Ok So-ri (Korean: 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). Ok made her debut in a TV commercial in 1987. She
appeared in the TV series Hero's Diary in 1994.In 2008, she was
accused of adultery with an opera singer, and an Italian chef working
at a Seoul luxury hotel. Her husband, Park Chul (ë°•ì² ), 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. 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.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
handing the decision said that society would be harmed if it
overturned the law, and that the "two-year jail term is not excessive
when comparing it to responsibility." In 2015, South Korea's
Constitutional Court overturned the law that made adultery a crime,
which had been law since 1953.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.
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.In 2008, she was
accused of adultery with an opera singer, and an Italian chef working
at a Seoul luxury hotel. Her husband, Park Chul (ë°•ì² ), 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. 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.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
handing the decision said that society would be harmed if it
overturned the law, and that the "two-year jail term is not excessive
when comparing it to responsibility." In 2015, South Korea's
Constitutional Court overturned the law that made adultery a crime,
which had been law since 1953.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.
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