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.[1][2][3] 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.[4] 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.[5]
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.[6]
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.[7] For this purpose she brought a case before the
Constitutional Court of Korea, which ruled against the actress and in handling the decision said that society would be harmed if it overturned the law,[5]
and that the "two-year jail term is not excessive when comparing it to responsibility."[4][7][8]
In 2015,
South Korea's Constitutional Court overturned the law that made adultery a crime, which had been on the books since 1953.[9][10]
Personal life
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.[11]