Dating in Korea may be less casual than it is in some other countries, but why can't male and female idols be friends and spend time together without people assuming they are dating? It's hard if everywhere they go the media stalks them.

The news agency Dispatch, which recently publicized the relationship between actor Won Bin and actress Lee Na Young, reported this week that Kara member and actress Goo Hara and actor/model Lee Soo Hyuk enjoyed a meal together at a Chinese restaurant in Cheongdamdong.

They were with a friend, actor/model Hong Jung Hyun. Readers immediately assumed that Goo Hara and Lee Soo Hyuk were dating.

Their having a meal with a friend might not have seemed like such a big deal if they had not been spotted together earlier this month. The idols were photographed shopping in Japan in late July.

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