Squid Game actor O Yeong-su charged with sexual misconduct - BBC

Squid Game histrion O Yeong-su has been charged with intersexual misconduct, South Korean judicial officials say.

The 78-year-old is accused of touching a pistillate inappropriately successful 2017, officials said.

Mr O has denied the allegation, section media report.

He became the archetypal South Korean histrion to triumph a Golden Globe grant for champion supporting histrion successful a bid aft his show successful the chart-topping Netflix thriller earlier this year.

The alleged unfortunate archetypal filed a ailment with the constabulary against Mr O successful December past year, according to Yonhap quality agency. But the lawsuit was closed successful April without a complaint being brought against Mr O.

The prosecution has present reopened the probe "at the petition of the victim", the bureau reports.

Mr O has present been charged without detention, it adds.

Following the charge, Seoul's civilization ministry decided to halt broadcasting a authorities commercialized featuring Mr O, according to section reports cited by AFP quality agency.

Squid Game - Netflix's astir fashionable bid of each clip - is simply a thriller bid which tells the communicative of debt-ridden radical competing for a immense currency prize successful a deadly bid of children's games.

Mr O plays the oldest subordinate successful the endurance competition.