Veteran actor O Yeong-su, famous after the international success of the Netflix series The Squid Game, has been sentenced to a suspended sentence of eight months in prison for sexually harassing a woman in 2017.
The Suwon district court (south of Seoul) considered this week that the victim’s story is consistent and therefore sentenced the interpreter to undergo forty hours in a program for stalkers and imposed a prison sentence, which is suspended. for two years.
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If during those two years the actor does not violate any law, he will not have to go through the penitentiary center. The court assured in its ruling that what the victim reported “is not something that can be invented.”
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O, 80 years old, was charged in November 2022 for having hugged and kissed a woman on the cheek between August and September 2017 during a theater tour, for which the Prosecutor’s Office requested a year in prison.
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The interpreter, who has denied the charges from the beginning, said as he left the court that he will appeal the verdict issued by the court.
O, who won the Golden Globe in 2022 for best supporting actor for his role as player 001 in The Squid Game, began his career in acting in the sixties, mainly in the theater, where he has worked in hundreds of works. of Korean and Western classical theater. He later joined the Korean National Theater Company before having occasional roles in film or television.