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Seoul:
South Korea’s Squid Recreation actor O Yeong-su has been discovered responsible of sexual misconduct, an area courtroom mentioned on Friday, after he was charged with assaulting a girl in 2017. In 2022, the 79-year-old actor grew to become the primary South Korean to win a Golden Globe Award for finest supporting actor in a Collection for his efficiency as a seemingly weak outdated man within the mega-hit Netflix dystopian thriller. The actor was sentenced to eight months in jail, suspended for 2 years, the Seongnam Department of the Suwon District Court docket informed AFP.
He has been additionally ordered to finish 40 hours of courses on sexual violence, the courtroom added. The sufferer’s personal data of the assault and her claims are “constant … and seem like statements that can not be made with out truly experiencing them,” choose Jeong Yeon-ju mentioned, in response to the courtroom. O Yeong-su was indicted in 2022 with out detention on prices of sexually assaulting a girl, who has not been recognized, on two events.
The incidents came about when O was staying in a rural space for a theatre efficiency in 2017, on a strolling path and in entrance of the sufferer’s residence, respectively, in response to the Suwon District Court docket.
Squid Recreation, a collection that depicts a darkish world the place marginalised people are pressured to compete in lethal variations of conventional youngsters’s video games, shortly gained immense recognition on Netflix. Inside lower than 4 weeks of its launch in 2021, it attracted a staggering 111 million viewers. The present’s success has amplified South Korea’s more and more outsized affect on international widespread tradition, following international fame gained by the likes of Okay-pop band BTS and the Oscar-winning movie Parasite.
A number of figures in South Korea’s movie trade — together with late filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk and actor Cho Jae-hyun — have confronted sexual assault allegations.
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