Man Jailed for Sexual Harassment After Refusing to Pay Settlement to Accuser
|This is something to keep in mind, in South Korea someone can accuse you of sexual harassment with no evidence and then demand money from you through the court system. If you don’t pay you could go to jail:
She said her husband had attended several court hearings until September without telling her. The plaintiff demanded the defendant pay 10 million won for settlement but he refused, trusting the court would acquit him.
The court’s ruling statement from Sept. 5 says the plaintiff “explained in a coherent manner how the defendant sexually harassed her” and that “the accused was not regretful of his wrongdoing and didn’t seem to want to seek forgiveness from the accuser.”
“I know the recent ‘#Metoo movement’ has made all sexually related issues very sensitive but, even as a woman, I cannot understand her and how she so easily turned an innocent man into a sexual harasser,” the wife said, criticizing Korean anti-sex crime laws that “lopsidedly supported women over men.” [Korea Times]
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Well, “sexual harassment” does happen a lot in South Korea. Does this mean they’re going to close down the glass houses, those places behind all the bus and train stations, and the room salons?
Korean so called justice is a joke.
Unless you’re the one in the dock.