Compiled by KHOO JIAN TENG, JAROD LIM AND R.ARAVINTAN
SOUTH Korean actress Lee Da-in is now a mother of two as she gave birth to a baby boy on July 7, Oriental Daily reported.
Lee, who married fellow actor Lee Seung-gi in 2023, had revealed her second pregnancy in February.
The celebrity couple have a daughter who was born in 2024.
Throughout her pregnancy, the 33-year-old Da-in kept a low profile and focused on prenatal care.
But Seung-gi, 39, could hardly contain his joy when participating in the variety show Hidden Singer 8 last month, saying that “the second child will arrive very soon.”
He was reportedly by his wife’s side during the birth.
> For another couple in South Korea’s entertainment business, it was not a happy ending, though.
Oriental Daily reported that Korean singer and actress IU and actor Lee Jong-suk, 36, have ended their four-year relationship.
Apparently, they decided to call it quits as they have been spending long periods apart.
Instead, they would continue their relationship as “senior and junior”.
The 33-year-old IU, whose real name is Lee Ji-eun, met Jong-suk in 2012 when they co-hosted a music programme.
By 2022, their ties turned romantic and they went public with their relationship at the end of that year.
A South Korean media outlet, citing a source, indicated that the busy work schedules of the couple led to them getting together less frequently, resulting in the split.
(The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.)
