Actor Choi Jeong-won, formerly of the group UN, was referred to prosecutors on stalking charges.
On the 12th, according to legal circles, the Jungbu Police Station sent Choi Jeong-won to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office on stalking charges.
Choi Jeong-won was booked in August on suspicion of violating the Act on the Punishment of Stalking Crimes and Related Matters. He is reported to be suspected of having recently gone to the home of a woman he knew while carrying a bladed weapon.
Accordingly, the police applied for an emergency protection order to prohibit the perpetrator from approaching within 100 meters of the victim or from contacting the victim via telecommunications such as mobile phone, and the Seoul Central District Court approved it on Aug. 18, two days after the incident.
At the time, Choi Jeong-won denied the related charges as a "misunderstanding." After the report, he rebutted on social media, saying, "The reported content involves a personal conflict between me and my girlfriend; it was a kind of incident caused by a trivial quarrel that escalated. In the heat of emotions, misunderstandings arose, and as a result the situation was distorted and conveyed differently from the facts, which I deeply regret."
He drew a line, saying, "The claim that I threatened with a bladed weapon or stalked is entirely untrue, and both my girlfriend and I clearly deny the allegations," and "We will strongly respond in the future to such falsehoods."
Meanwhile, before the stalking allegations, Choi Jeong-won suffered ordeal from an adultery scandal that began in 2023. A's husband, B, claimed that his wife had improper meetings with Choi Jeong-won that led to the breakdown of the marriage. However, in Sept. the Seoul High Court, in the appeal of A and B's divorce lawsuit, ruled that the relationship between A and Choi Jeong-won did not constitute infidelity and that the responsibility for the marriage breakdown lay with B's coercive behavior, clearing him of the allegations.
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