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A 36-year-old worker at SeAH Besteel, a medium-sized domestic steel company, committed suicide three years ago.
His parents and family have contacted MBC to inform the world of this death.
He joined the company as a contract worker, became a full-time employee, and was about to get promoted.
It contained detailed records of sexual harassment and bullying experienced by supervisors on an ongoing basis.
First of all, reporter Kim Soo-geun will tell you.
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Nine men soaking their feet in the creek.
Only two are clothed, the rest are naked and only their crotches are covered with their hands.
A photo of colleagues from the steelmaking team at SeAH Besteel’s Gunsan plant at a picnic in June 2012.
The youngest, Mo Yu, who joined the company for two months at the time, is hiding behind other employees with her shoulders hunched.
On November 25, 2018, six years later, Yoo was found dead in his car in an empty lot at the mouth of the Geum River.
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“I was lying on the driver’s seat like this. The moment I touched it, I immediately thought, ‘Oh, this is really wrong’…”
It has been three days since I lost contact after leaving the house saying “I go to my own room” in front of the factory.
The cell phone found together contained a 25-minute video filmed at the last minute and a will with the title ‘A letter to you’.
On the far left of the photo of the picnic in the early days of joining the company, Mr. Ji, a class leader, wearing clothes and a hat upside down.
Yoo wrote about the group photo, saying, “It’s a photo that Ji is proud of.” “There will be more on the company PC, so I hope that there will be no victims like me.”
Immediately after joining the company, Yoo pointed out that Ji had been continuously sexually harassing and harassing.
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“I asked if Ji had tattoos in the month he joined the company (April 2012). He made me wear only panties, looked over his body, and gave me shame in front of many people. I couldn’t talk because I didn’t want to be photographed.
“On December 10, 2016, a kiss at a costume shop around 16:30, a kiss at the entrance of a karaoke room around 17:40”
Along with the specific record, he also wrote, “I hate to act like that.”
Around 2014, when Mr. Yoo underwent major surgery for an ‘audible nerve tumor’, a type of brain tumor, he said that he gave him a face-off.
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“It sounds like a scream. Do you have a brain tumor? It really hurts. Why do you have to talk in a loud voice in a crowd like that, and it hurts you beyond comfort…”
Mr. Yoo, who was having a hard time with hearing loss because it was a noisy department, asked to change departments, but it was not accepted.
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“I only talked to my family at this level of ‘it’s too hard, you just cursed me and bullied me’, but I didn’t go into details. No one knew how serious the situation was.”
In the photo of the picnic, Mr. Jo, a senior citizen, is still wearing clothes.
Regarding Mr. Jo, Mr. Yoo wrote, “Why are you so nervous that you can’t eat me like this? Stop touching your genitals and don’t hit me in the head. I want a strong punishment.”
Regarding Deputy Director Song Mo of the Human Resources Team, he said that he forcibly put a thermometer in his ear while making an issue of the year he wrote according to the procedure or checking “Do you hear well?”
Yoo, who wrote down all the things that happened to him during the six years he worked at SeAH Besteel, ended with the words he left for his juniors, saying, “Let’s not suffer from garbage-like bugs.”
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“I wondered how big this knot would have been if he would have just made such a choice by talking only about the bad memories he had suffered.”
This is Kim Soo-geun from MBC News.
Video coverage: Heo Won-cheol, Kang Jong-soo / Video editing: Kim Jae-hwan
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