Star’s husband files for divorce in California

February 16, 2016
Lee Min-kyoung, center, with members of Diva (Korea Times file)

Lee Min-kyoung, center, with members of Diva (Korea Times file)

By The Korea Times Seoul staff

The husband of musical actress and former K-pop singer Lee Min-kyoung from girl band Diva has filed for divorce after a two-year marriage.

Samuel Cho, 42, filed for divorce in a court in California, Maeil Business Newspaper said Monday. The daily paper quoted a Cho acquaintance as saying the couple had been living separately since January 2014.

Cho is a Korean American, with a Korean father and a Japanese mother.

The couple has a two-year-old daughter.

Lee was pregnant when she married Cho in October 2013. Their secret marriage was revealed a few months later.

Lee was with the band from 1999 until it disbanded in 2005. She then became a musical actress, starring in “Singin’ in the Rain” and “On Air Season 2.”

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One Comment

  1. Horangih Gomtoki

    February 17, 2016 at 7:04 AM

    Korean culture turned into narcissistic trash. What do you expect from cuckorea? No concern but me,me,me.

    Yet Korean media celebrate trash like this because it is so ‘cool’. It is trash.

    http://horangihgomtoki.blogspot.com/2016/02/what-is-cuck-korea-or-cuckorea.html