South Korean actor O Yeong-su, famend for his function within the international phenomenon Squid Sport, has been convicted of sexual misconduct fees relationship again to 2017. The fees stem from an incident the place he allegedly hugged and kissed a lady towards her will.
A sentence of as much as eight months imprisonment, suspended for 2 years, was handed all the way down to the 79-year-old actor on Friday by the Seongnam Department of the Suwon District Courtroom.
The actor denied the fees and mentioned he could be interesting the Friday ruling whereas chatting with reporters outdoors the courtroom.
In the course of the 2017 incident in query, O allegedly hugged the sufferer and kissed her on the cheek towards her needs.
The actor, who bagged a Golden Globe nomination for his function as Oh Il-nam within the world-acclaimed Squid Sport sequence, beforehand addressed the 2017 incident and claimed he was holding the sufferer’s hand to information her round a lake.
Actor O Yeong-su, identified the world over for his efficiency in Squid Sport, is accused of hugging and kissing a lady towards her will
“I apologized as a result of [the person] mentioned she wouldn’t make a fuss about it but it surely doesn’t imply that I admit the fees,” he beforehand mentioned.
The courtroom mentioned they felt the sufferer wouldn’t have made her statements with out truly having skilled the inappropriate actions by the hands of the actor.
“The content material of the sufferer’s journal, and the content material of her counseling after the incident is according to what occurred, and her testimonies couldn’t have been given until she truly skilled it,” the courtroom mentioned in its verdict.
The Golden Globe-nominated actor denied the fees towards him and claimed he was guiding the girl across the lake in the course of the incident in query
South Korean ladies’s rights group Womenlink mentioned they have been proud of the Friday ruling.
“The defendant resembles different offenders of sexual violence in theater prior to now who tried to cowl up their sexual violence as ‘favor’ and ‘friendship,’” the group wrote on X, previously often called Twitter.
The group was additionally quoted saying the actor ought to apologize to the sufferer as a substitute of denying the fees towards him.
“Now we will say that the sexual violence within the theater will not be an previous customized however sexual violence. The accused should cease making an attempt to make his assault go away, apologize to the sufferer and settle for his mistake,” the feminist group mentioned.
Folks on-line have been displeased by the information, with one calling the actor a “creeper within the film and creeper in actual life”
