According to Korean media reports, the Seoul Yongsan Police Station revealed on the 25th that actor Yoo Ah-in has been placed on file for suspected same-sex sexual assault.
Well-known Korean actor Yoo Ah-in is suspected of sexually assaulting a sleeping man (30 years old) in an office building in Yongsan District on the 14th. A claimed that he realized he had suffered sexual violence after waking up and called the police the next day. The office building is not the residence of Yoo Ah In or Mr. A, but the residence of someone else. There were other men at the scene of the incident. The police are investigating whether Yoo Ah In committed the crime while under the influence of drugs.
26, Yoo Ah In immediately denied these accusations. Yoo Ah-in's lawyer issued an official statement saying: "The accusations related to Yoo Ah-in are not true. Please do not make unnecessary speculations about his personal life."
On the 24th local time, the Seoul Central District Court in South Korea pronounced the verdict on the drug abuse case of Korean actor Yoo Ah-in. In the last court hearing before the trial, the prosecutor asked the court to sentence Yoo Ah-in to 4 years in prison, fine him 2 million won (approximately 10,000 yuan), and recover 1.54 million won (approximately 8,000 yuan). The verdict in the case will be released on September 3.
It is reported that the prosecutors accused Yoo Ah-in of violating the Drug Control Act, smoking and instigating others to smoke marijuana, and instigating the destruction of evidence. They also pointed out that the defendant, as a celebrity, used his wealth and popularity to deceive doctors, illegally prescribe drugs in the name of others, and even Trying to use their social influence to conceal crimes. All these behaviors are simply "contempt of the Korean judicial system." Previously, South Korean prosecutors applied to the court for arrest warrants twice in May and September 2023, but they were both rejected, so Liu Yaren was prosecuted without detention.
Yoo Ah-in is suspected of injecting propofol 181 times at multiple hospitals in Seoul from September 2020 to March 2022 on the grounds that he needed anesthesia for cosmetic surgery. The four medical drugs he is suspected of injecting include propofol, dazolam, ketamine, and remimazolam. Liu Yaren is also accused of illegally prescribing about 1,100 sleeping pills under his own name from May 2021 to August 2023. In January 2023, he smoked marijuana with Cui and four other people in the United States and instigated others to take drugs.
Yoo Ah-in was born in 1986. He is the post-85s actor with the highest artistic achievement in South Korea. He has been shortlisted for the "three major awards" of Korean films - the Daejong Award, the Blue Dragon Award, and the Baeksang Arts Awards. At the age of 29, he won the 36th Korean Film Blue Dragon Award for Best Actor with the movie "Mourning". After that, he won the Baeksang Arts Award for "Visual King" and the Blue Dragon Award for "Best Actor" respectively for his roles in the TV series "Six Flying Dragons" and the movie "Silent". There have been comments that Yoo Ah-in’s acting ability has surpassed all the “post-85s” actors in Asia.
Source: Morning News, Southern Metropolis Daily, Sina Entertainment
