Squid Game actor O Yeong-su was charged with sexual misconduct according to South Korea’s prosecutor.
According to local reports, the South Korean prosecution indicted him without detention on Thursday for allegedly improperly touching a woman’s body in 2017.
But O denied the allegations telling Korean network JTBC, “I just held her hand to guide the way around the lake. I apologized because she said she wouldn’t make a fuss about it but it doesn’t mean that I admit the charges.”
An initial complaint was filed by the alleged victim in Dec. 2021, but the case was closed by South Korean authorities by April 2022. The case was reopened again at the woman’s request. Oh was charged and released without detention on Thursday, 24th.
The 78-year-old in January became the first South Korean to win a Golden Globe award for best supporting actor in a series for his performance as a seemingly vulnerable old man in the mega-hit Netflix dystopian thriller. O started his career in theatre in the 1960s.
After the news, local reports said Seoul’s culture ministry decided to stop airing a government commercial – about its regulatory innovation – featuring O.
By BNN