The 78-year-old actor also has been dropped from a series of Korean government advertisements in the aftermath of an indictment for allegedly improperly touching a woman.
The alleged victim filed the complaint in December 2021 and the case was sent to prosecutors in February. Police dismissed the case in April, but prosecutors began reinvestigating after the woman appealed the decision. According to local reports, Oh has denied the allegations.
In a statement shared with Korean broadcaster JTBC, the actor said: “I just held her hand to guide the way around the lake. I apologized because they said she wouldn’t make a fuss about it, but it doesn’t mean that I admit the charges.” An official from the Suwon district prosecutor’s office told AFP on Friday that “everything reported by local media concerning Oh’s case is not factually correct,” without elaborating.
South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced that it would pull down public interest ads that feature Oh promoting the government’s regulatory reform efforts. Images and posts featuring Oh have also been dropped from the South Korean government’s YouTube channels and official websites following the charge, according to the Korean Herald.
A 50-year veteran of the Korean stage and screen, Oh has estimated that he appeared in over 200 stage plays, as well as numerous TV series and occasional films. He achieved improbably late-career global fame thanks to Netflix’s breakthrough thriller, playing Oh Il-nam, a seemingly out-of-place old man competing in the show’s greed-driven battle to the death.
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