Korean actor Oh Yeong-su has been indicted on sexual misconduct charges, per Variety.

Best known for his Golden Globe-winning performance in the hit Netflix series Squid Game, the 78-year-old actor was charged by Suwon, South Korean prosecutors on Thursday. He has been accused of inappropriately touching a woman in 2017, which the alleged victim first told authorities about in December 2021. The case was closed in April 2022, but it was later reopened following a request from the victim. When questioned about the alleged incident, Oh denied the accusations.

"I just held her hand to guide the way around the lake," said Oh in a statement provided to Korean broadcaster JTBC. "I apologized because [the person] said she wouldn’t make a fuss about it but it doesn’t mean that I admit the charges.”

A Suwon court official said “everything reported by local media is not factually correct.”

A TV commercial starring Oh from the Korean ministry of culture has been pulled after the news of the indictment was publicly released on Friday.

Source: Complex.com