South Korean actor O Yeong-su, who starred in the first season of the hit Netflix series “Squid Game,” was convicted on Friday on charges of sexual harassment and handed a suspended prison sentence, a court official said.
SEOUL — South Korean actor O Yeong-su, who starred in the first season of the hit Netflix series “Squid Game,” was convicted Friday of sexual harassment and handed a suspended prison sentence, a court official said. The Seongnam branch of the Suwon District Court sentenced O to eight months in prison, suspended for two years, as well as 40 hours of attendance at a sexual violence treatment program, the court official said by telephone.
O was indicted in 2022 and prosecutors had previously sought a sentence of one year in prison, according to media reports. Womenlink, a women’s rights group in South Korea, welcomed the ruling and urged O to apologize to the victim. “The defendant resembles other offenders of sexual violence in theatre in the past who tried to cover up their sexual violence as ‘favour’ and ‘friendship,’” the group said in a post on X.
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