She added in a statement released through women\u2019s rights organisation Womenlink: \u201cDespite today\u2019s ruling, I will continue to speak the truth to the very end.\u201d<\/p>\n
Womenlink blasted the decision, saying they were \u201coutraged by a ruling that once again sexual violence in the theatre world\u201d.<\/p>\n
After being convicted, Yeong-su was sentenced to an eight-month prison term, suspended for two years, and ordered to complete 40 hours of attendance at a sexual violence treatment programme.<\/p>\n
The prosecution had sought a one-year jail sentence.<\/p>\n
The actor previously claimed he held the woman\u2019s hand to guide her around a lake.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cI apologised because [the person] said she wouldn\u2019t make a fuss about it, but it doesn\u2019t mean that I admit the charges,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But Judge Jeong Yeon-ju found the victim\u2019s records of the assault and her claims were \u201cconsistent \u2026 and appear to be statements that cannot be made without actually experiencing them\u201d.<\/p>\n
The judge added: \u201cWhat\u2019s written in the victim\u2019s diary, and the counselling report of the victim after the incident pretty much match the details of this case.\u201d<\/p>\n
Best known for his role as Oh Il-name in Netflix\u2019s Squid Game, Yeong-su won South Korea\u2019s first Golden Globe award in 2022 for his role in the show, in which poverty-hit contestants play childhood games with fatal consequences in a bid to win 45.6 billion won ($54.9 million).<\/p>\n
He is seen as one of the greatest stage actors in South Korea, appearing in more than 200 stage productions since 1963 and winning a string of major awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She added in a statement released through women\u2019s rights organisation Womenlink: \u201cDespite today\u2019s ruling, I will continue to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3376,6375,1558,1121,15970,156,5269,75013,78,11518,111,139,69,76379,17703,82761,6202,90134,90135],"class_list":["post-130669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-appeal","tag-been","tag-case","tag-conviction","tag-entertainment","tag-game","tag-harassment","tag-in","tag-misconduct","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-overturned","tag-sexual","tag-squid","tag-wins","tag-yeongsu","tag-yeongsus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}