Actress Han Ye-seul, right, with her husband / Captured from social media

Actor Han Ye-seul, 43, uploaded a video to her YouTube channel on Tuesday to announce her marriage registration, saying, "I've been eager to share this joyful news. We've officially registered our marriage."

Han has been open about her relationship with her boyfriend, who is 10 years younger, since May 2021. In the video, she says, "By the time you see this, we will already be legally married. I am now a married woman."

She continued, "I've always considered myself taken. I've always seen my boyfriend as a lifelong partner, my soulmate. To me, whether or not we were married wasn't important. I never felt the need to marry. The reason I chose to marry was to publicly affirm the certainty of our relationship to everyone."

Declaring herself a "May bride," Han said, "I am now officially a married woman. I wanted to directly inform everyone who loves me in a casual way, just like I am."

At the end of the video, she invited her fans to "bless our lives, rejoice with us, and support us."

Han made her debut as a supermodel in 2001 and has since received acclaim for her roles in dramas such as "Couple of Trouble (2006)," "20th Century Boy and Girl (2017)," "Spy Myung Wol (2011)" and "Big Issue."

This article from the Hankook Ilbo, sister publication of The Korea Times, was translated by generative AI and edited by The Korea Times.