WASHINGTON — Actor Oh Younger-soo, who starred within the hit Netflix collection “Squid Sport,” was convicted Friday of indecent assault and given an eight-month suspended jail sentence.
According to multiple media reports, a South Korean choose found the 79-year-old guilty of inappropriately hugging an actress, holding her hand and kissing her cheek again in 2017.
As a part of the sentence, he was additionally ordered to attend 40 hours of lessons on sexual violence.
Oh informed reporters after the decision that he deliberate to enchantment, the New York Times reported. In response to the outlet, prosecutors stated Oh hugged the lady, held her hand, kissed her cheek and made doubtlessly inappropriate sexual feedback throughout a number of events.
After he was initially charged, Oh denied wrongdoing, telling South Korean cable channel JTBC that he had solely held the lady’s fingers to “present her the way in which” as they walked round a lake.
Oh turned the first South Korean actor to win a Golden Globe after he was named the highest supporting actor for his position in “Squid Game,” a few determined group of adults competing in lethal kids’s video games for an opportunity to flee extreme debt.
Oh was additionally nominated for an Emmy for his efficiency as Oh Il-nam, a mysterious aged contestant, also called Participant 001, who joined the video games after being identified with terminal mind most cancers.
After the fees had been introduced, he was not included within the forged for season 2 of “Squid Sport,” which is scheduled for launch later this yr. He was additionally dropped from an upcoming movie in South Korea.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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