Veteran South Korean actor and Squid Game-famed O Yeong-su was recently acquitted in the appellate court. On the 11th of November, as The Chosun Daily reports, the Suwon District Court Criminal Appeals Division 6-1 (Presiding Judge Kwak Hyung-seop) overturned the lower court’s previous ruling. Acquitting the 81-year-old actor, the court stated:
There is insufficient reasonable suspicion to conclude that a forcible molestation occurred.
Previously, the lower court had found him guilty of s*xual misconduct when, in 2017, he was alleged to have embraced and allegedly kissed a junior female troupe member on the cheek, Ms. A, during a regional theater tour without her consent. Despite the actor denying all charges,…
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