Song Joong-ki, Song Hye-kyo spotted in Bali or is it just coincidence?
SEOUL: Rumours of Song Joongki and Song Hye-kyo dating have started again after the pair were reportedly spotted in Bali last month.
The stars - the main characters in the KBS hit TV drama ‘Descendants of the Sun’ last year - flew to the popular Southeast Asian resort island separately, according to SINA.
Hye-kyo visited the Indonesian island on June 4-15 while Joongki was there from June 7-13.
The Chinese site’s reporter said netizens saw the pair in Nusa Dua and posted photos of them.
Korean TV entertainment news show “Section TV” on Sunday quoted the reporter as saying, “The pair’s relationship was presumably based on the photos.”
Staff from the MBC news programme found that Hye-kyo changed her hotel after Joong-ki
The stars denied any relationship. Hye-kyo's agency said she was on the island for magazine photo shoot while Joongki's agency said he was there with others from the film ‘Battleship Island', which opens in Korea this month.
arrived. The discovery was made on her Instagram open to her friends only, where she posted a photo of the hotel.
The news staff identified the hotel and flew there. Hotel employees told them they had recognised the man, who was wearing a mask and a black cap, when he checked out.
The stars denied any relationship. Hye-kyo’s agency said she was on the island for magazine photo shoot while Joong-ki’s agency said he was there with others from the film ‘Battleship Island’, which opens in Korea this month.
There were rumours involving the pair shortly after the KBS drama ended in April last year.
They were allegedly seen together in public, and some fans noticed they were wearing the same bracelets in the drama.
Meanwhile, Section TV, an entertainment news program on leading TV network MBC drew criticism Sunday for showing a picture from actress Song Hye-kyo’s closed SNS account while reporting on her romantic relationship with actor Song Joong-ki.
It is unknown how Section TV acquired the top actress’s private picture that is only available to her “accepted” friends.