“Squid Game” star Oh Young-soo found guilty of sexual misconduct

Seoul — South Korea’s “Squid Recreation” actor Oh Younger-soo has been discovered responsible of sexual misconduct, an area courtroom stated Friday, after he was charged with assaulting a lady in 2017. In 2022, the 79-year-old turned the primary South Korean to win a Golden Globe Award for greatest supporting actor in a sequence for his efficiency as a seemingly susceptible previous 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 Courtroom advised AFP. He was additionally ordered to finish 40 hours of lessons on sexual violence, the courtroom added.

The sufferer’s personal information of the assault and her claims are “constant … and seem like statements that can’t be made with out really experiencing them,” choose Jeong Yeon-ju stated, in accordance with the courtroom.

Oh was indicted in 2022 with out detention on prices of sexually assaulting a lady, who has not been recognized, on two events.

The incidents occurred when Oh 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 accordance with the Suwon District Courtroom.  

“Squid Recreation,” a sequence that depicts a darkish world the place marginalized people are pressured to compete in lethal variations of conventional youngsters’s video games, rapidly gained immense reputation 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 standard tradition, following international fame received 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.