In 2022, the 79-year-old actor became the first South Korean to win a Golden Globe
South Korean actor Oh Yong-soo, one of the stars of the series “Squid Game”was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in 2017, prosecutors told AFP today.
In 2022, the 79-year-old actor became the first South Korean to win a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his portrayal of a vulnerable elderly man in the hit Netflix dystopian thriller.
A South Korean court on Friday found Oh Young-soo, an actor who won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of a contestant in the Netflix survival drama “Squid Game,” guilty of indecent assault. https://t.co/HFXtidntIR
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Oh Yong-soo was sentenced to eight months in prison suspended for two years and mandatory attendance for 40 hours of sexual violence prevention trainingthe prosecutor’s office of Suwon District, in the southern suburbs of Seoul, clarified.
Authorities began investigating him in 2022 after a 2022 complaint that he had twice sexually assaulted an unnamed woman five years earlier.
More than 100 million people have watched ‘Squid Game’ on Netflix since it began airing in 2021, and it remains one of the platform’s most popular series.
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