Ryu Si Won sentenced to 8 months' imprisonment after divorce trial

Actor Ryu Si-won, who is in the middle of a messy divorce with his wife, is bringing a new lawsuit against her, accusing her of lying about him in previous court proceedings.

Ryu’s lawyer submitted a complaint to the Gangnam Police Precinct on Monday afternoon.

“Ryu wants to keep a low profile about this additional lawsuit, so I can’t tell you the details, but he decided to file an additional lawsuit against her because she gave false testimony,” said a member of Ryu’s legal team.

Meanwhile Ryu Shi Won’s wife filed to sequestrate Ryu Shi Won’s villa, which is worth nearly 3 billion Korean won ($3 million USD), on top of 1 billion Korean won ($1 million USD) ,she requested a huge amount of alimony against him when she filed for divorce by herself last year.

Ryu was ordered in September to pay 7 million won ($6,450)in fine for using violence against his estranged wife and blackmailing her. He also installed a GPS tracker on his wife’s car in May 2011 while the slapping incident happened in August 2011.

Ryu Si Won filed an appeal to contest the court’s decision last september.

Prosecutors convinced the court to impose a prison sentence on the actor this time and Court sentenced 8 months of imprisonment on a appeal trial which was held on this Friday instead of 7 million won fine.

He immidiatly filed an another appeal to court's decision.

The final supreme court decision hearing is set for Nov 18th ,2013.