One of South Korea's most famous actresses was convicted of adultery Dec. 17 in a high-profile case that drew renewed attention to a decades-old law prohibiting extramarital affairs.

Ok So-ri had lost a court battle in October to have the law declared unconstitutional.

A district court in Goyang, near Seoul, handed Ok a suspended eight-month jail sentence, South Korean media reported, meaning she will not have to serve time. Ok's lover received a six-month suspended term.

In 2007, Ok acknowledged during a news conference that she had had an affair with an opera singer, who was a friend of her husband, for a few months in 2006. She stressed the affair was a result of her loveless marriage to actor Park Chul.

"Though the fact of adultery should be criticized, we issued this ruling taking into account that husband Park Chul's responsibility was not small," the court said, according to cable news channel YTN.