CEO of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra Faces Allegations of Sexual Harassment
|This is the first time I have ever heard of a woman in Korea coming up on sexual harassment charges:
Park Hyun-jung, president and CEO of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra, is under fire over allegations that she sexually harassed employees, verbally assaulted them and abused her power in hiring and promotion decisions.
Insiders of the Seoul-government funded orchestra say Park tried to touch a male employee’s genital area in October last year by pulling him by his necktie at a public dinner gathering after drinking an excessive amount of alcohol.
“From the look of you, I think you will do well as a (bar) hostess,” she was also quoted as saying to a female employee during a meeting.
A petition filed against her reveals that Park told two other female employees at the meeting that they should serve important guests by sitting next to them and doing the duty of bar girls. [Korea Observer]
You can read more at the link, but Park has been on the job for almost two years and was the first woman appointed to lead the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra despite having no musical or orchestra experience in the past.
She may not have wanted more cowbell…
…but it sure seems she wanted more organ.
Damn, I’ve never been sexually harassed…and its starting to piss me off.
Nice ass, Mcgeehee.
I’d warm up in her pit.
The orchestra head has spoken out on the accusations and blames her attempt to change the culture in the orchestra that was wasting tax payer dollars for the accusations against her:
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2998179&cloc=joongangdaily|home|newslist1
Sounds like the only time she touched anyone’s ass was to give them a spanking.