Overview
- Cho announced he will end his acting career and halt all activities, issuing an apology for past misconduct.
- Saram Entertainment acknowledged wrongdoing from his youth, denied any sexual-assault involvement, and noted that three decades and closed procedures limit verification.
- Dispatch reported 1994 juvenile offenses including car theft and alleged sexual assault, as well as 2003 incidents of assault and drunk driving, and it floated a disputed claim about his name change.
- SBS re-recorded a documentary he had narrated, KBS set a 2021 YouTube documentary to private, and tvN/CJ ENM are weighing whether to air Signal 2 with his already filmed role.
- Legal experts including Han In-sup and attorney Kim Jae-ryon criticized naming an adult over juvenile cases as conflicting with the spirit of the Juvenile Act.