{"id":138909,"date":"2022-11-25T13:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T13:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/squid-game-actor-oh-yeong-su-indicted-for-sexual-misconduct\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T13:02:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T13:02:03","slug":"squid-game-actor-oh-yeong-su-indicted-for-sexual-misconduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/squid-game-actor-oh-yeong-su-indicted-for-sexual-misconduct\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Squid Game’ Actor Oh Yeong-su Indicted for Sexual Misconduct"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tOh Yeong-su, the Korean actor who recently won a Golden Globe for his performance in hit series \u201cSquid Game,\u201d has been indicted on sexual misconduct charges. He was released without detention.<\/p>\n

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\tProsecutors in Suwon, near Seoul, revealed on Friday that they had charged Oh a day earlier. The 78-year-old Oh is alleged to have inappropriately touched the body of a woman in mid-2017.<\/p>\n

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\tThe alleged victim filed a complaint against Oh in December last year. Authorities closed the case in April, but reopened it again at the victim’s request, the Yonhap news agency reports. Questioned by prosecutors, Oh denied the.<\/p>\n

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\tIn a statement Oh shared with Korean broadcaster JTBC, the actor said: \u201cI just held her hand to guide the way around the lake. I apologized because [the person] said she wouldn’t make a fuss about it but it doesn’t mean that I admit the charges.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tThe AFP news agency quoted a Suwon court official as saying that \u201ceverything reported by local media is not factually correct.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tThe agency added that the Korean ministry of culture pulled a government TV commercial about regulatory innovation featuring Oh off air following the indictment. <\/p>\n

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\tOh was born in 1944 in Kaesong, now part of North Korea, and moved with his family into the US-controlled South after the 38th parallel became a dividing line and before the inter-Korean war.<\/p>\n

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\tHe began acting professionally in 1967 and has spent most of his career in live theater. In 2013, he claimed to have acted in more than 200 stage productions including Korean adaptations of \u201cA Streetcar Named Desire,\u201d and Goethe’s \u201cFaust.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tPrior to \u201cSquid Game,\u201d Oh’s best-known movie role was as the old monk in Kim Ki-duk’s much-awarded \u201cSpring, Summer, Fall, Winter\u2026 and Spring.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tIn Netflix’s \u201cSquid Game,\u201d Oh played the oldest participant in the survival competition and appeared to be a kindly foil amid a mass of violent self-interest.<\/p>\n

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\tThe role earned him a Golden Globe Award for best supporting actor in a series, miniseries or television film, as well as a Primetime Emmy nomination for outstanding supporting actor in a drama series.<\/p>\n

\n\tvariety<\/em> has contacted Netflix for comment but did not hear back by press time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n