Oliver Conway

And to go back a little bit, you know, this young woman in her 20s have approached Son last year saying that she is pregnant with his child.

Now, we do not know whether the child was his child.

It seems that the woman herself did not know whether it was his.

And, you know, according to local reports, she got an abortion soon.

So we will never find out.

And the court could not find out.

But still, Mr. Son still provided her with around 200,000 U.S.

dollars for her to stay silent.

Now, South Korea is a place where these kind of scandal, they're very much hushed.

And Mr. Son does have a very squeaky clean image.

And he really wanted this to not go out.

Now, when the woman and her accomplice reached out to him again this year, asking for even more money, that's when he went to the police.

Now, she was arrested and the police investigation followed.

And what the judge had found is that, you know, she and her accomplice try to use Mr. Son's fame and celebrity to really exact this pain on him.

They said that, you know, it seems that Son had suffered an immense amount of mental anguish due to this thing and that she must be punished.

You mentioned his success at Tottenham.

How big a figure is he in Korea?

Well, he is really a national hero here.

He is probably one of the best kind of celebrated football player here.

I mean, just to illustrate from my house and, you know, the 20 minute walk to the bureau here every morning, I think I run into him maybe three times on the billboards and signs.