million won,” and “440,000 SNS followers”—there was the weight of being an eldest daughter who had to take responsibility for her family from a young age.

At the time, Yoo Hye-won revealed her devoted family love by stating, “My father is not around, so I live with my mother and younger sister, and I am doing my best to play the role of the head of the household. I give them 0.2 billion won each month for living expenses and also pay my sister’s university tuition.” She then conveyed her earnest desire for marriage, saying, “I have never cried in front of my family, but as I entered my late 20s, I started to think, ‘What am I going to do?’ I wanted a stable life, so I thought I would get married early.”

However, her identity was quickly exposed. This was because other participants immediately recognized Yoo Hye-won’s face and whispered things like, “Isn’t she a famous person?” and “XX’s ex-girlfriend from the past.”

Ultimately, Yoo Hye-won spoke up directly. While showing signs of being discouraged, saying, “I don’t know if I’m allowed to come out here. The dating rumors follow me like such a persistent tag,” she soon displayed firm determination to shed the tag and find a new partner, stating, “But isn’t it inevitable? I felt that I wanted to meet a good partner and build a life together.”

Victory left his bitter past controversies behind and built a family with a new partner. On the other hand, Yoo Hye-won, who had to embark on a public courtship while bearing the heavy “prison visitor” stigma for having been by Victory’s side during his darkest times. Her calm confession has once again become a topic of bitter public discussion.

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