Oh Ji Ho's statement translated to English.

“This is Oh Ji-ho,”

“The reason why I am writing is because I still cannot believe she left. I can only weep,” he wrote. “It still hurts [thinking about our past], but everything I read now in news reports describing our relationship has become distorted and meaningless.”

“I was a celebrity who had to constantly be aware of what others think about me, and she was a girl who was not in a position to be proud of her job,” he said.
***** NOTE: He later remarked that he didn't care what kind of work she did. He loved her,

This statement by Oh Ji Ho was published by JoongAng Daily. The entire piece is below. Too much misinformation has been propagated by unthinking and uncaring netizens posting at various message boards for me to continue to avoid including this sort of input here.

In a sense, my hand has been forced by visiting a forum this morning to see the comment that Oh Ji Ho had "dumped his girlfriend after he got famous.

Commentary rescinded/deleted with apologies to a single injured party. As the forum name and /or the individual quoted/misquoted have never been identified or referred to by name here I feel this post alteration is adequate. I have apoligized to the individual in question publicly at that forum, dispite the fact it was predicted I would never show my face there again.

All this is off topic here, and will not be addressed any further.

Here then, in it's entirity, is the article from the JoongAng Daily, written in excellent English by the intelligent, articulate reporter, Lee Min-a.

Star admits to dating bar girl
For weeks, rumors followed actor Oh Ji-ho wherever he went that the bar girl who killed herself earlier this month had been the popular TV star’s former girlfriend.

The rumors did not die down even after Oh’s angry agent threatened to take legal action against the Internet users spreading the stories.

It was only last Tuesday, when the actor admitted that the woman known by her bar name “Anna” had been his girlfriend and that they had been very much in love that public opinion shifted from indignation to shock.

“This is Oh Ji-ho,” the 31-year-old actor began in his personal Web log. Oh confessed his feelings for his ex-girlfriend, who was found dead in her apartment bathroom.
“The reason why I am writing is because I still cannot believe she left. I can only weep,” he wrote. “It still hurts [thinking about our past], but everything I read now in news reports describing our relationship has become distorted and meaningless.”
“I was a celebrity who had to constantly be aware of what others think about me, and she was a girl who was not in a position to be proud of her job,” he said.
Oh said he dated “Anna” for one year before she initiated the breakup. She said she did not want to get in the way of Oh’s career.

Link to original article.