Jung Kyung-ho and Sooyoung end 14-year relationship, agencies confirm
Yonhap reports actor Jung Kyung-ho and Girls' Generation's Choi Soo-young ended their 14-year relationship in June 2026, with both agencies saying they will remain good colleagues.
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Fourteen years is a full era in K-pop time. That is how long Jung Kyung-ho and Choi Soo-young, the actor and Girls' Generation member known as Sooyoung, were publicly linked before their agencies confirmed a breakup in early June.
According to Yonhap, both sides said Tuesday, June 9 that the couple had ended their relationship. Jung's agency confirmed that "the two recently broke up." Choi's agency said they "have decided to become good colleagues."
A timeline fans already knew by heart
Yonhap reports the pair reportedly began dating after meeting at a church gathering in 2012 and acknowledged their relationship in 2014. For diaspora fans who came of age with Girls' Generation's global rise and Jung's later run of beloved dramas, that timeline made them one of the industry's most referenced long-term couples.
This was never a secret stunt relationship. Once they went public, they stayed public enough to feel permanent, which is why the breakup landed as news even without scandal attached.
No drama, just distance
Yonhap's report is brief and agency-led. There is no accusation, no third party, no messy statement war. Both camps framed the split as recent and professional going forward.
That matters for how fans process the story. In celebrity breakup coverage, "we remain colleagues" can sound like PR filler. Here it also signals the baseline respect that kept the relationship durable for more than a decade.
Other outlets have attributed the split to busy schedules, citing agency comments to Korean media. Yonhap's wire does not spell out a reason beyond the breakup confirmation and the colleagues line. Goldscene is sticking to what Yonhap published directly.
What is next on their calendars
Yonhap notes Jung is currently filming the ENA rom-com series "Tempting Romance." Choi is set to appear in a weekend KBS drama series.
So the industry moves on in the ordinary way: new roles, new press cycles, same cameras. Fans who followed them as a couple will now follow the work separately.
This is entertainment news in the truest sense: a relationship that shaped a generation of fandom discourse has ended quietly, on the record, without a spectacle.
Read Yonhap for the agency statements. Give the private details space. And if you are revisiting their work this week, that is a perfectly normal response too.
