Police have yet to find any indications of a homicide and reportedly believe that the actor took his own life. Officials have yet to recover a suicide note.

Jo, who was 52, had been accused of sexually harassing the students of a university where he had been teaching drama since 2004.

On Feb. 20, an anonymous claim emerged online, accusing him of sexual attacks on several female students at the university. Jo was dismissed from his position later in the day.

Jo had initially denied the reports and vowed legal actions against them. But a series of accusations followed, including one that allegedly involved the attempted rape of a 20-something woman at a local cafe.

On Feb. 27, Jo admitted that the allegations were true. He was to be summoned for questioning by the police on Monday,


By Yoon Min-sik
(minsikyoon@heraldcorp.com)