Ok So-ri

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This is a Korean name; the family name is Ok.

Ok So-ri (Hangul: 옥소리; born 23 December 1968) is a South Korean actress. "Ok So-ri" is her stage name. Her real name is Ok Bo-gyeong (옥보경).

In 2008, she was convicted of adultery, for an affair she admitted having with a singer. 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 to her husband.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]

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.[4] For this purpose she brought a case before the Constitutional Court of Korea, which ruled against the actress and in handing the decision said that society would be harmed if it overturned the law,[2] and that the "two-year jail term is not excessive when comparing it to responsibility."[1][4][5]

Filmography

  • Kuro Arirang 구로아리랑 (1989)
  • Watercolor Painting on a Rainy Day 비 오는 날 수채화 (1989)
  • A Sketch of a Rainy Day 젊은 날의 초상 (1990)
  • A Pale Rainy Day 햐얀 비요일 (1991)
  • Water Color Painting on a Rainy Day 2 비 오는 날 수채화 2 (1993)
  • Karuna 카루나 (1996)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Korean adulterer faces jail term". BBC News. 2008-11-26. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Sex not Ok: actress escapes jail over affair". Fairfax Digital. 2008-12-17. 
  3. ↑ Kim, Rahm (2008-09-26). "Park Chul, Ok So-ri Both Blamed for Broken Marriage". Korea Times. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Korean adultery actress sentenced". BBC News. 17 December 2008. 
  5. ↑ http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2008/12/18/2008121861010.html

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