Squid Game actor O Yeong-su has been indicted on charges of sexual misconduct, South Korea’s prosecutor told news agencies. Here’s what you need to know.
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. According to local reports, the South Korean prosecution indicted him without detention on Thursday for allegedly improperly touching a woman’s body in 2017.
Squid Game Star Indicted Over Sexual Misconduct
Everything reported by local media on O “is not factually incorrect,” an official from the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office told AFP, 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 marginalized 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. It is still one of the most popular shows on the platform.
The show’s success has amplified South Korea’s increasingly outsized influence on global popular culture, following global fame won by the likes of K-pop band BTS and the Oscar-winning film Parasite. Multiple figures in South Korea’s film industry – including late filmmaker Kim Ki-duk and actors Cho Jae-hyun and Oh Dal-su – have faced sexual assault allegations.
Director Hwang Dong-hyuk has teased a few details about the show’s second season in a letter released by Netflix. Characters Gi-hun and The Front Man will return, he said, and “the man in the suit with ddakji might be back.”
“You’ll also be introduced to Young-hee’s boyfriend,” he added. Young-hee is a motion-sensing animatronic doll featured in one of the games.
Last year, Hwang Dong-hyuk told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview, “There are some other stories in the series that have not been addressed. For example, the story of the police officer and the story of his brother, the Front Man.
So if I end up creating season two, I’d like to explore that storyline — what is going on between those two brothers? And then I could also go into the story of that recruiter in the suit who plays the game of ddakji with Gi-hun and gives him the card in the first episode.”
He added, “And, of course, we could go with Gi-hun’s story as he turns back, and explore more about how he’s going to navigate through his reckoning with the people who are designing the games. So, I don’t know yet, but I’ll just say there are a lot of possibilities out there for season two storylines.”
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