The award winner is predicted to face trial after a lady accused him of inappropriately touching her in 2017.
Award-winning Squid Recreation actor Oh Younger-soo will stand trial on prices of indecent assault after a lady accused him of inappropriately touching her in 2017, a South Korean court docket stated.
The district court docket in Seongnam metropolis stated Thursday that prosecutors indicted the 78-year-old Emmy nominee final week over the allegations and that his trial will start in February. Kim Myeong-un, an official at Seongnam’s district prosecutors’ workplace, stated it couldn't verify particular particulars about Oh’s case, which was first reported by native media final week.
In accordance with the experiences, the unidentified girl initially filed a grievance in opposition to Oh in December 2021, accusing him of constructing undesirable bodily contact throughout a gathering in 2017.
Oh didn't reply a number of calls by the Related Press in search of feedback.
South Korean cable channel JTBC stated Oh denied wrongdoing when reached by a reporter, saying that he had solely held the girl’s palms to “present her the way in which” as they walked round a lake. In accordance with JTBC, Oh stated he had provided the girl an apology, not as a result of he acknowledged the accusations in opposition to him however as a result of the girl allegedly advised him she “wouldn’t elevate a problem” in regards to the incident if he did.
Oh turned the primary South Korean actor to win a Golden Globe in January after he was named the highest supporting actor for his position in Squid Recreation, a brutal Netflix drama a few determined group of adults competing in lethal youngsters’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 who joined the video games after being identified with terminal mind most cancers.