by Simona Marchetti
According to Korea JoongAng Daily, the 78-year-old star, who plays gamer “001” in the Netflix series, allegedly inappropriately touched a woman in 2017. The case, filed last April, was reopened after an appeal by the alleged victim
The district attorney of Suwon, near Seoul, accused Oh Yeong-su of inappropriately touching a woman’s body in 2017 after accusing the star of Netflix series “Squid Game” of sexual misconduct, and released him, but without detention. According to reports from the Korea JoongAng Daily, the alleged victim had filed a complaint against the 78-year-old actor, who became the first South Korean to receive a Golden Globe for his portrayal of the player “001” in the saga, last December, but the police had the case in the year Filed on April 1, 2022, only to be reinstated on appeal by the woman and now the intention would be to go to court.
During the investigation, Oh – real name Oh Se-kang – denied any charges against him and explained his version of events in a statement released by Korean broadcaster JTBC. “I just held her hand to show her the way around the lake. I apologized because (the woman) said she wasn’t making a fuss, but that doesn’t mean she’s admitting the allegations.”
Born in 1944 in Kaesong, now North Korea, the actor moved to the south of the country with his family and began acting in 1967, spending most of his career in the theater but not neglecting cinema and television. So far, there has been no official comment from Netflix, although Variety reports that the Korean Culture Ministry has withdrawn an Oh Yeong-su commercial dedicated to the law innovation after the case was reopened.
November 25, 2022 (Change November 25, 2022 | 17:43)
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