Police arrest and send Garo Sero Institute head to prosecutors over defamation charges against Kim Soo-hyun

Kim Se-ui, the head of the controversial YouTube channel Garo Sero Institute (GSI), has been arrested and transferred to prosecutors on charges of defamation and violating laws related to sexual offenses, including the use and distribution of images captured by cameras.

The Gangnam Police Station in Seoul transferred Kim to prosecutors on Thursday morning. He faces accusations of making defamatory statements through press conferences and YouTube broadcasts between March and May of last year. Specifically, Kim alleged that actor Kim Soo-hyun was in a relationship with the late Kim Sae-ron when she was a minor, and that Kim Soo-hyun's alleged debt collection pressure led to her death.

Furthermore, Kim is suspected of manipulating a voice recording of the deceased using artificial intelligence (AI). A court issued an arrest warrant for Kim on May 26, citing concerns about evidence destruction and the risk of flight.

Police stated in their warrant application that "the suspect was well aware that the actor had not been in a relationship with the deceased since her minor days and that the cause of the deceased's death was not attributable to the actor, yet made false statements with the intent to slander."

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the suspect was well aware that the actor had not been in a relationship with the deceased since her minor days and that the cause of the deceased's death was not attributable to the actor, yet made false statements with the intent to slander.