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In some positive news for once, actor Yoo Ah In had his one-year jail sentence overturned and the court has given him a two-year suspended sentence with one year in prison should he reoffend.
On February 18, the Seoul High Court’s Criminal Division 5 overturned the original ruling, which sentenced Yoo Ah In to one year in prison, and instead sentenced him to one year in prison with a two-year suspension.
The court stated, “Considering the motive, means, and consequences of the crime, as well as the circumstances following the offense, the sentence handed down in the first trial was excessively heavy and unjust.”
Despite many Korean entertainment news accounts dramatizing his fate for outrage clicks or something — seemingly almost hoping he was a victim of the system — I’m glad he’s free now. More importantly, I hope he takes a break and gets the help he needs instead of self-medicating or whatever was going on. Clearly Yoo Ah In had some kind of problem, and unfortunately — despite discourse recently on treatment of public figures — he’s already back in netizen crosshairs for this result, so I hope he gets some distance from it.
