Oh Yeong-su, the South Korean actor who won a Golden Globe for his performance in the hit Netflix series “The Squid Game” (“Squid Game”), was charged in Suwon, a city near Seoul, for sexual misconduct.
As prosecutors revealed this Friday, November 25, the 78-year-old actor “inappropriately touched the body of a woman in 2017.”
Oh was questioned and later released pending legal proceedings.
The alleged victim filed the complaint against the actor from the Netflix series in December 2021. Although the court closed the case earlier this year, it reopened it at the victim’s request, according to information from the news agency yonhap.
Oh denied the allegations in cross-examination.
In an official statement signed by Oh and published by the JTBC, the actor expressed, “I only took her hand to guide her around a lake. I apologized because [la denunciante] He said that he would not file a complaint for that, but this does not mean that I admit the charges against me.”
Actor of “The Squid Game”, in trouble
Oh was born in 1944 in Kaesong, a city that is now part of neighboring North Korea.
He moved his family south, at the time controlled by the United States after the 38th parallel became the dividing line between the two nations.
The actor began his professional career in 1967 and has spent most of his career in theaters in Seoul.
As of 2013, he claimed to have acted in more than 200 stage productions, including the Korean adaptations of “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Faust”, by Goethe.
Before “The Squid Game,” Oh’s best-known role had been that of an old monk in the award-winning “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter and Springby director Kim Ki-duk.
In Netflix’s “Squid Game,” Oh plays the oldest contestant in the survival competition. He is shown to be the nicest amidst the violent personal interests of the rest.
The role earned him a Golden Globe for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries or Movie Made for TV, as well as a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series.
According to Variety, citing the AFP news agency, some details reported by the Korean media “are not factually correct.” This is in response to reports that the South Korean Ministry of Culture took a government ad featuring Oh as the lead off the air.
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