‘Squid Game’ star indicted over sexual misconduct
- Actor O Yeong-su has been indicted without detention for allegedly improperly touching a woman’s body in 2017
- The 78-year-old is the first South Korean to win a Golden Globe Award for his performance in the Netflix hit
Squid Game actor O Yeong-su has been indicted on charges of sexual misconduct, South Korea’s prosecutor said on Friday.
The 78-year-old in January became the first South Korean to win a Golden Globe Award for best supporting actor in a series for his performance as a seemingly vulnerable old man in the mega-hit Netflix dystopian thriller. He plays Oh Il-nam, also known as Player 001.
According to local reports, the South Korean prosecution indicted him without detention on Thursday for allegedly improperly touching a woman’s body in 2017.
Everything reported by local media on O “is not factually incorrect,” an official from the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office said, without giving further details.
Following the news, local reports said Seoul’s culture ministry decided to stop airing a government commercial – about its regulatory innovation – featuring O.
Squid Game – which imagines a macabre world in which marginalised people are pitted against one another in traditional children’s games that turn deadly – became Netflix’s most popular series launch ever, drawing 111 million fans in less than four weeks after debuting in 2021.