The South Korean prosecutor’s office requested this Friday, February 2, one year in prison for the veteran actor Or Yeong-suknown worldwide for his role as an elderly contestant in the hit series The Squid Game, who was a worldwide audience phenomenon, through the Netflix platform, for allegedly sexually harassing a woman in 2017.
O Yeong-su, 79, was charged in November 2022 with allegedly hugging and kissing a woman on the cheek between August and September 2017 during a theater tour.
In the hearing held today in a court in the city of Seongnam (south of Seoul), the prosecutors asked for a year’s imprisonment and that prevented from working with children or adolescents.
Actor O Yeong-su, who has persistently denied the allegations in previous hearings, said in this Friday’s session that he felt hurt and hurt at having to stand trial for “things like that” at such an age advanced, as reported by the Yonhap agency.
The verdict on the case of the actor, winner of the 2022 Golden Globe for best supporting actor for his role in The squid gamewill be announced on March 15th.
O Yeong-su began his career as an actor in the 1960s, mainly in theater, where he worked in hundreds of classical Korean and Western theater works.
Or Yeong-su, first from left, with the cast of “The Squid Game.”He later joined the Korean National Theater Company before pursuing specific roles in film or television.
A worldwide success series
In 2021, Netflix has made sure of that The squid game era the best preview in the history of the platform adding 111 million viewers in its first 28 days of broadcast.
The series revolves around a secret contest in which 456 players, all in great financial difficulty, risk their lives playing a series of deadly children’s games for a chance to win a prize of ₩45.6 billion (US$35 million ). euro at the time of issue).
The series title is inspired by a Korean children’s game of a similar name.
Its author, Hwang Dong-hyuk, had conceived the idea based on his own economic struggles early in his life, as well as class disparity and capitalism in South Korea.
Although he initially wrote it in 2009 and as a film, he was unable to find a production company to finance the idea until Netflix became interested in the film around 2019 as part of its campaign to expand its offering of foreign programming.
The Squid Game, the Korean series that had a worldwide success thanks to Netflix.A second season of the series was also announced, arriving this year.
Source: EFE
Source: Clarin
