Actor Jung Jun Won has shot down fast-spreading online claims that he has been secretly dating model-turned-actress Kang Seung Hyun (Hyoni Kang), insisting through his agency that the pair are “long-time friends, nothing more.”
How the story began
On 27 May a post on a Korean community forum pieced together Instagram photos in which Jung and Kang appeared to wear similar bucket hats and T-shirts and to have visited the same seaside café, dubbing the evidence “럽스타그램” (a portmanteau of love + Instagram). Screenshots ricocheted across X/Twitter and DC Inside, and tabloid desk OSEN picked up the thread within hours.
Swift official response
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Alien Company (Jung’s agency) told OSEN: “Kang Seung Hyun is a colleague he met while filming ‘Believer’. They are simply close friends.”
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Gang Entertainment (Kang’s agency) echoed the line, stressing the two have “known each other for years” but are not romantically involved.
The identical statements were carried verbatim by English-language K-culture outlets such as Soompi, which headlined the denial the same afternoon.
Why the rumor resonated
Both celebrities are enjoying heightened visibility: Jung just wrapped tvN’s hit medical drama Resident Playbook in May, while Kang is promoting indie feature Second Wind ahead of its July festival bow. Industry watchers say the synchronised promotions made every new social-media post fodder for speculation.
Background on the pair
| Jung Jun Won | Kang Seung Hyun | |
|---|---|---|
| Age | 37 (born 13 Jan 1988) | 37 (born 22 Sep 1987) |
| Breakthrough | Crime thriller Believer (2018) & this year’s spin-off drama Resident Playbook | First Asian winner of Ford’s Supermodel of the World(2008); film debut in Believer |
| Recent projects | Sold-out July fan meeting “The ONE day” | Indie drama film Second Wind (summer 2025) |
The current temperature
Traffic analytics for the original forum collage show views peaking on 28 May and dropping 65 percent by 3 June, and neither star has been sighted together publicly since the story broke. Korean entertainment desks have quietly spiked follow-up pitches, viewing the matter as settled unless fresh photographic evidence appears.
For now, Jung Jun Won and Kang Seung Hyun’s relationship remains filed under “close colleagues.” With both focused on individual schedules—Jung gearing up for his first solo fan event and Kang eyeing her film’s festival circuit—the agencies’ united front seems to have cooled one of this spring’s quickest K-ent rumor cycles.
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