The news of the sudden breakup of Actors Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo, who are considered to be representative Korean Wave stars, surprised all over Asia.
At around 9 am on the 27th, when the news of the divorce of the couple was reported through Song Joong-ki's legal representative, related reports continued in China and other countries in almost real time.
Local media, including Yang Tsu-wang, an Internet edition of China's Central TV, and Wang Huanchusbao, an Internet edition of Huanchu, quoted Korean media reports as saying that Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo have entered the divorce mediation process. The groom (Sina.com) also reported the news of the couple and wrote the expression "Love fairy tale is over".
In Weibo, China's largest SNS, Song Joong-ki's Song Hye-kyo Divorce () took the top spot in real-time search terms. The keywords were the second most frequently searched for Song Hye-kyo's not wearing a wedding ring ().
Japanese media and Googleplexs also dealt with the news of Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo. Japan's Asahi Shimbun, Kyodo News, and Jiji News reported on the divorce news of the couple, and Yahoo Japan, a large Googleplex in Japan, placed an article on the main screen with news of the two.
In addition, major media in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia and Singapore, have also published articles that Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo, who are the descendants of the sun, are in the process of divorce.
On the other hand, Song Joong-ki received an application for divorce mediation from the Seoul Family Court through a legal representative the day before. The two men, who met as KBS2's descendants of the Sun in 2016 and signed a couple's kite on October 31 of the following year, were shocked by the breakup in just one year and August of their marriage.
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