Mr. A, claiming “Jo Jae-hyun raped”
Litigation for claiming damages of KRW 300 million
Mr. A loses, no appeal,’confirmed’
Jaehyun Cho/Photo = Hankyung DB
Cho Jae-hyun’s’Me Too’ three-year dispute ended with Mr. A, who claimed the damage, gave up the appeal.
According to the legal community on the 26th, Mr. A, who lost in a claim for damages of 300 million won, saying, “I was sexually assaulted by Jo Jae-hyun,” did not appeal for two weeks after the judgment, and the sentence was confirmed.
Mr. A insisted that in 2018, when the craze for’Me too’ (I was also hit), “I was 17 years old, in 2004, I was sexually assaulted by Cho Jae-hyun.” Since then, it filed a lawsuit for damages of 300 million won, but on the 8th, the 17th Division of the Civil Agreement of the Seoul Central District Court ruled against the plaintiff, saying, “We dismiss the plaintiff’s claim.”
Not only Mr. A, but also Korean-Korean actress B, insisted that he was sexually assaulted by Jo Jae-hyun in the bathroom of a broadcasting company in 2002, but Cho Jae-hyun side said, “Agreeed relationship”. I did,” he refuted. After that, B did not respond to a formal investigation and the case was suspended.
Along with the Me Too fever, Jo Jae-hyun finally got off the drama he was appearing as a sexual scandal broke out. Although Jo Jae-hyun revealed his resentment, he declared, “I am a sinner. I bow my head and apologize to the victims who have been seriously wounded.” In addition, it showed the appearance of selling a 30 billion won building located in Daehak-ro for sale.
Not only Cho Jae-hyun, but also Cho Hye-jeong, the daughter of Cho Jae-hyun, who continued active broadcasting activities at the time, stopped working.
As Cho Jae-hyun’s lawsuit related to’Me Too’ has been completed, attention is also being drawn to the possibility of future activities. Cho Jae-hyun announced the suspension of activities and broke up with the manager who had been working for a long time, and director Kim Gi-deok, who was caught in the Me Too controversy while working together, died of Corona 19. Interest is focused on the timing and method of Jo Jae-hyun’s return.
Born in 1965, Cho Jae-hyun entered the entertainment industry in 1989 as a publicly funded talent for the 13th KBS. Since then, he has been active in various fields such as movies, dramas, and plays, and he has been well received as an acting actor by successively appearing in director Kim Ki-duk’s films’Bad Man’,’Crocodile’, and’Mobius’.
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