Efe
Updated Friday, March 15, 2024-09:27
Veteran actor
O Yeong-su,
who achieved global fame with his role in the
Netflix
series 'The Squid Game', was sentenced today to a suspended sentence of eight months in prison for sexually harassing a woman in 2017.
The Suwon District Court (south of Seoul) today considered that the victim's story is consistent and therefore sentenced O to undergo
a program for stalkers for 40 hours
and imposed a prison sentence, which remains on hold for two years.
If during those two years O does not violate any law, he will not have to go to prison.
The court assures in its ruling that what the victim reported "is not something that can be invented."
O, 80 years old, was charged in November 2022 for having hugged and kissed a woman on the cheek between August and September 2017 during a theater tour, for which the Prosecutor's Office requested a year in prison.
The interpreter, who
has denied the charges from the beginning,
said when leaving the court that he will appeal the verdict issued today.
O, who won the
Golden Globe in 2022
for best supporting actor for his role as player 001 in "The Squid Game", began his career in acting in the sixties, mainly in the theater, where he has worked in hundreds of classical Korean and Western theater works.
He later joined the Korean National Theater Company before having specific roles in film or television.