The controversy involving Kim Soo-hyun and the late Kim Sae-ron has opened a Pandora's box of issues within the entertainment industry, from age-gap relationships to the treatment of disgraced celebrities.

Attorney Bu Ji-seok from Law Firm Buyou, Kweon Young-chan, a former comedian who began the Korea Celebrity Suicide Prevention Organization and YouTube channel Hoverlab operator Kim Se-ui, who also goes by the name Kim Say,

"We would like to emphasise that he is not wearing his trousers. This is a photograph of him without his trousers," YouTube channel Hoverlab said in Korean.