South Korean actor O Yeong-su, who recently won a Golden Globe for his performance in “Squid Game,” has been indicted on charges of sexual misconduct, Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday.
The Seongnam branch of the Suwon District Prosecutors Office indicted the 78-year-old star without detention over an allegation that he inappropriately touched the body of a woman in mid-2017.
In a statement Oh shared with Korean broadcaster JTBC, the actor said: “I just held her hand to guide the way around the lake. I apologized because [the person] said she wouldn’t make a fuss about it but it doesn’t mean that I admit the charges.”
The AFP news agency quoted a Suwon court official as saying that “everything reported by local media is not factually correct.”
The case dates back to December 2021 when the alleged victim filed a complaint against O with the police.
Police closed the case without filing any charge against the actor in April but the prosecution later reopened the investigation at the request of the victim. O denied the charges during the prosecution's investigation.
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