Woman in Kang Yong-suk Scandal Denies Affair

A married woman involved in a scandal that prompted TV personality and lawyer Kang Yong-suk to cancel all his TV shows earlier this year has come forward to deny they had an affair.

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In an interview with a monthly magazine, Kim Mi-na revealed she is the mother of a son and a daughter and former winner of a beauty pageant.

Kim said she likes Kang but they are just friends who enjoy socializing and drinking together. They first met as attorney and client.

"I was attracted to him due to his open-hearted and straightforward character as a lawyer", she said. "But I'm not drawn to him as a man".

In October last year a rumor spread that the pair went to Hong Kong together. Kang denied the rumor, but Kim's husband claimed they were having an affair, and a photo of the two taken at a hotel swimming pool in Hong Kong seemed to prove the rumor.

At first the notoriously litigious attorney claimed the photo had been doctored, but Kim admitted it was genuine but claimed that she just came across him there.

Kim admitted her relationship with her husband has been "strained" but they are not divorcing due to the scandal. "I happened to meet Kang in Hong Kong but we were there separately", she said. "Anyhow we should have been more careful not to provoke these rumors".