[아시아타임즈=김지호 기자] Actor Ji-seon Han (26, photo) was later informed that he was sentenced to probation for fines for assaulting an elderly taxi driver.
According to Han Ji-seon’s agency J Wide Company on the 23rd, Han Ji-seon was investigated by the police after a quarrel with taxi driver A near Gangnam in September last year. He was reportedly assaulted by police officers at the police box.
Han Ji-sun got in a taxi while drunk and slapped the taxi driver in the cheek and assaulted him with a thermos. In addition, even after being taken to the police box, it is said that he suffered an offense by slapping a police officer on the cheek and biting his arm.
In this case, Han Ji-sun was sentenced to a fine of 5 million won and a one year probation in the court on charges of assault and obstruction of public affairs.
The agency said, “Han Ji-sun admits, repents and deeply reflects on his fault without any excuses leaving the case.”
He added, “The company also admits that it has not thoroughly managed the actors affiliated with it, and is keenly aware of the responsibility.”
However, driver A, who quarreled with Han Ji-seon, said she did not hear an apology from Han Ji-seon in one broadcast. Han Ji-seon explained, “I couldn’t apologize for not knowing the contact information. I am deeply reflecting on it.”
Han Ji-sun graduated from the Department of Theater and Film at Hanyang University and appeared in dramas’Man to Man’ (2017) and’Black Knight’ (2017~2018). Currently, she is appearing on SBS TV’I Love You for the First Time’, but it has not yet been revealed whether or not to get off the work.
Meanwhile, the probation of fines has been in effect since January of last year. Prior to the revision of the criminal law, probation existed only in imprisonment and imprisonment. Criticism continued that it was not reasonable to not admit probation for fines, which are relatively lighter than imprisonment.
In spite of the fact that the sentence is heavier than the actual fine, ordinary citizens who are difficult to pay a fine often want to be held in prison rather than a fine.
They are often sentenced to small fines and detained in labor camps for failing to pay them.
Eventually, on January 6, 2016, the Criminal Law (Article 62, requirements for probation) was revised, and from January 7, 2018, two years after the promulgation, probation has been sentenced even to a fine of 5 million won or less.