Ok So-ri explained

Ok So-ri (; born 23 December 1968) is a South Korean actress. "Ok So-ri" is her stage name; her real name is Ok Bo-gyeong (옥보경). Ok made her debut in a TV commercial in 1987. She appeared in the TV series Hero's Diary in 1994.

Adultery case

See also: Marriage in South Korea. In 2008, she was accused of adultery with an opera singer, and an Italian chef working at a Seoul luxury hotel.[1] [2] [3] Her husband, Park Chul (박철), a radio talk show personality, sought the maximum sentence of two years' imprisonment, while the prosecutors were seeking 18 months. Ok blamed her infidelity on a loveless marriage. She was sentenced, in December 2008, to eight months in prison by a suburban Seoul court, but avoided jail because the sentence was suspended for two years.[4] In September 2008, a lower court had declared both partners jointly responsible for their divorce, and awarded custody of their eight-year-old daughter to Mr. Park.[5]

Ok had been trying to overturn a 1953 law that criminalises extramarital affairs and can send a person to jail for up to two years for adultery. For this purpose she brought a case before the Constitutional Court of Korea, which ruled against the actress and in handling the decision said that society would be harmed if it overturned the law,[4] and that the "two-year jail term is not excessive when comparing it to responsibility."[6] [7] [8] In 2015, South Korea's Constitutional Court overturned the law that made adultery a crime, which had been on the books since 1953.[9] [10]

Personal life

Ok married an Italian in 2011, and gave birth to a son and a daughter. The family lived in Taiwan, but Ok later divorced her second husband. Following their 2014 divorce, her Italian ex-husband received child custody rights and remarried in 2016.[11]

Filmography

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/world/asia/19adultery.html Koreans Agog as Off-Screen Soap Becomes Courtroom Drama
  2. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/celebrity-scandal-highlights-korea-s-adultery-ban-1.1214824?mode=amp Celebrity scandal highlights Korea's adultery ban: when fading TV heartthrob Park Chul accused his actress wife of infidelity, he ignited an undignified row
  3. https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2008/dec/18/film-actors-adultery Why adultery is a dubious career move in the film industry
  4. News: Sex not Ok: actress escapes jail over affair. Fairfax Digital. 2008-12-17 .
  5. News: Kim . Rahm. Park Chul, Ok So-ri Both Blamed for Broken Marriage . Korea Times. 2008-09-26.
  6. News: Korean adulterer faces jail term . BBC News. 2008-11-26 .
  7. News: Korean adultery actress sentenced. BBC News. 17 December 2008.
  8. http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2008/12/18/2008121861010.html Chosun Ilbo
  9. https://www.economist.com/asia/2015/02/27/dead-scarlet-letter Dead scarlet letter: The country at last repeals a law that made infidelity a crime
  10. "Court rules: Adultery no longer a crime in South Korea", Greg Botelho and K.J. Kwon, CNN, February 26, 2015
  11. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/art/2024/05/398_257006.html Actress loses custody of children to Italian husband

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