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Musical actor Nam Kyung-ju, 63, has been referred to prosecutors on a rape allegation, police said.
According to police and other officials on Tuesday, Seoul’s Bangbae Police Station last month sent Nam to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office without detention on suspicion of intercourse by abuse of authority.
Nam is accused of sexually assaulting a woman, identified only as A, in Seoul last year. A is reported to have left the scene shortly afterward and called the emergency number 112. Nam denied the allegation during police questioning, but police said they determined the suspicion was supported based on related circumstances and forwarded the case to prosecutors.
Nam’s Instagram account has been deleted, and no official statement has been released.
Nam is considered part of South Korea’s first generation of musical theater actors, along with Choi Jung-won and Park Kalin. He won best actor at the 13th Daegu International Musical Festival in 2019 and is a professor in the performing arts department at Hongik University.
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