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Company CEO and director fined for insulting employee in group chat
🇰🇷 South Korea /Crime & Justice

Company CEO and director fined for insulting employee in group chat

From Dong-A Ilbo · () Korean

Translated from Korean and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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Newswire Named sources Outcome reported
  • A Ulsan court fined a food company CEO and director 1 million won each for insulting an employee in a staff group chat.
  • The CEO allegedly insulted the employee 32 times over about two years, while the director allegedly did so 20 times.
  • The court cited the repeated abuse and the employee’s mental distress, while noting that both defendants admitted wrongdoing and had no prior convictions.

A company CEO and director repeatedly called an employee names such as “blockhead” and “nutcase” in a group chat used by staff. A court in Ulsan fined each of them 1 million won for insult.

Ulsan District Court Judge Song In-cheol found the two defendants guilty of insulting employee C. The CEO, identified as A, allegedly targeted C 32 times over roughly two years from November 2022, including profanity and derogatory references. Director B allegedly insulted C 20 times, including by calling the employee “crazy.”

Considering the content of the insults and the period of the offenses, the nature of the crimes is not good, and the victim appears to have suffered considerable mental distress.

— Song In-cheolThe Ulsan judge explained the reasoning for the fines.

C reported suffering mental distress from the repeated abuse and filed a police complaint. The court said the nature of the insults and the length of the conduct showed that the offenses were serious, and that C appeared to have experienced considerable psychological suffering.

The judge also said C wanted the defendants punished. The court reduced the severity of the punishment because both men admitted the offenses, expressed remorse and had no previous convictions.

The victim wants the defendants to be punished.

— Song In-cheolThe judge cited the victim’s position in the ruling.
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Originally published by Dong-A Ilbo in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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