130705 Song Hye Kyo Wins Lawsuit Against 21 People Charged With Slandering Her Online: Guilty Parties Forced To Pay Fine

South Korean actress Song Hye Kyo won a lawsuit in Seoul Central District Court on Friday

South Korean actress Song Hye Kyo won a lawsuit in Seoul Central District Court on Friday, charging over 40 people with deliberately spreading lies against her and an unnamed politician through online comments.

Of the 41 people named in the lawsuit, the court has charged 21 of them with slandering Song, according to the publication CJ E&M enewsWorld.

The online marauders will be forced to pay a fine equivalent to roughly $450 to $850.

“[The judge has] summarily indicted 21 [people], who will now have to pay a fine of 500,000-1,000,000 won for spreading false rumors that Song Hye Kyo has a politician as her sponsor and defaming her,” said a representative from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office.

A representative from Song Hye Kyo’s management company United Artist Agency said the verdict comes as no surprise to them.

“We learned we had won the case after reading the news,” the rep said.

“We find it natural that we won, since it was a case that brings a warning to those who leave malicious comments and aimed to punish those who leave such comments.”

The lawsuit charged that between September of 2008 and December of 2011 the online lawbreakers, posted rumors like “Song Hye Kyo and [the unnamed politician] were in a sponsor relationship, and she gained financial support from the relationship,” according to Yahoo News.

In October of 2012, Song told the publication Kpopfever that she was particularly hurt by a comment that read: “she already has a lot of money even without the sponsor,” as if her alleged involvement with the clandestine political figure was a confirmed fact.

According to Song she mainly felt guilty that her fame had potentially hurt someone else’s professional career of public service.

“I felt bad for the other person, for being swept up in the issue, especially because I’ve never even met him before,” she said.

Chinese director Wong Kar Wai, who recently cast Song in his film ‘The Grandmaster,” recently called her the most beautiful actress in all of Asia.

Last month, the Hong Kong director told the Korea Star Daily that Song’s beauty is so ideal, his only regret is not putting her in more of the movie.

“Song Hye Kyo has perfect facial features, and has the most beautiful [look] among all Asian actresses,” Wong said.