As mentioned earlier, the legal reps of both sides appeared at court to sort out their stances before the official trials begin for the lawsuit filed by Miss Choi against Kim Hyun Joong for 1.6 billion KRW (~ 1.4 million USD) in compensation for the psychological and emotional stress and suffering she received.
Like detailed in the earlier article, Kim Hyun Joong's lawyers pointed out Miss Choi did not produce any concrete evidence about last year's pregnancy.
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However, that's not all, the singer is now taking things a step farther to point out that some of Miss Choi's previous claims about physical assault are questionable.
If you've been keeping up, Miss Choi revealed last year that she had been assaulted multiple times throughout a course of a few months. She produced photos of bruises and an X-ray of a fractured rib as evidence of all the assaults. Kim Hyun Joong, however, denied that there were multiple occurrences and only admitted to one case, which he was later fined by the court for.
Now, Kim Hyun Joong's side is pointing out that Miss Choi cannot prove that her X-ray of her bone fracture is evidence of Kim Hyun Joong's violence. They stated, "She said the bone fracture happened on July 21, but the X-ray she took was on August 18. In order for her to submit this as evidence of assault, she would have had to taken the X-ray right after it happened, otherwise it could be seen as something else having happened afterwards to cause the fracture. That X-ray serves as evidence of her injury, but it does not serve as evidence that it was an injury inflicted by Kim Hyun Joong."
Miss Choi had also claimed that her miscarriage was probably caused by his assault to her abdomen region, so on that, the singer's lawyers stated, "In addition, if there were assault to her abdomen, then there should be pictures of her abdomen, but we've only seen pictures of her shoulders and arms. At the time, Kim Hyun Joong didn't even have time to check these things out because he was scared by her threats to expose him to the media that he just gave her the settlement of amount of 600 million KRW (~ $546,000 USD). That is an absurd amount of settlement money... Through this lawsuit, we will recheck all the facts from the past assault controversy as well."
It doesn't stop there, his lawyers are also once again pointing out that Miss Choi could be lying about her current pregnancy (the one that happened this year). "After December 20, Kim Hyun Joong and Choi broke up. And then on January 3, Choi told Kim Hyun Joong she was pregnant. We spoke with gynecology experts and they say that you can't check for pregnancy with an over-the-counter pregnancy tester 12 or 13 days into pregnancy. They said that you can only confirm pregnancy that early through blood test and ultrasounds, but Choi said that she found out she was pregnant through a pregnancy tester... We plan to find out whether she really was pregnant on January 3 when she notified us by consulting with experts. But if it turns out that Kim Hyun Joong is really the father of her baby, then we are making it clear that he will take responsibility as the father."
On their counter suit against Miss Choi, Kim Hyun Joong's lawyer commented, "Because of Miss Choi's lawsuit, Kim Hyun Joong has been made out to be a person who caused a pregnant woman to miscarry with assault. So we are preparing a counter suit on the grounds of defamation. We will file this damage suit within June. We are currently calculating the amount we will sue for, which is at least 1.2 billion KRW (1 million USD), if taking into consideration the fine of 600 million KRW she needs to pay for breaching the terms of her settlement last year (that she wouldn't expose anything to the media) plus the actual 600 million KRW she received as settlement. We are also figuring out how much we will ask for on the defamation brought upon Kim Hyun Joong."
Miss Choi's lawyers, meanwhile, are insisting that there are other ways besides hospital records through which Choi's pregnancy can be proven, and that they will prove the truth in court.
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