Golden Globe-Winning ‘Squid Game’ Star Oh Yeong-su Indicted for Sexual Misconduct - Variety

Oh Yeong-su, the Korean histrion who precocious won a Golden Globe for his show successful deed bid “Squid Game,” has been indicted connected intersexual misconduct charges. He was released without detention.

Prosecutors successful Suwon, adjacent Seoul, revealed connected Friday that they had charged Oh a time earlier. The 78-year-old Oh is alleged to person inappropriately touched the assemblage of a pistillate successful mid-2017.

The alleged unfortunate filed a ailment against Oh successful December past year. Authorities closed the lawsuit successful April, but reopened it again astatine the victim’s request, the Yonhap quality bureau reports. Questioned by prosecutors, Oh denied the allegations.

In a connection Oh shared with Korean broadcaster JTBC, the histrion said: “I conscionable held her manus to usher the mode astir the lake. I apologized due to the fact that [the person] said she wouldn’t marque a fuss astir it but it doesn’t mean that I admit the charges.”

The AFP quality bureau quoted a Suwon tribunal authoritative arsenic saying that “everything reported by section media is not factually correct.”

The bureau added that the Korean ministry of civilization pulled a authorities TV commercialized astir regulatory innovation featuring Oh disconnected aerial pursuing the indictment.

Oh was calved successful 1944 successful Kaesong, present portion of North Korea, and moved with his household into the U.S.-controlled South aft the 38th parallel became a dividing enactment and earlier the inter-Korean war.

He began acting professionally successful 1967 and has spent astir of his vocation successful unrecorded theater. In 2013, helium claimed to person acted successful much than 200 signifier productions including Korean adaptations of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” and Goethe’s “Faust.”

Prior to “Squid Game,” Oh’s best-known movie relation was arsenic the aged monk successful Kim Ki-duk’s much-awarded “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring.”

In Netflix’s “Squid Game,” Oh played the oldest subordinate successful the endurance contention and appeared to beryllium a kindly foil amid a wide of convulsive self-interest.

The relation earned him a Golden Globe Award for champion supporting histrion successful a series, miniseries oregon tv film, arsenic good arsenic a Primetime Emmy information for outstanding supporting histrion successful a play series.

Variety has contacted Netflix for remark but did not perceive backmost by property time.